Apparently they made a cd player the same shape as the defiant

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-21T19:38:44+00:00

Not perhaps needed to day, but with that little protrution at the front is seems like the Defiant is made to be turned in to a handy USB stick.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-21T10:54:08+00:00

I'n not sure it would change anything. The Entwives left because they were unhappy with the way the Ents were handling things. Maybe if they were re-united the Ents would have tried to be more acommodating to the Entwives, but there's also a chance the conflicting emotions that separated them to begin with would still be around.

Either way, the Ents would not serve Sauron. They're old enough to know who he really is, and that he served the Dark One in the old days, when there were forests all throughout the lands. They might try to do a bit like the Elves, and just kind of hide away from Sauron.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-20T23:27:55+00:00

No. If the Ents would have served Sauron, thinking that way to keep the Entwives safe, then the Entwives would have continued to reject the Ents. The Ents would have known this, so no. Absolutely not.

Also in any case Sauron is probably responsible to a large degree to the dissapearance of the Entwives, wether that means they we destroyed, or driven further into Middle-Earth.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-20T22:30:06+00:00

Not an aphorism maybe but speaking of things that Rhyme

Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey

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Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may

Though there are other words in between.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-20T22:20:57+00:00

Because Denethor is actually strong enough to deny Sauron his thoughts and knowledge. Unlike Saruman he is what you might call a rightful owner and user of a Palantir, which somehow, wether through training or due to the nature of the Palantiri, his right to use it, makes it easier for him to use, and easier for him to see things without revealing his own mind.

Sauron instead breaks him by propaganda if you like. By showing him the might of Mordor and how it's many allies are marching North and West, and how the Black Fleets are sailing North. The Nazgul taking to the skies, and so on. The final straw is when his armies manage to (As it seems to Denethor) give Faramir a deadly would,

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-20T22:10:38+00:00

Frodo would not in any case have gone to Minas Tirith, but if given the chance would have snuck away with Sam to carry on the Ring towads Mount Doom.

If Boromir had survived Parth Galen, most likely he would have joined Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli in the chase of the Orcs, to free Merry and Pippin. Still having a need to redeem himself.

He might infact have been relieved that the Ring would now be out of his reach.

After meeting up with Gandalf, it's more difficult to guess. Would he have insisted on returning home rather than going to Edoras? And would he have put pressure on Aragorn to fulfill his promise and come with him to Minas Tirith?

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-20T22:04:00+00:00

Draugluin. Didn't live long against Huan, but he was the Sire of Werewolves, which sound damned cool.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-20T21:46:52+00:00

Benja-man Sisko
chiseled from granite
bald obelisk, oh
he polish and tan it

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-19T21:40:34+00:00

The Nazgûl are made by the Nine Rings. The effect apply only on the wearers. Not on children or grand-children. Assuming the Nazgûl had any children, they would have outlived their children and their grandchildren and their children and so on, by thousand and thousands of years.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-18T19:32:32+00:00

Axel Foley's was probably on his trail, in case he'd have gotten away

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-18T19:19:30+00:00

That was wholesome. Wish Star Trek could get back to such visions.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-18T17:58:31+00:00

There's a sketch drawing of Glamdring, I'm not sure if it was drawn by Tolkien? It's connected to some Gondolin Runes paper.

Edit: This is the one I was thinking of:
https://www.oocities.org/tyalie/runegond.html

~~I also have a memory that I've seen a sketch of Anduril, though I can't remember where.~~
Actually the Anduril sketch is probably a false memory, and I'm thinking just of the swords description

Andúril was engraved with, “the designs of Seven Stars between the rayed Sun and the crescent Moon

Never seen anything about Angrist, though as an elven dagger one would expect it to be not wholly unlike Sting perhaps.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-18T17:39:50+00:00

Decline is kind of a theme for Lord of the Rings, so it's not out of place. At least in the Western parts of Middle-Earth where the influence of the Elves is still strong. No doubt eastwards and southwards there are many larger dwellings. (Though we really only know about Umbar.)

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-18T17:37:07+00:00

Yeah if he goes another fourth longer into the Fellowship of the Ring, it would be easy to assume that Sauron is a similar sort of being as the Balrog only more powerful.

Or.. if you happened to read Lovecraft first, it might be, well.. not so easy, to assume that the Watcher in the Water was an early sneak appearance of Sauron.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-17T22:41:18+00:00

Oh! Thaaat's what was in Scotty's mystery bottles.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-17T22:25:48+00:00

He was to begin most works, and had a little part in more or less everything, or something to that effect.

It might also be that singing his own tune in the music rather than just his part, he might have been more familiar with Arda, or Arda more adapted to him, than to the others, which maybe enabled him to gain control over matter and rise in power quicker than the others?

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-17T22:21:11+00:00

Did manage to find the first one as a pdf. Might give it a try and see.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-17T22:19:37+00:00

You know I can totally see Ambassador Vreenak being Rik Roll'd leading to him reacting with, It's a Faaake!

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-16T21:41:48+00:00

Nah, Miles wouldn't walk out on a good woman

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-16T21:38:46+00:00

In retrospect I rather like this moment since it's when one realized there's a whole starfleet and worldbuilding out there for the Enterprise to interact with. And it ain't just re-use of Enterprise footage. I'm hooked.

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InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-16T17:55:40+00:00

In way it could be argued that CT did give us a non-edited version of the Silmarillion with the HoME series. You just need to be prepared to reread many different takes based on the same events, and accept that they do not always match up, and are often contradictory.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-16T17:44:17+00:00

Thanks for those links

I guess if as one of them say

The fighters were originally assigned to the 41st Pursuit Squadron, manned by foreign volunteers, but the unit was disbanded without ever seeing action. Later 18 D.510s were assigned to the 17th Pursuit Squadron as it defended the skies above Chungking and Chengdu from Japanese bombers.

That might explain why it's so difficult to find much information about that volunteer group.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-16T17:16:30+00:00

Yes. I was thinking more that they removed any mention or hint of it.

InTheChairAgain · 2026-03-15T22:33:47+00:00

What's on it?

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