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Oracle posted:Is it really subsistence farming if you’ve got markets and trades and pipe weed and money and social classes though? skasion posted:Cottage core people aren’t exactly dreaming of grubbing in the dirt for potatoes either lol. Nah but they pretend to be to sell their influencer bullshit to all the fools who think it's the way white people were meant to live.
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So uh, the Sirannon and the lake at the gates of Moria. Why is the stream reduced to a trickle? Does the text never address this? Yes I know it has been dammed, but dams have to let water out at the same rate as it comes in. Where's the water going?
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They were there in winter. Most of the flow could be in the spring when the snow on the mountains melt
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Ah true. They do seem surprised that it's flowing so little though, even before they know about the dam/lake. It's presented as a big mystery and the dam is presented as the answer
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Apparently the Watcher in the Water is 90% sponge
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There is another stream at the north corner of the pool that they have to cross to get to the door. It doesn’t explicitly say which way it flows and indeed it seems stagnant. Alternative drainage once the dam filled the valley up? There has to be some kind of subterranean outlet into the water under the mountains too. Unless the tentacle monster came overland. Flipping forward to the book of Mazarbul we find that some years ago the level of the pool was even higher: “up to the wall” where the fellowship had a patch of dry ground to stand on. Also, it’s repeated that the monster lives at the south end of the pool. Wonder if that’s relevant to the drainage here, or just to explain why it didn’t pick them off before they ever got to the door. skasion fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Arc Hammer posted:Animal Crossing: Shire Edition featuring Tom Tom is jolly, Tom is funny Tom wants his motherfucking money
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Old Tom Bombadil, lord of the land Lay all your bells down into his waiting hand Be it a joyful day or be it one of sorrow Better find some more, he'll be back again tomorrow
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Tom is master
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I was debating whether I should have gone with Tom Took instead.
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Hello I used knowledge from this thread to impress a girl, thank you all.
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Praise Eru
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Was the girl Shelob?
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You fool, she was just distracting you while pocketing your teaspoons.
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Tree Bucket posted:You fool, she was just distracting you while pocketing your teaspoons. oh no this actually means she is a Spotted Wight. has she been near any Mirror salesmen recently?
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WoodrowSkillson posted:oh no this actually means she is a Spotted Wight. has she been near any Mirror salesmen recently? Gaunter O'Bombadil
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Arc Hammer posted:Gaunter O'Bombadil Old Gaunter Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. His smile fair as spring, as towards him he draws you His tongue sharp and silvery, as he implores you None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster. Dues need be repaid, and he will come for you
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So I've been looking for images to use for a tattoo of Varda but I came across a truly cursed Gollum Tumblr sexyman art. Anyway, what's everyone's favourite Varda artwork?
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Cavelcade posted:So I've been looking for images to use for a tattoo of Varda but I came across a truly cursed Gollum Tumblr sexyman art. You should get this tattoo
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I am 100% ready for the age of the Sexualized Baroque LotR fanart movement.
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Cavelcade posted:So I've been looking for images to use for a tattoo of Varda Can you post a pic when done? Love Tolkien tats. I have Laurelin and Telperion on my back.
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Just don’t post any Teleporno!
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What's in the Unfinished Tales book that I can skip if I've read Silm, Children of Hurin, Beren.., Fall of Gondolin? Or maybe a better question is what should I read?
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Quantum of Phallus posted:What's in the Unfinished Tales book that I can skip if I've read Silm, Children of Hurin, Beren.., Fall of Gondolin? The first two tales (“Of Tuor…” and “Narn i Hin Hurin”) have been republished in Fall of Gondolin and Children of Hurin respectively. The rest are unique to Unfinished Tales afaik. There’s a lot of variance in quality and degree of unfinishedness. Best read in the collection imo is “Aldarion and Erendis”, which is like a depressing story about the domestic life of the Numenorean royals 2500 years before the fall.
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Great, thank you!
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Any word on if they going to make an illustrated version of Unfinished Tales to complete the collection?
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Unfinished Tales also has fairly detailed (for JR) descriptions of a couple battles that are important (diegeticly but not narratively) like the ones where Isildur and Theoden's son get killed
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Cavelcade posted:So I've been looking for images to use for a tattoo of Varda but I came across a truly cursed Gollum Tumblr sexyman art. That's not a tumblr sexyman. That's just Baroque horny. A tumblr sexyman is usually a white dude in a suit that is otherwise not an object of sexual desire. Past tumblr sexymen: The 9th, 10th, and 11th doctor, the onceler. Also applies to basically any nonthreatening twink. OPAONI fucked around with this message at 02:14 on May 2, 2024 |
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OPAONI posted:A tumblr sexyman is usually a white dude in a suit that is otherwise not an object of sexual desire. Past tumblr sexymen: The 9th, 10th, and 11th doctor, the onceler. Also applies to basically any nonthreatening twink. So, hobbits
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I guess Gollum is just missing the suit.
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quote:‘Smoke then, and think of him!’ said Aragorn. ‘For he was a gentle heart and a great king and kept his oaths; and he rose out of the shadows to a last fair morning. Though your service to him was brief, it should be a memory glad and honourable to the end of your days.’
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pis3veqKl8k Time to watch this on loop a few times
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Was literally watching ROTK with my gf and my housemate came in to tell us he was dead. RIP KING
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Wait did he just die now? Or did he die a few years ago and we're just once again getting nostalgic for one of the best scenes ever put on page or screen?
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CommonShore posted:Wait did he just die now? Or did he die a few years ago and we're just once again getting nostalgic for one of the best scenes ever put on page or screen? I was also certain he died a few years ago
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Just now. You might be mixing him up with Bernard Cribbins (like I did briefly) who died two years ago.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I was also certain he died a few years ago And I just looked it up and Holy poo poo he did just die today. Maybe I was crossing wires with Bernard Cribbins?  Anyway DEATH DEATH DEATH - as I said before, an all-timer scene from all of cinema
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"I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed."
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