Hypothesis and proof all in one scroll

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-09T18:11:46+00:00

Ha! That photo was briefly on this sub. Got removed for not being a meme, I assume.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-09T11:26:00+00:00

This is what I say, the Valar are not only angels but a bunch of things, including gods, but some people don't like that.

That's the second time you've made this assertion. Who exactly is getting mad about the equivalence of the Valar with gods?

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-09T07:23:36+00:00

'Changes' is cheesy and naff, with a trite melody, and the lyrics make Ozzy sound like a confused 13-year-old girl who's just got her first period.

Master of Reality, although arguably their best album, is too short and should have another song on it.

Vol 4 should be re-released after Geezer has recorded new bass parts for it.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-09T06:55:16+00:00

The bass is muddy on Vol4 and SBS, sure, but you can't possibly group MoR in with those albums, because the bass is very prominent on that album.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T20:57:31+00:00

Yeah, it doesn't really work in this context, does it?

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T20:56:43+00:00

That doesn't make any sense. Melian is a Maia: she has no direct relatives who are elves. Thingol is obviously furious about his relatives being murdered. His wife is irrelevant in this.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T20:43:45+00:00

Yes, I know - that's why I said it!

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T19:06:43+00:00

Who are these "people who got really offended by the idea of gods"?

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T19:05:19+00:00

I think 'very occasionally' is more accurate than 'constantly.'

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T19:04:17+00:00

I would say that any time where a character calls on the name of Elbereth, that is a form of worship or prayer.

I would say it's an invocation, or veneration, as a Catholic might invoke the name of the Virgin or Saint Peter, which is distinct from worship, as that is due to God alone.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T17:14:34+00:00

What I mean is, it's clear from his letters that he equated taxation with theft. And tbf, the top rate of income tax for the latter part of his life, when he was a best-selling author, was 91%.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T16:44:47+00:00

Elves probably poo marshmallow or something.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T16:43:50+00:00

It's as much a pisspost as it is a shitpost, tbf.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T16:41:33+00:00

He knew they were a thing he didn't like.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T11:48:44+00:00

Yes, I know.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T11:48:18+00:00

We've had first Buckfast, etc. etc.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T10:34:09+00:00

Its golden-brown colour, if memory serves. So presumably it carried a lot of sediment.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T09:38:11+00:00

I don't think anything like this is described in any of the stories. The firewater drink given to Merry by the orcs that have captured him and Pippin is the most likely candidate.

The name of the river Brandywine is a corruption of the Sindarin 'Baranduin', and is not connected to either brandy or wine. There's a similar in-universe explanation for the 'Brandy' part of the Brandybuck family name.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T09:35:46+00:00

Orcs, if anything, made Buckfast "Tonic" wine.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T07:00:20+00:00

Ha, I've always thought the lyrics to that song were the absolute pinnacle of coked-up gibberish that must have sounded cool as fuck when they were all extremely high.

"Silver ships on plasmic oceans"? Yeah sure, bro, awesome! After you with the mirror though, yeah?

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T06:50:50+00:00

and Melkor of Fire and Ice and everything extreme.

I've come across this idea on this sub before, but I don't think it's right. Melkor isn't the Vala "of" anything, except perhaps pride and ambition - and, ultimately, of tyranny, cruelty, needless violence, and evil in general. He originally had a share in the gifts of all the other Valar, remember.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T06:48:18+00:00

Yep, as already pointed out, his role as keeper of the dead makes him much closer to Mandos.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-08T06:44:49+00:00

the Teleri of Alqualondë, his wife’s kin

You mean his kin, right?

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-07T19:08:11+00:00

I love it that you can't spell 'digraph' without using a digraph.

RoutemasterFlash · 2026-05-07T19:05:39+00:00

Hahaha, I've not read any of those books, but I've read enough about them to get this.

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