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"Gandalf came flying down the steps and fell to the ground in the midst of the Company." Gandalf clearly had wings.
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ChubbyChecker posted:"Gandalf came flying down the steps and fell to the ground in the midst of the Company." "Fly, you fools!" The whole fellowship was winged. Wingéd.
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Apr 6, 2021 09:33
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Tree Bucket posted:"Fly, you fools!" One does not simply walk into Mordor.
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Apr 6, 2021 11:43
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ChubbyChecker posted:"Gandalf came flying down the steps and fell to the ground in the midst of the Company." He was pretty fly, for a white wizard.
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Does anyone have a good essay on tolkien and class in the lord of the rings? My google fu is failing me.
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Apr 6, 2021 16:59
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Was just reading a Chuck Klosterman book and came across this quote which feels extremely relevant to this thread. This is in a paragraph about the enduring appeal of Jane Austen, in the larger context of speculating about which currently obscure author working today will end up living forever along the lines of Franz Kafka, or Herman Melville:But What If We're Wrong? posted:A book become popular because of its text, but it’s the subtext that makes it live forever. For the true obsessive, whatever an author doesn’t explicitly explain ends up becoming everything that matters most (and since it’s inevitably the obsessives who keep art alive, they make the rules). Imagined fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Apr 6, 2021 |
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Apr 6, 2021 20:55
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I’ve swung the other way and have been focusing on just what is on LoTR He’s right tho in general. Modern marketing is a big part of that too
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Hey guys have you ever thought about how Merry is of the Brandybucks, the people who colonized the Buckland over the water, the frontier people, and he ends up falling in with the Rohirrim, the "new" barbarian-esque people on the marches of the civilized lands. And Pippin is a blue-blooded Took, of the oldest lineage possible in the Shire, and he ends up falling into service with the Steward of Gondor and taking on ancient responsibilities and carrying out ancient ceremonies. Almost as if Tolkien did that on purpose.
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The only way it could be more on the nose would be if Banazir Galbasi the gardener was somehow entranced by and obsessed with some race of slowly cultivating gardener people who lived in tune with plants.
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Apr 7, 2021 06:47
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I mean Tolkien was ultra conservative even by the standard of his time, so 'everyone in their anointed place' would be a fairly deliberate aspect of his fantasy society happy ending
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Apr 7, 2021 06:54
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brow is destiny
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Apr 7, 2021 07:13
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Pippin is the absolute definition of a failson. He fucks up at every turn, makes things harder for everyone around him, fails upward due to Gandalf's nepotism, and is ultimately rewarded with a job that he's manifestly unqualified for
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Apr 7, 2021 07:25
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It's not explicit in the text but Merry, Pippin and Fatty Bolger for sure had a podcast.
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Apr 7, 2021 07:35
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Shibawanko posted:brow is destiny
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Was Tolkien into hiking and camping? He obviously knew a lot of botany, but I'm not sure how much first-hand experience he had with sleeping outdoors for extended periods like his characters. There was what he did in the war, of course, but I'm wondering if he dragged his kids out into the wood to build character.
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Omnomnomnivore posted:Was Tolkien into hiking and camping? He obviously knew a lot of botany, but I'm not sure how much first-hand experience he had with sleeping outdoors for extended periods like his characters. There was what he did in the war, of course, but I'm wondering if he dragged his kids out into the wood to build character. Don't know for sure but rambling was definitely a thing for his social circle - Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet has the hero getting kidnapped to Mars by a mad physicist because he's out hiking and hasn't told anyone where he's going so he's unlikely to be missed.
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Gats Akimbo posted:Don't know for sure but rambling was definitely a thing for his social circle - Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet has the hero getting kidnapped to Mars by a mad physicist because he's out hiking and hasn't told anyone where he's going so he's unlikely to be missed. I read that book a long time ago and forgot most of it. I think the main character was a caricature of Tolkien, obsessed with languages? Also some bit about a spherical spaceship where it was clear Lewis didn't quite understand how gravity works.
