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Sham bam bamina! posted:For you drudges hard of memory:
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# ? Nov 2, 2019 09:09 |
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# ? Jun 13, 2024 05:22 |
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wonderful personal growth. glad to see it.
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# ? Nov 2, 2019 09:36 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:For you drudges hard of memory: way better writing than Rothuss in this post the LOTR series will be successful because there are legions of LOTR fans who will love it. including the many many people who are exclusively Jackson movie fans, the ones who still make "poh-ta-toes" jokes when they see potatoes. unless they really really gently caress it up which is possible
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# ? Nov 2, 2019 16:58 |
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my bony fealty posted:way better writing than Rothuss in this post I gotta wonder how much The Hobbit films poisoned that well.
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# ? Nov 2, 2019 17:39 |
i would be all in on a silmarillion series that really kicked at the walls and played around in the space but if i see *one legolas* i'm out
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# ? Nov 2, 2019 19:00 |
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Legolas was born early on in the 3rd age so as long as they stick to stuff like the fall of Gondolin or Numenor we're safe from him. They'd almost certainly try to show Galadriel though. Especially if they covered the kinslaying.
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# ? Nov 2, 2019 21:53 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:Legolas was born early on in the 3rd age so as long as they stick to stuff like the fall of Gondolin or Numenor we're safe from him. That wouldn't be a big problem. She was one of the oldest elves in Middle Earth. If the series focuses on Numenor, it wouldn't cover the things where Galadriel was the most involved in (Feanor's creation of the Silmarils, the Kinslaying, Elu Thingol closing his realm to most of the Noldor, overthrowing the Witch King, etc.), but I personally wouldn't mind a cameo.
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# ? Nov 2, 2019 22:02 |
galadriel loving owns though galadriel/elrond/saruman vs ringwraiths was the only scene out of the whole hobbit trilogy i still think about positively
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# ? Nov 3, 2019 02:28 |
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what was the kinslaying, i never got into lotr lore but deeply admired galadriel blanchett as a child, did she kill anybody
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# ? Nov 3, 2019 02:43 |
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This is the best adaptation of The Silmarillion we're going to get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG3u2TEdENQ
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# ? Nov 3, 2019 03:11 |
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fauna posted:what was the kinslaying, i never got into lotr lore but deeply admired galadriel blanchett as a child, did she kill anybody It's the Cain vs Abel "original murder" for the elves. Big Bad Morgoth stole the Silmarils and fled to Middle Earth. Feanor's people (including Galadriel) wanted to chase him but the Sea Elves didn't want to give them their boats so they just murdered them and took them by force
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# ? Nov 3, 2019 05:37 |
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they murdered the loving sea elves! drat
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# ? Nov 3, 2019 06:38 |
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i ran over a sea elf once. i felt so bad
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# ? Nov 3, 2019 06:40 |
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fauna posted:i ran over a sea elf once. i felt so bad He should have moved out of the swim lane.
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# ? Nov 3, 2019 11:11 |
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Torrannor posted:LOTR has a lot of material to be mined for more stories. The Silmarillion alone probably has enough content to make a dozen films or a lot of series. And there are a lot of Tolkien fans out there, or even just fans who enjoyed the LOTR and The Hobbit films. And one positive aspect of the Silmarillion is that it's basically just a summary of all the poo poo that happened, showrunners would have a lot of freedom how they want to tell those stories. I think they're going with Numenor IIRC, and all that the Silmarillion had to say about it was basically "it was founded by one of the two half-elves, was a bastion of the forces of good, until Sauron came and corrupted them, then the Valar sank the island, and the last pure Numenorans founded Gondor (and Arnor)". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83etthnOEUk
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# ? Nov 3, 2019 22:53 |
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i'm a sea jew (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 04:50 |
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Seeing Rothfuss' writing being vigorously defended on Reddit reminded me of this thread and how I missed it.
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# ? Nov 23, 2019 03:23 |
I'm confused, what defense are these people making other than "well I like it?"
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# ? Nov 23, 2019 03:35 |
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I'm confused, what defense are these people making other than "well I like it?" quote:Wise Man's Fear is such an unfortunate sequel to Name of the Wind. When I recommend Rothfuss, I say to keep to the first book because I believe that he really lost touch with what made Kvothe such a special character. Wise Man's Fear has him go his arrogant but yet understandible position as a hero to swordmaster (whose sparring teacher offers to bang him multiple times because of course) to sex god because he gets stuck in a time dilation with the Rothfuss equivalent of Aphrodite. To those of you interested in this series, please don't let what you see here keep you from reading Name of the Wind. It is a fantastic book in its own right and a staple in the genre for a reason. quote:You just don't understand love or music if you don't like him. Totally valid though. quote:This is ironically an example of one of the best "menwritingwomen" of our time. Don't take quotes out of context, that was a beautiful scene. quote:well, this is completely taken ou of context though. Rothfuss is actually great at character development and the female characters are really well written. I don't want to c&p anymore, my time wasted on Reddit as a white noise machine is bad enough as it is.
