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What is the meteor? Is this something mentioned in the Silmarillion? I don’t know all the lore like a lot of you do.
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Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! No time for Tom, Tom Bombadillo! Light on the budding leaf, dew on the feather, Skip ‘ol Tom, and the story is better!
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Jul 22, 2022 19:54
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How FORCEFUL you are, Glorfindel. Such a fine specimen of elf-hood. So… masculine. You must be awfully proood of him, Janet.
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Smeagol as a shopkeeper and tanner, who ekes out a meager living. Until one day, when Everything Changes Forever
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Aug 18, 2022 11:51
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For only two buttcoin in in-game purchase, you can activate the EAGLES! See if they can simply drop the Ring of Power into Orodruin!
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Aug 18, 2022 14:50
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The role is played by Summer Glau, in a shocking, unexpected return
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Aug 18, 2022 15:13
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It’s incredible how many people here are proactively ready to hate this show, having not seen a single episode. I guess I should be accustomed to it based on the Dragon House thread, and SA history in general, but I never can quite get used to it.
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Aug 24, 2022 14:05
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I think we should just give it a chance. If it sucks, it sucks. But we don’t know what it even is, yet.
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Aug 24, 2022 14:12
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9 PM ET.
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Sep 2, 2022 00:36
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Was it ever said if Annatar was supposed to be a man? Or a Numenorian? Or elf?
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Sep 2, 2022 23:51
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Data Graham posted:and Celebrimbor's whole thing about being super-clear and specific about the forge he wants to build but he has no idea what to build with it? C'mooon. What kind of weird fuckin engineer is that. My Dad pointed out that it’s possible Celebrimbor has already met Annatar, and he’s convinced him they need this forge for the Rings And we as the audience just haven’t seen Annatar yet
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Sep 2, 2022 23:54
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Beefeater1980 posted:I quite like the mythic quality of Galadriel swimming back across an ocean. These are supposed to be wise and fell and superhuman people; they should be doing things like that. I just could somehow never get down with this idea. If elves can take down an oliphant single-handedly and also swim hundreds of miles through the open ocean, then it seems like a platoon-size unit of elves (~40) could probably wreck a battalion-size unit of orcs (~900) Maybe it’s meant to be so. It’s been a long, long time since I read the Sil and when I did I was too young to understand a lot of it and also it bored me at the time. I do remember there’s two stories of elf-lords killing balrogs though, and those guys are terrifying army-destroyers themselves, so maybe I should rethink my position here.
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Sep 3, 2022 02:45
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Hammerstein posted:I think you are spot on. Those elves, who were capable of such feats, were also extraordinary among their own kind. They compare to other elves like Aragorn would compare to common men. Also keep in mind that silly stuff, like Legolas braining an Oliphaunt, is exclusive to the movies. Thanks for this post, it was very illuminating.
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Sep 3, 2022 21:32
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:they really went to town on portraying the Scots dwarfs as belligerent drunks ready to raise an axe. I was under the impression this is exactly what they are
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Sep 3, 2022 22:25
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A great Aragorn film-change and a huge hit against our Lord JRR Tolkien’s writing is that they decided not to have him carry around a broken sword that’s hilt and about 4” of blade. Because it is a loving joke and is totally laughable Did the “Tolkien Purists” complain about that one, too? I wasn’t Terminally Online back then.
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Sep 6, 2022 03:39
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nine-gear crow posted:This was also a thing going back to Jackson's adaptation of the Lord of the Rings as well, they tried to make sure that there were no weak or passive women in the film trilogy either, despite there being so few women to begin with. They actually wrote and filmed a massive deviation from the source material where not only did the elves show up at Helm's Deep to offer help to everyone, but Arwen was a part of the force and there were whole massive sequences of here kicking the poo poo out of Uruk-hai alongside Aragorn. Still photos of it leaked online and the 00s internet versions of The Usual Suspects lost their poo poo over it, so they had to re-film basically Arwen's entire subplot in The Two Towers in late-stage filming and pick up shooting to give her a more true-to-the-books story to make the internet shitlords of the day shut up. Can’t wait to hear how Liv, who is by all accounts a wonderful person, had to deal with all this poo poo.
