this man really doesnt know how to talk to the american people. he should’ve said iran could make a nuclear burger!

baldur’s gate when the hero comes into your house, checks if you have a quest to give, ransacks it, kills you when you call for the guards and then leaves before the guards can spawn in, thus maintaining a pristine reputation as a shining hero

the hero then proceeds to systematically burgle EVERY house in beregost methodically. while still maintaining a pristine reputation.

they delivered! they promised that by the end of this decade, they’d put a bean into a man, and by god they’ve done it!

in universe, unknown (deliberately so). his wife has nature goddess vibes, except that nothing else in LOTR really fits in with that.

in the real world, he’s a character tolkien invented long before he wrote LOTR (he appears in some poems, alongside farmer maggot). when tolkien was writing LOTR, he didnt initially have a very good idea what the plot would end up being (all he knew is, he was writing the hobbit 2), so he included a tom bombadil adventure just so the hobbits would have something to do.

and then he just never took the episode out during the subsequent 18283281 waves of revisions he did to LOTR during the writing process.

now look what you’ve gone and done, you’ve made me invent the concept of pro-iran zionism! my poor nerves!

same energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU

this merely is a lesser variant of the “they lied 600 years into the timeline and the medieval times didnt actually happen” because this is just about lying about 2 extra years

smoking on a submarine is definitely an interesting idea

ohhh. yeah. maybe they did ask some tolkien scholars and they said “please let me die already”

oh… i thought it was named after the military fort at a place called Wenny.

all i’m saying is, there are plenty of actual tolkien scholars so why not listen to them instead of this fuckwit celebrity famous for pretending to be even more right wing than he is?

ah, but does he know about trotter and ingold?

eh, every time i’ve heard him show off his expertise, it turned out he knew less than me and i’m nowhere near an expert.

he’s definitely read the silmarillion (probably a few times at least) but that alone isnt much.

i hope he consults actual experts on the subject matter… what am i saying, he wont.

he also liked that feudalism gave a human face to oppression. it was your local lord who was stealing your surplus value, a dude you grew up alongside. not some faceless government.

well what kind of weird arrangement is that then?

i guess it’s fine for them as likes it but for an entire nation?

yeah, grandma was set to marry the leader of the other tribe, fled in the middle of the night, made her way across the planet and somehow ended up marrying into “our” water tribe’s leadership… very aristo.

conveniently off-screen for some reason :D

were there any women monks shown at all? i kinda just assumed airbender monks were celibate or some shit, and got kids to teach in some other way. like, taking in orphans, stealing children, getting second or third born kids of landowners, the usual stuff

i guess the whole dynamic of aristocrats vs “the masses” maps neatly onto protagonists vs NPCs in a story, which reinforces this trend of only ever telling stories about landowners.