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Koronesuki

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70s and 80s animation was great:



Didn't know they made a third one, though...

I wish they had done the entire trilogy.

The 1977 Hobbit film is still the best adaptation of Tolkien's best work.
 

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Tsk tsk tsk, all of you are NORMIES, a true Tolkien fan knows that to achieve true purity you have to read all of the supplementary volumes! And don't forget the compiled letters of Tolkien!

Only then will you become a true and honest fan, only then can you count yourself as a lambengolmor!
 

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Tsk tsk tsk, all of you are NORMIES, a true Tolkien fan knows that to achieve true purity you have to read all of the supplementary volumes! And don't forget the compiled letters of Tolkien!

Only then will you become a true and honest fan, only then can you count yourself as a lambengolmor!
you mean killing anyone who says the balrog does not have wings?
 

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you mean killing anyone who says the balrog does not have wings?
Balrogs do not have wings lol
inb4 "b-but tolkien says they h-have wingz..."
Learn what simile is you swine

The most accurate depiction of a balrog is just a tall flaming dude/fire spirit, not a literal Christian demon. I love the jackson films but they have severely damaged popular understanding of the source material. They are an INTERPRETATION of the source, not the source itself.
 

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ah yes
2 people talking in blank room
peak of storytelling
Unironically yes, although they usually have at least one prop in the room.

Shinbou's works in general, and Monogatari in particular, draw heavily on theatrical conventions where you'll often have simple sets.
 

CalciumAnimal

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Balrogs do not have wings lol
Learn what simile is you swine

The most accurate depiction of a balrog is just a tall flaming dude/fire spirit, not a literal Christian demon
"...suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall..." wings confirmed you heretical non believer.
 

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Unironically yes, although they usually have at least one prop in the room.

Shinbou's works in general, and Monogatari in particular, draw heavily on theatrical conventions where you'll often have simple sets.

It somewhat reminds me of X-Men: First Class, where all the action scenes and whatnot sucked, and the film was at its best when it was just Professor X and Magneto talking to each other. Wish the whole film had been just that, but fat chance there.
 

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"...suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall..." wings confirmed you heretical non believer.
Learn what simile is PLEASE
Do I really have to explain this...
 

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Learn what simile is PLEASE
Do I really have to explain this...
You can't keep SCREECHING it's a simile like that has any weight when again THE SENTINCE RIGHT AFTER treats them as having physical presence.

I assumed you were just leaning into the bit m8 no one actually cares about the wings or at least i don't.
 

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Okay so read these two passages:

"And out of the west there would be at times a great cloud in the evening, shaped as it were an eagle, with pinions spread to the north and the south; and slowly it would loom up, blotting out the sunset, and then uttermost night would fall upon Númenor."

"And some of the eagles bore lightning beneath their wings, and thunder echoed between sea and cloud."


Are they eagles or are they clouds?



Now these:

“The Balrog reached the bridge. Gandalf stood in the middle of the span, leaning on the staff in his left hand, but in his other hand Glamdring gleamed, cold and white. His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings."

"It stepped forward slowly onto the bridge, and suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall"

Is it the balrog's shadow that LOOKS like wings, or is it wings?

This is something tolkien does, several times, and it's always meant to represent something as something else, it is SIMILE. Homeboy is just trying to be fancy with his descriptions.
 
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God, how I missed the oughts and Tolkien Taliban debating endlessly on IRC.
 

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Call me a bitch if yall want but I choose not to engage with Tolkien autists.

I have too much to live for.
 

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Banter thread? Or Pippa thread? I could make a case for either.


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Time is a flat circle.
 

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Tsk tsk tsk, all of you are NORMIES, a true Tolkien fan knows that to achieve true purity you have to read all of the supplementary volumes! And don't forget the compiled letters of Tolkien!

Only then will you become a true and honest fan, only then can you count yourself as a lambengolmor!
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Another reason for why to be a vtuber and not a fleshstreamer:

Damn

Gonna be hard to get that refund now tho
 

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You just werent looking good enough tbh
Like last 5 years given us the menu, novocaine, john wick 4 and bullet train
Oh yeah and nobody as well

I keep looking for fantasy or sci Fi stuff but nothing really hits like 2000s-2015s in those genres
Lord of the Rings (as movies) suck balls. Then you look at something with the same extent or maybe even longer, Monogatari, and it's a masterpiece adaptation across many iterations.
Another Westaboo L :millieLoser: keep coping nerds (just read the novel).

I agree, the production team itself was really into it but shortening them to movies didn't help the storytelling part. Maybe it's made for people who can't imagine the pages of descriptive content of the books, I dunno.
Eh I like both because I like seeing the hobbits being hobbits and I also like watching araragi screw around with hachikuji in any opportune moment

Or any loli for that matter be it hanekawa or shinobu
 
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