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Sep 7, 2022 01:48
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nine-gear crow posted:This was also a thing going back to Jackson's adaptation of the Lord of the Rings as well, they tried to make sure that there were no weak or passive women in the film trilogy either, despite there being so few women to begin with. They actually wrote and filmed a massive deviation from the source material where not only did the elves show up at Helm's Deep to offer help to everyone, but Arwen was a part of the force and there were whole massive sequences of here kicking the poo poo out of Uruk-hai alongside Aragorn. Still photos of it leaked online and the 00s internet versions of The Usual Suspects lost their poo poo over it, so they had to re-film basically Arwen's entire subplot in The Two Towers in late-stage filming and pick up shooting to give her a more true-to-the-books story to make the internet shitlords of the day shut up. edit: I thought I also remembered this but I have just watched all of TTT and it's not there. Liv Tyler does not speak at all in the last couple hours of the TTT commentary.
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Sep 7, 2022 04:04
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I think it might even have been from an AICN interview, that I remember this. It’s a fact that they were planning to have Arwen at Helm’s Deep, it’s undeniable. I remember “spy reports” talking about it at the time, there were some pics of it, and I remember the Purist backlash against it at the time, but I am finding no evidence of it at all on the TTT Blu-ray extras.
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Sep 7, 2022 05:05
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nine-gear crow posted:Like I said, it's somewhere on one of the two Appendices discs for The Two Towers extended edition. Ok I’m dumb. You said twice, it’s on the appendices discs, not the commentary track. Duh.
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Sep 7, 2022 15:52
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Wasn’t there a mention in the book about Legolas walking on top of the snow when they were trying to go up Carhradras?
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Sep 7, 2022 21:59
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thrawn527 posted:So like, just how hard to read is The Silmarillion? This show (and this thread) has me watching YouTube videos of Tolkien lore, and I was wondering if I should finally give it a shot, after avoiding it for years. I've been told it's like reading the Bible. Super dense? I can speak only for myself, and you’ll have others in the thread chime in too. For me, I fell in love with The Hobbit at the age of 7 or so, and then with LotR at about the age of 11. I tried to read the Sil at maybe 16 or so, and it was a real slog. I trudged through it and did finish it, but for me it was a very difficult read. It was the language, it was the format, it was very dense. It was a lot of things. I had my hard copy of the Sil for a long time and looked at parts of it when I was in my late 20s but never again read the whole thing. I read everything on Kindle now, and I do think it would be a good Kindle buy because with that you can highlight and make notes and whatnot, so I could highlight important sections and events. I need to buy it someday and do that, and try again to read it start to finish.
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Sep 7, 2022 23:02
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Jaxyon posted:For reference, though, I also generally skip the Rohan chapters when I reread LotR Neither here nor there really, but I was curious what you don’t like about the Rohan chapters? Not looking to start a shitfight or anything like that, simply curious.
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Sep 7, 2022 23:52
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zoux posted:Yeah his pacing leaves a lot to be desired. For example in the movies, Frodo is loving off the very night that he learns what the Ring actually is. In the books Gandalf doesn't come back for 17 years, and then instead of fleeing the imminent danger, Frodo and Gandalf spend 2 months getting his affairs in order, and it's like almost six months before they get out of the shire. Just Zero urgency. And immediately sends him to Bree to find a man he intends to be his guide/bodyguard, who carries in his scabbard a sword hilt with 4” of blade attached
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Sep 8, 2022 00:49
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We gets to slink around Middle-Earth being a sneak-thief? Doesn’t sound great to me, but different strokes and all.
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Sep 8, 2022 22:31
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He throttles orcses, precious
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Sep 8, 2022 22:47
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I think it’s kind of cool to see the beginnings of Mordor, despite the corny bit about Sauron’s contingency plan.
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Sep 9, 2022 19:38
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He’s also a chronic pickpocket 
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Sep 9, 2022 20:24
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Is Adar mentioned in the Sil at all?
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Sep 10, 2022 00:55
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Is Mount Doom supposed to be inactive at this point? Is that something Sauron causes to erupt through his great evil?
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I didn’t notice this either! https://twitter.com/cameronborgqeen/status/1569140876806606853?s=46&t=AfrM-6tgXdVlMJ-iDz5ZYA e: let’s see if this works 
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The Mountain of Joy
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Ain’t no man what can kill five balrogs 
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Balrog deniers ITT
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I only learned today that Glaurung didn’t even have wings 
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Sep 13, 2022 23:47
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drunkill posted:and also very blurry balrog in the background of the battle scene in the episode 1 prologue flashback Really? Was that in the scene where we see a dragon take down an eagle? I never noticed the balrog.
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Sep 15, 2022 01:21
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They are not for eating.
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I cannot believe that this thread has devolved into essays about whether or not immortal elves will take jobs from dwarves that live ~180-200 years old
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I remember those days well. “The bastard Peter Jackson” was almost his official title amongst this crowd, months before the first film hit theaters.
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