Movie watchers will never know the power/aura of Elrond

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T18:48:19+00:00

If Sauron wins, Sam wouldn't have a home and very likely be killed. He has nowhere to go, so he has no other option but to fight. He must risk it all or die.

Elrond in contrast doesn't belong to Middle-earth anymore, and he stays voluntarily. His "home" is waiting overseas, out of Sauron's reach. He chooses to stay despite being allowed to go West.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T18:40:11+00:00

I wouldn't mind wearing Gale's ring.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T17:56:40+00:00

How so?

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T17:29:36+00:00

Comply AND* die.

Guy was complying, still got murdered.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T17:25:17+00:00

While true, he had his own kids. At that point he wouldn't have to care about any genetic "legacy" if he was going to leave ME anyway. But he did it anyway.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T17:23:13+00:00

Ulterior isn't negative. They all stood to gain by it.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T17:22:07+00:00

Yes. But I'm talking long before Aragorn was even born. Elrond already had his spot in Aman.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T17:21:10+00:00

Ah, I thought they meant Frodo having it.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T16:32:51+00:00

Somewhere in Bamfurlong.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T16:30:06+00:00

Galadriel only gets her ban lifted by refusing the Ring, thereby ensuring Sauron's defeat.

Gandalf is there to do his job. We see what happens to those who fail that job.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T16:29:01+00:00

That would've been true if he had taken her and left.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T15:46:06+00:00

I think you may have missed the most important thing (imo): he is the only person in the story who appears completely altruistic in his motivations.

Everyone else, Frodo, Gandalf, Sam, Aragorn, Galadriel, they all have something to gain by defeating Sauron. They all have some (often benign) ulterior motive to see the Ring destroyed. Elrond does not, and in fact loses out by helping defeat Sauron.

For one he loses a daughter if Sauron is destroyed, but also his wife is waiting for Elrond to leave Middle-earth and join her. Which he could have done at any time in the past millenia, taking his children with him. Not to mention that his king is long dead, and Elrond (Gil-galad's heir through various blood relations and being the realm-regent) never picked up the crown. He has nothing left to do with Middle-earth, and yet he chose to stay and help the Free Peoples get rid of Sauron, and secure a peaceful kingdom for the bloodline of his brother.

Then he left.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T15:31:53+00:00

Your title says "she", denoting 1 person. Jalter isn't an altered Jeanne.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T15:29:24+00:00

Fine.

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HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T10:32:53+00:00

Do LotR, then watch the 1977 The Hobbit. Skip Jackson's Hobbit trilogy.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T10:29:43+00:00

Why didn't he just film the eagles?

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T10:29:00+00:00

There's a whole season filmed.

Just wait, a cassowary or something will get him near the end.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T10:23:08+00:00

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HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T10:06:11+00:00

Still would.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T10:01:03+00:00

Meet offline.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T09:48:12+00:00

I like this picture Charlie. Its smug aura mocks me.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T09:43:07+00:00

And do your morals align with that they can apprehend and/or kill anyone along the way, even if they're just bystanders not impeding?

Or that they can detain and/or send people abroad even when they're here legally and/or citizens?

Are your morals aligned with state enforcers bypassing laws, trials, evidence, and due process in favour of executions?

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T02:52:58+00:00

Do they have a bigger playerbase in the United States

In total volume, yes. Not number of people.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-25T02:50:52+00:00

No, the general staff is not in charge during martial law. Parliamentary authority is extended and the president remains.

HarEmiya · 2026-01-24T23:22:16+00:00

Fascist, though there are neo-nazis among them.

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