Second-guessing and Misunderstanding Tolkien

[Radaghast]

Good point. They say there are no stupid questions, but...

I've always wondered who "they" are...

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Radaghast]

LOL wut?

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

The obvious followup question would be "Why couldn't they just fly Tom Bombadil to Mordor?"

Goldberry has wings

 

[Radaghast]

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

LOL wut?

You know -- them.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

I've always wondered who "they" are...

Ah, yes... the mysterious they.

It is those people...

 

[Radaghast]

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Sure.. Something like that...

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Sure.. Something like that...

Yet also not quite.

 

[Olorgando]

Good point. They say there are no stupid questions, but...

"They" are definitely wrong, very very wrong. 🤨

 

[Ent]

"They" are definitely wrong, very very wrong. 🤨

Though I hesitate to say it... can one really name the 'question' as being 'stupid' ?
Or - (failing in my self-restraint here) - must one look to its source - its originator. (GASP....!! Did I say that?)

 

[Olorgando]

There's no separating question and originator. More often than asking stupid questions, we (and with this I mean all of humanity from time immemorial, and very likely for any foreseeable future) do stupid things. Seems to be part of our nature. It is in the asking of a question, or in the doing of something, that we are at that time stupid. We might be able to go for longer times before and after without being so, but we all have these "mental hiccups" every once in a while.

 

[Ent]

that we are at that time stupid.

A fine analysis. And one can suppose that many of the 'seemingly' stupid are rather from ignorance instead.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Right - they're just the Nazgul, aren't they?

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Right - they're just the Nazgul, aren't they?

Yup, charming gentleman here to give a little poke with their fancy metal sticks

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Yup, charming gentleman here to give a little poke with their fancy metal sticks

Metal sticks?! Ah, the Morgul blades - don't want to come in contact with one of those! They e'en prevent you from going to the Halls of Mandos - since it's an "in limbo" state of being undead.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

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I see explosions...and destructions...and Doom...many will fall upon that day, in that realm...