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I'm pretty sure that Dol Amroth is a city on par with Minas Tirith, if only because MT has seriously declined since its better days.
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People used to call things "blue" when it's like dude that's not blue that's really dark grey or something.
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Probs; if you can get your hands on Atlas of Middle Earth or whatever it's called it even talks about fault lines and poo poo and it's cool.
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He is saruman the White and the Wizards are the "Hand" of the Valar in middle earth. There is no explanation given in The Two Towers as far as I can find, so that's the closest Id imagine there is. SHISHKABOB fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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Mar 12, 2015 19:45
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I hope not! Also I don't think so. They went bye bye in the east.
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Mar 14, 2015 20:10
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I'm sure if one monstrous entity was formed from nothing then another one could. Like the watcher in the water, where did that come from WHO KNOWS!
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Mar 23, 2015 17:55
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Sounds like they had a good time.
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Mar 23, 2015 22:07
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euphronius posted:No. Evil's main essential characteristic is the desire to control and create. Yes but also what heiermosntomsyalloy said is true.
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Mar 26, 2015 02:50
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Thunder Moose posted:I would say that both dark lords lacked in wisdom what they had in raw intellect, yes. I always wondered what they thought their end game with Eru was - they both knew the true measure of their innate power to that of Eru surely? Balrogs are a man and a half. If you look carefully at the scene in fellowship it's actually pretty much a man and a half tall. I mean, it's hunched over but that's how they always are so its ok.
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Mar 26, 2015 04:45
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Who cares if someone else writes about it, it won't matter what they write cause they ain't Tolkien.
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Apr 4, 2015 22:50
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Terry brooks poo poo wasn't TOO similar, it was just his first book really.
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Apr 5, 2015 06:20
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Haha, fairly similar series?
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Apr 7, 2015 05:06
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i81icu812 posted:Both authors had one major genera-defining literary success, an epic spanning multiple books, received to great acclaim in the 60's. Both die with a few years of each other and their estates falls to sons. One son curates the The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Unfinished Tales, etc. The other cedes creative control to Kevin J Anderson to churn out a book a year and leaves his father's notes moldering in an university archive. Oh ok yeah, in those ways they are similar.
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Apr 7, 2015 10:02
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He also talks about things that burrow deep underground. The worms were awesome, though it was a little weird that they disappeared completely without another mention...
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May 5, 2015 04:46
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The Belgian posted:I've been reading LotR again, and it seems like the breaching fire that Saruman uses at Helm's Deep is a cannon? Especially as it is fired at aragorn the second time it's used. So not a big bomb carried to the wall. I just read it and I think that's reasonable. In that part, it says that the archway above where Aragorn had been standing crumbled with the thunder and fire. As an aside, I really like the part where Aragorn is standing on the wall talking to the orcs mostly because of the way the uruk-hai talk as one. It's one of the scenes that I remember most vividly from my first reading of the story when I was like ten. And now I see how it fits perfectly with the ideas and stories that influenced Tolkien.
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May 6, 2015 17:59
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Hogge Wild posted:What makes that funny was the fact that he was a signals officer. And why he made a career out of that oh wait
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May 11, 2015 18:34
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He doesn't say they're worse he just says that there are nameless things in the depths of the earth that not even Sauron knows of. That means some algae or fish for all we know. Though he did say that they bored tunnels down there.
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May 20, 2015 04:51
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More like Gandalf doesn't want to make them feel bad by telling them all about the deep dark tunnels that he had to run through.
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May 20, 2015 18:33
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Ravenfood posted:"In that despair my enemy was my only hope" doesn't really make it seem like its a nice place. And I didn't think the Balrog lived in those caves either, since the Balrog flees twice in that passage: once from Gandalf into the dark deep places, and once from there back to Khazad-dum. There's a million times in lotr where darkness loneliness etc are bad. There don't need to be wacky scary monsters for Gandalf to not want to talk about a place that was the utter opposite of his longtime home and everything he wants to save. And the balrog was running from Gandalf, duh
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May 21, 2015 20:40
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Sun and the moon I guess. Speaking of the moon, it's one of my favorite stories in the Silmarillion. "Daddy why is the sun a perfect circle but the moon is so blemished?" "Because ten thousand years ago an evil powerful dark lord tried to gently caress with it and got trounced, so it's covered in scars."
