i will defend myself from a lot of the scorn and ill will i attract online but that one time i got kicked out of the barduil discord in 2016 for suggesting that bard, being a former peasant lake dweller, is probably illiterate was entirely justified and i think it’s about time i accepted that
i dont have screenshots because i got exiled faster than i could think to take them but it went something like this:
thranduil post-botfa: i must return to my kingdom now. but i will write to you soon, and often
bard: uh, well, actually -
thranduil: yes?
bard: oh it’s nothing. i look forward to receiving your letters.