Second-guessing and Misunderstanding Tolkien

ZehnWaters · Sep 27, 2023

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

"Amoxicillin is a penicillin antibiotic. It is used to treat bacterial infections, such as chest infections (including pneumonia) and dental abscesses." The children's version was flavoured to taste like bubblegum.

Vorondil · Sep 27, 2023

ZehnWaters said:
"Amoxicillin is a penicillin antibiotic. It is used to treat bacterial infections, such as chest infections (including pneumonia) and dental abscesses." The children's version was flavoured to taste like bubblegum.

I'm glad to say that I've never had to have that. Though I have had to have a liquid antibiotic (and no, I wasn't given it by an Uruk-Hai).

Squint-eyed Southerner · Sep 27, 2023

Aethelwulf said:
. It sounds like it was invented by the Aztecs.

No -- but they did invent the vacation.

Edit: It occurs to me that's an obscure, creaky reference by now. It's at about the one minute mark here:

Radaghast · Sep 27, 2023

Is it still possible to go to the place where Gandalf and Balrog fought in, namely under the World Khazadum? Could there be Ungoliant in there?

Glorfindel Goldtress · Sep 27, 2023

Radaghast said:
Is it still possible to go to the place where Gandalf and Balrog fought in, namely under the World Khazadum? Could there be Ungoliant in there?

Tour of New Zealand's Caradhras, coming right up! And, how on Earth did they relate Ungoliant to this? Yes, let's go find a giant spider who consumed herself...

Radaghast · Sep 27, 2023

How did Gandalf react when Thrain told him that no one must enter Erebor?

AI question, maybe? Sadly no.

Olorgando · Sep 27, 2023

Radaghast said:
AI question, maybe? Sadly no.

Maybe the "I" really stands for illiteracy ...

Glorfindel Goldtress · Sep 27, 2023

Olorgando said:
Maybe the "I" really stands for illiteracy ...

In this case, it would be the actual person who was illiterate, no?

Olorgando · Sep 27, 2023

Glorfindel Goldtress said:
In this case, it would be the actual person who was illiterate, no?

Not technically, as that person (if it is one) was able to post - unless, of course, they had a ghost-writer they dictated to.
But babbling about a book (or anything else written) without having read the original is a secondary form of illiteracy for me.
I know from having read several of JRRT's works in the original and in German translation; at the very least fine points get lost in translation.
As everyone else, I am illiterate about works written in a language I can't read. Very much so in scripts that are entirely different from Latin letters.
But simply not having read a book I could, as the question implies, is another form of illiteracy. And "The Hobbit" isn't Relativity or Quantum Theory. 🙄

Glorfindel Goldtress · Sep 27, 2023

Olorgando said:
But simply not having read a book I could, as the question implies, is another form of illiteracy. And "The Hobbit" isn't Relativity or Quantum Theory.

Precisely! 😅

Glorfindel Goldtress · Sep 27, 2023

Hmmm, I wonder. I just wonder...
Why did Gandalf drop down after the Balrog?
When Gandalf fought the Balrog, why did he fall into the abyss instead of simply flying back up?

Radaghast · Sep 27, 2023

I think the question is asking about the Balrog. If so, the question is poorly phrased.

Squint-eyed Southerner · Sep 27, 2023

Radaghast said:
I think the question is asking about the Balrog.

Given some of the things that have appeared here so far, I wouldn't be too sure . . .

Olorgando · Sep 27, 2023

Glorfindel Goldtress said:
Hmmm, I wonder. I just wonder...
Why did Gandalf drop down after the Balrog?
When Gandalf fought the Balrog, why did he fall into the abyss instead of simply flying back up?

1) it's all Isaac Newton's fault ...
2) looks like the big B baddie didn't have wings ... 😛

Squint-eyed Southerner · Sep 27, 2023

Gandalf certiainly didn't. 😄

Glorfindel Goldtress · Sep 27, 2023

Squint-eyed Southerner said:
Gandalf certiainly didn't. 😄

Remember that moth?... Yeah.

Radaghast · Sep 27, 2023

Imagine Morgoth contacts Tolkien directly through the book to write extra letters for his favor so he may escape the Void. How would Tolkien react to that request?

Vorondil · Sep 28, 2023

Radaghast said:
Imagine Morgoth contacts Tolkien directly through the book to write extra letters for his favor so he may escape the Void. How would Tolkien react to that request?
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Radaghast · Sep 29, 2023

What characters of Tolkien's could defeat Superman?

Squint-eyed Southerner · Sep 29, 2023

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Is it still possible to go to the place where Gandalf and Balrog fought in, namely under the World Khazadum? Could there be Ungoliant in there?

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Is it still possible to go to the place where Gandalf and Balrog fought in, namely under the World Khazadum? Could there be Ungoliant in there?

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How did Gandalf react when Thrain told him that no one must enter Erebor?

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Resident Curmudgeon Award by Hal :-)

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What characters of Tolkien's could defeat Superman?

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