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Old 03-07-2018, 05:16 PM
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Tolkien only cared about his damn Hobbits. He didn't develop the other characters all that well.
He wasn't writing the sort of fiction in which characters need to be developed well. It wasn't about the characters. He wasn't writing a mainstream novel. It was about the setting, the atmosphere, the archetypes, the saga and the struggle. And he most definitely did care about characters such as Aragorn.
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Ugh, Red Sonja. Just an excuse to give Brigitte Nielsen a movie of her own. It was horrible, and a waste of Sandahl Bergman.
They even managed to get a bad performance out of Sandahl Bergman, who was so good in Conan. They should have given her the lead role.
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I never understood what's to like about Hobbits
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My favorite Tolkien book is the Silmarillion, which has hardly any hobbit presence.
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Old 03-08-2018, 03:29 PM
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does that have a storyline or just an anthology?
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It has a storyline, but it's basically the mythological history of Middle Earth laid out as a big saga.
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Old 03-08-2018, 05:26 PM
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Yeah, the Silmarillion is Tolkein's attempt to create a history and mythology for Middle Earth the way Robert E. Howard did for the Hyborian Age in his Conan books. Howard was better, though.

Well, I think Tolkien started to care about Aragorn more as his story progressed, sum1, but I still think he didn't develop the Aragorn/Arwen story very well, which is why he later wrote those appendices for them for LOTR.
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No, Tolkien's Silmarillion was better. Howard was better at other things. Howard's history and mythology of the Hyborian Age was pathetic and unconvincing. His talent lay more in the area of creating vivid, emotionally charged adventures, which were brilliant in a very different way from Tolkien's work. Tolkien's Silmarillion was a genius work of creating a mythology and history for an invented setting. He perfectly adapted the style of ancient and medieval literature and brilliantly told a tale of glories and tragedies and time passing. The Silmarillion was by far his best work. It helped that it had almost no ewoks. I mean Hobbits.

Tolkien cared about Aragorn from the beginning. Aragorn represented a part of his saga that predated his invention of Hobbits. The reason he didn't "develop" Aragorn and Arwen well was because he came from a school of writing that didn't believe in developing such things. He was drawing on mediveal literary models, not modern ones.
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Old 03-08-2018, 07:30 PM
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Tolkien cared about Aragorn from the beginning. Aragorn represented a part of his saga that predated his invention of Hobbits. The reason he didn't "develop" Aragorn and Arwen well was because he came from a school of writing that didn't believe in developing such things. He was drawing on mediveal literary models, not modern ones.
I agree with that assessment. And did you just compare the Hobbits to Ewoks?


Well, I only prefer Howard because his Hyborian age stories seemed a lot more serious and edgy, especially in the Conan comics I read.
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Read the actual Howard stories. Don't just go by the comics. And Tolkien was plenty serious, though not exactly edgy.

Ewoks are furry Hobbits.
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I agree with you about Ewoks and Hobbits.

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'what do dragons eat anyway' omg sassy Sansa!
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What do dragons eat? Well, I think that's obvious.
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Better question: What do dragons crap?
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Old 04-17-2019, 10:18 AM
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they don't seem to eat the bones lately so not that
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What, they spit the bones out like snakes?
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