If you've studied our new photos of Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer as closely as we and this Tumblr have, you might have deducted something about the her: She is an enormous nerd. Just take a look at a close-up of the tattoo on her left forearm:

That's a line from Dune by Frank Hebert. More specifically, it's from what is known as the "litany against fear," which goes:

I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.

In the book, the litany against fear is repeated by an elite sisterhood with superhuman intellect and powers, called the Bene Gesserit, who use it to calm and focus.

We always had a feeling Natalie had to be something beyond human. This confirms it.

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