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Anonymous No.24672216 >>24672218 >>24672221 >>24672223 >>24672229 >>24672232 >>24672247 >>24672268 >>24672269 >>24672292 >>24672293 >>24672297 >>24672302 >>24672321 >>24672340 >>24672360 >>24672361 >>24672373 >>24672453 >>24672503 >>24672532 >>24672541 >>24672628 >>24675907 >>24676452 >>24676529 >>24676535 >>24676847 >>24676855 >>24676895 >>24676929
>Villain is evil because... he wants things to be organized properly!

What's so bad about that?
Anonymous No.24672217 >>24672225 >>24672282 >>24672361 >>24674464 >>24676526
He is raging against the divine order.
He seeks to prolong the existence of magic in the land, and to remain at the head of it all in a similar vein to how Melkor tied himself to all Arda.
The idea that Eru Illuvatar could care for men more than Eldar, Ainur, and Maiar and have them chosen as the beings to create the second music over him disturbs him to no end.
Anonymous No.24672218 >>24672220 >>24672222 >>24672225 >>24672235 >>24672244 >>24672303 >>24672315 >>24673622
>>24672216 (OP)
Lawful villain tyrant villains who actually genuinely give a shit about law, order and stability while holding ideals like loyalty and honor in high regards despite being ruthlessly ambitious are easily my favorite type of characters.
Anonymous No.24672219
I WILL DESTROY YOU WITH THE REST OF THE POWER RANGERS
Anonymous No.24672220 >>24672224 >>24672310 >>24672629
>>24672218
you've never read a single solitary sentence from LOTR have you
Anonymous No.24672221
>>24672216 (OP)
He wants to sort a library alphabetically instead by category.
Anonymous No.24672222 >>24672224 >>24672310
>>24672218
what does that have to do with sauron
Anonymous No.24672223 >>24672226
>>24672216 (OP)
Because when cities don't look like Detroit it's fascism.
Anonymous No.24672224 >>24672230
>>24672220
>>24672222
>NOOO YOUR POST MUST BE ABOUT LORD OF THE RINGS
Anonymous No.24672225
>>24672217
>>24672218
As see in the Last Ringbearer
Anonymous No.24672226 >>24672345
>>24672223
So the orcish hoards are MAGA?
Honestly makes sense given how the Orc and uruk hai were killing each other the 2nd their overlord wasn't around.
Anonymous No.24672227 >>24672231
are Hobbits or Dwarves children of Illuvatar too
Anonymous No.24672228 >>24672280 >>24672299
β€œIn my story Sauron represents as near an approach to the wholly evil will as is possible. He had gone the way of all tyrants: beginning well, at least on the level that while desiring to order all things according to his own wisdom he still at first considered the (economic) well-being of other inhabitants of the Earth. But he went further than human tyrants in pride and the lust for domination, being in origin an immortal (angelic) spirit.* In The Lord of the Rings the conflict is not basically about 'freedom', though that is naturally involved. It is about God, and His sole right to divine honour. The Eldar and the NΓΊmenΓ³reans believed in The One, the true God, and held worship of any other person an abomination. Sauron desired to be a God-King, and was held to be this by his servants; if he had been victorious he would have demanded divine honour from all rational creatures and absolute temporal power over the whole world.”
Anonymous No.24672229 >>24672237
>>24672216 (OP)
Didnt he turn evil because of a woman
Anonymous No.24672230 >>24672233
>>24672224
I mean yeah, who do you think is on the thread image?
Anonymous No.24672231
>>24672227
>Hobbits
Yes
>Dwarves
Aule's, but he adopted them.
Anonymous No.24672232 >>24673165
>>24672216 (OP)
Never under any circumstances let autismos get anywhere near real power. You think 7,000 years of retards was bad? Spergs would be worse.
Anonymous No.24672233 >>24672623
>>24672230
>if someone posts pepe you must only talk about frogs from then on
Anonymous No.24672234 >>24672236 >>24672246 >>24672350 >>24672718 >>24673008 >>24676728
>mogs Tolkien in your lifetime
Anonymous No.24672235 >>24672301
>>24672218
the best way to play Kingmaker
Anonymous No.24672236 >>24672238
>>24672234
Who?
Anonymous No.24672237 >>24672239 >>24672241
>>24672229
He turned evil because his master Melkor told him that the way to achieve the order he desired was to fucking conquer everything and kill everyone who resists.
When Melkor was banished, he just continued his work.
Anonymous No.24672238 >>24672243 >>24672248
>>24672236
The guy who people want to finish grrm's work once martin kicks the bucket.
