Invertebrates are cold blooded so they don't need to eat that often. Since they're not burning calories for heat.
It just needs to snag a deer now and then or something.
Why is Tolkien like this? >No, it's not a random animal that exists just to showcase the dangers and mysteries of the world. It's actually a reincarnated form of Blinfogor settling a 3000 year old elvish grudge with Lomonu the Wise.
One of the only things I know about LotR lore is that those some things live so far below the ground that not even that setting's god can affect them. It's Lovecraftian.
>the black is stronger than the white
Paraphrased from somewhere in RotK said between Gandalf and the Witchking. Eru is omnipotent over his own domain. Which includes everything in creation and middle earth EXCEPT the things that were there before. Like Ungoliant and the Watcher in the Water. Before there was light, there was darkness.
thats a line I remember when Gandalf returns. >there the earth is gnawed at by nameless things. even sauron knows them not.
paraphrasing but its like that.
I call it the prequel creep. The desire to explain every single thing by adding more extraneous info instead of letting the mystery be.
This kind of thing destroyed Star Wars (even before Disney got to it) and it destroyed the Alien franchise and many more...
Same thing with LotR. Btw every single senior elf, valar and maiar, including Gandalf, Sauron, Saruman and even Morgoth were at a time hanging out together in Valinor chatting it up for like an undefined amount of time, living together and learning from each other.
So basically when Gandalf talks about Sauron he's not talking about some remote dark lord, nope .. they were butt buddies that were smoking weed back in Valinor in college.
>So basically when Gandalf talks about Sauron he's not talking about some remote dark lord, nope .. they were butt buddies that were smoking weed back in Valinor in college.
Actually, to him, Sauron is some remote dark lord. The Istari (Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast, and the Blue Wizards) are maiar incarnated into human forms, which puts a lot of limitations on their powers. One of those limitations is that they do not have clear memories of Valinor or their time as maiar before they became the Istari.
So like the guy you probably heard about back in college and maybe had some interactions with but forgot most of it because it's been thirty-two years since then
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Yes.
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Gandalf was fricking terrified of Sauron, afraid of the task and begged not to be sent so its more like being sent to go rally the town to beat up your middle school bully
I call it the prequel creep. The desire to explain every single thing by adding more extraneous info instead of letting the mystery be.
This kind of thing destroyed Star Wars (even before Disney got to it) and it destroyed the Alien franchise and many more...
Same thing with LotR. Btw every single senior elf, valar and maiar, including Gandalf, Sauron, Saruman and even Morgoth were at a time hanging out together in Valinor chatting it up for like an undefined amount of time, living together and learning from each other.
So basically when Gandalf talks about Sauron he's not talking about some remote dark lord, nope .. they were butt buddies that were smoking weed back in Valinor in college.
>this hat, I know it just looks like a regular old hat, but it graced the head of the saviour of Numenor. Let me tell you the story … and don’t let me forget to tell you about these shoelaces
This is the exact reason why I prefer The Hobbit. It feels more organic that wizards, trolls, and elves are just a matter of fact without autistic lore explaining them.
In the lore, an elf fricks tight mair demigod pussy. They even have a kid, and it was pretty underwhelming...
Considering how OP half man/half elf kids are you'd think half elf/half god kids would be pretty bad ass, but no.
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in the lore hordes of human women get brutally raped in breeding camps by orcs to create armies for saruman
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I wish they had shown some orc chicks, just to at least show what exactly we are dealing with.
If it's pic related then id totally sign up for Isengard snu snu rape pits.
>They even have a kid, and it was pretty underwhelming... >underwhelming
stale bait
Lúthien didn't appear to have any sort evolutionary advantages from her mother being a damn demigod, she was just a regular elf.
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Standard hentai lore is all orcs are male and they can impregnate the females of any other species to make more orcs.
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based. I wish a strong orc would impregnate my wife and make more orcs with her
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>They even have a kid, and it was pretty underwhelming... >underwhelming
stale bait
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Half elfs are OP because OP but the catch is they don't get to write their own story essentially and will fade in spririt with arda in a sense.
Half elves basicly get the deal do you want to be an immortal dancing to the music or make your own music and die young.
