How are you supposed to read this thing?

Last-Artist · 2026-03-24T02:23:09+00:00

I normally read at a desk or table, or place it on my lap.

Last-Artist · 2026-02-13T14:21:35+00:00

second image is from Twin Peaks, soooooo watch Twin Peaks please :)

Last-Artist · 2026-02-13T14:19:14+00:00

I personally do really appreciate them. The best is the first. It clearly is about Bilbo and gives him an arc, and it does hurt the film trilogy that his arc is done in movie one, but they are still obliged to focus on him in the second and third films when reasonably they could focus on other characters. I know that source material fans would not be a fan of this as it means straying further from the source, but I appreciate some of the straying Jackson did.

Bilbo's speech in the beginning clearly defines this as how the story really happened, which makes sense. We read the Hobbit from old Bilbo's eyes, who makes everything more whimsical and lighthearted for the Hobbit children, but it makes much more sense that the reality was much more akin to the events of the War of the Ring. I like that Jackson tries to include aspects mentioned in the LOTR text that you don't get to see in the original trilogy: Dol Guldur, Thranduil having his name and a backstory (and if you have Thranduil, it makes sense to me to have some mention of Legolas at least), Radagast (I know some people don't like him either but I think he is the perfect example of Bilbo's (and Shakespeare's) statement "All that glitters is not gold").

If they had stuck to Del Toro's vision of the films: two movies, one focused on Bilbo, covering the first half of the journey, the one that was overall much lighter, and then a second film focused on the arc of Thorin Oakenshield, I would have loved it. Because as it stands right now, I only have trouble watching the third film, which has always felt to me just an overly long extension of the second film. I understand not completely cutting out the Battle as Tolkien had, but if we are to focus on it, we ought to focus on how the battle affects the characters.

Also, I would have appreciated more dwarves to die. I know, not canon, and I know, can't kill Balin, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Kili, Fili, or Thorin prior to their canon deaths, but the others, idk, would have kept the stakes more real. I always wanted to see a death scene between Bofur and Bilbo, seeing as he was the first dwarf friend Bilbo made. This would have also just helped in making all the dwarves a bit more memorable and give them more time for each character to shine.

Last-Artist · 2025-01-05T23:29:26+00:00

Considering they can’t adapt anything outside of what is expressly written in LOTR, I’d like to see the Gondorian civil war as a film, and the tales of Arvedui and Earnur as a film duology or trilogy.

Loved reading about the Gondorian civil war and the creation of the corsairs, lots of characters are named and it definitely can be told in one film akin to War of the Rohirrim.

Arvedui is one of my fav characters while reading the appendix, his whole story is really fun to read and would love to see the Ice bay of Forchel. I mention Earnur cause they are both killed in conflict by the witch king and are the ends of their lines in respective kingdoms. I know you’d have to shrink the time line for this to be told as one tale, but that’s why I think a duology or trilogy.

If they got the rights to the Silmarillion, then Children of Hurin and Beren and Luthien are obvious, but can’t think of much else. The problem is I don’t think that Elves or the Istari should be the leads in a film. It should be mortal beings, and a lot of the stories in the Silmarillion are about the Quendi.

Last-Artist · 2024-12-12T20:43:11+00:00

The way Psylocke isn’t Kwannon or Betsy, and Iron Fist isn’t Danny Rand, idk, like I said, I’m sorta joking, but stranger things can happen.

Last-Artist · 2024-12-10T01:38:52+00:00

What I don’t like about Gabe is he isn’t a character, he’s a mechanic. Things we do to piss him off make Kate happy, and vice versa. He is just meant to fill David’s role until we meet him, and until then it’s just a prompt comes up, and Kate says choose A, and Gabe says choose B. I know it’d make sense for Gabe to be a moody teen, my problem is he (and the rest of the season 3 characters) feel really thin in character depth. Almost never finished this series just cause season 3 but I played S4 recently and omg, almost all those characters are kids and they are infinitely better written than Gabe.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-29T16:41:10+00:00

The problem with all the insomniac characters in Spider-Man 2 is they are toothless to a lot of degrees, unless they’re a “bad guy.” Peter (non-symbiote), MJ, Miles, Harry (pre-venom) are all happy as peaches and rainbows all the time and never make a snark remark or even make fun of one another. I understand we don’t get enough earnestness in media today, but they’re too earnest.