Anonymous No.24672239 >>24672240
>>24672237
So it wasnt because he was denied galussy
Anonymous No.24672240 >>24672242
>>24672239
I don't think Sauron ever gave a shit about pussy
Anonymous No.24672241
>>24672237
Well, he did say he was sorry to Eonwe, but ran away when Eonwe told him he must stand trail as well.
Anonymous No.24672242 >>24672245 >>24672254 >>24672266 >>24672452
>>24672240
Did you not watch rings of power?
Anonymous No.24672243 >>24672246 >>24672253
>>24672238
If he's so good then why does he have to finish other people's work instead of creating his own?
Anonymous No.24672244 >>24672278
>>24672218
t. sociopath
Anonymous No.24672245 >>24672249
>>24672242
>you are not a retard?
No
Anonymous No.24672246 >>24672251
>>24672243
You're retarded.
>>24672234
His stuff is some of the best I've ever read
Anonymous No.24672247 >>24676855
>>24672216 (OP)
He's a swordgrabbing lefty.
So that he can oppress and enslave people without resistance.
Anonymous No.24672248
>>24672238
>people
Look I don't like Sanderson having become disillusioned with him but people repeating this are proving they're literal retards.
Sanderson has said on record that he never even finished the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire because it was "too much for his mormon sensibilities" dude also has his shitty-ass Cosmere-MCU shit to shit out now. Anyone who honestly thinks he should finish grrm's work is a literal fucking retard because Sanderson has said he'd never touch it with a ten foot pole.
Anonymous No.24672249 >>24672250 >>24672255 >>24672304
>>24672245
But its canon
Anonymous No.24672250 >>24672252
>>24672249
eat shit
Anonymous No.24672251 >>24672290
>>24672246
>best ive ever read
Simply put: You need to read more if you honestly think this. The same way people who only read Eragon and go "THIS IS AMAZING!" have only likely ever read Eragon so they have nothing else to compare it to.
Anonymous No.24672252 >>24672257
>>24672250
SauRRRRRon wants his Galussy...
Anonymous No.24672253 >>24672256
>>24672243
Brandon Sanderson has already created his own fantasy series, the reason people want him to do gurm's work as well is because he also finished the wheel of time fantasy series when Robert Jordan kicked the bucket.
Anonymous No.24672254
>>24672242
That's as non-canon as it gets.
The directors made it as non canon as possible because they didn't want people who read the Silmarillion to know what's going to happen.
Thereby ruining Tolkien's vision.
Anonymous No.24672255
>>24672249
In what way?
Anonymous No.24672256 >>24672259
>>24672253
Missing the point. Sanderson was a turbo WoT nerd and Harriet specifically chose him after reading Elantris. Sanderson hasn't and doesn't want to read A Song of Ice and Fire. He'd never finish a series he didn't give a shit about.
Anonymous No.24672257 >>24672276
>>24672252
The galussy belongs to Celebron aka TELEPORNO.
Anonymous No.24672258 >>24672262 >>24672265 >>24672277 >>24672284
Make way for some REAL fantasy
Anonymous No.24672259 >>24672260
>>24672256
I agree actually, ASOIAF is better left unfinished, adds to the mystery.
Anonymous No.24672260
>>24672259
Given Martin likely intended the CotF to be biological bullshit is what pisses me off the most about the setting. When Old Nan makes the comment about "No one knows if the Winter brings the Others, or if the Others bring Winter" was peak mystery. The Others were better as being a living natural disaster and living embodiment of Winter itself, not this bullshit he likely intended.
Anonymous No.24672261 >>24672267 >>24672271 >>24672273 >>24672279 >>24672329 >>24672395 >>24672437 >>24672488
where we dropping boys
Anonymous No.24672262 >>24672264
>>24672258
I googled this and it reads like otome garbage
Anonymous No.24672263
>tolkien
hack
>grrm
no talent whatsoever
>sanderson
should never be allowed to use a pen or keyboard ever again
>wolfe
the pseud's favorite. a complete nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me
Anonymous No.24672264
>>24672262
I listened to the audiobook with my GF and it is the definition of romantasy slop
Anonymous No.24672265
>>24672258
>Rebecca

This about dealing about trauma isn't it?
Anonymous No.24672266
>>24672242
>Did you not watch rings of power?
Anonymous No.24672267
>>24672261
Either the Shire or somewhere deep in the Gondor heartlands.
I imagine you don't get random corsair and orc raids there.
Anonymous No.24672268
>>24672216 (OP)
he kind of stopped caring about that when he became morgoth's fuccboi
Anonymous No.24672269
>>24672216 (OP)
>great deceiver lies to you

Woah
Anonymous No.24672270 >>24672272
what is /v/'s opinion on Thomas Covenant
Anonymous No.24672271 >>24672275 >>24672281
>>24672261
Dol Amroth, for that sweet swanknight armour.
Anonymous No.24672272 >>24672274
>>24672270
It filters people within the first act.
