Pet peeves: The return (Part 3)

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Eru Iluvatar, Melkor, Manwe, Ulmo, … … …

…Feanor, Fingolfin, Finarfin, Thingol, Melian, Luthien, Maedhros, Maglor …

… Beren, Hurin, Huor, Turin, Tuor who names their kids like that anyway … Nienor Niniel, Idril, Dior Eluchil, Earendil, Elwing, Elrond, Elros, like a zillion kings of Numenor whose names nobody remembers anyway, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrimbor, Sauron, Gil-galad, Elendil and his sons Isildur and Anarion.

In the beginning, there were the Quendi, who awakened at Lake Cuivienen and later split into the Eldar, who welcomed the Valar’s call to travel to Valinor, and the Avari, who refused…

…(babble babble babble)…

…and so the Eldar were split into the Vaniar, led by Ingwe, the Noldor, led by Finwe, and the Teleri, led by Elwe. Except the latter was wooed by the Maia Melian and decided to stay in Middle-earth, so his portion of the Teleri stayed with him and became known as the Sindar, while his brother Olwe took the remaining Teleri…

…(babble babble babble)…

…and so the Noldor who returned to Middle-earth were split into the Houses of Feanor, Fingolfin, and Finarfin, after the three sons of Finwe, because of…

…(babble babble babble)…

…and then the remains of the Sindar and the Nandor lived together under Celeborn and Galadriel’s — Hey, you still listening? No sleeping!

Bunch of self-important elven pricks telling those icky mortals to get off their lawn because of their icky mortal cooties.

Also there was this one really self-important craftsman-price who forged the first weapons in Valinor and then massacred a bunch of sailor-elves who somehow fought back with weapons that they had because… uh… If you find an answer to this one, let me know.

Tolkien was intending to write a more lighthearted sequel to The Hobbit than the LOTR we eventually got, and decided to leave one of the lighthearted characters in because why the heck not. He wrote a lot of LOTR by the seat of his pants, anyway.

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Massive Jerk and A-level creep, as just a sidenote!

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They’re not incredibly lore accurate but they’re incredibly fun.

If you like games that have solid gameplay but a less than good story (you’re on the WoW forums so it’s obvious you do) then the games are worth a play, especially on sale. The nemesis system is really cool.

Honestly I don’t care too much about LOTR so none of the errors really bothered me. I can read it, enjoy it and appreciate it for being a fantasy cornerstone but I seldom look for more.

My relationship with Tolkien’s work is weird and I can’t help but associate it with oddball 20-29 year old amateur writers who couldn’t write a check but swear they’re the next Tolkien.

Solid books overall though. Some of the best fantasy prose out there! Name of The Wind has great prose but Kingkiller is an overwhelmingly reddity series that I struggle to recommend.

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This is the one thing that’s seemed interesting about it for me. It seems like a system that can be quite enjoyable to play around with!

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Sarcastically used because that is all i am to him!

Watching one of those X things that make you Y videos (in this case terrible rewards in video games) and watching them trying to deal with Kalameet is making me wince.

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Diesel price continues to climb…

Financial position has reached a point where I have to seriously accept any potential job offer just to not get on the fast track to financial ruination. I’m glad my car came from it’s inspection mostly in an ideal state and I paid off fully my insurances until next year.

Fuel though… Gonna have to consider taking train or car+bike.

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Typical inn shenanigans or a canon friendly springboard to adventrous expeditions with your own fellowship?

…

Go on?

“Sir, I’m a gigantic nerd of embarrassing proportions for my age and I’ve the most compelling urge to laugh at you and push you into a locker.”

The game where you dom orcs in public?

Setting a trend to last ages in all fiction.

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This character now looks like all the blood elf paladin posters, but silver. I depress myself more.

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From what I saw myself and also heard, it is mostly the first. But less…creepy about it. Very rarely it ever evolves from going out on expeditions, but it’s just people larping going down to the pub and do social rp.

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I used to love going to the Pony on my hobbit.
Have a smoke, talk about food, play my lute (I was a minstrel).

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The atmosphere of the pony is great.

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Perfectly valid.

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Plus /smoke was a great emote.

I tried going back a couple of years ago, but I just got confused. Everything related to classes seemed to have changed.

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Thematically, it also generally fits. Since that is what most people in Middle-earth would do.

Adventuring parties are not that common compared to something like Azeroth. Most people will just live their lives.

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Probably doesn’t help that the game has changed company atleast three times by now. Initially it was worked on by Sierra, then vivendi took the reigns and made the game under Turbine.

In its current status its owned by Daybreak, and they have done alot to improve the game honestly. The new graphic update was under Daybreak, trimming some stuff, making all base expansions up until Helm’s Deep free for all players(even f2p).

They have also fixed the store alot and improved f2p user experience. The old Turbine store was pretty predatory for its time.

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They updated the graphics?
Might download it and actually finish Moria.
Need something different to do.

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Adventurers are very much madcaps dedicating their lives to fighting hostile wildlife that the central authority and official constabulary would in a society not lazily reliant on murderhobos to slay loitering snakewomen, rescue charmed husbands and unclog yonder stream of their bones.

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Like 2 years ago they released updated HD graphics. And they look…pretty good.

Let me find an example.

Bottom is with the new graphic system.

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The elf looks less constipated.

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Eh, I’ll download it
I can definitely remember my login.
My highest level char was a dwarf something.
I remember my Rohirrim captain and wanting a dwarf banner carrier.

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