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Lemniscate Blue posted:Arvedui Last-King died ~1000 years before Aragorn's time, but the branches of Elendil's descendants diverged before the beginning of the Third Age 3000 years ago. But is 1000 years or even 3000 years that long when you take into account that most of them live for around 200 years or so?
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ChubbyChecker posted:Yeah, I wondered about that a bit. Did he have any other weapons at that point? He does have a foot of blade left on Narsil below the hilt. If he does have another weapon, it isn't mentioned. The only time he fights between Bree and Rivendell is on Weathertop, and there he fights the Black Riders with fire, a wooden brand in each hand. vvv quite correct, and again he fights with fire and wood instead of metal vvv Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Jun 29, 2020 |
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Jun 29, 2020 23:11
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He fights at the ford kind of
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Jun 29, 2020 23:13
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Eighties ZomCom posted:But is 1000 years or even 3000 years that long when you take into account that most of them live for around 200 years or so?
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Jun 29, 2020 23:16
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Imagined posted:That was in the movie. In the books Aragorn shows the broken sword to the hobbits in the inn at Bree. "not much use, is it, Sam?" Dang, I even googled a bit to keep the movie interpretation out of my head. Time to reread the books I guess.
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Jun 30, 2020 00:03
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From when he leaves Rohan onwards Aragorn fights the PR battle for the hearts of the people of Gondor just as hard as he does the battle against the servants of Mordor.
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Jun 30, 2020 00:06
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He had a flaming brand at the ford Probably just a piece of wood
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Jun 30, 2020 00:06
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that’s just the RingVision interpretation of semi-Anduril, Shank of the West Gandalf disagrees with me but gently caress him. How the gently caress did Aragorn and a bunch of freaking hobbits catch up with racing horses and then stop and make a fire and light torches on a river bank skasion fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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Jun 30, 2020 00:09
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skasion posted:that’s just the RingVision interpretation of semi-Anduril, Shank of the West There were ants running across the road.
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Jun 30, 2020 00:15
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skasion posted:that’s just the RingVision interpretation of semi-Anduril, Shank of the West
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Jun 30, 2020 00:48
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skasion posted:that’s just the RingVision interpretation of semi-Anduril, Shank of the West
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Jun 30, 2020 00:54
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ChubbyChecker posted:Yeah, I wondered about that a bit. Did he have any other weapons at that point? Apparently not, considering he attacks the ringwraiths with nothing but a flaming stick and some gumption.
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Jun 30, 2020 03:10
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He also attacks them with songs and poetry
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Jun 30, 2020 03:16
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presumably a regular sword would not do poo poo against the ringwraiths anyway so he probably would not use it . would be pretty weird for him to be the only Ranger walking around unarmed i na setting where Tolkien makes it clear lots of people are carrying around weapons.
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Jun 30, 2020 03:23
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I think it would be kind of badass in a certain way if the only sword he actually had was the broken Narsil. Like kind of super nerdy also, but still badass.
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Jun 30, 2020 03:27
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Like he's been using it his whole life to kill orcs and fight Easterlings and Southrons as Thorongil, just stabbing people with a foot-long tantō type thing with a square tip Chopping wood with it to make ranger fires Every few weeks he has to stop in at the blacksmith's to get it sharpened up, the dude's like "So... is today the day? Wanna maybe ... put the blade back on this thing? Or at least like file a point onto this short bit?" And he just smiles and shakes his head sadly
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Jun 30, 2020 03:39
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Oh so that's why they called him Longshanks!
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Jun 30, 2020 06:42
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skasion posted:How the gently caress did Aragorn and a bunch of freaking hobbits catch up with racing horses and then stop and make a fire and light torches on a river bank Very carefully
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Jun 30, 2020 09:26
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WoodrowSkillson posted:presumably a regular sword would not do poo poo against the ringwraiths anyway so he probably would not use it . would be pretty weird for him to be the only Ranger walking around unarmed i na setting where Tolkien makes it clear lots of people are carrying around weapons. Yeah, I mean even the drat midgets carried weapons, but not the heir of Isildurr. Nessus posted:Oh so that's why they called him Longshanks! lol
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Jun 30, 2020 10:58
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Nessus posted:There are still Jacobites around and that was only 400 years ago, and this with both the rise of representative democracy-ish governmental systems and the finite lifespan of mortal Men. Aragorn himself was also a solid dude so if you're gonna have a King he seems like a good one. Europe actually has a surprisingly amount of former royal families just waiting for their countries to re-establish the monarchy.
