• FiskFisk33@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Well…

    Since they didn’t get trapped in the barrow downs (and subsequently saved by Tom) they didn’t find the barrow swords, specifically enchanted to be effective against the which witch King.

    When merry stabs the which witch king therefore nothing should happen.

    literally unwatchable.

    • RuBisCO@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling!
      Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling.
      Down along under Hill, shining in the sunlight,
      Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight,
      There my pretty lady is, River-woman’s daughter,
      Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water.
      Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing
      Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing?
      Hey! Come merry dol! Derry dol! and merry-o,
      Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o!
      Poor old Willow-man, you tuck your roots away!
      Tom’s in a hurry now. Evening will follow day.
      Tom’s going home again water-lilies bringing.
      Hey! Come derry dol! Can you hear me singing?

        • PineRune@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, MTG took some liberties when creating the art for the LOTR characters. I think a lot of people criticized them for being too “woke” in this set.

          • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I think a lot of people criticized them for being too woke in this set.

            I think a lot of peoples’ opinions aren’t worth considering. Namely, anyone that uses woke or dei as an epithet.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m sure the Tolkien nerds can convince Amazon to make an entire series about Tom.

    I mean it can’t be much worse than Rings of fucking Power…

  • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I read the books twice. I will never get those hours slogging through Toms chapters back and he was entirely irrelevant to the plot.

    It was like a fever dream that could have been written off as a mass hallucination of the hobbits after Merry and Pippin share some weed they stole from Gandalf.

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I will never get those hours slogging through Toms chapters back

      And they’re so near the start of the book too, before anything really interesting happens. I nearly stopped reading there. (I didn’t stop only because I had enjoyed The Hobbit so much.)

    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Me reading all of Bran’s chapters in ASOIAF. On rereads I literally just skip his chapters it’s so liberating. I just pretend he died when Jamie pushed him out of the tower and the story plays put exactly the same. (Also I haven’t watched the show yet no spoilers pls)

      • grissino@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        When you watch the show, stop after season 5 and pretend it was cancelled. You will be much happier in life this way. And skip the commentary halfway through season 5 as well…

  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I fucking hated the Tom Bombadil character, he’s an insufferable annoying twat with all his bullshit singing, I’m so happy he wasn’t in the movies.

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    He really isnt, outside the plot point of where the dagger that killed the witch king came from.

    The Scouring of the Shire, on the other hand…

  • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Wasn’t his purpose to give the readers a break and to give Gandalf enough time to do a misadventure?

    • Seleni@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      No, his purpose was to show there was a wider world and a deeper history to Middle-Earth than we got to see in the books. Tolkien was dropping hints like that all over the story; Tom was just the biggest one.

      It also was the way Merry got his special wraith-killing sword, and it gave a bit of a glimpse into the limitations of the powers of the ring, foreshadowing Sam’s ability to give it up freely.