General Forum Chat Thread (II) [ARCHIVED] • Page 411

Yeah that's part of the plan. Mostly "easier" at this point would be "the family of 12 not being there when I tour it"

 

That sentence was all types of fucked up. It's not cool to lock your kid in their room. I would understand if maybe it was upstairs and if the kid wakes up it can't get out to fall down the stairs or something but it sounds like that's not the case for her at all.

 

I think it was to keep out the other smaller kids but still really fucked up.

 

Catching up...

1) Tickets to Bey weren't that bad. GOOD tickets to Bey are bad. Still a little salty my May 5th show was moved to Oct. 2nd.
2) Fuck spiders. #Shelob

 

Shalom

 

#Ungoliant

 

Coincidentally, if I got tickets I would've had to miss the show anyway haha

 

Almost threw her in, too, but didn't figure most people have read The Silm.

 

I don't know what you guys are saying.

 

Well, that's just shitty luck. Nashville still has tickets, and Houston and Dallas got second shows, I think, if you wanna party in the early fall.

 

Ungoliant is the original evil spider in Middle-Earth. Shelob, the spider that knocks Frodo out and Sam kills, is one of her daughters.

 

I know MC Pee Pants

 

I find it crazy how they waged wars that would literally change the shape of Arda. Like wtf.

 

And when Manwe went to war an entire continent ended up underwater.

But for real, The Fall of Gondolin is one of my favorite stories ever.

 

i like gandalf

 

he's a cool guy

 

My fave is Akallabêth. It ties the super fantastical world of the Silmarillion to the regular LOTR so well.

 

Ireland is basically the Shire, right?

 

Same

 

He likes to party, too.

 

Definitely. Even if The Silm is just tragedy after tragedy, they're all handled so beautifully.

I'm a bit partial to the Ainulindale, as well, as just sheer poetic writing.

 

I love that I regularly have Tolkien conversations on this website.

 

england/wales

 

the balrog and sauron are from irish mythology and mordor was influenced by the burren tbf

 

Gondor was inspired by Venice... which you can't really tell in the movies at all.