my first waterfalls [Lighting] [Composition]

grainassault · 28 days

Colleen McCullough didn't make it all up. She just filled in the gaps, so to speak.

Right.

It's what sparked my interest in Ancient Roman history, and history in general.

I'm always amazed by how many people say this. I've heard history majors and phd's say the series kicked off their love affairs with history.

I wish they made a tv series out of it. Something of the quality of HBO's Rome but with MoR plot and details.

grainassault · 28 days

I love the Masters of Rome series - it's packed with roman cultural, military, political, social details - but only the last three books (Caesar, The October Horse, Antony and Cleopatra) deal with the aftermath of the rubicon crossing. And it's fiction.

Anonymous_Mononymous · 2 months

I do. I hunt for gandalf references (of which there are like three) and can read about Feanor any number of times.

travelinghobbit · 2 months

I LOVE THAT FOX.

It suggests there are all kinds of things still untold in middle earth.

travelinghobbit · 2 months

| breaking of the fourth wall

TIL

travelinghobbit · 2 months

What is most compelling to me, is the sense that we've been thrown into a world that has history and will continue to exist whether or not we care to read the rest of the book.

Just what I felt and never could put into words. It's there in lotr and silmarillion too. When I first read lotr the initial parts were so confusing because I wasn't sure if hobbits were real or not, and I spent some time hunting for evidence.

travelinghobbit · 2 months

I always liked the part about the books about things they already know

Here you go: "The genealogical trees at the end of the Red Book of Westmarch are a small book in themselves, and all but Hobbits would find them exceedingly dull. Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate: they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions."

It's from the "Concerning Hobbits" part of LOTR. It's one of my favorite bits too, and I always read it with a wide grin.

DontCountToday · 2 months

You are a good friend.

FromNormalToFelon · 2 months

As a non-american living in the US, I can tell you the world is bigger than the US. Would you want to try living in some other countries to see what it's like?

That said, I know little about the US laws but I suspect that once you are past the automated employment screening processes and get to the interview stage, very few people would mind your actual felony if you are upfront about it.

Good luck to you.

captainkaba · 3 months

The answers here are excellent. However we shouldn't forget that Feanor was pretty awesome and built stuff. I'd say both the palantirs and the silmarills were advanced scientific tools. Middle-earth magic is probably science too.

GettingOnTrack · 3 months

The exact same thing happened to me today at w4d3! The first 5 minute run was a breeze and I couldn't believe it at all. Only four days ago I thought I was dying after the last 5 minute run. :) This program is amazing, isn't it?

Keep going and do update your flair! I can't wait to do that after every run. :) Good luck!

hzay · 3 months

You mean you have one and others shouldn't, or that you don't have one and others should?

Slapbox · 3 months

What don't you like about putler?

tanhan27 · 4 months

You might want to check out this recent thread - http://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/o0384/i_never_understood_why_does_gandalf_chose_bilbo/.

blacxthroat · 4 months

Wow. I thought Elves origin is bad enough. I found it difficult to wrap my mind around some kind of a torture or mutation that would make those awesome guys become orcs.

Do you mind giving some more detail on the Maia origin theory? Maybe a quote? I'm really interested in this. Thanks!

superdupergirl · 4 months

If I were obese and you did this to me, I'd hate you with every last pound in me. I wouldn't spend any of my time thinking about all those positive things and instead plot against this whole strategy of yours.

chrmaury · 4 months

Yes. The Maiar were of the same "kind" as the Valar, and the Valar had no say over issues of life and death of the Maiar. So it is generally assumed that Eru sent Gandalf back.

chrmaury · 4 months

No sorry I didn't mean that. "The downfall of numenor" is the event in which Eru sank Numenor and broke up Arda, after Manwe "called upon him" because Ar-Pharazôn landed in Valinor violating the rules.

I meant that Eru basically sank Numenor and killed most of its inhabitants and that's pretty direct intervention not commonly seen in Tolkien mythology.

chrmaury · 4 months

Edit: Sorry, I ended up writing a novel before this edit. It's pretty clearly stated that the Valar sent the Istari, but everything that the Valar did was done with Manwe's consent, and whenever Manwe was in doubt, it looks like he consulted with Eru. I wouldn't count anything the Valar did as "intervention by Eru".

hzay

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