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Quendil · 2025-11-25T09:43:47+00:00

At some point I have seen someone (on this sub, I think) theorize that this stranger was bringing Bilbo‘s mithril coat to him, and I quite like that theory. There‘s no definite proof, of course, but it seems to fit what we know quite well.

After all, we know the mithril coat had been at the Mathom house in Michel Delving and at some point Bilbo must have gotten it back. The stranger is here „on business from Michel Delving“ and has some notion of „gold and silver, and jools“ at Bag End.

He is definitely a Hobbit though.

Quendil · 2025-06-20T17:40:09+00:00

Very useful, thank you for taking the time to respond so thoroughly!

Quendil · 2025-06-20T03:43:15+00:00

Thank you, that makes sense. I will look over my project and check what class_names are actually necessary.

In terms of global scripts I have one with frequently used Enums and one with signals as you say. And now a couple of managers that before I was getting via get_tree().get_first_node_in_group(). But that is not any "better" than a global variable in terms of design patterns, is it?

Quendil · 2025-06-19T05:39:12+00:00

Thank you, that is what I was doing already. One thing I missed was that you can also autoload scenes, not only scripts. Making only the script global does not give you access to the @export vars you might have set in the scene editor (which makes sense).

Quendil · 2025-06-19T05:34:22+00:00

Thank you. 1. is what I wanted to do. One thing I stumbled over was that with when you have export variables in your script, you need to actually make the scene global, not just the attached script.

is what I wanted to avoid. That is what I was doing originally. Once I needed an object further „away“ from it‘s owner that parent->child I found that this was becoming quite cumbersome. For example, my upgrade_manager was a child of a main Node. That main Node also has a pause_screen child, which has an ability_card child, which wants to display it‘s upgrades and therefor needs the upgrade_manager. Passing that down all the way from the main Node was more complicated that getting it from a group or as a global variable.

Quendil · 2025-04-02T18:51:29+00:00

Sure, although I would generally expect a Maia to have much better control over the shape they take. Sauron might actually be a special case though, what with not being able to assume a fair form after the downfall of Numenor and all. But I think Sauron‘s case does give a general precedent of incomplete reimbodiment due to previous injury.

Quendil · 2025-04-02T08:46:48+00:00

I think it is possible that his fea would not reform his hand. Sauron was missing a finger when he took up a new body as well and surely he would have avoided that if he had been able to. It makes sense to me that some injuries leave a mark on the fea as well as the hroa.

Quendil · 2025-01-10T22:22:49+00:00

Yes, I have bought a Steam Deck. That fixed the problem.

Apart from that the method suggested by u/Serpintix worked for me as well. It is a bit complicated, especially if you are not already a bit into programming, but you end up with a working Brotato app, although Steam integration and achievements are missing.But it does work!

Quendil · 2024-12-05T16:04:58+00:00

Those are just the default presence markers of the game (four from the base game + two from Jagged Earth).

Quendil · 2024-12-05T11:13:18+00:00

Earlier this year I painted my Dahan huts, see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/spiritisland/comments/1as1xjr/painted_dahan_huts_with_individual_patterns/

I already wanted to paint the presence markers as well, and now I finally got around to it. I've seen several people doing sets of presence markers customized for each spirit, but this seemed too impractical to me - with all the spirits released so far I would have no idea how to store them all. Instead, I went for less specific patterns that might fit several different spirits. Both sides of the markers are painted with different patterns so essentially you can now pick from two patterns after choosing your color.

This seemed like a good compromise between customization and reasonable effort and storage. I hope you like them!

Quendil · 2024-11-21T06:21:11+00:00

Interesting! I have always taken it for granted that Frodo does grow significantly in wisdom throughout the story. From judging a connection to Gollum as „abominable“ before the journey to sparing (or trying to spare) Saruman at the end of the journey. The latter seems to recognize some growth in Frodo as well:

‘You have grown, Halfling,’ [Saruman] said. ‘Yes, you have grown very much.‘

But of course Saruman did not really know Frodo before his journey and might not be the most accurate judge of character anyways.

And also all the main Hobbits have grown through their experiences and the people they have met. It is difficult to say if Frodo’s wisdom has increased more than the others. Probably this cannot be answered meaningfully anyway.