Anonymous No.24672273
>>24672261
Sea of Nurn sounds pretty relaxing this time of year.
Anonymous No.24672274 >>24677944
>>24672272
Would you recomend? My Dad told me to read them years ago and I never did, but I absolutely loved the author's sci fi series The Gap Cycle.
Anonymous No.24672275 >>24672287
>>24672271
Yea but you would have to deal with Umbar nigers trying to burn and pillage your shit all the time.
Doesn't sound very comfy.
Anonymous No.24672276
>>24672257
Celeborn the guy that she forgot exists?
Anonymous No.24672277 >>24672285
>>24672258
Women's reputation will never recover from this. You can call typical male literature inane but it never gets as vapid as this.
Anonymous No.24672278
>>24672244
NTA but sociopaths are the embodiment of neutral evil. As in, they're 100% self-benefit obsessed. A sociopath could never be lawful evil. A sociopath could pretend to be lawful evil for power, but at they're core all sociopaths are neutral (or chaotic)
Anonymous No.24672279
>>24672261
>not dropping in hobbittown for that hobbit kitties
Anonymous No.24672280
>>24672228
>Eldar
Did Tolkien rip off Warhammer 40k? Wtf
Anonymous No.24672281
>>24672271
>mod for Warband completely mogs an official LOTR product

WTF
Anonymous No.24672282 >>24672391
>>24672217
What the fuck was Melkor's problem? Just sing, bro.
Anonymous No.24672283 >>24674993
Yesterday I ordered from a bootleg Lord of the Rings themed restaurant and I ate an Aragorn sandwich that was beef, cheese and mushrooms with butter.

It was very delicious.
Anonymous No.24672284 >>24672285 >>24672294 >>24672336
>>24672258
The wave of female written "fantasy" novels that in reality is nothing but glorified smut is a trend that isn't dying fast enough.
Anonymous No.24672285
>>24672277
>>24672284
It makes more sense if you know that the author was literally know for writing smut before writing the fantasy books. It's more smut masquerading as fantasy than it is fantasy with a twist of romance.
Anonymous No.24672286 >>24672288 >>24672338
Today I shall inadvertently cause the downfall of another Elven kingdom.
Anonymous No.24672287
>>24672275
That's what the homies in Perlagir are for. And besides, there's nothing more glorious than pure-blooded dunedain trashing their mutt cousins.
Anonymous No.24672288 >>24672295
>>24672286
I read this as a kid without knowing it was related to LOTR. The only thing I remember is the main character having sex with his sister.
Anonymous No.24672289 >>24672296 >>24672298
Pick a kingdom, you have two-hundred years to prepare for the Witch-King of Angmar
Anonymous No.24672290 >>24672379
>>24672251
Sounds like someone whose only ever read lord of the rings. But that's fine, right?
Anonymous No.24672291
THE BLACK NUMENOREANS
Anonymous No.24672292
>>24672216 (OP)
Everything tends towards entropy
*hits bong*
Trying to keep things in order is a sin against the universe... it's literally disobeying the laws of physics
*exhales*
If you really cared about universal law you should be setting fire to everything at all times
Anonymous No.24672293
>>24672216 (OP)
I'm sure there's some gay argument happening in this thread but I just wanna say that Sauron's armor in the movies is cool as fuck.
Anonymous No.24672294
>>24672284
Fun fact: Male writers are using female pen names to get book publishers publish their books, because book publishers have been rejecting pretty much 95% of all male writers the past decade or so, for the sake of diversity.
Anonymous No.24672295
>>24672288
I like when his sword spoke to him.
Anonymous No.24672296
>>24672289
Cardolan innit.
Biggest remaining population. Easy to get supplies around on the big ass river that I'm not even pretend to know how to spell correctly.
Anonymous No.24672297 >>24672308
>>24672216 (OP)
You will never be a tyrant's right-hand.
Anonymous No.24672298
>>24672289
I guess Cardolan, they kind of won in the end since it was their weapons and curse that slew the Witch-king
Anonymous No.24672299 >>24672300
>>24672228
sauron got the numenorians to worship melkor
he was perfectly fine being melkor's servant
Anonymous No.24672300 >>24672311
>>24672299
didn't he only do that because he was going to declare himself Morgoth reborn
Anonymous No.24672301
>>24672235
LE Abadar worshipping Inquisitor with evil goat wife was good fun.
Anonymous No.24672302
>>24672216 (OP)
Tolkien saw industrialization as absolute evil, stark difference between London before he left to ww1 and after he returned really did a number on him.
Anonymous No.24672303 >>24672306
>>24672218
Anonymous No.24672304 >>24672317
>>24672249
JRRT died in 1973, pretty sure amazon wasn't around back then to ask him to write a script.
