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Runcible Cat posted:I bet it had some really sweet fantasy art on it. An accountant reconciling a spreadsheet or something.
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nrook posted:I just read the main section of Lord of the Rings for the first time since high school. I was surprised to find that the long denouement was my favorite part. It’s just such a relief after seeing Frodo and Sam hopeless and struggling for so long. agreed, well put!
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nrook posted:The biggest problem with the Jackson films is that we never got to see Eomer's van Runcible Cat posted:I bet it had some really sweet fantasy art on it. An accountant reconciling a spreadsheet or something. 
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Tolkien's Middle Earth: Eomer's Sweet Van.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:if you want this as an avatar, lmk No thanks, I'll keep my Wagtail; she brings good posting luck. Someone else can have Eomer In The Van if they want.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:if you want this as an avatar, lmk Yes please
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OPAONI posted:Yes please Not for everybody just the guy who posted it :P But you can buy it for yourself through the store, you'll need to crop it etc
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euphronius posted:The gods were already intervening. I think they had pretty good confidence they would continue to do so Yeah, Gandalf mentions this when he's telling Frodo everything about the ring before he leaves. He says "Bilbo was meant to find the ring, and notby its maker. In which case you were meant to have it." Sauron's victory wasn't assured, but it was inevitable if they did anything else. They mention this in the council of Elrond when they say that if they hesitate then eventually places like Rivendell would be islands in a sea of darkness, and that even they couldn't stand long. The one chance they had to save the world was to try to do something that everyone knew was impossible: Get a hobbit all the way to mount doom secretly, without getting killed or captured or claiming the ring as his own. And if by some miracle that happened, he would have to throw it into the fire, which couldn't possibly happen. He had had the ring for less than a year I think and he was unwilling to throw it into his own fireplace. It would have literally taken a miracle, so you can kind of understand why people would dismiss that possibility and look for other alternatives. And if they looked long enough, they would find out there literally aren't any alternatives and fall into despair like Saruman and Denethor, Resolve to hold out as long as they can, resisting Sauron to the end like Theoden, or take a leap of faith, like Elrond, Gandalf and Aragorn.
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A Moose posted:Yeah, Gandalf mentions this when he's telling Frodo everything about the ring before he leaves. He says "Bilbo was meant to find the ring, and notby its maker. In which case you were meant to have it." he had had it for almost 18 years
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Mahoning posted:He didn’t wear it or use it in the 17 years between Bilbo’s birthday and Gandalf coming back right? I can’t remember. Didn’t he just squirrel it away and kind of forget about it? IIRC he used it to avoid the Sackville-Bagginses too.
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I stopped listening to this regularly at Episode 110 in 2020 when I stopped having a long commute - I had just gotten to Rivendell - and have been working through the back catalog of a few other podcasts in the meantime. I have just now gotten back to it and looked up where it has gone in the meantime. TWO AND A HALF GODDAMN YEARS since the ep I stopped at was aired, and they're still in Rivendell. Olsen certainly has hit upon a way to keep the hustle going forever. I'm still going to catch up with it one of these days, but I skip the LOTRO bits at the end.
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euphronius posted:Tbf the council of Elrond is huge is that what he calls it
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I stopped listening to this regularly at Episode 110 in 2020 when I stopped having a long commute - I had just gotten to Rivendell - and have been working through the back catalog of a few other podcasts in the meantime. I have just now gotten back to it and looked up where it has gone in the meantime. TWO AND A HALF GODDAMN YEARS since the ep I stopped at was aired, and they're still in Rivendell. This is exactly me, lmao. I stopped listening a few months ago right about when they finally left Rivendell, right about when my treadmill broke and I didn't have as much podcast-listening time. Since then I've started to grind through Behind the Bastards before picking up Exploring LotR again, which I'm on track to do in ... maybe 6 months? They'll probably be midway through Moria by then
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Data Graham posted:This is exactly me, lmao. I stopped listening a few months ago right about when they finally left Rivendell, right about when my treadmill broke and I didn't have as much podcast-listening time. Since then I've started to grind through Behind the Bastards before picking up Exploring LotR again, which I'm on track to do in ... maybe 6 months? They'll probably be midway through Moria by then Funny, Behind the Bastards is the one I have been binging most and caught up on a few weeks ago.
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Is this podcast a nice smorgasbord of discussing Tolkien’s writings or a painfully detailed line by line account of the books? Because I’m looking for more of the former. Basically like this guy but in podcast form. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCy_g32mFqxga8YMNhUKKl-Q
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I'm not a fan of Corey Olson, who thinks that intelligence and insight is achieved by talking for a really long time about gently caress-all. To be fair to him, he does recently seem to have managed to boondoggle the state of New Hampshire into giving his vanity project degree-awarding powers; to be unfair to him, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities was a perfectly respectable stockbroker until it suddenly wasn't. If he can continue to separate fools from their money, good luck to him.
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Mahoning posted:Am I listening to the wrong thing or is this some dude talking about lord of the rings online? It took everything in me to not turn it off in the first 10 minutes. First 10 minutes are updates about his school. Then an hour to 90 minutes of discussion Last 30 mins or so is lotr field-trip which I never listen to So I fast forward ten minutes to start usually (If you don’t have long commutes don’t bother imho unless you like it )
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