Levitate posted:Where are all the women orcs Tolkien posted:There must have been orc-women. But in stories that seldom if ever see the Orcs except as soldiers of armies in the service of the evil lords we naturally would not learn much about their lives. Not much was known.
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2014 21:51 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:14 |
SHISHKABOB posted:People used to call things "blue" when it's like dude that's not blue that's really dark grey or something. The vikings, for example, called Africans for "blue men".
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2015 20:23 |
euphronius posted:I love how the Sand Worms are actually in the book. Sooner or later sand worms shows up in every major fantasy or sci-fi series.
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# ¿ May 4, 2015 20:28 |
Ynglaur posted:I think Tolkien was heavily influenced by Germanic and Norse mythology, and those traditions are even bleaker still: at Ragnarok, evil is essentially destined to win. Brothers will fight and kill each other, sisters' children will defile kinship. It is harsh in the world, whoredom rife —an axe age, a sword age —shields are riven— a wind age, a wolf age— A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down quote:There is no moral reason to be a good person, other than the innate moral goodness of it.
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2015 19:34 |
Did you know that Tove Jansson's illustrated Lord of the Rings are incredible dumb? I didn't! Tank you Cracked for showing me the light.
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2016 13:14 |
Runcible Cat posted:How dare you diss the artist who throws the best wolf/goblin parties ever! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2krXq8fw90
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2016 12:41 |
Kassad posted:He's always packing a few homemade hand
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2016 21:21 |
A movie where Tolkien grades papers in silence for two hours.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2016 18:48 |
VanSandman posted:I mean I'm sure Vikings were occasionally gay because literally every culture everywhere has gays in it, it's part of the human condition. Calling a man gay in norse society was not cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergi
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2017 20:46 |
elise the great posted:Counterpoint: elves are cool BECAUSE elves are bad.
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 00:44 |
Ynglaur posted:Link?
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 20:59 |
Vavrek posted:There was a poll from many years ago, maybe 1990s?, that was asking what the most influential book you'd ever read was, what book had the greatest effect on your life. Atlas Shrugged was, I think, a very distant second behind The Bible. John Rogers posted:There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
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# ¿ May 5, 2018 23:48 |
MadDogMike posted:And now I’m visualizing Frodo and Sam stumbling into a rave in Mordor and being a hit, why does my brain do these things to itself? Alhazred fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Oct 14, 2018 |
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2018 15:11 |
Blood Boils posted:Its hilarious how Walk Hard has made all biopics redundant, even when about non-musicians. "Tolkien has think about his entire life before he writes."
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2019 18:38 |
YaketySass posted:It's a lot easier to edit Arwen out of the movie than to do it for an entire battalion of extras with distinctive armor. Also the criticism were specifically pointed towards Arwen and not the rest of the elves (people were calling her "Arwen: Warrior Princess" because they though it was ridiculous).
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2019 14:08 |
skasion posted:If theres already a warrior woman following Aragorn around, who is also an immortal of godlike beauty, who hes obviously already attached to, then Eowyn begins to look kind of insane for pursuing him at all. sweet geek swag posted:It really doesn't though. It just makes it even more explicitly a love triangle. Arwen showing up and fighting and following Aragorn could in fact enhance Eowyn's arc, as Arwen would be allowed to do all the things that Eowyn can't. It could enhance Eowyn's despair at her role in things and make her even more determined to die a glorious death. sweet geek swag posted:All you have to do is have one scene where Eowyn overhears Aragorn say, "No, we can't be together. I can't let you give up your immortality," and it isn't so crazy. You know, kind of like the flashback scene at Rivendell that was in the movie, except at Helm's Deep. Here's a radical idea: You could avoid all that by not reducing Eowyn to a romantic interest for Aragorn and maybe we for once could have a female character who's main motivation isn't penis.
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2019 13:45 |
Zippy the Bummer posted:Could Tom Bombadil have punched 1,000 adult male chimpazees to death if they all attacked him at once? He could, but he would probably just sing to them instead.
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2019 11:24 |
Runcible Cat posted:https://www.tor.com/2019/12/04/a-military-historian-breaks-down-the-siege-of-gondor-in-peter-jacksons-the-return-of-the-king/ Its kinda funny how "warning beacons were totally a thing" is treated as some mindblowing factoid.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2019 16:46 |
Much Frodo About Nothing
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2019 13:13 |
Seven Bridges for Seven Dwarves.