Anonymous No.24672305 >>24673151
autists are evil
Anonymous No.24672306
>>24672303
This femboy just wanted wings. He has no loyalty for anyone.
Anonymous No.24672307
Sauron is a factorio engineer and I mean that in the most morally damning way possible.
Anonymous No.24672308
>>24672297
>HIS JUDGEMENT'S HAND
Anonymous No.24672309
HOLY BASED
Anonymous No.24672310 >>24675910
>>24672220
>>24672222
I'm aware that Sauron is a delusional bitch who thinks he's pulling a fast one on Morgoth. I just meant in general. Funnily enough characters inspired by Sauron are more like what I described. The Overlord for example.
Anonymous No.24672311
>>24672300
That, plus he got a kick out of making the Numenoreans worship basically the antagonist of the beings that granted them that land in the first place. Remember that towards the end of Numenor the Valar were so pissed they were sending out giant clouds specifically to strike lightning onto the Melkor temples.
Anonymous No.24672312 >>24672313 >>24672314 >>24672322
Anonymous No.24672313 >>24672323
>>24672312
BANE?
Anonymous No.24672314
>>24672312
I liked it. Especially the kings speech to his son and the noooos from his Aretha Franklin wife.
Anonymous No.24672315 >>24672316 >>24672318 >>24672333
>>24672218
Soooo Hitler?
Anonymous No.24672316 >>24672318
>>24672315
No he was lawful good
Anonymous No.24672317 >>24672324 >>24672325 >>24672332
>>24672304
So his sons content isnt canon either?
Anonymous No.24672318 >>24672319
>>24672315
>>24672316
Hitler was neither Lawful nor Good, fascism is textbook CE. Right of the strongest, laws are arbitrary, war for war's sake
Anonymous No.24672319 >>24672320
>>24672318
Anonymous No.24672320
>>24672319
Look, you can be edgy and like villains if you want, but in DnD terms, fascism is chaotic (it's destabilising) and evil (it kills innocents)
Anonymous No.24672321 >>24672330
>>24672216 (OP)
Sauron is literally the Devil's right hand man in the LOTR setting. He doesnt' want 'order' he's straight up demonic and very possibly a homosexual too.
Anonymous No.24672322
>>24672312
>thing that canonically didn't happen until 2000 years after the downfall of NΓΊmenor
Anonymous No.24672323
>>24672313
Dr Wormtongue, I'm Istari
Anonymous No.24672324 >>24672328 >>24672332
>>24672317
Eewww, don't try to create some false narrative of Christopher being like Frank Hebert's dumbass kids. All Christopher did was sift though and interpret the mountain of disorganized, partially duplicated and autistically annotated manuscripts and notes for the half a dozen unfinished middle earth projects Tolkien left behind when he died.
Anonymous No.24672325
>>24672317
No, literally who says that? All of Middle-Earth canon was written by JRR. Christopher never even claimed to produce anything "canon" so this isn't even something debatable, it's common sense that everyone agrees on.
Anonymous No.24672326 >>24672335
I'm reading The Silmarillion now and shit is so cash. It's just a giant lore dump and it gets my peepre harder than mithril. Way better than LotR books
Anonymous No.24672327 >>24672390 >>24672396 >>24672397
>We know pain. Our purpose… is its end.
Anonymous No.24672328 >>24672332
>>24672324
That's also what Brian Herbert did. He wrote the sequels to Chapterhouse based on manuscripts his dad left behind.
Anonymous No.24672329
>>24672261
For me it's Nargothrond, I'm cavecitymaxxing
Anonymous No.24672330
>>24672321
No, Sauron's whole deal is that he's absolutely fucking autistic about order and was only serving Melkor because he hated how the natural world was so disorderly. Sauron had a desire to rule over all in perfect order, Melkor just wanted everything fucking ruined because he was so mad he couldn't create on his own. Tolkien once compared the two by saying that if Sauron won he would have gone mad trying to turn the world into a perfect unchanging machine, while if Melkor had won he would have gone mad trying to endlessly destroy everything only for new things to arise.
Anonymous No.24672331 >>24672334 >>24672344
Is Arda itself is Morgoth's ring, doesn't that mean he can't be truly killed until Arda itself is destroyed? In that sense he did kind of win.
Anonymous No.24672332
>>24672328
>>24672324
>>24672317
Christopher was an active participant in The Hobbit and LOTR's creation. People seem to forget this. He was essentially the editor and helped his father in various respects like making sure the phases of the moon were consistent. He drew the fucking maps. Tolkien sent him / read to him drafts and asked for feedback. Middle-earth was almost equally his in the shaping.
Anonymous No.24672333
>>24672315
>Soooo Hitler?