There are things in the deep 0paces of the world. Unknown and unnamed things that lurk in the deep. This one came up to the surface, possibly because of the balrog awakening. It isn't really explained beyond that.
Tolkien created the story by making up words then creating (often conflicting) origins for these words then mixed them all together in a cohesive piece after adding some WW1 PTSD
Because Tolkein didn't want his worlds populated with species and animals. Look at what came out before LOTR, stuff by Edgar Rice Burroughs. He had no interest in creating a fake ecosystem where he has to rationalize something being a predator or prey and how it survives and breeds and so on. So they're one-off monsters. And Tolkein came up with explanations of why these monsters exist, more like Greek mythology.
>primordial creature of pure darkness >choose to make its territory next to a balrog's
Clearly there was some kind of pissing contest going on between them.
Considering it was Balrogs that had to save Morgoth's bacon from Ungoliant, it would make sense that the Nameless Things would have a rivalry with them.
>"nameless things" said to have gnawed earth deep beneath the Mountains.
The LoTR mountains obviously have a much higher concentration of caves than our worlds do, I would argue that these motherfrickers are how it got this. Giant squid like creatures burrowing through the earth like termites over centuries, chewing passages, forming caverns and that other creatures would come to occupy.
This crazy SoB decided to come up to the surface for some reason though.
Nah the Balrog was just turbo pissed they woke him from his sleep and upon sensing Gandalf, another maiar, went full fight or flight never-take-me-alive mode.
>full fight or flight never-take-me-alive mode
maybe he wanted to frick? No one saw the corpse, or even actually saw the two of them fight, they off the bridge.
Balrogs are spirits of destruction so I think he just wanted one good last maiar standing match. The only pure maiar I recall probably being horny was Melian for Thingol back in the first age.
>I will now picture the Balrog as being the demonic equivalent of a Japanese holdout.
Pretty much, he is hiding in the mounting waiting for the end of Arda to have one more shot at destroying reality with morgoth
Goddamn why did it suck to be a half elf so much >Okay mudblood you've got to break into literal Satan's castle and steal his most treasured possessions off of his crown that he wears all the time or else you can't take my daughter to the prom >Alright mudblood's great great great grandson you know Satan's right hand man that has spread darkness over Middle Earth for 3000 years that we've done nothing about? Yeah, the one with the gathering armies that could crush the remaining forces of free men even if you banded them all together. Well you gotta defeat him for good and bring peace back to the world and become king and institute really good tax policies or else you can't tap my daughter's ass
tbh Aragorn was really screwed and was gonna have to live as a cuck until Gandalf showed up with the news about Bilbo's old ring. It was utterly impossible to topple Sauron without that deus ex and he never would have fulfilled Elrond's demand.
That was Mordor
Cthulhu. They explain it in the Silmarillion.
These
one of the nameless things
Gandalf from the bad future
Something that large needs a lot of food. Just how many people are coming to that secret door every week and getting eaten?
It hunts in the planet core
it mostly just sleeps.
What does he eat?
krill and algae
Invertebrates are cold blooded so they don't need to eat that often. Since they're not burning calories for heat.
It just needs to snag a deer now and then or something.
it's a primordial creature of pure darkness that has chosen to physically manifest as an octopus, it's not an animal
Then why does it eat?
It eats out of boredom and spite, just like you
HA
shits and giggles, same as you and me
Same reason Gandalf and Saruman smoke that Longbottom Leaf.
Why is Tolkien like this?
>No, it's not a random animal that exists just to showcase the dangers and mysteries of the world. It's actually a reincarnated form of Blinfogor settling a 3000 year old elvish grudge with Lomonu the Wise.
One of the only things I know about LotR lore is that those some things live so far below the ground that not even that setting's god can affect them. It's Lovecraftian.
>not even that setting's god can affect them
Wrong. Eru is omnipotent. He's analogous to the real (Catholic) God.
>the black is stronger than the white
Paraphrased from somewhere in RotK said between Gandalf and the Witchking. Eru is omnipotent over his own domain. Which includes everything in creation and middle earth EXCEPT the things that were there before. Like Ungoliant and the Watcher in the Water. Before there was light, there was darkness.
thats a line I remember when Gandalf returns.
