That first part of HEALTH can also be analysed as WHOLE or HEAL, because they're all the same family of words; someone who is HALE is thus WHOLE and HEALED and HEALTHY

And a HANDLER then is just a person who handles

(and was apparently actually an old enough word that it was technically inherited into English instead of derived within English, but its formation was still based on the same Germanic morphology that in English became the -LE suffix)

Yeah, the frequentative -LE produces verbs, so to HANDLE something is to repeatedly touch it with one's hand

A teacher marking a lot of homework could be said to markle!

(if the frequentative -LE were still a productive suffix, which it *should be* for the sake of fun)

Yeah I was already familiar with the -TH derivational suffix and a bunch of examples, but I don't think I'd ever connected 'health' to them before (or, at least, hadn't ever pondered what adjective(s) could be reverse-engineered from it)

Frequentative verbs!

No other post of mine has, to date, garnered the same engagement, but such is life, and at the end of the day it's not the numbers I care about; it's the knowledge that Bluesky is somewhere to hang out with real people, which has certainly remained true

And there's also a resemblance in some of the subsequent little flourishes of melody that follow similar rhythmic patterns, so I think I see what you mean

Oh nice! Funnily enough, the Gondor theme wasn't one I could bring to mind on cue (though ironically Pippin's song is); that's now rectified!

Having now gone and listened to it, I think it's that they both with that strong ascending perfect fifth?

I'm already seeing the slop-look on most websites now, in the form of ads (the nature of which aren't the fault of the websites, because of how that advertising works), but to see it properly used by an upmarket publication is upsetting and infuriating

I have a feeling that even mention of it may have just given me the earworm 😭😅

Obviously I'm just too leitmotif-pilled, but the world of thematic material Howard Shire created and composed for the films is so voluminous and rich that there's always so many more appropriate tracks you could borrow!

It seems to be seen as generically sweet and cosy LotR-related fantasy music, so often gets slapped onto any related video with that pleasant tone, be it a garden party where everyone's dressed as elves, or a joke video about therapy referencing Aragorn as a role model, or simply a pretty landscape

I see your "terror-saur" and raise you "terror-soar" (though it might strongly depend on the status of the word "dinosaur" and the level of analogy between the two)