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2019 19:36 |
These are the versions I grew up with:
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2020 12:32 |
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2020 19:02 |
Data Graham posted:Do possessive names work that way ('s) in Norwegian? I didn't think anyone but English did that. Yes, except we don't use the '.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2020 20:06 |
webmeister posted:My first ever copy of The Hobbit was an ancient paperback with a really cartoony Smaug lying on a giant pile of gold. Because I was 8 years old and apparently a not very attentive reader, I got through most of chapter 1 picturing Bilbo as that dragon from the front cover, pottering about the kitchen and making tea. Eventually I realised my mind's image made no sense and re-read the chapter much more carefully. That's probably the first edition my mother bought, this is what I grew up with:
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 18:50 |
Imagined posted:I was wondering what Tolkien actually imagined orcs looking like, because there are many passages where he describes people as looking almost like orcs, or being mistaken for orcs, etc. Even Treebeard thinks Merry and Pippin are little orcs until he hears their voices. All non-plant based lifeforms probably look the same to Treebeard.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 19:04 |
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# ¿ May 5, 2020 20:01 |
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 |
Bongo Bill posted:The movie doesn't depict him as a bad person. It depicts him as a person who is subjected to, and resists, a great temptation. It's appropriate for a movie and a book to use different means to depict a challenging decision. The movie also have characters like Gandalf and Sam who are unequivocally good persons and they're among the fan favorites.
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2020 17:56 |
Imagined posted:We're also forgetting that the LOTR films were right at the beginning of the ascendency of nerd culture. It was still considered risky and slightly embarrassing to make movies based on geek properties. Like the very same year the X-Men movies were saying, "What did you expect, yellow spandex?" So at that time for a major studio to drop bajillions of dollars on a trilogy of long rear end nerdy films from a kiwi indie director best known before that for a movie where zombies get fed into a lawnmower, and keep them as faithful to the books as they are? It's a God drat miracle. I would argue that he was more known for Heavenly Creatures, considering he got an oscar nomination for it.
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2020 18:27 |
Mahoning posted:I don’t think Peter Jackson has made a single good film since Return of the King. That’s kinda wild. I've not seen it, but They Shall Not Grow Old was well received. He also hasn't made that many movies sine Return of the King.
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2020 18:45 |
Arcsquad12 posted:Kong Skull Island is great, dammit. If they had cut out Hiddleston and Larson's characters.
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2020 07:03 |
Skellybones posted:The Haradrim mumakil-driver is the happiest, most fun-having guy in the whole series "Hahahaha! I'm riding the biggest loving elephant, coming to gently caress your poo poo up!"
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2020 18:22 |
HopperUK posted:Gimli is Scottish. Treebeard is Welsh. According to Tolkien, the elves are welsh.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2020 18:21 |
Llamadeus posted:I'm curious about which books these might be Basically any book by Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses posted:That night he dreamt of horses in a field on a high plain where the spring rains had brought up the grass and the wildflowers out of the ground and the flowers ran all blue and yellow far as the eye could see and in the dream he was among the horses running and in the dream he himself could run with the horses and they coursed the young mares and fillies over the plain where their rich bay and their rich chestnut colors shone in the sun and the young colts ran with their dams and trampled down the flowers in a haze of pollen that hung in the sun like powdered gold and they ran he and the horses out along the high mesas where the ground resounded under their running hooves and they flowed and changed and ran and their manes and tails blew off of them like spume and there was nothing else at all in that high world and they moved all of them in a resonance that was like a music among them and they were none of them afraid neither horse nor colt nor mare and they ran in that resonance which is the world itself and which cannot be spoken but only praised.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2020 17:04 |
DontMockMySmock posted:Mordor isn't the only place where mountain ranges are at right angles. Tolkein just didn't understand geology. Isn't one mountains range just a bunch of dead drsgons? Geology kinda falls apart In cases like that.
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2020 12:46 |
Data Graham posted:Yeah, it's really deceptively difficult to make a "realistic" map because reality isn't very plausible. I mean look at Central/South America, tell me that doesn't look like the work of a hack The world is full of places where people went "gently caress it, let's use a name again, put the word 'new' in front of it and hope nobody notices."
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2020 18:13 |
Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There's two islands off the west coast of Scotland. One is called Lewis and the other island is called Harris. Don't get me started on islands. Like, there as an entire island that just appears in the ocean.
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2020 17:25 |
Shibawanko posted:making jesus into a lion is blasphemous He should've been made into a fish instead.
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# ¿ Sep 23, 2020 15:50 |
WoodrowSkillson posted:i remember that the last shot they ever filmed was of some skulls rolling on the ground for the whole paths of the dead thing, and it was literally shot in the parking lot and is just like peter jackson himself tossing some skulls around That was actually done after it had won all those oscars. The final reel of the original unextended version wasn't finished until five days before it was released. Also:
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# ¿ Sep 23, 2020 17:00 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:14 |
euphronius posted:
According to the stuntmen he was also terrifying, in the action scenes he would do his best to beat the poo poo out of any one he faced.
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# ¿ Sep 23, 2020 19:46 |