"Actually Gollum lived on a slimy island of rock in the middle of the lake. He was watching Bilbo now from the distance with his pale eyes like telescopes."
"Actually Gollum lived on a slimy island of rock in the middle of the lake. He was watching Bilbo now from the distance with his pale eyes like telescopes."
I'm just having fun. These are both from the narrator, whom, we can presume, has knowledge of both of these things.
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I'm just having fun. These are both from the narrator, whom, we can presume, has knowledge of both of these things.
I don’t know why people find it important that Tolkien must be considered infallible and perfectly consistent — he changed/corrected stuff in later editions multiple times, and of course there is the Gollum retcon.
I agree with you, I don't even mind the retcon. It's a book, one that I love, but still a book written by someone. It's fun to pretend it is the Red Book but we know better.
Canonically Tolkien is the English translator of the book that the Hobbits wrote.
Mordor is far more industrially advanced than the rest of the Middle Earth. Everyone is living in the middle ages while the orcs live in modern cities with capitalist production.
Maybe they're literate, and know about them from books? I know literacy is a dropping status in the west, but back when the books were written (or even when the movies were made) the idea of sentient things being illiterate sounded completely moronic.
I always think of the part where the stone giants kick or toss shit around like a football. Also I think someone kicks a spider and makes the sound of a football being kicked. Both these are from the hobbit though
They probably have restaurants in mordor, doofus
What is "doofus"?
"The dragon passed like an express train, turned a somersault, and burst over Bywater with a deafening explosion."
"Actually Gollum lived on a slimy island of rock in the middle of the lake. He was watching Bilbo now from the distance with his pale eyes like telescopes."
I'm just having fun. These are both from the narrator, whom, we can presume, has knowledge of both of these things.
Canonically Tolkien is the English translator of the book that the Hobbits wrote.
I don’t know why people find it important that Tolkien must be considered infallible and perfectly consistent — he changed/corrected stuff in later editions multiple times, and of course there is the Gollum retcon.
I agree with you, I don't even mind the retcon. It's a book, one that I love, but still a book written by someone. It's fun to pretend it is the Red Book but we know better.
Well, there you have it then 🙂
>Gollum retcon
Explain
He actually said "looks like meat's back on our men you boys!"
>What about their legs?
>They look tasty.
Can Uruk-hai also see through trousers?
That's one of the magic enhancements saruman gave them
>Looks like meat is back on the men, you boys.
they don't
Mordor is far more industrially advanced than the rest of the Middle Earth. Everyone is living in the middle ages while the orcs live in modern cities with capitalist production.
How did Gimli know what a nervous system was? Did the dwarves have a medical school?
Would you watch a Gimli M.D. show?
Maybe they're literate, and know about them from books? I know literacy is a dropping status in the west, but back when the books were written (or even when the movies were made) the idea of sentient things being illiterate sounded completely moronic.
Literacy was definitely lower in the 50s.
What twitter homosexual has told you this? Just like everything was worse in the 50's right?
Oh and we used to burn witches too.
>rustic, simple, local fresh ingredients
What wine would you recommend?
Grog Rosè, TA 2851
Est est
I always think of the part where the stone giants kick or toss shit around like a football. Also I think someone kicks a spider and makes the sound of a football being kicked. Both these are from the hobbit though
In the books they don't use word menu.
But they use picnic.
why do they speak what passes in some parts of the southern hemisphere as English
Uruk-hai-ne
mordor has a dennys moron
Is it just me or does that guy kinda look like Idris Elba?