Second-guessing and Misunderstanding Tolkien

Radaghast · Sep 26, 2023

Or 'alleged'.

Squint-eyed Southerner · Sep 26, 2023

Or "Abyssmal"?

Radaghast · Sep 26, 2023

How better would Arda look like if it was made by Eru Himself without Ainur's involvement?

How better indeed 🙄

Radaghast · Sep 26, 2023

Squint-eyed Southerner said:
Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Or "Abyssmal"?

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Abysmal even 😜

Squint-eyed Southerner · Sep 26, 2023

Oops. Not enough coffee. 😄

Radaghast · Sep 26, 2023

That's okay. I just today realized that 'abysmal' is related to 'abyss'. The word 'abyssal' was created for Dungeons and Dragons so maybe I'm not the only one who didn't know that.

Squint-eyed Southerner · Sep 26, 2023

Glorfindel Goldtress · Sep 26, 2023

Radaghast said:
Correct, though that answer seems like it was AI generated too.

More like AU -- Artificial Unintelligence.

Olorgando · Sep 26, 2023

AI, like all software, needs programming.
All programming (my guess) is done by nerds who need to get out of their "caves" and get a lot of fresh air ... 🥴

Vorondil · Sep 26, 2023

Olorgando said:
is done by nerds who need to get out of their "caves" and get a lot of fresh air ... 🥴

We call those things Knuckle-Draggers.

Deimos · Sep 26, 2023

Radaghast said:
Abysmal even 😜

Or asinine ... or, or, or appallingly asinine (which is really, really shockingly asinine)

Olorgando · Sep 26, 2023

Deimos said:
Or asinine ... or, or, or appallingly asinine (which is really, really shockingly asinine)

Hmmmm ... maybe the term once had a lot of A's before the I was reached ... 🤔

... ah, of course, then a data-compression program kicked in and reduced all of those redundant A's to a single one 🤓 ...

... meaning data compression can lead to a loss of information, it seems ... have we unearthed some dark, sinister secret lurking behind "A" "I"? 😬

Vorondil · Sep 27, 2023

Or maybe the 'A' stands for 'aecnósle', which means 'degenerate' in Old English.

Deimos · Sep 27, 2023

Olorgando said:
Hmmmm ... maybe the term once had a lot of A's before the I was reached ... 🤔

... ah, of course, then a data-compression program kicked in and reduced all of those redundant A's to a single one 🤓 ...

... meaning data compression can lead to a loss of information, it seems ... have we unearthed some dark, sinister secret lurking behind "A" "I"? 😬

Daaaaai....sy......Daaaaai.......sy..........giiiive...... meeee .......yooour ................aaansweeer..................dooooooooo..........................

Deimos · Sep 27, 2023

Squint-eyed Southerner said:
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That's a pretty disturbing scene...really. 😬
I watch it in fascinated horror.

Radaghast · Sep 27, 2023

In the movie "The Two Towers" the orcs laugh when Pippin vomits and spits out some liquid stimulant given him. The orcs laugh and say "Can't take his draught!" In Tolkien's time, in South Africa were medicines taken in some sort of liquid suspension?

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Vorondil · Sep 27, 2023

Radaghast said:
In the movie "The Two Towers" the orcs laugh when Pippin vomits and spits out some liquid stimulant given him. The orcs laugh and say "Can't take his draught!" In Tolkien's time, in South Africa were medicines taken in some sort of liquid suspension?

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What?! So now us South Africans have the same level of medicine as orcs? lots of medicine used to be in liquid form! And not only in South Africa, I might just add.

ZehnWaters · Sep 27, 2023

Aethelwulf said:
What?! So now us South Africans have the same level of medicine as orcs? lots of medicine used to be in liquid form! And not only in the South Africa, I might just add.

Amoxicillin for children is in a suspension...and it's delicious! I actually requested it as an adult one time.

Aldarion · Sep 27, 2023

ZehnWaters said:
Amoxicillin for children is in a suspension...and it's delicious! I actually requested it as an adult one time.

I rather enjoyed the sore throat syrups as a child.

Vorondil · Sep 27, 2023

ZehnWaters said:
Amoxicillin for children is in a suspension...and it's delicious!

I have no idea what that is. It sounds like it was invented by the Aztecs.

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In the movie "The Two Towers" the orcs laugh when Pippin vomits and spits out some liquid stimulant given him. The orcs laugh and say "Can't take his draught!" In Tolkien's time, in South Africa were medicines taken in some sort of liquid suspension?

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In the movie "The Two Towers" the orcs laugh when Pippin vomits and spits out some liquid stimulant given him. The orcs laugh and say "Can't take his draught!" In Tolkien's time, in South Africa were medicines taken in some sort of liquid suspension?

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