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Cake day: October 8th, 2023

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  • I can appreciate this take, I know he’s a popular character and I read somewhere that Jack Black would be the only actor capable of pulling off the role which absolutely makes sense to me (and honestly does make re-reading more entertaining.) I get it, I just don’t like him. The world around him is falling to darkness and he just doesn’t care. No one really knows what he’s capable of outside of his realm because he likes his life with Goldberry and again just doesn’t care about anything else. I always saw him as representative of those apolitical people who didn’t care enough to stop fascist regimes take over their own country because they only cared about their own day to day life and couldn’t be bothered to vote or fight for anything. I’m glad they took him out of the movies, it flows better and fits the tone of everyone coming together in a fellowship to defeat evil. 🤷‍♀️



  • Yamainwitch@lemmy.worldtoLord of the memes@midwest.socialThat's such a Tom thing to do
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    8 months ago

    Lol. This might not be popular BUT there’s a reason he doesn’t make the cut in the movies or extended cut releases. Tom Bambodil is basically middle earth’s “MyStErIoUs WaYs.” This is a hot take but I would almost go so far as to say his existence in the world ruins the book, his songs/poetry are terrible and he’s just kind of there. He is meant to be a mysterious figure that lends to the overarching mystery of the world, one who has always been around and is so powerful he is basically a god, but doesn’t actually give a shit about the world outside of himself or the suffering of others. I see him as a vestige of JRRT’s catholicism seeping through, this ultimate force that could end the war but didn’t because reasons.

    Edit: grammar is hard after wine








  • I’m so sorry for what you and your girl are going through. You are both so lucky to have each other. She’s been holding on for you because she loves you so much and you have taken such good care of her. I read somewhere that to our animal friends we are like elves, so long lived and seemingly unchanging that their lifetimes are so short to us but we are their whole lives. I think that you will know when it’s time, you can probably tell when she is in pain whether she wants you to or not. In the mean time snuggle her, spoil her, feel the warmth and texture of her fur. The time you have now is so precious. When she refuses food, or struggles to breathe it’s time. But for now, just love her and give her some pets for me too ❤️






  • It just seems like the quality of writing is on par with something that an AI would generate as there was absolutely no real substance whatsoever which, to me, came across as written by a bot. I didn’t realize chatgpt was released after RoP so it’s obviously not written by it, but the script was so bad I thought it could not possibly be written by a living breathing person who understands words but hilariously I’m wrong and now I can’t get the image of these two guys typing word by word into a thesaurus to write.