• grue@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Obligatory reminder that:

    1. It didn’t happen that way in the book
    2. The power of the Ring was such that nobody, not even Elrond, stood a chance of intentionally acting to destroy it. Elrond couldn’t have pushed Isildur if he tried. Frodo and Gollum only managed to get the ring into the lava because they were fighting to keep it for themselves and went over the edge accidentally.

    Video going into “nerdy detail:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P68HWtN4zG8

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    3 months ago

    Boring movie series then.

    …and Gandalf the Grey spent 3 weeks drinking and smoking and setting off fireworks with the Hobbits, remembering his old friend Bilbo who died some years earlier after an average hobbit lifespan with his nephew Frodo…

    THE END

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      3 months ago

      remembering his old friend Bilbo who died some years earlier after an average hobbit lifespan horribly in a cave after being captured by goblins…

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        3 months ago

        Would goblins/orcs still have endured without the lingering evil of Sauron?

        They weren’t naturally occurring (yes they bred but they were made to be a breeding army for evil and I’m pretty sure Tolkien alluded them to dying out quickly after the ring was destroyed) in Tolkien’s lore I’m pretty sure and were interchangable terms for the same species in his lore even though they’re different in others.

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          3 months ago

          remembering his old friend Bilbo who died some years earlier after an average hobbit lifespan horribly after encountering giant spiders in mirkwood…

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    3 months ago

    He didn’t live happily ever after anyhow so nothing was lost. Also I think he kinda spar on the lives of everyone who died that day by keeping the ring sooooo too bad.