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Alhazred posted:That's basically what they are in Tolkien's books too. and then the opposite is true in the witcher, where humans are the invading alien species
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WoodrowSkillson posted:and then the opposite is true in the witcher, where humans are the invading alien species That's basically what we are in real life.
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Like, the elephant bird was just chilling in Madagascar until some assholes with spears suddenly showed up.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:and then the opposite is true in the witcher, where humans are the invading alien species Actually everyone except maybe the Gnomes and the Vran are alien invaders. Humans are just the latest. Because fuuuuuuuuck the Aen Elle and Aen Seidh Elves. Genocidal warmongers strip mining planets.
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Alhazred posted:Like, the $SPECIES was just chilling in $LOCATION until some assholes with spears suddenly showed up.
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The real alien invader was Tulkas (the other Valar and Morgoth at least had the right of terra nullius) which means professional wrestling is an alien plot.
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The Incredible Tulk versus Macho Manwë and Ulmo the Undertaker
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Arc Hammer posted:The Incredible Tulk versus Macho Manwë and Ulmo the Undertaker I'm going to be giggling off and on all day about Macho Manwë
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Arc Hammer posted:The Incredible Tulk versus Macho Manwë and Ulmo the Undertaker Well this is pretty much better with every syllable
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Sauron rising up from a burning floor like Gangrel
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Arc Hammer posted:The Incredible Tulk versus Macho Manwë and Ulmo the Undertaker lmao
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By gawd that's Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo's music!
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Arc Hammer posted:The Incredible Tulk versus Macho Manwë and Ulmo the Undertaker New thread title
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Drakyn posted:By gawd that's Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo's music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enUgkYN7TFI
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Arc Hammer posted:The Incredible Tulk versus Macho Manwë and Ulmo the Undertaker
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Dangerously close to turning the Silmarillion into reddits hell in a cell meme
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Bugblatter posted:Dangerously close to turning the Silmarillion into reddits hell in a cell meme Do.... It.....
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CommonShore posted:What they could have done for the Hobbit trilogy would have been to make the movies parallel, rather than sequential, and then bring them together for the resolution - perhaps one Bilbo movie, one Thorin movie, and one Gandalf movie. I am entirely here for Rashomon Hobbit.
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do you guys think there were any half hobbit half men people living in bree? surely it wasn't unheard of
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Shibawanko posted:do you guys think there were any half hobbit half men people living in bree? surely it wasn't unheard of they're called dwarves
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YaketySass posted:they're called dwarves All that prattle in the silmarillion about Aulë making dwarves underground was actually just bs because Tolkien was too catholic to tell us dwarves are actually the result of a super hot hobbit and human orgy.
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I mean there is no reason to believe the silmarillion account of the dwarves. I’m sure the dwarves histories were way different
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The reason the dwarves don't tell anyone their own legends is that they are too embarrassing and horny (that's how you know they are true)
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So that's where the runor that Dwarves spring out of holes in the ground comes from. "Hobbits' Holes."
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YaketySass posted:they're called dwarves I've often posited that the reason you never see half elf/half dwarf hybrids in Tolkien knockoff settings is 'cause that would just make a human
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Dwarves and elves do not really live together . Maybe some in ancient Eregion . Even then the one half “race “ we have was a special circumstance ordained by the gods Sorry there are two the second one was a vile experiment by Saruman . But I guess that shows it was defiantly possible (They were all humans )
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The Elves and Dwarves in Forlindon/Harlindon have lived near one another for millennia. I would not be surprised if Dwarves living outside the mountains lived in proximity to Elves there .
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I AM GOOD, THANKS FOR ASKING!
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You okay, Gandalf? Better than okay, I'M GOOD
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He was Gandalf the Good before the others showed up.
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Puppy Burner posted:I AM GOOD, THANKS FOR ASKING! You can't fool us, Sauron!
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Him yelling "I'm Good" actually owned tbh, and i certainly am not a fan of a lot of the piss poor writing that manifested in the last 2 eps.
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Here's what I think: the creators of the show clearly know their poo poo back to front; however, to a degree possibly even greater than when Peter Jackson did it, they took concepts that were subtle and nuanced in the source material, and represented them instead very bluntly. I can go along with that, though I hear more often from people who cannot. It's important to know which kind of viewer you are in order to decide whether and in what spirit to watch it.
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some of them do. The Dragon Helm of Dor-Lomin shows up on a statue, the entire intro is a Music of the Ainur reference, Finrod's body has claw marks all over it because he was killed by Sauron as a werewolf, etc. However those people are not always calling the shots because the whole "mithril is needed to keep elves alive" nonsense is extremely stupid and where i went from a big defender of the show to lukewarm on it. If the Stranger is Gandalf that will be another blow.
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Interviews with the showrunners indicate that the mithril thing isn't all it seems and that they "trust Elrond" when he's skeptical of the truth of the story. But overall, I think it's another instance of where the showrunners decided to take a nuanced element of the books and make them blunt. Arguably, elves using Sauron's methods for making rings of power to forestall a more nebulous "fading" that will take millennia is a bit hard to sell to a broad audience in an episodic format. A fading that is months away and visually represented in xenomorph goo is a more urgent and easy-to-communicate pressure. I'm still curious why that cow in the Southlands had the same black rot as the elven trees. I think there's no way they haven't condensed Gandalf with the blue wizards who went into the east. It's just too easy a win with general audiences. I would have preferred it if he was just a blue wizard with his own personality, but if he's gonna be an Istari and say Gandalf things, better to just call him Gandalf. At least we get the wizard going into the east narrative anyway.
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Bongo Bill posted:Here's what I think: the creators of the show clearly know their poo poo back to front; however, to a degree possibly even greater than when Peter Jackson did it, they took concepts that were subtle and nuanced in the source material, and represented them instead very bluntly.
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Shibawanko posted:it was made by 2 clueless mormons recommended by jj abrams to jeff bezos Ad hominem attacks are a poor rebuttle. I don't have the best attitude toward conservative religions. However, in a way, it's a useful background for adapting Middle-Earth. Tolkien was a fairly prudish ultra-religious dude too and it informs his writing heavily. And beyond that, I'm not sure why their religion should matter to me.
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