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# ? Nov 23, 2019 03:46 |
...are you sure that second isn't sarcasm?
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# ? Nov 23, 2019 04:20 |
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:...are you sure that second isn't sarcasm? It is actually, I mixed up the usernames in a comment tree.
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# ? Nov 23, 2019 04:27 |
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I love the "you don't understand music" stuff because it's the one thing that I can get my friends that like him to admit is stupid. They're all musicians, so pointing out how silly it is was actually really easy.
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 01:08 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:I love the "you don't understand music" stuff because it's the one thing that I can get my friends that like him to admit is stupid. They're all musicians, so pointing out how silly it is was actually really easy. I’m pretty sure it’s always people who know nothing about music that say he’s great at writing about music. It’s like Dan Brown (or Rothfuss really) writing about smart people. They just have 0 experience of it.
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 01:46 |
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In response to posting Rothfuss' Madonna/Whore "The Hobbit" screed posted:Wow, this is an amazing passage. I was captivated and had no idea where you were going with it. I'm still unsure on your stance, because I loved the analogy but your tone seems possibly sarcastic in the end?
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 02:47 |
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A link or two would be appreciated.
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 03:32 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:A link or two would be appreciated. Here ya go Sham Bam, the last C&P is from somewhere in here https://www.reddit.com/r/menwritingwomen/comments/e007p2/ah_yes_the_words_that_every_female_friend_loves/ Don't have the other threads accessible (I make and delete accounts if I ever feel like engaging with Reddit) but basically if Rothfuss' shows up on Reddit expect a lot of fawning.
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 03:42 |
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quote:Wow dude you read things with a really bad tone. Out of curiosity, what kind of things DO you like?
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 03:52 |
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pseudanonymous posted:I’m pretty sure it’s always people who know nothing about music that say he’s great at writing about music. It’s like Dan Brown (or Rothfuss really) writing about smart people. They just have 0 experience of it. It's really something how little Rothfuss knows about music despite making it literally the supposed centerpiece of the protagonist's character.
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 03:56 |
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Aw man didn't see he responded before I scrapped the account. Shame I didn't read that Hobbit blog post in the proper light I guess.
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 04:35 |
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pseudanonymous posted:I’m pretty sure it’s always people who know nothing about music that say he’s great at writing about music. It’s like Dan Brown (or Rothfuss really) writing about smart people. They just have 0 experience of it. This approach works for the GOP and its base of idiots. No reason these kinds of people wouldn’t exist in literature communities.
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 04:44 |
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the venn diagram of Young Republicans and Rothfuss fans is a circle
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 04:57 |
Kchama posted:It's really something how little Rothfuss knows about music despite making it literally the supposed centerpiece of the protagonist's character. What's there to get? It's just like sex. All you gotta do is beat a DC20 check modified by your DEX and CHA bonuses
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 05:53 |
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They love the self made man ideology...
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 05:55 |
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a chord that said sad
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 09:18 |
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Kchama posted:It's really something how little Rothfuss knows about music despite making it literally the supposed centerpiece of the protagonist's character. This is not entirely true, my dad is the person who recommended the novels to me. Admittedly he did not then go on about the music being well written in particular, but he is a semi professional musician who actually gets paid to play the lute and he was at the very least not sufficiently offended by the music bits to be turned off the books.
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 12:21 |
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Probably not a large number of fantasy novels available that focus on a lute virtuoso as the main character. Your dad may just have been tickled by the novelty of it.
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 12:48 |
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Rothfuss's way of writing about music isn't overtly bad but it is overtly baffling. It's another victim of his over wrought prose and the deeper he tries to go into it the more apparent it becomes that he's never picked up an instrument and has never been moved by playing an instrument. However his description does make more sense when you realize that his interaction with music is solely as a consumor. Imagine Kovtje's reaction coming from losing his iPod - he no longer has access to his music, he can't take listening to music anymore from others because it reminds him too much of losing the iPod which was a valuable gift from his dead parents. Then it makes a lot more sense. I think a musician would accept Rothfuss's ham fisted foolishness if they read the books purely on a surface level and don't stop to go "wait what?" at certain passages.
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 13:15 |
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HIJK posted:I think a musician would accept Rothfuss's ham fisted foolishness if they read the books purely on a surface level and don't stop to go "wait what?" at certain passages.
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# ? Nov 24, 2019 15:45 |
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Just let the torrent of words ease over your glazed eyes...
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Just shut off your brain completely and you'll enjoy the books..?
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