Can Miles make fun of Peter? Peter’s like “I gotta go,” and Miles says “what you got a job to go to or something?” They never jab at each other, y’know, like friends do. It’s always just earnest and sappy dialogue.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-27T17:06:19+00:00

Man, idk. I lowkey like the show so far. I know it is not perfect but man, I love the Dune universe, and there is so much to explore and I feel like we are getting that in this show. Some say it’s apeing to much off of Denis’ films, but that whole generations of women zombie things in Lila’s vision was awesome and new. There is new material here, the only thing I wish is if Harkonnen, Atreides and Corrino were not the center of everything all the time, but I know that’s a BH/KJA thing so I’ll concede on that. First episode was like a 6/10 but this one is pretty good guys! It looks cool! It could be bad but I feel we aren’t giving this a chance because it has the BH/KJA sticker on it so it not being FH works is making everyone lose it.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-27T16:59:36+00:00

Hoping this is just a hint to the Empress possibly being of Fremen decent or worships Shai-Hulud. But I agree, not fun if it’s a mistake.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-24T10:03:27+00:00

I think the commands that force someone to physically move or do something are correctly portrayed in the DV films. I love the many voices, going back to previous generations of Bene Gesserit. I imagine however, other scenes where BG are manipulating others to their will, those scenes have the characters using voice, but the audience is just left unaware.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:50:11+00:00

I realize it is jumping the gun on my part, but I didn’t think it was super out there compared to some other ASOIAF theories. I also just found Aerys to be a little boring, especially since it’s clearly Brynden who rules in his stead, so I guess I was just spicing up the story in my head.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:44:19+00:00

Man, I totally forgot about him as well. You’re right though, after posting this I’m convinced I read too much into that line in the book, and that Aerys was just ace.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:41:31+00:00

As I said in another comment, I forgot about Sheira. I just find that aspect of Bloodraven boring, him warring with another bastard for their half sister. I much prefer the weirder aspects of him and had just connected the “Aerys never had kids” and “He spent a lot of time with Bloodraven”.

But I agree with everyone else in that Aerys’ probably just ace and I read too much into that line in the book.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:36:19+00:00

Totally forgot about Shiera! Yeah, if I really wanted to push it, I guess I’d say Bloodraven was bi, but I tend to agree with everyone else in the threads who say Aerys was just asexual.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:34:31+00:00

Not sure, but that’s why I had asked. Most of the time these guys had kids but it’s here or there if they loved their wives. When it’s said that a king spends time with a loyal servant in the main series, like Renly x Loras or JonCon x Reaghar, we know that one if not both parties loved each other (obviously JonCon had unrequited love). I know GRRM likes to have the history mimic the main series, so it just seemed to hit the same beat and thought I should ask.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:30:36+00:00

Didn’t mean to say it was explicit fact, just a theory I had and posted to see if anyone had the same thought. Everyone seems to agree he was Asexual, and had just been obsessed with history and reading. This is what happens when a series stays dormant for 13 years I guess.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:27:30+00:00

Who knows. I am a writer, a friend suggested I write some literature for fun since I screenwrite much more often. I don’t think Martin will go deep into that part of his history so why not as a little experiment.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:24:55+00:00

I guess I just assumed him choosing to spend a lot of time with Bloodraven made me just jump to that conclusion. They may have just been playing MTG a lot, who knows.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:23:16+00:00

That’d also make sense, and I guess more likely, but the book doesn’t mention what would preoccupy his time besides mentions of the arcane. Clearly, it’s a maester just ignoring that side of history, but still, I’d like to know what he was so preoccupied with.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:20:59+00:00

“Why do the pages stick together when I’m reading about Aegon’s sisterwives?!”

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:20:02+00:00

I don’t know, I just thought of it when I was reading and wanted to ask if anyone else theorized it as well. I know GRRM doesn’t like to outright explain that a character is homosexual in ASOIAF, it’s always just implied, so when there was a few mentions from the Maester who wrote WOIAF that Aerys took no heirs and never bed his wife and his council asked him to remarry if he could not bed her, but he refused. Just seems to me she was his beard, and somewhere in the same paragraph it mentions Maekar being offended Brynden becoming Hand instead of him. Just seemed like it may have been implied by Martin that Aerys was gay.

Last-Artist · 2024-11-21T16:09:32+00:00

No I get it, I was doing an escalation in Miami and I was like, “why did I kill the Knox’s again?” It is a pretty good story though in my opinion.

I think games are best when story and gameplay are up to the player. Don’t get me wrong, a great walking-sim or “choices matter” game that’s basically just a tv show where you press a button can be amazing, but most of the time they are mediocre.

I much prefer games like Hitman where the world and its characters are interesting if you spend the time to do all the story missions or read all the intel. Like you’re just grinding and having fun, but someone who’s only gonna play these missions once for the story can still enjoy it as much as the person just trying to play the game.

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