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IIRC there was some backstory about iron boats or something and missiles Tell me more about that poo poo
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That may have been JR Tolkien's actual life
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The earliest extant version of the Fall of Gondolin include descriptions of things that sound an awful lot like tanks. I believe it was literally written in the trenches of WWI. I can't point to specific sources, but I recall reading somewhere that in some of his papers the Numenoreans at their height had ironclad warships and guns and poo poo like that, which is why they could whup Sauron at the height of his power in the Second Age. Pretty fuckin' steampunk. Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Apr 27, 2020 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWtuKm6C1Sw Seems pretty sci-fi to me
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An elf kills the biggest dragon ever by ramming his cool spaceship into it.
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LoTR is actually the history of British Isles that was revealed by elves to an Anglo-Saxon sailor and written down by monks
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It's pretty obvious man, they spend the last two movies taking the ring to a volcano with a talking hologram
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Lord of the Rings actually takes place in the future after a big nuclear and chemical war has destroyed technological civilization and caused elves and other freaks to appear through mutations.
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font color sea posted:LoTR is actually the history of British Isles that was revealed by elves to an Anglo-Saxon sailor and written down by monks Aragon is essentially King Arthur's ancestor
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Mooey Cow posted:Lord of the Rings actually takes place in the future after a big nuclear and chemical war has destroyed technological civilization and caused elves and other freaks to appear through mutations.
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The line between SciFi and fantasy is extremely thin imo, just look at the series that inspired this whole sub
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That's just science fact
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Was West Wing Science Fiction or Fantasy?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Was West Wing Science Fiction or Fantasy? Political science fact
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SlothfulCobra posted:Was West Wing Science Fiction or Fantasy? Fantasy. You'll never get a conversation that snappy in the workplace.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:The earliest extant version of the Fall of Gondolin include descriptions of things that sound an awful lot like tanks. I believe it was literally written in the trenches of WWI. In one of the unfinished tales Sauron trolls them into building a space navy so they can storm the heavens; its p. metal tbh
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As a casual fan I genuinely don't know if you're loving with him
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Professor Shark posted:IIRC there was some backstory about iron boats or something and missiles In earlier versions of The Hobbit it took place pretty much in the time Tolkien was writing it with cars/etc.
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Fun fact: in Paradise Lost, the rebel angels use cannons during the War in Heaven.
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A giant spider evicted everyone from heaven so, you know, that guy with the hard-on for spiders in 90s blockbusters was kind of on the nose.
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Middle Earth is just a world that's blocked off from the rest of the universe by a warp storm, iirc
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The corrupting influence of Melkor interferes with the functioning of approaching Spelljammers
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