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those exist they're just a lot less polished and mostly late first/second age. the extensive writing Tolkien did about the third age is the trilogy and appendicies
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Quenta Silmarillion is the man-centered vision of myth-history. Note how it ends with the reminder that the Dunedain are direct descendants of the one guy who saved everything and is still out there in space making sure Melkor doesn’t come back and gently caress us all up. Before following up with two important appendices on how after the elves finished loving up the ancient world, men hosed the ancient world up in their turn, and then did their best to give antiquity a decent burial. Also note how like half the stories are about men fooling around with elven-maids on their way to metaphorical or literal immortality. coincidentally engendering the half-elven and elf-friendly men who (el)finesse this stuff into nicely bound books of lore. Basically what I’m saying is just imagine how the Silmarillion would have looked if Tolkien had decided Feanor’s descendants were the ones writing it.
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Ans thus did the sons of the sons of the sons of the one coolest elf of all time, Fëanor, do everything, and btw they were very cool, like so cool "no they...." jealous much????? Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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Mar 10, 2023 23:54
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I gotta finish it before more sum total judgements. And so Maeglin devised ever more complex devices, each more likely than the last for a sibling to get stuck inside.
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Been audiobooking on my commute and found lotr audiobooks have been done by Andy serkis. Just started rotk and it owns
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Tolkien has some top tier audiobooks. the Narn has Christopher Lee. the nirnaeth arnoediad in particular fuckin owns
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Food Boner posted:lotr audiobooks have been done by Andy serkis.  That sounds amazing. I need to find them.
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indigi posted:Tolkien has some top tier audiobooks. the Narn has Christopher Lee. the nirnaeth arnoediad in particular fuckin owns I don't understand how the Nirnaeth Arnoediad gets such a tone of bleakness and horror despite being largely in the same broad overview style. It's so good.
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Zesty posted:
This. Checked them out from my local library and listen on libby
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I was listening to the Andy Serkis audio books in the car with my mother and she reminded me that we used to have a collection of tapes of the bbc dramatisation that she had taped off the radio, and it turns out someone has uploaded them all to the Internet archive. Its pretty good so far! Ian Holm is Frodo and Bill Nighy is Samwise
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Fake Name posted:I was listening to the Andy Serkis audio books in the car with my mother and she reminded me that we used to have a collection of tapes of the bbc dramatisation that she had taped off the radio, and it turns out someone has uploaded them all to the Internet archive. Its pretty good so far! Ian Holm is Frodo and Bill Nighy is Samwise I got bad corneal abrasion one summer and had to spend a couple days with my eyes covered while it healed because light was excruciatingly painful. Among other things I listened to this version (on CD) to pass the time. I'm sure the next time I listen to them it will be digital rather than on disc but I still keep the boxed set out of a sense of nostalgia. It's excellent, and people should listen to it.
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I'm sorry, everyone, there are now children drawing Fingolfin vs Morgoth fanart and getting in arguments over who better drew Grond.
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Barudak posted:I'm sorry, everyone, there are now children drawing Fingolfin vs Morgoth fanart and getting in arguments over who better drew Grond. I love your family.
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Mar 25, 2023 14:04
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A grandparent cheerfully doted on their grandchildren's art by saying "I'm so impressed you remembered the blood was black."
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Barudak posted:I'm sorry, everyone, there are now children drawing Fingolfin vs Morgoth fanart and getting in arguments over who better drew Grond. I don't understand why you would apologize for this?
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Barudak posted:I'm sorry, everyone, there are now children drawing Fingolfin vs Morgoth fanart and getting in arguments over who better drew Grond. Post them
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indigi posted:Post them
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The Sci-Fi Wi-Fi Tolkien Thread: children drawing Fingolfin vs Morgoth fanart
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indigi posted:Post them
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I dont have them all due to tele-conferencing so have the one I do have (Im not sure this worked. If it didnt gotta wait till I get home)
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hell yeah
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idk how old they are if you'd want to show them the whole thing yet but you could show them the part from RotK where they're wheeling the ram up to the gates and chanting "Grond! Grond!"
