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Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

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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Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



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?

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

They were there in winter. Most of the flow could be in the spring when the snow on the mountains melt

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



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

webmeister
Jan 31, 2007

The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.
Apparently the Watcher in the Water is 90% sponge

skasion
Feb 13, 2012

Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?
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

Jimmy Noskill
Nov 5, 2010

Arc Hammer posted:

Animal Crossing: Shire Edition featuring Tom Nook Bombadil

Tom is jolly, Tom is funny
Tom wants his motherfucking money

Phy
Jun 27, 2008



Fun Shoe
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

Flakey
Apr 30, 2009

There's no need to speak. You must only concentrate and recall all your past life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder.
Tom is master

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
I was debating whether I should have gone with Tom Took instead.

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe
Hello I used knowledge from this thread to impress a girl, thank you all.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Praise Eru

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Was the girl Shelob?

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys
You fool, she was just distracting you while pocketing your teaspoons.

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

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?

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

WoodrowSkillson posted:

oh no this actually means she is a Spotted Wight. has she been near any Mirror salesmen recently?

Gaunter O'Bombadil

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

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

Cavelcade
Dec 9, 2015

I'm actually a boy!



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?

webmeister
Jan 31, 2007

The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

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.



Anyway, what's everyone's favourite Varda artwork?

You should get this tattoo

galagazombie
Oct 31, 2011

A silly little mouse!
I am 100% ready for the age of the Sexualized Baroque LotR fanart movement.

Diamonds On MY Fish
Dec 10, 2008

I WAS BORN THIS WAY

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.

Kaysette
Jan 5, 2009

~*Boston makes me*~
~*feel good*~

:wrongcity:
Just don’t post any Teleporno!

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

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?

skasion
Feb 13, 2012

Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

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?
Or maybe a better question is what should I read?

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.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Great, thank you!

Pioneer42
Jun 8, 2010
Any word on if they going to make an illustrated version of Unfinished Tales to complete the collection?

Blood Boils
Dec 27, 2006

Its not an S, on my planet it means QUIPS
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

OPAONI
Jul 23, 2021

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.



Anyway, what's everyone's favourite Varda artwork?

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

skasion
Feb 13, 2012

Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

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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SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe
I guess Gollum is just missing the suit.

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