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Gats Akimbo posted:Don't know for sure but rambling was definitely a thing for his social circle - Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet has the hero getting kidnapped to Mars by a mad physicist because he's out hiking and hasn't told anyone where he's going so he's unlikely to be missed. They both walked. Lewis was a relatively serious hiker, whereas JRRT liked to walk slowly, stop whenever, and chat as he went. There’s a funny bit in one of the essays in Tolkien: A Celebration about how Lewis and his brother invited a friend of theirs (the author of the essay) to walk with Tolkien so that they wouldn’t have to dawdle with him. Omnomnomnivore posted:I read that book a long time ago and forgot most of it. I think the main character was a caricature of Tolkien, obsessed with languages? Also some bit about a spherical spaceship where it was clear Lewis didn't quite understand how gravity works. The Space trilogy is all very much indifferent to scientific accuracy and its spaceships should be thought of as somewhere between Wells’ cavorite moon-ship in First Men in the Moon which conveniently effaces all details of how it actually works, and Lindsay’s interstellar rocket in Voyage to Arcturus which tells science to go gently caress itself and runs on sheer philosophical principle.
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Shibawanko posted:brow is destiny isn't it the other way round? your destiny is dictated by your brow
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I am Uhtred son of Uhtred. DESTINY IS BROW
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Omnomnomnivore posted:Was Tolkien into hiking and camping? He obviously knew a lot of botany, but I'm not sure how much first-hand experience he had with sleeping outdoors for extended periods like his characters. There was what he did in the war, of course, but I'm wondering if he dragged his kids out into the wood to build character. skasion posted:They both walked. Lewis was a relatively serious hiker, whereas JRRT liked to walk slowly, stop whenever, and chat as he went. There’s a funny bit in one of the essays in Tolkien: A Celebration about how Lewis and his brother invited a friend of theirs (the author of the essay) to walk with Tolkien so that they wouldn’t have to dawdle with him. didn't tolkien take a hiking trip over the alps before the war? and much of it was put in the books ChubbyChecker fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Blood Boils posted:I mean Tolkien was ultra conservative even by the standard of his time, so 'everyone in their anointed place' would be a fairly deliberate aspect of his fantasy society happy ending Consider though that the story begins with Frodo becoming Mr Baggins of Bag End; and the story ends with his servant becoming Mr Gamgee of Bag End. That's not exactly Sam's anointed place!
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ChubbyChecker posted:didn't tolkien take a hiking trip over the alps before the war? and much of was put in the books He was invited on a walking tour of the Swiss Alps in his teens, yeah. The approach to Rivendell in The Hobbit is supposed to be inspired by that. I don’t know that he ever did anything like that with his own family — my assumption would be that by the time he was wealthy enough to be taking anyone on European trips, he was also old and all his kids had grown up. I haven’t read anything about that Alps trip besides what you can get in the History of the Hobbit/Middle-earth books, so I could be wrong, but I would guess also that they would have been more likely staying in lodges than camping outdoors. Not exactly roughing it. skasion fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Trin Tragula posted:Consider though that the story begins with Frodo becoming Mr Baggins of Bag End; and the story ends with his servant becoming Mr Gamgee of Bag End. That's not exactly Sam's anointed place! He’s One Of The Good Ones
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Omnomnomnivore posted:I read that book a long time ago and forgot most of it. I think the main character was a caricature of Tolkien, obsessed with languages? Also some bit about a spherical spaceship where it was clear Lewis didn't quite understand how gravity works. I've heard it claimed that Ransom's based on Tolkien in the first of the series and Charles Williams in the other two, and I'm perfectly willing to believe it since he's adorable in the first one (he runs away and hides from Martians until he hears one talking and immediately leaps out of hiding because OMG ALIENS HAVE LANGUAGE MUST LEARN) and an utter gibbering prick in the others. You could technobabble your way round how Weston's spaceship's internal gravity works by claiming it's black-hole-powered or uses a focused gravity wibblegenerator if you were so inclined, I guess, but: skasion posted:The Space trilogy is all very much indifferent to scientific accuracy and its spaceships should be thought of as somewhere between Wells’ cavorite moon-ship in First Men in the Moon which conveniently effaces all details of how it actually works, and Lindsay’s interstellar rocket in Voyage to Arcturus which tells science to go gently caress itself and runs on sheer philosophical principle. ... that. The science is very much not the point as far as Lewis is concerned. Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Trin Tragula posted:Consider though that the story begins with Frodo becoming Mr Baggins of Bag End; and the story ends with his servant becoming Mr Gamgee of Bag End. That's not exactly Sam's anointed place! It is tho, it's his reward for his loyalty to his master
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Blood Boils posted:It is tho, it's his reward for his loyalty to his master Yeah a hardworking member of the lower class becoming a part of the gentrified middle class isn't some rejection of class structures, it is the lie upon which modern class systems are built.
