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7/12/2025, 5:24:21 PM
>>715261298
Now imagine Gaster as Tolkien
Now imagine Gaster as Tolkien
7/3/2025, 10:01:34 PM
>>24518177
LOTR is very good, to be fair, and if you were around when it was coming out Tolkien would already have established a somewhat-good reputation with The Hobbit. So you wouldn't be going into the series on blind trust, which some of these newer writers ask you to do.
LOTR is very good, to be fair, and if you were around when it was coming out Tolkien would already have established a somewhat-good reputation with The Hobbit. So you wouldn't be going into the series on blind trust, which some of these newer writers ask you to do.
6/11/2025, 1:33:28 AM
>>24457867
ACTUALLY, the entire reason Eowyn (and Merry) kill the Witch King is because Tolkien thought Shakespeare cheated. The prophecy is that Macbeth could not be killed "by one of woman born," and in the end Macduff is able to get around this prophecy by revealing that he was cut from his mother's womb as she died. A C-Section, basically, and so Macduff was not technically "of woman born."
But Tolkien infamously thought this was a cheap copout and says so as much it at least one of his letters. So he wanted to do Shakespeare one better, and that's why the Witch King's prophecy is that "no living man may hinder me," and in the end he's not brought down by a man, he's brought down by a woman and a Hobbit.
ACTUALLY, the entire reason Eowyn (and Merry) kill the Witch King is because Tolkien thought Shakespeare cheated. The prophecy is that Macbeth could not be killed "by one of woman born," and in the end Macduff is able to get around this prophecy by revealing that he was cut from his mother's womb as she died. A C-Section, basically, and so Macduff was not technically "of woman born."
But Tolkien infamously thought this was a cheap copout and says so as much it at least one of his letters. So he wanted to do Shakespeare one better, and that's why the Witch King's prophecy is that "no living man may hinder me," and in the end he's not brought down by a man, he's brought down by a woman and a Hobbit.
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