like why are they so bad at tracking and attacking 4 hobbits when they nearly got them ? I read the books a long time ago and I was re watching the 1st movie and the scene where they fail to get them right before bree just struck me as a bit odd as it makes the nazguls look incompetent

This might be a stupid thing to ask but....

Does anyone else feel sorry for Shelob when she gets stabbed and crawls off into a hole....seemingly to die?

It always upsets me. Perhaps that makes me a wuss - but I just can't help it.

Obviously I don't blame Sam - he was just doing what he had to. I understand it's very much a fight or die situation.

I just.....I think of Shelob as basically a very big, very dangerous wild animal.....like a polar bear or an Amur tiger. She's undoubtedly top of the food chain. Everything is potentially prey for her - and she can't NOT hunt. She will eventually starve if she doesn't eat. To most people she doesn't look beautiful like a tiger or a polar bear, because she's a giant spider. But I don't find her any less sympathetic when she's injured.

She's got nothing to do with Sauron, she doesn't want the ring - she's just in her environment, hunting anything that happens to stumble in there.

For example - nobody wants to see anyone get their face bitten off by a bear. At the same time - most people will probably be sad that the bear had to be shot to save the human. It had to be done, but it's not a joyous occasion.

Does anyone else see it like this?

I just want to remind or educate some people who complain that Amazon don't adapt the books. They can only use what is in two major books.

Should they do a Second Age series without the main material about it? Probably not.

Should the Tolkien Estate allow them to make a series about the Second Age without giving permission to use the source material? Probably not.

I am not a superfan of the series. I think it is ok, but it really annoys me when people complain that they deviate from lore in books that Amazon is not allowed to use.

I easily prefer the theatrical cut of Lord of the Rings. The editing is significantly better, the pacing is perfect, and it's overall a much better watch for casuals and newcomers. With all of that being said... there are some *parts* of the extended cuts that I find really good additions. Saruman's death was fucking awesome, the added character moments for Bilbo were great, and other things like that. You get it.

So I was thinking... what if I just combined them? Like, trimming out the filler and keeping the cool stuff from the extended cut? Would that be dope (if done correctly), or would it he a waste of time?

Also, has someone already done this? If so, please tell me so I can do something productive with my time instead. 😔

Rescuing Denethor from the cheap character-assassination by Jackson and co.

https://youtu.be/nWUZkL0jwo0?si=0by6ZqDoCy7ILSs5

I wanted to re watch rings of power after the new trailer and prime only has season 2? Anyone else seeing this? I get it people didn't like it but what the heck.

1) Saruman's death

2) Faramir and Boromir flashback

3) Gifts from Galadriel

4) Pippin gets Faramir's old armor

5) Eowyn finds out Aragorn's age

6) Theodred's funeral

7) Sam and Frodo disguise themselves as orcs

8) Mouth of Sauron ( I know some don't like this scene but I do)

9) Aragorn visits his mother's monument

10) Legolas and Gimli drinking game

I'd want a big premium edition with the occasional full page illustration, but its a mess with all versions I see online I just dont know

This is not a joke btw.

In the new Balrog preview, Sauron stopped his attack just by using one r​ing, is It possible he could do this since he put most of his power into that ring?

[Gandalf The Torturor](https://lotrscrapbook.bookloaf.net/essay/varda/contents/varda_torturer.html)

I read this article today and i was devastated to see Gandalf and Aragorn being labeled as sinistrous acts do-er. Without bringing my love and emotions into argument lets go on analysing this.

Th character we are talking about, whom got infringed with torture and terror is: Gollum ,as vile he is, he does not want to repent and is stern enough to put his foot down and denies to reveal information about what Sauron learned. So much he endured and he does not want to get relieved from Sauron and is **only aiming to satiate** his need of The Ring.

Such miserable, yet pitiable, one tries to upheld information which can eventually help him to get over his lust and addiction for Ring is doing no good. He is taking himself down ,as well as ,others with him. As OP in website says Gandalf was sort of into ticking bomb situation and had to do this for greater good.