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He becomes an elected mayor rather than a position of any hereditary significance.
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Sam’s most important kid gets genuine hereditary dignity. Also the most important honor, responsibility for the transmission of the text. But she had elf magic on her so no surprise really
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Blood Boils posted:I mean Tolkien was ultra conservative even by the standard of his time, so 'everyone in their anointed place' would be a fairly deliberate aspect of his fantasy society happy ending Trin Tragula posted:Consider though that the story begins with Frodo becoming Mr Baggins of Bag End; and the story ends with his servant becoming Mr Gamgee of Bag End. That's not exactly Sam's anointed place! I'm pretty sure a person can be anointed, but a place can only be appointed. Hopefully JRRT would have approved of this small pedantry.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Hey guys have you ever thought about how Aw gently caress. I've always thought it was strange how Merry and Pippin get sent to places that don't match their temperament. Pippin is willful and stupid; seems like a good fit for Rohan. Merry is clever so seems like a good fit for Minas Tirith. I had some theory that Gandalf was trying to put them out of their comfort zones so they could grow, and/or give each king a dose of what they're missing. But this proper place stuff makes more sense, dammit.
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Pippin's the more curious one so he's better for exposition and Gondor needs quite a lot of it. Though Merry having to deal with Denethor would have been cool.
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Gats Akimbo posted:Don't know for sure but rambling was definitely a thing for his social circle - Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet has the hero getting kidnapped to Mars by a mad physicist because he's out hiking and hasn't told anyone where he's going so he's unlikely to be missed. Fun fact about that book, Lewis and Tolkien had an agreement that one of them should write a story about space travel and the other one about time travel. Lewis finished his space travel story, but Tolkien characteristically abandoned his time travel story before it was finished. It's in The Lost Road (HoME vol. 5).
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Hey guys have you ever thought about how Incidentally, the Tooks are upstarts. The Brandybucks are descended from the original Thains, Bucca of the Marish and the Oldbuck clan. There’s a never-told story behind how the last Oldbuck Thain decided he should leave the country and set up his own next door.
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YaketySass posted:Pippin's the more curious one so he's better for exposition and Gondor needs quite a lot of it. Pippin was also enough of a dimwit to steal a palantir off a wizard and look into it, which is how come Gandalf hauled him off to Gondor in the first place. Storywise you'd probably have to come up with a much more random reason to get Gandalf to take Merry instead. Zopotantor posted:Fun fact about that book, Lewis and Tolkien had an agreement that one of them should write a story about space travel and the other one about time travel. Lewis finished his space travel story, but Tolkien characteristically abandoned his time travel story before it was finished. It's in The Lost Road (HoME vol. 5). That's neat. I must get around to reading the later HoMEs...
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Zopotantor posted:Fun fact about that book, Lewis and Tolkien had an agreement that one of them should write a story about space travel and the other one about time travel. Lewis finished his space travel story, but Tolkien characteristically abandoned his time travel story before it was finished. It's in The Lost Road (HoME vol. 5). You left out the best part. Tolkien's time travel story was actually the inspiration for all the fall of Numenor stuff in the legendarium.
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Gats Akimbo posted:Pippin was also enough of a dimwit to steal a palantir off a wizard and look into it, which is how come Gandalf hauled him off to Gondor in the first place. Storywise you'd probably have to come up with a much more random reason to get Gandalf to take Merry instead. Volume five is one of the earlier ones. 
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Zopotantor posted:Volume five is one of the earlier ones. Sorry, I got bogged down in Lays of Beleriand...
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sassassin posted:He becomes an elected mayor rather than a position of any hereditary significance. He inherits the Baggins estate. I'm not saying Sam is a bad person, he better than most but is still a man of his fictional times
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skasion posted:Incidentally, the Tooks are upstarts. The Brandybucks are descended from the original Thains, Bucca of the Marish and the Oldbuck clan. There’s a never-told story behind how the last Oldbuck Thain decided he should leave the country and set up his own next door. "With blackjack! And hookers!"
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