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webmeister posted:My first ever copy of The Hobbit was an ancient paperback with a really cartoony Smaug lying on a giant pile of gold. Because I was 8 years old and apparently a not very attentive reader, I got through most of chapter 1 picturing Bilbo as that dragon from the front cover, pottering about the kitchen and making tea. Eventually I realised my mind's image made no sense and re-read the chapter much more carefully. That cartoony Smaug is drawn by Tolkien himself! http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/1016-Conversation-with-Smaug-Bodleian-exhibition.php
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euphronius posted:You are assuming they could carry the Ring and the Ring bearer which is ... I don’t think that could happen Tolkien seems to have changed his mind a couple times before deciding that eagles don't have souls/fëar: they're animals that happen to be able to talk as opposed to "people". Both normal animals (the hobbits' ponies they leave in Bree) and more intelligent animals (Asfaloth) have no apparent issue carrying Frodo and the Ring. The Nazgul ride normal rear end horses that they steal from Rohan, suggesting that their rings' corrupting influence also do not extend to their mounts, despite said mounts being the presence of the rings for far longer periods of time than the ponies or Asfaloth are around Frodo. Obviously the nine rings are less powerful and overall corrupting than the One, but I think taken together you can absolutely argue that the rings in general only influence beings with fëar.
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May 5, 2020 20:25
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"Beware the barrow-dudes" just doesn't have the same ring.
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Jul 4, 2020 02:29
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Compromise: the balrog has one wing, Sephiroth style
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Ogmius815 posted:Note that that dispassionate list does not really capture the excruciating detail with which such deaths as "spear in the mouth" are relayed in the poem. List: "spear in the buttock" Iliad posted:This man (Phereklos) Meriones pursued and overtaking him
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