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Week 18- Two Towers Recap
@Nazgoose Themes: So the two Towers wraps with Sam's failure contrasting against the Company's success in Rohan. And we see how Frodo's trust in Gollum was useful, to a point, and then it fails him when he needs it the most. Contrast with Gimli and Legolas who start the fellowship trusting each other about the same amount as Frodo and Gollum, and by the end here have completed their friendship arc and are willing to go into each other's happy place even if they find it creepy. The...
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Tolkien Stories
Its funny given how popular the books were/are and how popular the movies are, and the fact that movies are still being made. In over 10 years of reading fanfiction I have come across sweet fuck all good LOTR or any form of Tolkien Fanfiction. This might be because Tolkien had so fully developed his world that there was little room to play or change or make it better, the golden age of Potter fanfiction was post OOTP when the story was only half told. But the other night I spent about...
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House Elf Assassins
Hey guys, this is my first post on DLP. I'd introduce myself in the Introduction Archives, but they're closed. Anyway, what I've been thinking for a while now, since I started reading fanfiction is this: why hasn't anyone thought of using house elves as assassins? I mean think about it. They supposedly have some different kind of magic that allows them to apparate through wards, even inside Hogwarts and they are obligated to perform as their master commands them. So, say you are Voldy....
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The Hobbit... 2 movies :(
sauce: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8573948.stm At first this seems to be awesome, especially with Ian McKellen returning as Gandalf. But then... According to studio New Line, the first film will be an adaptation of The Hobbit, the novel Tolkien published before his Lord of the Rings cycle. The second will be an original story focusing on the 60 years between the book and the beginning of the Rings trilogy. They are making things up... with an original...