robstmartin:

tilthat:

TIL The Beatles approached Stanley Kubrick to direct a LOTR movie starring themselves. Tolkien killed the project as a result of his hate for The Beatles. A hate developed after moving 3 doors down from The Beatles in 1964, who irked him with the “indescribable” noise from their practice sessions.

via ift.tt

the man who spents hundreds of pages describing trees and meals and worked out the linguistics of multiple fictional languages and the entire cosmology of his fictionsl world called the Beatles’ rehearsal sounds “indescribable”

pentrin:

thebeatlesordie:

sometimes I make fun of bieber or 1d fans for how ridiculous they look when fangirling/stalking them

but then I remember beatlemania and…

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how one time

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a girl almost died

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because she tried to

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mail herself to the beatles in a huge box

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beatlemania was and is

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seriously

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insane

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I count on tumblr to visually educate me on history’s less important but infinitely more interesting events.

It delivers. My god does it deliver.