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indigi posted:idk how old they are if you'd want to show them the whole thing yet but you could show them the part from RotK where they're wheeling the ram up to the gates and chanting "Grond! Grond!" Most watched lord of the rings films immediately after the book finished and it was a "holy poo poo" moment for our reading group when the book said the hammers name was Grond. Grond! Grond!
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that rules
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indigi posted:idk how old they are if you'd want to show them the whole thing yet but you could show them the part from RotK where they're wheeling the ram up to the gates and chanting "Grond! Grond!" Isn't it canon that Sauron has a state church of Morgoth he makes everybody worship?
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Woolie Wool posted:Isn't it canon that Sauron has a state church of Morgoth he makes everybody worship? he did in Numenor, it's possible he imported it into middle earth but he probably didn’t need to try so hard to impress middle and low men
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indigi posted:he did in Numenor, it's possible he imported it into middle earth but he probably didn’t need to try so hard to impress middle and low men Might have kept some variant of it around for the Orcs.
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Historically, Gandalf didn't call Pippin a "fool of a Took" but rather "a loving Gorlim" but it was sanitized for modern audiences
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Beren deciding to become Vegetarian was an unexpected but well liked turn. I'll note that it only seems to go well because its not an explicit oath, a thing that both the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion seem to frown heavily on.
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Barudak posted:Beren deciding to become Vegetarian was an unexpected but well liked turn. I'll note that it only seems to go well because its not an explicit oath, a thing that both the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion seem to frown heavily on. I feel there's some lessons learned there from the kind of mythology and ancient sagas that Tolkien was inspired by in that binding oaths literally never end well. Might also be a bit of a Christian thing; acts good and evil don't really count unless you're doing them of your free will. (besides that you were naughty before you were born, of course)
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Barudak posted:Beren deciding to become Vegetarian was an unexpected but well liked turn. I'll note that it only seems to go well because its not an explicit oath, a thing that both the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion seem to frown heavily on. Gandalf was so loving pissed at Pippin. like dude do you know how much loving trouble we can get in
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Barudak posted:You see Noldor elves walk like this, but Sindar elves walk like this "Hey folks! Noldor and Sindar, we're like the Valar of Middle-earth. Noldor, we're like Aulë, the Smith: always crafting and innovating. Sindar, well, they're like Yavanna's houseplants: beautiful but not quite as, uh, productive. So, remember, when a Noldo and a Sinda meet, it's either a creative powerhouse or a reminder to water your plants! Goodnight!" Courtesy of GPT-4.
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Monglo posted:"Hey folks! Noldor and Sindar, we're like the Valar of Middle-earth. Hey, you know how Tolkien feels about plants.
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And so Sauron laid the sick diss on Felagund, and he was defeated for the rhyme was fresh and accusations true
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Frodo holding gollum to an oath worked great until it didn't and that's cause frodo hosed up
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Food Boner posted:Frodo holding gollum to an oath worked great until it didn't and that's cause frodo hosed up I dunno, last thing he told Gollum after he broke his oath was "touch me again and you'll be cast into the fire yourself" and well, guess what happened. Though really that's on the Ring for holding Gollum to that one.
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took my kid to see the hobbit 70's cartoon movie this weekend. what a special little film.
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Marathoning LotR cuz our whole household got some covid Takeaways: 1. Rankin-Bass The Hobbit is a vastly better prequel and tone short into the PJ LotRs than PJ Hobbit 2. Boromir best character 3. Don’t care about the professor’s lord (forgive me) the elves arriving at helms deep is such a kickass scene “We come to honour that allegiance”
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Barudak posted:If you meet a Curufin in the road, kill him It's fanfic of course but I rather liked this one diving into his character. Still a bastard, but it's a much more intriguing suggestion why he was that way (and what HIS perspective was).
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