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it doesn't make sense that the dirt helped all the trees grow cause the reason Lorien's soil was so rich was Nenya which got depowered so the soil ain't poo poo anymore. Tolkien hosed up
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Maybe once you charge up the dirt it stays charged. How do you know how magic dirt works? 
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The real magic dirt was inside Sam; namely, his poop was supernaturally effective fertilizer and by taking bathroom breaks next to his planted trees as he checked them he managed to boost their growth. The box dirt was just packaging for the mallorn seed. (Insert your own horrific theories how this relates to the Entwives coming to the Shire...)
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the entwives evolved into hobbits
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ChubbyChecker posted:the entwives evolved into hobbits They evolved into pipeweed. Then the hobbits smoked them all.
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Lord of the Ring: Gollum™ developer Daedalic Entertainment shutting down their game development division. Oh no. What a shock. 
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That's kinda rough but also lol they hosed up so bad they just retreat from the entire medium Were they completely unfamiliar with video games and just dunning-krugered their way through it?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That's kinda rough but also lol they hosed up so bad they just retreat from the entire medium They mostly made point & click adventure games from what I understand. I can't comment on their quality, they were probably alright? Apparently the skills did not transer over to making a modern stealth action game though
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That's kinda rough but also lol they hosed up so bad they just retreat from the entire medium Gonna be honest, as bad as this game was, it wouldn't have been nearly as much of a laughingstock if they hadn't given Gollum that dopey haircut.
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Asterite34 posted:They mostly made point & click adventure games from what I understand. I can't comment on their quality, they were probably alright? Apparently the skills did not transer over to making a modern stealth action game though What a shame. If they just made a little Gollum point-and-click it would have been critically-praised and sold better than the mess they made. USE fish WITH rock EAT slimy fish paste TALK TO self CURSE baggins
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Asterite34 posted:I can't comment on their quality, they were probably alright? I can comment. Really bad. Sexist. Racist.
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The actual game part was okay, just the main problem was that the entire series decided to focus on a very awful character who is awful in every way including being very sexist, and the series does this whole weird thing where it's trying to criticize him but also glorify him, and the game kept having the pretense towards him trying to get better and redeem himself but never actually improving much. I did get the sense that the studio regretted some of their decisions as well, but not enough to not keep milking it for all it's worth. I dunno, loving Germans man.
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Asterite34 posted:They mostly made point & click adventure games from what I understand. I can't comment on their quality, they were probably alright? Apparently the skills did not transer over to making a modern stealth action game though The people who played their adventure games seemed to like them so this is kind of sad... I don't know the whole story but I wonder if their publisher pushed them into making it.
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maybe they should have made gollum sexist and racist. lean into their audience
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SlothfulCobra posted:dunno, loving Germans man. GIANTS Software presents: Gollum Simulator 2024
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Jazerus posted:maybe they should have made gollum sexist and racist. lean into their audience Made me think of this for the first time in years https://youtu.be/BxVNE70fLxY Somewhere deep in somebodys computer out there is an uncensored recording of Andy Serkis calling Dobby from Harry Potter a “loving fag”
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Asterite34 posted:They mostly made point & click adventure games from what I understand. I can't comment on their quality, they were probably alright? Apparently the skills did not transer over to making a modern stealth action game though some of them were pretty good. the big series they were best-known for was terrible, though. the deponia games aimed for social commentary, particularly on other games, but they were so broad and confused that the final product was just bigoted and stupid.
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Apparently Weta sells a bunch of ungodly expensive LOTR and other nerd knick-knacks on its website. Anyone want to buy a two foot-high $1200 statue of Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie from Labyrinth? https://www.wetanz.com/us/shop/figures/jareth-and-sarah-in-the-illusionary-maze 
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Alhazred posted:The life size Gollum sculpture is sold out. Why is there such a market for that? Got to admit if I had a manor house or whatever having a Gollum next to the fishpond would amuse me unreasonably.
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You know all those fancy elaborate figurines of anime characters, especially the girls with big tits and/or questionable ages? This is just the American version of them. Nerds got disposable income and little to no interest in 'traditional' home decorations.
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Wish my parents would have thrown me an overnight rager for my 21st
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<me, drunkenly to my best friend at graduation> I'm glad you're here, man. At the end of all things
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Barudak posted:<me, drunkenly to my best friend at graduation> I'm glad you're here, man. At the end of all things hell yeah, my first tattoo was getting the white tree, with my high school best friend getting a matching Rohan horse at the same time even today, drifted apart by time and space, we'll still shoot texts like "Gondor calls for aid" "and Rohan shall answer" as our dumbass way of saying that circumstance has not cancelled our eternal love
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:hell yeah, my first tattoo was getting the white tree, with my high school best friend getting a matching Rohan horse at the same time Unironically lovely stuff I've done similar. There was a lot of 'courage for our friends' zipping around in my best buds group at the start of the pandemic, and we drop 'not all tears are an evil' quite a lot
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:hell yeah, my first tattoo was getting the white tree, with my high school best friend getting a matching Rohan horse at the same time I also have a Tolkien tattoo and I’m getting it added to in September. might wind up with a sleeve eventually idk we'll see
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Trip report: still tear up at the death of Boromir.
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He was a good lad who meant well
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I've been listening to the audiobook lately. Andy is a great reader
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Just beginning The Silmarillion in my attempt to read all the published works of the Legendarium (have only read LotR and The Hobbit, up to now). The first of (most likely) many questions: are the Timeless Halls distinct from the Deeps of Time (being the place where Eru Ilúvatar forms a habitat for the Children of the Earth)?
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the Silmarillion is composed after Tolkien's death from iterative and incomplete drafts so the answer is both yes and no
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dubLEs posted:Just beginning The Silmarillion in my attempt to read all the published works of the Legendarium (have only read LotR and The Hobbit, up to now). Seems like one’s got time, the other hasn’t. The set phrase “in the deeps of time and amid the innumerable stars” is used a couple of times to describe the location of Arda and I think says basically that Arda is located in a broader space-time. In contrast to that the “timeless halls” seems to be where Eru and the Valar were when the Music happened, before Arda was created, and I think is basically “heaven” (in the sense of “the abode of God”, not just “the sky”)
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RandolphCarter posted:Trip report: still tear up at the death of Boromir. Nobody dies like Sean Bean.
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Alhazred posted:Nobody dies like Sean Bean. And you can make drat well sure of it in Hitman soon.
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Tolkien says that an 'e' on the end of a name is pronounced as a distinct vowel and is usually written as 'ë'. Does that mean the letter is said as 'ay/eh' or 'ee'. As in, Man-wee or Man-way'?
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