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Forum: News & Rumours Topic: Forge World open day news |
| Draugluin |
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 2:52 pm
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| Since when have you used ANY GW models? Seriously, I've never seen you say that you were interested in any LotR models made more recently than 1989. |
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Forum: News & Rumours Topic: Forge World open day news |
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 3:05 pm
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| We have to remember that GW is still taking a huge risk with the Middle-Earth line right now. The fact t that they're remaking stuff at all is good enough for me. |
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Forum: The Films & Books Topic: The Choice of Mortality |
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 7:07 pm
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| Well, he didn't ask for facts, but I guess I did present my opinions as facts. However, there is nothing outside of Arda save for Eru, Morgoth and the Void, so it really wouldn't be a blessing to die if you just hung out in the void. Putting 2 and 2 together and getting 4 isn't the craziest thing in... |
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Forum: The Films & Books Topic: The Choice of Mortality |
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 1:26 pm
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| And you completely ignore the personal views of the author. Tolkien didn't like purposefully including allegory in his writing like CS Lewis did, but he also said (to Lewis) that any beliefs he had would show themselves in his writing, because he would unconsciously be influenced by his own beliefs.... |
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Forum: The Films & Books Topic: The Choice of Mortality |
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2016 9:08 pm
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| Well, it is known that they leave Arda, which leaves 3 options. 1. They stop existing altogether. 2. They get consumed by Morgoth. 3. They join Illuvitar. Since death was called the "Gift of Man", and since Tolkien was Catholic, it would have to be number 3, with some of 2 mixed in for the... |
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Forum: The Films & Books Topic: The Choice of Mortality |
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2016 7:19 pm
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| Only Elrond and his children, as Half Elven, could choose mortality. Elrond's brother Elros chose mortality and became the first King of Numenor, so he was Aragorns ancestor. When you die in Middle-earth, you go to the Halls of Mandos, which is purgatory. Once your time is up, you go to one of sever... |
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Forum: The Films & Books Topic: The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit |
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 8:16 pm
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| Well, Tolkien did write it as an alternate history of Europe, so yes, it would be unbelievable and make a difference for Aragorn or Boromir to be black. This isn't a story set in modern times when people of all ethnic backgrounds mix together, this is set in an alternate version of Europe that just ... |
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Forum: The Films & Books Topic: The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit |
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 2:01 pm
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| The Valor are also not a Pantheon. They most closely resemble the Biblical Arch Angels. 14 beings who struggle against the chief of their order who has seduced other beings to his side. All of whom were created by one all powerful creator. That is literally the Judeo-Christian view of heavenly beings. |
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Forum: The Films & Books Topic: The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit |
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 1:53 pm
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| The events of the Silmarillion are definitely not common knowledge. Very few men (just the remaining Numenorians), the elves and the Wizards know what happened and who Sauron really is. If Satan set up an actual empire, it would take a single generation for his people to no longer know anything but ... |
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Forum: The Films & Books Topic: The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit |
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:38 pm
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| That's entirely false. Not all the "evil" men followed Sauron of their own free will. Many were enslaved, Tolkien even made a point of saying that they probably didn't even want to fight in the first place and mentioned that the Blue Wizards did something that crippled Sauron's might, like... |
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Forum: The Films & Books Topic: The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit |
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:44 pm
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| That would be like looking at a European history book and wondering why the only villains in the middle ages were Arabs. That's just how it as back then, but even BillFerny and the Dunlendings were white. Middle-earth is supposed to be middle ages Europe. It wouldn't make any sense for there to be b... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: A theory on Thranduil's wife |
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 12:40 pm
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| They confirmed that she died fighting Angmar, which in the books at least didn't have any dragon allies. |
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Forum: News & Rumours Topic: Forge World open day news |
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 9:56 pm
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| I agree if they are unique models, but at this point it's way too early to complain about this. |
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Forum: News & Rumours Topic: Forge World open day news |
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 5:43 pm
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| I fail to see what's wrong with event only models. Did you miss that the event only models are likely to just be reposes? If you already have 3 Gandalfs, you know just how useless it is to have multiple posts of a single character. |
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Forum: The Films & Books Topic: The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit |
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:39 pm
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| I don't see how you can call the acting bad, and then say the acting was the saving grace. If the CGI was bad, I would agree that it was a detriment, but the CG was incredible so I fail to see how that is a negative, especially when other movies (like Episode 7 and Avatar) were filled to the brim wi... |
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Forum: The Films & Books Topic: The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit |
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:47 pm
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| They didn't stink. They just weren't as good as LotR because obviously the Hobbit could NEVER be better than LotR. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Latest Ebay purchase |
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 1:46 pm
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| I just got 9 of the new Mirkwood elves and 2 of the new Mirkwood cav. And for the price I essentially got the Cav and 1guy for free, which is nice considering neither cav had sword arms. I've never used greenstuff before, but the arms I made look okay, so I'm pleased with the purchase. Now just wait... |
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Forum: Off Topic Topic: Happy America Day |
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 9:52 pm
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| As an American, I would like to take this time to wish y'all across the pond a happy 4th of July. I know a lot of stuff is going on in England right now, but I just want to let y'all know that most Americans are with you no matter what. Here's to another 240 years of being allies. |
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Forum: News & Rumours Topic: legions of middle earth vs Warbands |
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:03 pm
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| Have you ever played with more than 100 models? I have and it is a nightmare. We're talking hour long turns, ten hour games. Have you ever tried a 2000 point battle? If not, you maybe should try it before you say it becomes the norm. The game is meant to represent a scaled down version of a battle. ... |
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Forum: News & Rumours Topic: legions of middle earth vs Warbands |
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 2:48 pm
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| I'm the real world, you do NOT have high ranking military leaders leading thousands of men. You have a chain of command where the general tells his colonels what to tell their captains what to tell their lieutenants what to tell their sergeants what to tell their troops what to do. It is impractical... |
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