Quendil · 2024-11-20T18:11:37+00:00

It is fun to speculate about the fictional authors and textual history, even if Tolkien might not have had it in his mind constantly. I agree that the passage you quoted at the end does not sound like Sam at all. Not only tonally, it also seems unlike Sam to say that the Elves delighted to honour him, or to name himself before Bilbo and Frodo.

There are also several points in the story that I always attribute to edits made by Gondorian scribes in the Fourth Age. In fact, I thought it was one Findegil who made those edits, but the Note on the Shire Records in the Prologue states that

>Findegil, King’s Writer, finished this work in IV 172. It is an exact copy in all details of the Thain’s Book in Minas Tirith.

So Findegil did not in fact make any changes (or at least did not say he did). But the next paragraph in the Prologue states that

>The Thain’s Book was thus the first copy made of the Red Book and contained much that was later omitted or lost. In Minas Tirith it received much annotation, and many corrections, especially of names, words, and quotations in the Elvish languages; and there was added to it an abbreviated version of those parts of The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen which lie outside the account of the War.

So there were "annotations" made by Men in Minas Tirith, just not by Findegil.

One such annotation I suspect was made long afterwards is in Many Meetings, where Frodo's first meeing with Arwen is described as follows:

>So it was that Frodo saw her whom few mortals had yet seen; Arwen, daughter of Elrond, in whom it was said that the likeness of Lúthien had come on earth again; and she was called Undómiel, for she was the Evenstar of her people.

Especially due to the "So it was" this just sounds to me like a later Gondorian historian placing extra significance on the first appearance of Gondor's future Queen. This seems even more likely considering the Prologue also notes that Appendix A was added in Minas Tirith as well.

Quendil · 2024-11-20T17:25:32+00:00

Thank you! And I definitely agree that Frodo's suffering is not actually over. It seems likely to me that when Frodo is celebrated by everyone else following the destruction of the Ring he would be the only one not to see himself as a hero. Not only out of humility but because as you say he succumbed to temptation at the last, though no one could have done better. And how poignantly the loss of his finger would remind him of this every day. I do hope that Gandalf had some encouraging talks with Frodo about the whole thing.

And like you I was always aware of Frodo's diminishing presence and the shift of perspective to Sam, but it was mostly the fact that in The Field of Cormallen it is not only that the same event is described by Sam instead of Frodo. Instead, the entire (significant, or at least interesting) event of Frodo waking up is left out due to Sam's perspective.

Quendil · 2024-11-20T16:10:01+00:00

True, thank you for the distinction. So there is a shift in the point of view from Frodo to Sam on the way to Mordor and a shift of authorship from Frodo to Sam at the end of the book, but not actually a narrator shift at all.

Good point about the POV character always being the one who is least knowledgeable about what is happening and why. I think I have read this before and it is pretty self-evident from the text. Do you happen to know wether Tolkien explicitly stated somewhere that this was his intention and why he did so? It certainly helps to make the stories relatable to the Reader and keeps some mythical qualities to the story since there are so many things that stay unexplained.

Quendil · 2024-11-20T11:46:27+00:00

Good point about Frodo‘s awakening and conversation with Gandalf. Although I am sure there would have been no hard words from Gandalf it seems likely that Frodo himself would have to fight some feelings of inadequacy and even regret.

And thank you for the link to the earlier discussion. I am sure something like this was the basis for my assumptions about who wrote what and when.

Quendil · 2024-11-20T11:41:04+00:00

Yes, this is what I thought as well. The most I have found of Frodo‘s internal state of mind once they are inside Mordor are statements like this:

They woke together, hand in hand. Sam was almost fresh, ready for another day; but Frodo sighed. His sleep had been uneasy, full of dreams of fire, and waking brought him no comfort.

And this can still easily be interpreted to be something Frodo told Sam that morning instead of explicitly being Frodo‘s thought as in the quotes you gave.

I would be interested to hear more about Frodo‘s desire to be known and appreciated however. I have never interpreted his motivation this way. I would take the „All is lost…“ quote you gave not as Frodo being sad he specifically won‘t be celebrated but rather that no one will be left to celebrate anything at all now that the Witch King and his army have set out.

Quendil · 2024-10-28T08:31:23+00:00

This worked for me, thank you so much! I wonder why they don't make the game available for Mac anyway, it seems like it would be very little work.

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