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Cryte Lynn posted:She said the play was really cool; it was interactive so like, the orcs would come out into the crowd and razzle the patrons during the helms deep sequence, and the Ents were ppl on stilts striding around the crowd during the entmoot. Wish I could have seen it. Goddamn, that sounds awesome.
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Honestly, while Two Towers has a lot of comic moments for Gimli he gets consistent love as well. Return of the King is where the balance shifts too far to comedy, but that's the case for a lot of things in the trilogy. I think that's partly because they had the least prep time to reign in those tendencies, which seemed to happen a lot in the first two movies - they'd come up with a scenario, then have enough time to come back to it and hone it and it would inevitably end up looking more like the books. By the time they got to the third movie, there wasn't that extra time. It wasn't as bad as the hobbit where they were basically writing as they filmed from what I heard, but it wasn't Fellowship where they had so long to get ready.
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Jun 24, 2023 10:15
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Mail would always be used with plate armour, because otherwise you wouldn't be able to protect some of your joints, eg the armpits and neck would usually have something like that so that you could lift your arm without immediately getting got. So plate and mail are not exclusive, but mail on its own was standard for a while. Well, mail over a gambeson or other padding.
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Sometimes you get visions or warnings in Middle Earth - Frodo had a vision of Gandalf in Isengard, for instance, albeit after the fact of his escape. Elrond has the gift of prophecy as well.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:For tonight's performance the part of Aragorn son of Arathorn, Ranger of the North and Heir of Isildur will be played by Bruce Campbell. Hail to the [Return of the] King, baby.
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This polygon article was one I went into with some scepticism and came out pretty convinced by its arguments, so imo, he knew what he was doing, even if he was also probably uncomfortable with it.
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Tree Bucket posted:No, that's her sister, Blackberry
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Vavrek posted:That the Ring had no idea how to handle Sam, at least. That, in combination with the above scene(s) of Frodo laying down the law for Gollum, really hammered home the notion "Sam is the Hero of the story." The spirit of Sauron is desperately trying to find some way to move Sam, some way to phrase "Don't you want to command others, to bring order to this world," and all it can come up with is "... like a well-tended garden?" And a lesser gardener might have gone with it! I think this undersells how effective that temptation actually was for Sam - if not for his love of Frodo, he would have absolutely gone along with it, either then, or soon after stepping into Mordor. Sam is the hero of LotR, in the sense that he goes on the hero's journey and returns to a hero's reward - violently expelling invaders and getting to be happily married and rule over his people. Frodo, on the other hand, is much harder for the Ring to work with. He doesn't want to rule, he doesn't seek to reorder the world to his design. In the end, the only thing the Ring can tempt him with is - itself! And we are to make no mistake, it's not that someone else holding it over the fires of Mount Doom would have been better able to resist it, rather, it's likely that no-one else could have taken it that far, as it would have successfully tempted them well before then. Though, of course, Frodo's body wouldn't have made it that far without his faithful Sam there to (literally) support him.
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Nov 8, 2023 19:20
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Also isn't Treebeard based on CS Lewis? Oh it seems that's based on another person's recollections. The mystery deepens...
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skasion posted:Tolkien thinks “woman with magic powers” is a cool and sexy archetype, not evil. he's right
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Nov 21, 2023 20:25
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Tree Bucket posted:It's Morgoth. Actually it's Morgoth's Ring.
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In Glaurung's defence, it was very funny.
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You can also look at Eru's intervention as being literally just setting up how oaths work in that world. Smeagol freely swears by the Ring to obey the holder; Frodo while holding the ring commands him: "If you touch me ever again you shall be cast yourself into the fire of doom". And then that's exactly what happens.
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Who makes a rock roll downhill? No-one, that's just how the universe is set up. There are, on the other hand, moments of divine intervention we can directly point to like the drowning of Numenor, that were unambiguously an intervention by Eru that otherwise were not possible within the laws of the universe.
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Feb 28, 2024 15:21
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euphronius posted:He doesn’t day it rolled. He says it was rolled. Yeah, by gravity.
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Feb 28, 2024 15:25
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skasion posted:By whom The song of the Ainur, given form by Eru as Ëa, which still allows for acts of free will by its inhabitants. euphronius posted:Your interpretation takes the “was” out. I think you should account for the text saying “was rolled” not just “rolled” In Saruman's case: he's lying, but since Caradhras has a will of its own, I would hazard he means Anduin itself.
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Feb 28, 2024 15:29
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euphronius posted:So your interpretation is the river had free will to roll the ring ? Or the ring rolled itself by free will? Why didn’t Saruman say that Why would he have to say it, what else would have?
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Feb 28, 2024 15:31
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euphronius posted:Eru. Manwe. Most likely Ulmo in this scenario Why would they need to get involved at that point instead of letting the river do its thing? Or, if Eru is going to get involved directly, why let it be made? Why not destroy it once it has been? The Eagles intervention is much more credible to assign to Manwë by even that isn't certain.
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Feb 28, 2024 15:35
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Ravenfood posted:So Gollum's fall at Mt. Doom was just...luck? No, it was the result of a command given by Frodo while holding the ring to which Smeagol was sworn.
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Feb 28, 2024 15:36
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euphronius posted:Then he would have just said rolled, not was rolled. Do you think Eru literally pushed Smeagol over the cliff?
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Feb 28, 2024 15:46
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euphronius posted:Like did eru corporealize and literally push? No In that case why didn't Sauron slip and fall midforging and avoid the problem altogether? Or equally, is Smeagol wasn't there at that moment, would he have just slipped and fallen wherever?
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WoodrowSkillson posted:i hate this argument so much You were right.
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Data Graham posted:It's definitely true that the whole first act of the story up to Rivendell really shows the effects of having gone through so many painful revisions and evolutions from the "Hobbit sequel" it started as. All whimsical sidequests and songs and droll hobbit repartee It works in part because the journey the Hobbits go through is the same as the narrative. And since they're our pov, it feels extremely natural as you read along. It's only when you step back you can see how big a change it is.
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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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