>holding ideals like loyalty and honor in high regards
He betrayed half his original supporters
Anonymous No.24672334 >>24672352
>>24672331
In the end of days, the Dagor Dagorlad, he will escape the void and be definitively slain by Turin and Arda will be remade unmarred
Anonymous No.24672335 >>24672337
>>24672326
Chat, for real?
Anonymous No.24672336 >>24676843
>>24672284
Yes and men enjoy hentai games and fanservice. Fuck off with this puritan stupidity.
Anonymous No.24672337
>>24672335
If you like history and mythology it's genuinely God-tier shit. If not it's probably going to be pretty boring. I'm in the former camp so I loved it.
Anonymous No.24672338
>>24672286
He wasn't the one causing the fall though, it was Morgoth and his "curse".
Anonymous No.24672339 >>24672351
Feanor did absolutely nothing wrong
Anonymous No.24672340
>>24672216 (OP)
hey man you can say what you want about the empire but at least the emperor makes the warp gates go on time.
Anonymous No.24672341
He was an elvish lord who got cucked by one of his faggot half brothers who allied with men to defeat him. Of course he’s pissed off that he’s been defeated 7 times before
Anonymous No.24672342 >>24672346
organization implies collectivization which is anti-individual freedom which is bad. Fascists and Communists are guilty of this.
Anonymous No.24672343 >>24672347
*puts you in the cuck chair for years*
Anonymous No.24672344 >>24672364
>>24672331
As an ainu it's doubtful he can be "killed" at all in any meaningful way, regardless of being bound to Arda (as all ainur are, not only he). His true form is as an incorporeal, immortal soul, that only takes a physical form, when convenient, that serves as nothing more than a vessel and avatar. Sauron and Saruman don't really die at the end of LotR, they lose all of their power and their bodies and they're essentially reduced to impotent ghosts doomed to wander the shadowy twilight between life and death until the end of the world.
Anonymous No.24672345
>>24672226
I think you meant to type BLACK PANTHER anon
Anonymous No.24672346 >>24672349
>>24672342

That's why you should always structure your hierarchies based on competence rather than identity.
Anonymous No.24672347 >>24672348 >>24672354
>>24672343
The only one who one who cucked was Morgoth by Manwe lol
Anonymous No.24672348
>>24672347
>eats your trees
what now lol
Anonymous No.24672349
>>24672346
You shouldn't structure hierarchies at all
Anonymous No.24672350 >>24676457
>>24672234
Sanderson is straight garbage and I don't understand how people like him.
Anonymous No.24672351
>>24672339
He didn't go back for Fingolfin, instead burning the boats. Nigger tier mentality. Fuck him
Anonymous No.24672352 >>24672355
>>24672334
>Dagor Dagorlad
did Tolkeinfags really
Anonymous No.24672353 >>24672356 >>24672376
>evil guy is sauron
>his henchman is sauronman
truly Kojima-esque creatividad
Anonymous No.24672354 >>24672357 >>24672358
>>24672347
T-Tulkas sama. I kneel
Anonymous No.24672355
>>24672352
No because it's actually called dagor dagorath, dagorlad is the shitty gravel pile area in front of the black gate of mordor.
Anonymous No.24672356
>>24672353
>Samwise Gangrene
>would literally lose his limbs for Frodo
Kojima-san you've outdone yourself
Anonymous No.24672357
>>24672354
>leave Son Goku to me
Anonymous No.24672358
>>24672354
There’s always a bigger fish
Anonymous No.24672359
You now here THAT particular marching battle theme in your head…
Anonymous No.24672360 >>24672362 >>24672366
>>24672216 (OP)
HAAAAAAAAAAAACKSOOOOOOOOOOOON
Anonymous No.24672361
>>24672216 (OP)
cool it with the apologetic discourse, Adolf
>>24672217
lmao OK nerd
Anonymous No.24672362
>>24672360
holy kino Jackson why
Anonymous No.24672363 >>24672365 >>24672392
when I was a kid I remember watching Fellowship in the cinema and that begining scene where Sauron sends soldiers flying his mace was the coolest thing ever to me, I still love it
Anonymous No.24672364 >>24672370
>>24672344
Sauron and Saruman died.

The main distinction between Vala and Maia is that the later can't enter Arda without becoming influenceable by it.

Valars when they enter Arda they can / are made to leave some of their "essence" into Arda. That's why Morgoth can't be killed - he IS Arda, as much as the other Valar who shaped it are.

Maias can resurrect from death, yes, but valars can quite literally choose to have them die permanently, at least in lotr it's implied that becoming physical again require help from the valar. In the book Saruman's essences tries to travel to the Valar lands and is dispersed by a divine wind, which the chapter specifically implies to be a final death.