>there the earth is gnawed at by nameless things. even sauron knows them not.
paraphrasing but its like that.
because it's a fantasy story
it's an unknown creature that god didn't create which came out the void soon after the beginning of the world, that's all
I call it the prequel creep. The desire to explain every single thing by adding more extraneous info instead of letting the mystery be.
This kind of thing destroyed Star Wars (even before Disney got to it) and it destroyed the Alien franchise and many more...
Same thing with LotR. Btw every single senior elf, valar and maiar, including Gandalf, Sauron, Saruman and even Morgoth were at a time hanging out together in Valinor chatting it up for like an undefined amount of time, living together and learning from each other.
So basically when Gandalf talks about Sauron he's not talking about some remote dark lord, nope .. they were butt buddies that were smoking weed back in Valinor in college.
but the watcher is specifically not that, nobody knows anything about it, even gandalf
just wait for it, we'll see every single detail about this defined eventually
you'll get your lovecraftian tolkien kraken limited series or maybe it will be played by Sasha Grey in a video game
bro tolkien is dead
he's not writing any more lore
Fall of Numenor came out last year
if there is a single scrap in his notes about it, it'll come out eventually
what the frick are you talking about?
The Silmarillion has been out for decades
>Saruman and even Morgoth were at a time hanging out together in Valinor chatting it up
confirmed never read the Silmarillion
>So basically when Gandalf talks about Sauron he's not talking about some remote dark lord, nope .. they were butt buddies that were smoking weed back in Valinor in college.
Actually, to him, Sauron is some remote dark lord. The Istari (Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast, and the Blue Wizards) are maiar incarnated into human forms, which puts a lot of limitations on their powers. One of those limitations is that they do not have clear memories of Valinor or their time as maiar before they became the Istari.
So like the guy you probably heard about back in college and maybe had some interactions with but forgot most of it because it's been thirty-two years since then
Yes.
Gandalf was fricking terrified of Sauron, afraid of the task and begged not to be sent so its more like being sent to go rally the town to beat up your middle school bully
>The desire to explain every single thing by adding more extraneous info instead of letting the mystery be.
Thanks hackson
>prequel creep
but Tolkien made all this shit first before the fans got a hold of it
>lore is... LE BAD!
get lost normalgays
>this hat, I know it just looks like a regular old hat, but it graced the head of the saviour of Numenor. Let me tell you the story … and don’t let me forget to tell you about these shoelaces
This is the exact reason why I prefer The Hobbit. It feels more organic that wizards, trolls, and elves are just a matter of fact without autistic lore explaining them.
autism
in the lore human men frick tight hobbit dicky
In the lore, an elf fricks tight mair demigod pussy. They even have a kid, and it was pretty underwhelming...
Considering how OP half man/half elf kids are you'd think half elf/half god kids would be pretty bad ass, but no.
in the lore hordes of human women get brutally raped in breeding camps by orcs to create armies for saruman
I wish they had shown some orc chicks, just to at least show what exactly we are dealing with.
If it's pic related then id totally sign up for Isengard snu snu rape pits.
Lúthien didn't appear to have any sort evolutionary advantages from her mother being a damn demigod, she was just a regular elf.
Standard hentai lore is all orcs are male and they can impregnate the females of any other species to make more orcs.
based. I wish a strong orc would impregnate my wife and make more orcs with her
>They even have a kid, and it was pretty underwhelming...
>underwhelming
stale bait
Half elfs are OP because OP but the catch is they don't get to write their own story essentially and will fade in spririt with arda in a sense.
Half elves basicly get the deal do you want to be an immortal dancing to the music or make your own music and die young.
There are things in the deep 0paces of the world. Unknown and unnamed things that lurk in the deep. This one came up to the surface, possibly because of the balrog awakening. It isn't really explained beyond that.
>This one came up to the surface, possibly because of the balrog awakening.
"Watcherbro, have you ever had dwarf before?"
How did it survive the pressure change? Delta P is no joke.