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May 26, 2015 18:23
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He writes it like a fantasy elf guy would describe tanks and artillery if I recall correctly. More emphasis on the fire and steel armor/hides of the dragons.
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Jun 7, 2015 05:19
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It's a hella good book, my dad isn't even into reading very much and he's adored it ever since he was a little kid.
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Jun 19, 2015 04:52
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Off the top of my head I can't think of any Maia children.
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Jun 19, 2015 15:58
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Luthien is also not a Maia and is never referenced as half-Maia as other people are with mixed ancestry. So I think it's more of her mom's un-maianess that allowed it. Like how Arwen gives up her elfness.
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Jun 19, 2015 21:24
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His scars were from fighting dragons from the north. He says something like "you're not the only one who knows the threat of dragons" as he flashes the scars. And the dragons came from who know where. Big wormy things. Then he put wings on them.
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Jun 30, 2015 06:34
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Octy posted:I understand there's a theory that dragons are similar to Balrogs in being Maiar. I just assumed they were a corrupted form of eagles when I was younger, though, but I don't know if Tolkien ever said anything about that. Some sort of powerful spirit, definitely.
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Jun 30, 2015 12:41
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Smoking Crow posted:Prancing Pony Dang son, just skip around and read the bits you like.
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HIJK posted:Feanor is not a particularly great or heroic figure and his big character flaw is hubris. Well earned hubris and it lead him to do many great (terrible) things but man, what a price huh? They really are. They always seemed to me to be a bunch of pretty dimwitted, slow guys who got assigned a really important job and they know they need to do a good job, and they know it's super important so they hold themselves with dignity, etc. But they're complete idiots and whenever a hard decision comes along they're all "hmmm" rubbing their chins trying to look like they're weighing the options like Solomon but really they're like "gently caress gently caress gently caress what the gently caress do I do with my gameboy- wait what did feanor want again". Or at least the male valar. Lorien and Yavanna were cool.
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Aule's the kid playing with legos, or the train set. Dad walks over and says "this is bad, why did you do this" and Aule is  (((((
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Aug 2, 2015 19:04
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Ynglaur posted:Ahem: Galadriel. Galadriel doesn't really... do... much. :/
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Nov 4, 2015 14:43
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That gives me a new perspective on the theme of decay that's throughout lotr. Also: men led to the destruction of numenor, and dwarves led to the desolation of Smaug. But clearly not as devastating as what happened cause of the silmarils.
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Nov 8, 2015 03:26
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I don't remember how important Aragorn's sword was in regards to his kingship or whatever. I remember that they reforge it in Rivendell before "the ring goes south" and he stops calling himself strider and takes on Aragorn fully. But it wasn't a super big deal like how getting Excalibur made Arthur the king. It was important, but not defining. So I guess that answers my question.
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Nov 27, 2015 19:42
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euphronius posted:When was this. After the fall of Gondolin right? It was at like the way end I thought, after Morgoth got boned.
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Doesn't bother me, cause I'm not a loving nerd 
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Umbrellas didn't exist in Britain until I don't know when, and lotr is a mythology of Britain.
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Jan 11, 2016 03:53
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Levitate posted:we could also probably enjoy some dope rear end books and not jerk off about the few anachronisms the author left in them (though I'm sure this thread is down with that) What is with this attitude?
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Jan 13, 2016 01:14
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Ynglaur posted:Wait, wasn't the writing on the inside of the Ring? This picture may be tricksy... Sauron couldn't show it off it it was on the inside!
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May 9, 2016 02:55
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A lot of them I straight recognized like finarfin, celeborn, etc. but yeah fuckin Imin that one got me.
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There would be so much made up stuff in a silmarillion movie and that would be perfect.HIJK posted:The Silmarillion mostly deals with abstract concepts like the Valar creating the earth along with Eru. Even if that could get put down there's a lot of religious packaging to go along with it. I'm not sure that any studio today could portray that well. It's all western Christian stuff so I think it'd work out fine. SHISHKABOB fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Aug 22, 2016 |
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There's only one God in lotr.
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