Anonymous No.24672365 >>24672368 >>24672369
>>24672363
Because the narrator is talking about Sauron who forged the rings and then you see this skeleton armor dude walk amour just swinging his chungus around. The delivery was too good
Anonymous No.24672366 >>24672367 >>24672371 >>24672372
>>24672360
The Return of the King in general has some of the more questionable choices in the trilogy, I'm kind of glad the movies ended there.
Anonymous No.24672367 >>24672372
>>24672366
Or well, I'm kind of glad there wasn't another book to adapt at that point. Of course the movies ended there lol.
Anonymous No.24672368
>>24672365
Sauron's movie design is absolute peak
Anonymous No.24672369 >>24672380 >>24672392
>>24672365
>Exposition sequence that lasts for like 10 minutes front-loaded at the start of a movie
>It's cool as shit and instantly sucks you into the world
Crazy that they managed to pull something like that off, there was a lot of skepticism that the movie could actually be good before it came out and that intro alone was enough to convince people.
Anonymous No.24672370 >>24672381
>>24672364
Reread the Silmarillion. All the ainur, vala or maia, who entered in to Arda were bound to it the same way, and they can't be killed in any meaningful sense. They don't really have bodies, and if the physical form they choose to take is damaged beyond repair they can just make a new one. The only exception to that rule are the wizards, whose souls were inserted in to actual living bodies for the sake of bringing them closer to the children of Iluvatar they were meant to advise. So I guess you could kind of say Saruman died, in that he had an actual body and not just a flesh puppet, but he's still a truly immortal soul that can't perish or be severed from Arda in any way. The wind from the west blowing his ghost away wasn't destruction, it was just rejection. He wasn't allowed to return to Valinor.
Anonymous No.24672371
>>24672366
it was the sign of what was to come in the hobbit slop movies
still really good but definitely the worst of the trilogy
Anonymous No.24672372
>>24672366
>>24672367
Yeah, also has the only extended sequences that I feel detract from the movie. The changeup they did with the Paths of the Dead was even questioned by Jackson himself later as "maybe we really shouldn't have included that". Still a solid movie and some of those extra scenes are still really good, but definitely a canary in the coal mine in retrospect.
Anonymous No.24672373 >>24672378
>>24672216 (OP)
Nothing. It's just that freedomfags believe that causing chaos and being like animals are better because they're free to do what they want. Real humans follow orders.
Anonymous No.24672374 >>24672375
>why is this fallen shadow being that wants to smother everything in darkness, enslave everyone, and turn every living thing into some kind of twisted evil orc monstrosity bad?
Anonymous No.24672375
>>24672374
Hey, cool it with the anti-semitic remarks
Anonymous No.24672376
>>24672353
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGi9sUpl4lE
Anonymous No.24672377
is lotro worth playing
Anonymous No.24672378
>>24672373
Shut up, Palpatine.
Anonymous No.24672379
>>24672290
*who's
whose is possessive
Anonymous No.24672380
>>24672369
I could rewatch the first movie over and over just for that introduction
It’s 10/10
Anonymous No.24672381
>>24672370
>To the dismay of those that stood by, about the body of Saruman a grey mist gathered, and rising slowly to a great height like smoke from a fire, as a pale shrouded figure it loomed over the Hill. For a moment it wavered, looking to the West; but out of the West came a cold wind, and it bent away, and with a sigh dissolved into nothing.
sounds more like his spirit was destroyed
Anonymous No.24672382 >>24672383 >>24672385 >>24672387
so why are Elves basically denied heaven but Men (and presumably Dwarves and Hobbits too) aren't
Anonymous No.24672383
>>24672382
Because elves are shit heads who live forever and act above everyone else.
Anonymous No.24672384
It was perfect, but alas, it is also why we can't have nice things. For we shall inevitably squander it.
Anonymous No.24672385 >>24672386 >>24672388
>>24672382
men are the only ones who go to "heaven"
dwarves are soulless
Anonymous No.24672386
>>24672385
That's going in the book, laddie. See you in about 100 years.
Anonymous No.24672387 >>24672388 >>24677953
>>24672382
There's an implication that Elves are literally bound to the Earth in some way and cannot leave it even in death. Tolkien pretty much confirmed that they'd eventually become so weary of the world that the ones that didn't go to the Halls of Mandos would shed their bodies and just wander around as spirits, still unable to truly pass on. Dwarves are ???, nobody knows what the fuck Eru has planned for them after they die.
Anonymous No.24672388 >>24672389
>>24672385>>24672387
They have souls but they don't have any blissful afterlife place like humans, their souls just wander around a kind of limbo forever. Gimli is the only exception and he was granted access to Valinor because of his heroism.