Tolkien created the story by making up words then creating (often conflicting) origins for these words then mixed them all together in a cohesive piece after adding some WW1 PTSD
Imagine being a lorelet
Because Tolkein didn't want his worlds populated with species and animals. Look at what came out before LOTR, stuff by Edgar Rice Burroughs. He had no interest in creating a fake ecosystem where he has to rationalize something being a predator or prey and how it survives and breeds and so on. So they're one-off monsters. And Tolkein came up with explanations of why these monsters exist, more like Greek mythology.
>primordial creature of pure darkness
>choose to make its territory next to a balrog's
Clearly there was some kind of pissing contest going on between them.
He was seething that the Balrog didn't open the door when he knocked, they were supposed to play video games together
Considering it was Balrogs that had to save Morgoth's bacon from Ungoliant, it would make sense that the Nameless Things would have a rivalry with them.
Morgath had it coming though, he made a deal with ungoliant who was happy to trust him and then he betrayed her
>Ooohhh, big scary spirit of fire and shadow
>Open that fricking door, I'll drown you no problem.
what is his tax policy?
Three billy goats gruff for use of, what is ostensibly his due to squatter's rights, the door.
An evil octopus.
The dorfs put it there to guard the secret door.
Water balrog.
a snail
>"nameless things" said to have gnawed earth deep beneath the Mountains.
The LoTR mountains obviously have a much higher concentration of caves than our worlds do, I would argue that these motherfrickers are how it got this. Giant squid like creatures burrowing through the earth like termites over centuries, chewing passages, forming caverns and that other creatures would come to occupy.
This crazy SoB decided to come up to the surface for some reason though.
> This crazy SoB decided to come up to the surface for some reason though
the ring. it sensed the one ring and tried to get it same 4 the balrog.
Nah the Balrog was just turbo pissed they woke him from his sleep and upon sensing Gandalf, another maiar, went full fight or flight never-take-me-alive mode.
>full fight or flight never-take-me-alive mode
maybe he wanted to frick? No one saw the corpse, or even actually saw the two of them fight, they off the bridge.
Balrogs are spirits of destruction so I think he just wanted one good last maiar standing match. The only pure maiar I recall probably being horny was Melian for Thingol back in the first age.
Didn't Sauron have a thing for Luthian?
No but Morgoth did
Before he fell asleep
well, gandalf ended up naked after the confront, so you might be into something
This boy lookin zesty
Ambatukam the white
I will now picture the Balrog as being the demonic equivalent of a Japanese holdout.
>I will now picture the Balrog as being the demonic equivalent of a Japanese holdout.
Pretty much, he is hiding in the mounting waiting for the end of Arda to have one more shot at destroying reality with morgoth
movie name?
Inside the Mountain of Madness
Under the Silver Lake
Lake Placid
Id troll but LOTR is the best
There are things living deep underground "gnawing at the roots of the world" that even Sauron doesn't know about
another spawn of shelob
Teleporno.
Why couldn't Legolas solve the elvish riddle?
He'd been smoking that dank hobbit weed
That's the Lord of the Rings
something that could've been cut from the film
It was the vegana Dentata of Mordor
The Nameless Things are entities of the Void that manifest in Arda due to Melkor weaving his Discord into the Music of the Ainur.
some grungus that lived under the mountain but was able to escape when the orcs flooded the area outside the gate after kicking the dwarves out
Goddamn why did it suck to be a half elf so much
>Okay mudblood you've got to break into literal Satan's castle and steal his most treasured possessions off of his crown that he wears all the time or else you can't take my daughter to the prom
>Alright mudblood's great great great grandson you know Satan's right hand man that has spread darkness over Middle Earth for 3000 years that we've done nothing about? Yeah, the one with the gathering armies that could crush the remaining forces of free men even if you banded them all together. Well you gotta defeat him for good and bring peace back to the world and become king and institute really good tax policies or else you can't tap my daughter's ass
tbh Aragorn was really screwed and was gonna have to live as a cuck until Gandalf showed up with the news about Bilbo's old ring. It was utterly impossible to topple Sauron without that deus ex and he never would have fulfilled Elrond's demand.
beren wasn't a half elf
that's the catch, the get elf powers without the script elves are tied too so god uses them for all his dirty work