Fellow LoTR-fans, riddle me this...

[Tsuyu]

If dwarves and elves dislike each other so much, why does the gates to Moria swing open when the elven word for friend is spoken?

 

[Quistrix]

I always thought it was the dwarves' way of being funny and ironic. Also the last thing people would think to open the way. Especially elves.

 

[Tsuyu]

But the inscription on the door explaining the riddle is also elven.

So.... yeah.

 

[Quistrix]

Dern, forgot that part.

Hmm, so just ironic then?

 

[Tsuyu]

Hmm. It just doesn't seem very smart if their animosity would ever develop to armed conflict.

 

[Quistrix]

I cheated.

Apparently... "The Doors were constructed in cooperation with the artificers of the Elven-kingdom of Hollin, sometime between SA 750 and SA 1500. These were the days before Sauron's dominion in Middle-Earth, and the friendship between Elven and Dwarven kingdoms was a rare and special event."

Doors of Durin

 

[ScareCrowReturn]

Well im glad we got that sorted..

 

[Walker]

So... not so much a Lord of the Rings question as "you bitches haven't read the sixteen thousand tons of ancillary material Christopher Tolkien published?"

Not that I've read that crap, but most questions like this are answered in stupefying, mind-numbing detail there.

 

[TRA Rotid]

So... not so much a Lord of the Rings question as "you bitches haven't read the sixteen thousand tons of ancillary material Christopher Tolkien published?"

Not that I've read that crap, but most questions like this are answered in stupefying, mind-numbing detail there.

I have a feeling this ancillary material is better than the trilogy. But that's just me.

 

[Tsuyu]

The only thing I've read in addition to the trilogy is The Hobbit and Silmarillion. I was lucky in that I actually read The Hobbit before I read the trilogy for the first time, as opposed to first reading the trilogy and then hearing about and picking up The Hobbit.

 

[TRA Rotid]

I think I've already asked that, but how much better is the trilogy compared to The Hobbit. I read the latter and I didn't think it was very good.

 

[Tsuyu]

Well, The Hobbit naturally doesn't have the grand scale of the trilogy. But as I remember (I read in in elementary school) I loved it. Also, the trilogy is sorely lacking in dragons while a dragon is the main antagonist(sorta) in The Hobbit.

And dragons are awesome.

 

[TRA Rotid]

When it comes to Tolkien, the universe as a whole has interested me a lot more than the particular stories (The Hobbit, the trilogy, etc). For example, when I read The Hobbit, I wanted to know more what was currently happening behind "those mountain" or in "that forest" rather than what the group was about to do next. But of course the stories are what bring the world to life and give it perspective, so it's a symbiotic thing.

 

[Tsuyu]

Well. The Hobbit is pretty much TEH reason why the trilogy happens.

 

[Walker]

The Hobbit really is the most fun to read. Lord of the Rings is GOOD, yes, REALLY GOOD, but it's not as easy and enjoyable as the Hobbit.

I have a feeling this ancillary material is better than the trilogy. But that's just me.

I hated it.

Well. The Hobbit is pretty much TEH reason why the trilogy happens.

Well, if you want to get technical, it all happens because a linguistics professor wanted an excuse to make up languages and write fantasy stories, but sure, what happens in the Hobbit was retconned into being critical for LotR.

And would you stop calling it a trilogy, please? Technically speaking... it isn't. It's just a really, really, really long three-volume novel.

EDIT: Also, whatsisname? Bard? Bard is a pimp.

 

[Tsuyu]

B-but trilogy is such an easy-to-write word.

 

[D3m190d]

B-but trilogy is such an easy-to-write word.

'Trilogy' an easy to write word? Yeah right, I've tried many times but I only came up with things like fnio3d89gs. Alright then, let me try again: dlnf]]dh_. See, trilogy is frikken impossible to write

 

[Firis]

The Elvish word for 'friend' made me hungry the first time I read it.

 

[Tsuyu]

Yeah, me too.

 

[Walker]

Didn't make me hungry at all, until I took a gander at Tsuyu's picture there.

Also, "really, really, really long multi-volume novel" is just so much FUN to type! I almost lost it as I sat here just typing that. I could barely contain my delight.