Anonymous No.24672389
>>24672388
Valinor isn't the afterlife, it's just physically removed from the world and used to be a real place on it. The Silmarillion says that the Dwarves believe they have their own place in the Halls of Mandos but nobody actually knows.
Anonymous No.24672390
>>24672327
Stop reminding me that this retard exists.
Anonymous No.24672391
>>24672282
All according to Eru's
Anonymous No.24672392 >>24672393
>>24672363
>>24672369
I have my criticisms of the Peter Jackson movies after I read the book, but Fellowship is pretty close to a perfect film and the only one of the trilogy that has any pretense of being faithful to Tolkien before it turns into cgi hollywood slop
Anonymous No.24672393
>>24672392
I remember when I was younger I thought RotK was the best, but now I recognize it just has some really high points mixed in with some really low points too. Two Towers makes some weird choices but overall still tries to stick to the tone. Fellowship's both the best movie overall AND the one that feels the most like an actual adaptation of the books, it's fucking great.
Anonymous No.24672394
Anonymous No.24672395
>>24672261
Beleriand wasn't that big
Anonymous No.24672396
>>24672327
An even bigger retard than Sauron ever was and you can't even blame it on the Winnower/Veil entirely because unlike Sauron getting groomed by Melkor, the Witness went full autism on its own volition.
Anonymous No.24672397 >>24672398
>>24672327
>don't know much about lotr
Who is this?
Anonymous No.24672398
>>24672397
Not LOTR, that's the Witness from Destiny.
Anonymous No.24672433
holy fuck mods are retarded
Anonymous No.24672437 >>24672550
>>24672261
Oh shit there's a new map in the rotation
Anonymous No.24672452
>>24672242
Anonymous No.24672453
>>24672216 (OP)
Its just anti-autistic propaganda by Big Normieβ„’
Anonymous No.24672488
>>24672261
I don't understand why anyone being persecuted by Morgoth in Beleriand didn't just fuck off to the south of Taur Im Duinath and live happily ever after.
Even the Nandor who finally passed over the mountains into Beleriand settle in Ossiriand.
I remember reading in the Silmarillion that at some point Morgoth's power was peaking and the orcs became brazen 'even reaching the mouths of Sirion'.
So even in those desperate times that fuckhuge forest was fairly safe.
Anonymous No.24672503
>>24672216 (OP)
Fool
Anonymous No.24672532
>>24672216 (OP)
Why do you guys like a lot the idea of giving your rights to a tyran? Do you like being cucked that much?
Anonymous No.24672541
>>24672216 (OP)
>Control fag doesn't understand nature.
It's evil. Plainly evil.
Anonymous No.24672550
>>24672437
I am chuckling harder than I should, I love it.
Anonymous No.24672555 >>24672578 >>24672602 >>24672605 >>24673968 >>24674464
>loved Franco
>hated Hitler

What was his deal?
Anonymous No.24672578
>>24672555
Catholic.
Anonymous No.24672602 >>24672627
>>24672555
He saw the ghoulish propaganda the priests put out to get sympathy. (They dug up their recently dead, took pics, and claimed the anarchists did it)
Catholicism is evil but sometimes good people get taken in.
Anonymous No.24672605
>>24672555
Fag
Anonymous No.24672616
Can we dispense with these Manichean moral binaries? It’s 2025 common era for Dawkins’ sake
Anonymous No.24672623
>>24672233
Just admit you haven't read LOTR kek
Anonymous No.24672627 >>24672703 >>24672742
>>24672602
t. disgusting commie

Franco did nothing wrong
Anonymous No.24672628 >>24672688
>>24672216 (OP)
the fact he used Muslims--- i mean Orcs--- to get his "order" is enough to condemn him.
Anonymous No.24672629
>>24672220
KEK
Anonymous No.24672688
>>24672628
Arnor and Gondor are basically Western Rome and Eastern Rome, and the War of the Ring is basically what would have happened if the miraculous Power of God had saved the Byzantines from the Ottomans at the Siege of Constantinople. It's kinda neat.
Anonymous No.24672703 >>24672730 >>24673156
>>24672627
Traitor to mankind. You must be a Catholic.
You know they're a pack of pedophiles, do you?
Anonymous No.24672718 >>24672749 >>24673008
>>24672234
great prose, bro
Anonymous No.24672730 >>24672746
>>24672703
I am a proud member of the One True Church of Jesus Christ, yes. Three times we have been corrupted by evil and three times we have reformed. This is the fourth corruption and the fourth reform is underway. Like the Lord Himself, the Church will always rise from the dead.
Anonymous No.24672742 >>24673145
>>24672627
t.
Anonymous No.24672746
>>24672730
The One True? They call them "Gnostics" now.
States and power in general are what corrupt faiths. Official churches in other words.
>The lord
There is no creator as the universe has always been and always will be.
