04-24-2002, 10:05 PM | #21 | |
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Thank you Eruviel, for your unwavering faith in practicality.
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It is my personal opinion that if Tolkien were here he would be marveling at the wonders of electronic typewriters and trying to figure what exactly an online bulletin board is, and how to use it. So poo on you.
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04-25-2002, 02:54 AM | #22 |
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You are welcome, o Knowledgable One. *sniff* It helps to think that way. . .although I know I am certainly not living in the West. . .
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04-25-2002, 06:23 PM | #23 |
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You traitor, Eruviel!!!!
Once the great professor got past all the technology differences, he'd be praising us for using our imaginations, after all, if he hadn't used his then there would be nothing ME related to discuss!!! Of course, he would have mentioned the fact that we are living in the 7th age, but he would then proceed to say, "But please do carry on, I'm finding this quite interesting and amusing."
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04-25-2002, 09:20 PM | #24 |
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I guess the living in the seventh age thing does make sense. But the elves, dwarves, hobbits, etc. aren't REAL elves, dwarves, hobbits etc. They only have the mentalities and thoughts. I know, I make no sense...sorry.
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04-26-2002, 01:24 AM | #25 |
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Galadriel88, how am I a traitor?
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04-26-2002, 09:34 AM | #26 |
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So if we are in the 7th age, what happened to the Elves, Dwarves, Ents, Hobbits, Orcs
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The closest race of human to the Elves is the Native American, who co-existed in harmony with the land but were displaced by Europeans. Whole populations were decimated by disease to which Elves were immune. Perhaps the Elves who remained in ME lost their immortality, or “faded”, and emigrated to the Americas for a time, but once invaded, could no longer stand alone as a race. I think the Orcs were interbred with humans, and exist today and are hard to distinguish physically from other humans. They show themselves in their actions. Power-hungry dictators, corrupt public servants, and the like all have Orc or Troll in them from somewhere in the past. Hobbits are around, probably still exist in remote parts of Europe, but have grown so distrustful of big people that they hardly ever show themselves to us anymore, and if they do we mistake them for children. Dwarves have disappeared altogether, or live in secret underground societies. Their steeped traditions and stoicism, which once marked them as a hardy race, failed to help them adapt to the changing world and contributed to their decline or demise.
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04-26-2002, 10:21 AM | #27 |
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In my humble opinion -
I always thought that the orcs/Souron side of things represented modernisation ,mechanisation,the encroachment of industrialisation on merry old England / northern Europe. The coming of the age of man was going to be the struggle of this new way of life against the old way of the elves ie lots of trees and nature and being at one etc - oh well could be wrong.
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04-26-2002, 10:36 AM | #28 |
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viggosbeard,
Your opinion is highly valued. Tolkien was very much a Luddite who never wanted to live in the present time, but rather in saner ages long past and eternity. He witnessed first-hand the destructiveness of technology in WWI; his descriptions of Mordor eerily resemble the blasted-earth images of that terrible conflagration. I think he would have agreed with you. My hypothesis was based on the assumption that we are living in the 7th Age or something like that.
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04-26-2002, 10:52 AM | #29 |
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You could indeed be right - does it not say in the hobbit something about them being wary of big people and really good at hiding from us ??!!
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04-26-2002, 12:50 PM | #30 |
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Those are interesting thoughts. I think that is right, about Tolkien disliking the current age of technology and modernisation, and therefore the 'bad guys' being representative of that, although I would say more so (and less subtly) with Saruman, with his machinery and genetically modified orcs (the Uruk-Hai).
Barrelrider-I find your hypothesis to be quite interesting, though in my humble opinion, I disagree with a few points. First, I believe the elves would have departed beyond where humans could find them, rather than North America. The elves that stayed in Middle-earth, well, I don't know what happened to them but I think they all either departed West with the other elves, or faded in ME, but I don't think they would have immagrated to N. America. Also, it would be nice to think that all the power-hungry dictators and corrupt officials and other such people are not quite human, and have some orc/troll ancestors, but humans do not need orc genetics to be immoral and power hungry. Also, orcs are not too bright, and it takes incredible cunning and intelligence to do some of the evil that has been done in our past. (think dictators in totalitarian governments pre-and during WWII.) On the other hand, it is nice to think that Hobbits and Dwarves are there somewhere Though with the disportionately small number of female dwarves, I have a hard time imagining they would still be here by now.
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04-27-2002, 01:11 PM | #33 |
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*gasp* Traitor! But I agree too...
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05-02-2002, 12:31 AM | #34 |
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All must agree! THere is no other way--oh, sorry. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Even if it agrees with a mod.
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05-03-2002, 11:30 PM | #35 |
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I know, I know, I was just messin with ya. BTW, where is Nolendil? Has he given up?
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Yeah, I know you were, Galadriel88. I hope Nolendil hasn't given up. . .
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He will appear any minute now and shower us with popcorn and Snickers bars.
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LOL
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I would prefer living in a less mechanised world in some ways, but I would still want a toilet and certain toiletries, if you get my meaning.
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