Second-guessing and Misunderstanding Tolkien

[Radaghast]

Here's another winner:

Maps of Middle Earth show both East & West very small compared to the continent, even if accounting Harad & Rhun. Was the War of the Ring a small event? What are the remaining regions (Edelbelorn, Shernvasion, Bardoradon, Aekunglaid)?

Where'd this person get those names, I wonder? Did they make them up? 🤔
Anyone have any insight?

 

[Olorgando]

In Lord of the Rings, couldn't the Eagles fly the Fellowship to Rhun or Khand to the east or south of Mordor or they could go on horseback and then everyone can sneak in from those directions unnoticed easily?

😑

I refuse to comment on "Eagle Airlines" anymore.
As to terrestrial travel, it should be known that Hobbits are seriously short-legged. Same goes for ponies they can ride. So let's increase the distance they have to travel (everything additional being through enemy territory) five times? There was a certain urgency to getting the job done ... 🙄😠😡🤬

 

[Ugluk]

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That's a new variant on the Eagles for sure!

Mind you when people say "The Eagles are coming!" I usually think of these.....

 

[Radaghast]

Was there something special about Rings in Tolkien? Could Sauron have created the One Bracelet instead?

😆

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Funny. That question's been discussed here too, BTW.

https://thetolkien.forum/threads/the-nine-and-the-seven.30757/#post-568079

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

OK, I wouldn't normally post a movie discussion here, and I hope you don't mind, Radaghast, but one or two of the "answers" here conflate book and movies, something I find particularly infuriating:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/13swepc

 

[Radaghast]

Don't mind at all. Indeed, Peter Jackson is the number one offender when it comes to misunderstanding Tolkien, and the number one reason others do as well.

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

😆

I read a fanfiction a while back that showed how Sauron developed his techniques to make the one ring and the nine,he used a dragon's blood(that was promised to him by the dragon herself,and she was fed the blood of Morgoth so she was really powerful). He first made collars,then changed them to bracelets,and the author has yet to update the next part (which involves Eregion and Annatar) so I'll tell you guys later about what happened 😁

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I don't get it. 🤔

A quote by Samwise Gamgee

I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full o...

www.goodreads.com

By rights, should this be in "Good Reads" -- at all?

 

[Radaghast]

Ugh 🤢 Why isn't there a dislike or comment button? 🙄

And why the heck is there a comment button under each person who liked the quote? 🤨

 

[Ent]

Ugh 🤢 Why isn't there a dislike or comment button? 🙄

And why the heck is there a comment button under each person who liked the quote? 🤨

Perhaps you could put your questions in "Entmoot" for the things you'd like to see... or understand the 'why' of. Admins will follow those up from there....

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I believe Radaghast is referring to the "Good Reads" site.

 

[Ent]

Oh. Well, Ent is glad he's referring to something. 😁 Maybe they have a "Good Readsmoot".

 

[Radaghast]

If Sauron is a master of the smithwork arts, why didn't he use the Mithril stolen from Moria to craft better armor for his forces and champions?
https://www.quora.com/If-Sauron-is-...aft-better-armor-for-his-forces-and-champions

Are people really this clueless? 🤔

 

[Radaghast]

If orcs in the fantasy genre have lower fangs, why didn't orcs in Tolkien novels have low fangs as well?

Eru have mercy on us all...

 

[Ent]

Are people really this clueless?

This is a rhetorical question, correct?

 

[Ent]

Eru have mercy on us all...

The post this refers to is the perfect answer to your rhetorical question..!!

 

[Olorgando]

This reminds me of a post (perhaps an older one) where someone overheard some people seriously below the age of Hobbit majority, having seen PJ's films, are supposed to have exclaimed in a bookstore "Oh look, they've done a novelization of the films already!"
It's stuff like this that makes me think "Why, oh why did Shoemaker–Levy 9 miss us?", or "Aren't Yellowstone, the Phlegraean Fields and Toba all overdue?"

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Even worse... I've heard the:

"So is The Lord of the Rings just a sequel to the Rings of Power?"

 

[Vorondil]

These dumb questions remind you why the flamethrower was invented.