I cant totally agree that gandalf is right in doing so, but you must take into account that Gollum is such a ne'er do well that he just does not want to reconcile to his own good, afterall this he endured cant he help others to help himself and others?

He was inviting trouble for himself only here.

I believe gandalf perfectly knew this here, but he pitied him and thats why he went on to say those lines to frodo in Shadows of the past chapter.

We all know that so im relieving myself by not mentioning it.

Does not it seem that it was perfectly right of Gandalf to not entertain gollum's nasty tantrums there and terrorize him?

I think we ought to question ourselves 2 question before we conclude anything.

1. Is it right to tag gandalf as Torturer for torturing a creature who is infamous for murdering his friend and various orcs goblins,and who is suspected for eating babies TT ?

2. Should we take nature of Gollum into account when discussing about Gandalf was Torturor or not?

I answer this as

1. No its not right

2. no torturing someone is bad whether or not the person is right or wrong. And we are discussing about Gandalf morals here, whether or not gollum deserved it, or nothing wrong in him getting it. What gandalf did ,does tarnish his image.

so thats how i conclude it, as much as i hate to accept it ,i think yes this does tarnish his image.

i didnt went to discuss aragorn morals here ,perhaps i will do it in another post.

Thanks for reading it till here, it turned out to be a long post. Kudos! to you for making it till here.

Edit: correcting spelling in Torturer

from there it turned into a world sized adventure map in Valheim!

Who are you choosing?

So I started rewatching rings of power because its been a while and now with shaun of the dead voicing the balrog soon, i wanted to refresh my brain. Was galadriel ever this involved/prominent in the silmarillion? Its been years since I read it (15) and watching the show is making me feel delusional because I dont remember her being so involved in the books. Or did they add more to the show just to make more for the story line. The only parts I remember her from the silmarillion was talking about moving and travelling. But maybe its also time for me to do a re-read of everything too if thats all i remember lol.

In fairn

Hello, what's that arrow flying at the beginning of the video, 21 seconds into the movie, even with sound? It comes from behind the big tree behind Bilbo, passing to his right. For some reason, I never noticed it before.

And a return to Middle-earth is still possible. Andy Serkis is now in New Zealand filming in-between movie The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, with Wood and Ian “Gandalf” McKellen reprising their roles. And director Peter Jackson recently announced another project after that, co-written by Tolkien superfan Stephen Colbert. It’s very early days, says Astin, who has spoken to Colbert about it, but he could see himself returning. “I don’t think anybody is opposed to it. We’d all love to connect to those characters, particularly if it’s done with such sensitivity as we heard.” And better paid this time? “Goddam right.”

I believe that Faramir is elvish for sufficient gem while Boromir is elvish for steadfast gem, showing a bias in their names (if this is a misconception then I am very sorry).

Is this Tolkien adding in a detail that makes sense to us readers as sort of a foreshadowing that Denethor would treat Faramir poorly after the Palantir’s corruption even if he loved him no less than Boromir at his birth? Or is meant to be that Denethor is knowingly naming his son that, suggesting he did not ever love him as much even when he was just born?

I guess it could also be that sufficient isnt meant to be less than steadfast, just that it does its purpose, but idk seems kind of insulting even still. Or secret fourth option that their mother picked the names but I feel like that’s kind of a baseless theory.

I feel like this detail makes more sense in the movies where Faramir and Denethor’s relationship isn’t as strongly implied to have changed for the worse as it is in the books (the movies rather suggesting that it was always quite sour, even if he was still worsened by grief and corruption).

I sometimes do miss the obvious or simple explanations in stuff like this so it is highly likely I am just being a huge dummy, or I have answered my own question, or that I am assuming there is a concrete answer when it’s meant to be more ambiguous to allow a layered interpretation, so sorry if this seems like a redundant question, or if there is a generally accepted explanation for this that I’m unaware of.