8 thoughts on “Tweet of the Day, They Finally Broke Me edition.”
Gandalf is obviously a corruption of the western words for Grey-bearded-meddler and the dwarvish for hobo. Then the hobbits mashed them together over second breakfast before smoking a prodigious amounts of pipeweed.
:narrowed eyes:
Okay, so I just looked it up and it means “staffed elf” or “elf with a wand”. I still think “dirty, meddling hobo” needs to be one of his appelations.
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Which all says that the people running RoP are complete morons.
It is, kind of. His habit of showing up just before the manure hits the oscillating unit has gotten him named ‘Stormcrow’ among Men, and then there’s bit from Wormtongue:
“Such is the hour in which this wanderer chooses to return. Why indeed should we welcome you, Master Stormcrow? La´thspell I name you, Ill-news; and ill news is an ill guest they say.”
Many names and many turns of the world have the istari.
Elves … no.
The grey becoming the white was, as with much of the istari lore, a great and terrible thing.
Mew
p.s. don’t mention the balrog, it will just confuse them
You have a much, much higher tolerance for nonsense than I do. I tried to watch season 2. I said to myself, “self, keep an open mind.” And then Sauron said “Let my people go.” Or maybe it was some other character channeling Cecil B. DeMille. That was it. My open mind closed. My already tenuous suspension of disbelief collapsed like the White House in a Roland Emmerich movie. Even the hint of comparison between Sauron and Moses was enough to convince me that the showrunners hate Tolkien, hate me, hate Western Civilization, and probably don’t feel all that great about themselves either.
Screw those guys.
Honestly, having the big bad “free” the orcs by leading them out of the civilization that he has spent a generation poisoning against them (and them against), and then having most of them die as he callously feeds them on bad rations and bitter water in the desert would be an interesting way to go.
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The difference is that Moses took slaves out of Egypt and then had to spend 40 years taking the Egypt and slavery out of the people. Sauron will take men and orcs out of Numenor and then spend 40 years shoving slavery and brutality into them.
Much of the problem is the Tolkien Estate clearly hates living in the shadow of their grandfather.
Simon was briefly disinherited for his silliness, and by the look of things it should have stayed that way.
Gandalf is obviously a corruption of the western words for Grey-bearded-meddler and the dwarvish for hobo. Then the hobbits mashed them together over second breakfast before smoking a prodigious amounts of pipeweed.
:narrowed eyes:
Okay, so I just looked it up and it means “staffed elf” or “elf with a wand”. I still think “dirty, meddling hobo” needs to be one of his appelations.
.
Which all says that the people running RoP are complete morons.
It is, kind of. His habit of showing up just before the manure hits the oscillating unit has gotten him named ‘Stormcrow’ among Men, and then there’s bit from Wormtongue:
“Such is the hour in which this wanderer chooses to return. Why indeed should we welcome you, Master Stormcrow? La´thspell I name you, Ill-news; and ill news is an ill guest they say.”
Many names and many turns of the world have the istari.
Elves … no.
The grey becoming the white was, as with much of the istari lore, a great and terrible thing.
Mew
p.s. don’t mention the balrog, it will just confuse them
You have a much, much higher tolerance for nonsense than I do. I tried to watch season 2. I said to myself, “self, keep an open mind.” And then Sauron said “Let my people go.” Or maybe it was some other character channeling Cecil B. DeMille. That was it. My open mind closed. My already tenuous suspension of disbelief collapsed like the White House in a Roland Emmerich movie. Even the hint of comparison between Sauron and Moses was enough to convince me that the showrunners hate Tolkien, hate me, hate Western Civilization, and probably don’t feel all that great about themselves either.
Screw those guys.
Honestly, having the big bad “free” the orcs by leading them out of the civilization that he has spent a generation poisoning against them (and them against), and then having most of them die as he callously feeds them on bad rations and bitter water in the desert would be an interesting way to go.
.
The difference is that Moses took slaves out of Egypt and then had to spend 40 years taking the Egypt and slavery out of the people. Sauron will take men and orcs out of Numenor and then spend 40 years shoving slavery and brutality into them.
Much of the problem is the Tolkien Estate clearly hates living in the shadow of their grandfather.
Simon was briefly disinherited for his silliness, and by the look of things it should have stayed that way.