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01-18-2024, 02:08 PM
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
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Running Rings around Tolkien
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01-18-2024, 05:42 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Jun 2023
Location: Treading the Narrow Way
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I can scarcely believe that.
 It's simply dreadful.
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01-19-2024, 06:10 PM
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Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits
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When you just read the character names and the words "fan-fiction" immediately leap to mind, then I would defer to the great Dorothy Parker, when she stated in a pointedly negative review:
“This is not a novel to be thrown aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” One could say the same about this script.
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And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision. |
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01-23-2024, 06:14 PM
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Guardian of the Blind
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Where The Skies End
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I don't believe that the rights to the sil would be sold with no fanfare.
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01-24-2024, 03:57 AM
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Overshadowed Eagle
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: The north-west of the Old World, east of the Sea
Posts: 3,902
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Goodness, is it April 1st already?
 There are snippets in there that sound plausible (I can see "Sauron shows up disguised as Celeborn" as a plotline), but most of it is just way too out there. The idea of an entire episode in the Timeless Halls is ridiculous (note that Good Omens only set a single scene there, because swirling galaxies and no floor don't make a good set however funny your actors are), and the "omigosh they're all NAKED" part is just an attempt to re-ignite the same outrage that occurred when some grubby elves in rags in a prison camp got rumour-milled into "the origin of orcs and they're all NAKED". Similarly, "a full episode" about horses is too silly to believe. Will Meteor Man meet a horse somewhere? Maybe! Will TRoP abandon all its other tangled plotlines to devote an entire episode to what kind of sugarlumps it likes and "I think I shall call him... Fadowshax"? Nope! Though I admit the idea of Tom Bombadil in a massive iron crown and Ungoliant in a fancy dress amuses me immensely. "Tom had an errand there / Conquering the Northlands / Now dancing home again / To his pretty spi-i-der..." hS
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01-31-2024, 09:47 AM
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Loremaster of Annúminas
Join Date: Oct 2006
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it. |
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