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Jun 30, 2020 13:08
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Alhazred posted:Europe actually has a surprisingly amount of former royal families just waiting for their countries to re-establish the monarchy. Well until that happens they're just rich families preserving their fortunes from generation to generation in exactly the same way as if that fortune were "the throne", so
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Jun 30, 2020 13:12
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Data Graham posted:Well until that happens they're just rich families preserving their fortunes from generation to generation in exactly the same way as if that fortune were "the throne", so They do get extra fanboy hangers-on because of the whole "royal" thing. And some of them are... well... this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Roger_Lafosse (who owns. Go big or go home!)
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Jun 30, 2020 14:17
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https://twitter.com/loredraws/status/1277764683525754880?s=09 Yes, yes it does
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Jul 1, 2020 04:41
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Just what exactly is going on during the whole Barrow wight section in Fellowship?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Just what exactly is going on during the whole Barrow wight section in Fellowship? i always thought that part was strange. i don't really get how frodo ends up in the barrow, did the ghost pick him up and carry him there or something? it just seems odd
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Jul 3, 2020 23:31
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From the way the wight was acting, and the way one of the other hobbits reacted when awakened, I got the impression that they were mind-controlled to get in the graves, by convincing them that they were the long-dead warriors that were supposed to be buried there.
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Jul 3, 2020 23:39
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but just before he passes out he sees a shadow coming down over him or something like that
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Jul 3, 2020 23:46
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Just what exactly is going on during the whole Barrow wight section in Fellowship? The lich king animated them long back. They are still around
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Jul 4, 2020 00:17
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Gnoman posted:From the way the wight was acting, and the way one of the other hobbits reacted when awakened, I got the impression that they were mind-controlled to get in the graves, by convincing them that they were the long-dead warriors that were supposed to be buried there. Yeah, it’s this. They fall asleep, are enchanted by the power of the barrow (they try to leave but are unable to keep going away from it), and are put into a trance state in which they reenact the burial of the lords entombed there (to be followed by their ritual sacrifice).
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Jul 4, 2020 01:02
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Kind of hosed up that the Hobbits have a Dead by Daylight LARP session before they even get to Bree yet people just kind of skim over that, possibly due to its proximity to Tom Bombadil, who is not Canon or Serious.
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Jul 4, 2020 01:10
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the barrow wights are fascinating and creepy and I wish we knew more about them, I know "wights" are a thing irl but there doesn't seem to be a lot of info on them.
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Jul 4, 2020 01:17
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They’re just dead guys who worship Satan
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Jul 4, 2020 01:41
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“Wight” just means “guy”
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Jul 4, 2020 01:59
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"Beware the barrow-dudes" just doesn't have the same ring.
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Jul 4, 2020 02:29
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I couldn't care less about some dead wight guys
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Jul 4, 2020 03:00
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Data Graham posted:“Wight” just means “guy” So the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Mann are the same place 
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Jul 4, 2020 03:16
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Well I've read that the barrow-wights were just evil spirits who flew into a nice old tomb of ancient men and then inhabited and animated their skeletons and armor to do evil stuff. But the whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense. The hobbits get lost in fog and then a wight or wights hypnotize Sam, Pippin, and Merry and carry them into the tomb and undress them and redress them in wight finery but also Frodo got carried in there and then just sort of dumped on the ground?? Wights are loving stupid.
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Jul 4, 2020 04:07
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It's Merry who doesn't immediately recover and still remembers the life of an ancient man who got killed by dudes from Carn Dum, who were followers of the witch king of Angmar, who Merry eventually helps to kill on the Pelennor. That's pretty cool.
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Wight lives matter.
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