I get that, and fair play sticking to your swords over it, I had to give my head a fair few wobbles before I could get to the point im at now but I got there in the end.
Theres not many things I dislike more than marmite, but one thing I despise over everything, Is. Baked. Beans. Just when I thought we could be friends 😔. Though marmite gravy is a new thing to me. Id give it a try, just so I could tip it away like Eowyns soup.
Now I'm the envious one! What a perfect life to live (except the marmite, you can keep that all the way over there, thank you please) and you can make homemade crumpets!? Wow. Maybe one day I'll reintroduce the Longleaf back into my life and put my feet up for a bit, the way it should be.
And you're 100 percent right, if you're going to do it, do it right and do it well, or don't do it all. There is something inherently weird watching the series but like I said before, I switch my brain off an treat it like an alternate universe instead, so I can enjoying it for what it is
It is nice to travel around the area and think I could live here if I was a Hobbit and such, I'd love to live in a hole eating crumpets 😂
Wow, you've really gone deep with that cook book, what an endeavour that must of been! I do miss my Old Toby days, I can totally understand it helping.
I've just had to look it up, and apparently he's just missing, presumed dead but will come back in the future. I love the 'If you ever feel useless, remember that Galadriel had a husband' meme, I just hope they can do the great Elf justice when he finally shows his pointy ears. Celebrian not being mentioned is odd to me, seeing as we have Elrond, so I'll have to wait and see how they get around that 🤷🏻♂️
Ha, I'll just leave it at that and not tell you about the bedroom, come hither eyes they make at each other! I don't even know where Celeborn is during this period, but I hope he comes into it at some point.
The man was a genius, and I'm actually from the West Midlands where he based Middle Earth on!
I do think it would be so difficult to portray a lot of the Silmarillion, as there's a lot of abstract and fantastical elements to it, but they said Lord of the Rings itself could never be filmed, and I'm so glad they were wrong about that. I've just come off a marathon myself this weekend and that cookbook sounds like an amazing idea
Oh for sure, it's one of the things I couldn't stomach about Rings, Galadriel and Sauron looking like they're catching feelings... Just no.
The tale of Turin would be epic to see played out with the money of Amazon, the universe is full of amazing stories, which does make you think why they had to embellish and twist so much to make Rings work.
I'd pay a lot of money to watch Tulkas wrestle Melkor to the ground, but it's probably a pipe dream 🤷🏻♂️
I totally agree, I'm apprehensive about the hunt for gollum, and it wouldn't be my first choice of subject to revisit middle earth, only time will tell on that front.
Is really like to see something from the dawn of time, with the song and the beginning of everything. Though I fear they'd make Melkor a tragic hero with a love interest and redeemable qualities!
You make some really good points, and it wounds me a bit that we got Rings of Power, instead of a prequel set in Fëanors time, or the war of wrath. I'd love to see a series based around that. How they'd portray Ungolaint is beyond me, but I'd like to see an attempt!
Maybe one day 🤞
That's exactly where I stand with him, a foot in each camp. How much death and destruction could of been avoided if he'd let the Valar reclaim the light from the Silmarils, though we don't know how Morgoth would of reacted to it and what the ramifications would of been there, but I do think that was a mistake on his part.
The Valar are a walking joke to me, Morgotg was released on their say so, with no fucks given to his actions afterwards. Walking. Joke.
I struggled a lot to begin with, it just strayed too far from the lore like you say, I had a lot of 'actuallyyyyy' moments, but I thought I'd stick with it if I could separate it in my head from the rest of the LOTR media, which I managed to.
Switching my brain off from the screaming nerd inside me made me actually enjoy it for ehayot was, and the last few episodes of the second season were, in my opinion, flipping brilliant.
And yeah, Galadriel is an absolute beast just being Galadriel, she doesn't need to be a 'Girl Boss'.
Are you in the 'Fëanor was right' or 'Fëanor really overreacted' camp?
As a fellow Tolkienite, what did you think of Rings of Power?
That's a good shout to be fair, or you could call you colander Boromir, it fits. Love from a fellow Tolkien nerd 🤝
My absolute disdain for baked beans in the tomatoe sauce has put me off other beans, but I can at least stomach them if need be, so we may be OK 👌
I tried first when I was much younger and it just blew my little head off trying to make sense of whati was reading, but I tried again as I got older and it clicked for me so I'm glad I tried again. It's good you get to experience it in both languages though.
As weird as it seems, Fëanor, to me at least, seems the most human character if that makes sense. Like, it seems he has human flaws, his pride and arrogance, while not being unearned, being the best at what he does, I don't know, it just seemed he was more multi layered than the majority if characters, so Ive always enjoyed him.
How about you?