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Karl! (and Buttons)

you can't tell me that on a ship full of gay, superstitious pirates there isn't some hamfisted astrology talk going on

I don't know how many people will understand this parallel, but what Buttons is in OFMD is what Tom Bombadil is in LotR.

I mean, two funny little guys who handle magic unlike their world? Who seem insignificant until shown bizarre power (transforming into bird/rejecting the One Ring)? Who are able to talk to the nature (Karl/Old Man Willow)? Who are in a relationship with some kind of water element (the f*cking Sea/Goldberry)? And who are also respected by the elders of their world (Auntie/Lord Elrond)? And who are just as big of an enigma to them as to us?

Honestly I don't know what conclusion to make of this, but it was fun to notice.