Apparently I'm a Dwarf ???
QuoteYou are a dwarf! Rustic and proud, you keep your kin close and your money closer! You're not afraid of a little dirt or a little fight. Just goes to show, size doesn't match bravery.
https://www.playbuzz.com/jessicaf23/which-middle-earth-race-are-you (https://www.playbuzz.com/jessicaf23/which-middle-earth-race-are-you)
Apparently, I'm a human!! :o Who knew??!!
Dwarf. Least I'm not one of them filthy Hobbitses.
Quote from: Centurion40 on June 18, 2015, 11:58:18 AM
Apparently, I'm a human!! :o Who knew??!!
No one around here :P
Dwarf...... :knuppel2:
We have a raiding party shaping up nicely.
Long as we're raiding fer beer... and babes. 8)
Another dwarf here -- as is proper. 8)
I see no reason for Gus to take this test.
He'd be devastated if he got anything other than dwarf.
Hobbit you dumbass.
I'm a wizard!
Mwhahaha
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on June 18, 2015, 01:42:44 PM
Hobbit you dumbass.
He refers to himself as dwarf. We call him Hobbit.
Do I need to smack you with the hoes again?
He's such a duck hat at times.....
Quote from: Atilla60 on June 18, 2015, 11:48:44 AM
Apparently I'm a Dwarf ???
QuoteYou are a dwarf! Rustic and proud, you keep your kin close and your money closer! You're not afraid of a little dirt or a little fight. Just goes to show, size doesn't match bravery.
https://www.playbuzz.com/jessicaf23/which-middle-earth-race-are-you (https://www.playbuzz.com/jessicaf23/which-middle-earth-race-are-you)
Me too. Well they are depicted after old norsemen after all :)
This test is skewed to make everyone a Dwarf.
I thought JRR said he based the dwarves in his books off of the Jews, not the Norse myths.
Anyway, I'm a tree.
EDIT: here's an interesting article about the dwarves in Tolkien's works.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/are-tolkiens-dwarves-an-allegory-for-the-jews/ (http://www.timesofisrael.com/are-tolkiens-dwarves-an-allegory-for-the-jews/)
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Human
"You are a Human. You are noble and brave, putting others before yourself. You think of the greater good and the things you can do to help society. Whether King or Queen of Gondor, or a simple village folk, you are proud of your people."
Boggit is a Dwarf! Funny, I thought I might come out as a Hobbit. That'll annoy Sauron! :2funny: ;D
Human. Well, better than being a warg or giant eagle.
I be one o' the Dwarven folk. Well met, hey!
Black Spot! Black Spot!
@Mirth :)
Great find - just brilliant. I recently watched the trilogy, and the ending ... well just bizarre, and not at all like the book. Well actually a lot of the film is just a passing resemblance. It's odd looking at the Hobbit and comparing it to LotR. Jackson actually did quite a good job of that one. I wonder why he deviated so far with the Hobbit? Money I guess was the motivation more than anything this time, but I think the Hobbit has done nothing for his reputation as a film maker.
Quote from: Boggit on June 18, 2015, 11:04:09 PM
@Mirth :)
Great find - just brilliant. I recently watched the trilogy, and the ending ... well just bizarre, and not at all like the book. Well actually a lot of the film is just a passing resemblance. It's odd looking at the Hobbit and comparing it to LotR. Jackson actually did quite a good job of that one. I wonder why he deviated so far with the Hobbit? Money I guess was the motivation more than anything this time, but I think the Hobbit has done nothing for his reputation as a film maker.
Why?
If you havent read the books its good films, I know my son and all his friends loved it. And they are the target audience after all.
Quote from: jejo68 on June 19, 2015, 02:05:29 AM
I know my son and all his friends loved it. And they are the target audience after all.
By that reasoning, the Star Wars prequels are good films too. :P
Quote from: jejo68 on June 19, 2015, 02:05:29 AM
Quote from: Boggit on June 18, 2015, 11:04:09 PM
@Mirth :)
Great find - just brilliant. I recently watched the trilogy, and the ending ... well just bizarre, and not at all like the book. Well actually a lot of the film is just a passing resemblance. It's odd looking at the Hobbit and comparing it to LotR. Jackson actually did quite a good job of that one. I wonder why he deviated so far with the Hobbit? Money I guess was the motivation more than anything this time, but I think the Hobbit has done nothing for his reputation as a film maker.
Why?
If you havent read the books its good films, I know my son and all his friends loved it. And they are the target audience after all.
Oh, I agree that its fun as a more generic film (although the final battle is a bit bizarre).
I'm just saying that it is not what it is purporting to be. OK, LotR has some Tolkien inaccuracies, but substantially the movie is the film version of the three books. The divergence between the book of the Hobbit, and the three Hobbit films is vastly greater than with the Lord of the Rings films was with its books. Why call the three films the Hobbit, using Tolkien all over the marketing material if you're going to diverge considerably from the story? Wingnut films could quite easily have called the film something else, but by calling it the Hobbit, and making it clear that they were referring to Tolkien's Hobbit they created a not unreasonable expectation that the film would be reasonably faithful to the book.
I am an Elf. As I knew I would be :)
You are an Elf! You are sophisticated and elegant. You are wise for your immortal age, knowing when to fight and when to back down. You will not engage in anything you don't have to, making sure you and your loved ones stay safe. Keeping your honor high and your hygiene even higher.
do you know how I know that you're gay?
Don't you have anything better to do than troll people on a Friday night?
Suck it up buttercup.
Quote from: MetalDog on June 19, 2015, 10:38:45 PM
Don't you have anything better to do than troll people on a Friday night?
For just the briefest of seconds I thought that was a Tolkien race pun
Quote from: undercovergeek on June 20, 2015, 11:57:37 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on June 19, 2015, 10:38:45 PM
Don't you have anything better to do than troll people on a Friday night?
For just the briefest of seconds I thought that was a Tolkien race pun
Wasn't it? ;)
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 18, 2015, 04:07:11 PM
EDIT: here's an interesting article about the dwarves in Tolkien's works.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/are-tolkiens-dwarves-an-allegory-for-the-jews/ (http://www.timesofisrael.com/are-tolkiens-dwarves-an-allegory-for-the-jews/)
Fascinating stuff! I never knew about the possible Dwarven-Jewish connection before.
Loved this bit:
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Several years after writing "The Hobbit," Tolkien had an exchange with publishers who wanted to translate his book into German. In responding to their request that Tolkien confirm his Aryan ancestry, the South African-born author took issue with Nazi policy.
"If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people," wrote Tolkien in an oft-quoted draft. He went on to call Nazi race doctrine "wholly pernicious and unscientific."
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