The thing is though the main funny thing JRR does not realize about the jewishness of his dwarfs is that his elfs are also extremely Jewish and that’s the cultural relationship I want to see in fanwork, i want elfs to be early modern German orthodox spiritualist weirdos i want elfs to put chasidim to shame…. and I want dwarfs to be Russian peasant jews from the early 20th century who are like, cool, 1. what are you talking about 2. My brother and I run a fruit stand and are communists
… I feel like I have followers who will appreciate this
……fuck. yes.
Tag: jewish humor
A man goes to see his Rabbi in a panic, and he gets there and he says, “Rabbi you’ll never guess what! My son has run away to become a Christian!” And the Rabbi responds, “Well you’ll never guess what! My son has also run away to become a Christian!” So the man asks the Rabbi what to do and the Rabbi says that they should pray to G-d. So they pray and tell him of their plight and G-d replies, “You’ll never guess what!”
– An old Hasidic joke that my Dad likes to tell me
knitting in the dark 