Anonymous No.24672749
>>24672718
>strong, like a towering tree
There is a subtext here. He’s calling her fat. Like a fat tree trunk towering over them all.
Anonymous No.24673008 >>24673102
>>24672234
>>24672718
B tier at best, but still leagues ahead of Eragon (Star Wars scam).
Anonymous No.24673102 >>24673268
>>24673008
>(Star Wars scam)
?
Anonymous No.24673145
>>24672742
Seethe
Anonymous No.24673151
>>24672305
You're just jealous
Anonymous No.24673156 >>24673268
>>24672703
Very Jewish, freemason coded response
Anonymous No.24673165
>>24672232
You're just a pussy
Anonymous No.24673268
>>24673102
He means ripoff

>>24673156
Not a fan of either of those pedo protection groups either. Your post is Catholic coded.
Anonymous No.24673519
Everybody talks about wanting to live in the Shire, but I think my relationship with it would inevitably be Gandalf-tier. I wouldn't want to live there because it would be too boring, but it'd be a nice place to visit from time to time.
Anonymous No.24673617
it's a cautionary tale about what happens if you let your autistic intrusive thoughts take over your life
Anonymous No.24673622
>>24672218
Anon you literally just described a typical hero character with anger issues and a bad personality.
Anonymous No.24673968 >>24673970
>>24672555
Just Catholic cuckservative things.
Anonymous No.24673970 >>24676900
>>24673968
Hitler was going to destroy the Church, Anon. The Reichskonkordat was not going to last, and both the Reich and the Church knew it.
Anonymous No.24674464 >>24674608
>>24672217
>raging against the divine order
The jewish god he worshipped literally commanded his murderous followers to dominate the earth lol. Pottery. Classic christcope.

>>24672555
The childlike naivete of indoctrinated christians
Anonymous No.24674608
>>24674464
good
Anonymous No.24674993
>>24672283
holy based
Anonymous No.24675907
>>24672216 (OP)
The 1977 Hobbit animated film is great.
Anonymous No.24675910
>>24672310
i notice you didnt answer his question
Anonymous No.24676452
>>24672216 (OP)
he's actually evil bc he's gay
Anonymous No.24676457
>>24672350
have you ever eaten popcorn?
Anonymous No.24676526 >>24676859
>>24672217
How did you determine which is the divine order and why do you automatically conclude it is better?
Anonymous No.24676529
>>24672216 (OP)
The 2000 movies would've been much improved with more singing.
https://youtu.be/VoAfb3f04mo
Anonymous No.24676535
>>24672216 (OP)
>Villain is evil because... he wants things to be organized properly!
>What's so bad about that?
Anonymous No.24676728
>>24672234
He's the AliExpress of fantasy literture
Anonymous No.24676843
>>24672336
>You don't like my smut, guess you're a puritan who's scared of nudity.
Or maybe it has to do with the fact that those books are terribly written and sacrifices worldbuilding and characterization in favor of more shitty dragon sex.
Anonymous No.24676847
>>24672216 (OP)
He's black
Anonymous No.24676855 >>24676889
>>24672216 (OP)
>he wants things to be organized properly!
Name 1 (one) thing that Sauron actually managed to organize properly.

>>24672247
Reminder that orcs serve as first and foremost representation of Deutsches Heer.
Anonymous No.24676859 >>24677888
>>24676526
Read Silmarillion before making retarded posts about lotr cosmology. It is literally set by the author of the story.
Anonymous No.24676889
>>24676855
The NΓΊrn slave plantations.
Anonymous No.24676895
>>24672216 (OP)
Why do losers want so much to be at the mercy of autocrats? Is this some kind of submissive fetish?
Anonymous No.24676900
>>24673970
>Hitler was going to destroy the Church, Anon
VGH...
Anonymous No.24676929
>>24672216 (OP)
>he wants things to be organized properly!
that's a sign of autism and to normies autism is a visceral horror
Anonymous No.24677888 >>24677919
>>24676859
Why do you assume the author is correct and not an unreliable narrator?
Anonymous No.24677919
>>24677888
That's the reality of the setting unless you're writing your own fanfic universe (e.g. The Last Ringbearer) and referring to that setting rather than the official one.
Anonymous No.24677944
>>24672274
NTA but I recommend, although you can definitely see Donaldson improve his prose as the books go on. His editors did the best they could but Del Rey (infamous for reinventing epic-fantasy for slop) needed to push product.
The Chronicles isn't slop exactly, but Donaldson wasn't yet up to the job.
The Second Chronicles are better. The Third filtered me.
Anonymous No.24677953
>>24672387
This, although after the Dagor Dagorath and the unmaking of Arda one imagines that the righteous Elves will then have to go somewhere. Maybe brought in as the next generation of Maiar...