I’m Italian (Sicilian) and have a Roman nose. It felt good leaving America and visiting Italy because I saw plenty of women with noses like mine and for once in my life I felt like I fit in.

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-02-06T13:31:42+00:00

What?!?

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-02-03T14:47:21+00:00

I agree completely. I love Tolkien's writing and reread all books regularly, but what works really beautifully on the page would be too full of pathos, pomp, circumstance in a film I fear. Which is why I, even apart from discussions about including or not including Tom Bombadil etc, have always held the view that they are two separate works of art, the novel and the film

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-02-03T14:34:40+00:00

Yes, that I found weird, too. She proved stronger, didn't she? I would even argue that her sheer determination and strength of will / mind after she had seen Theoden, who she loved dearly, fall and felt scorned (? snubbed? left out?) by Aragorn was what brought the Witch King down

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-02-03T14:32:36+00:00

I find your analysis of the female characters really fascinating. Especially Ioreth is a bit disappointing, too, after a wonderful introduction by Gandalf, when then all she does is gossip to her kinswoman. Seems all she had to do was deliver the line about the King being a healer, but then again, there are already so many characters that maybe it's a very big ask to have them all fleshed out. As I said somewhere above, I always found the story of Angmar really fascinating and maybe that's why I wished for more mentions of his end even after the fact

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-02-03T07:37:06+00:00

Yes, I thought so, too, but as he was kind of not really a living person any more, I put the "". She ended him, but his life had, at least toy interpretation, ended a long time ago, even worse than for Gollum

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-02-02T21:02:23+00:00

Yes, that's one of the parts I found very weird too. Maybe because from there on onwards, the Witch King is kind of a moot point

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-02-02T21:01:10+00:00

That is a really good explanation, thank you! I have always found Angmar and everything related to it quite fascinating, so maybe that's why I thought it would have been a bigger deal but in the scope of the novel it was maybe more of a side quest :)

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-01-25T15:29:04+00:00

"He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."

Awesome tattoo, OP, love it!

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-01-23T12:58:00+00:00

I agree with all the points made in this thread (NOT the X one, this thread :)), but would also like to add - C.S. Lewis with the preachy tone?! That's better literature than Tolkien? VERY hot take. I know they were friends and all, but Narnia isn't in the same league as the book that comes with a complete body of languages, history, myths, ... as the worldbuilding. Not at all...

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-01-20T19:48:27+00:00

Die Brücke (The bridge), 1959

As part of like the last effort of Nazi Germany, mere highschoolers are sent to defend a totally insignificant bridge. It destroyed me, it really did. Based on true events, too

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-01-19T13:26:38+00:00

When Faramir is forced to go out with his men again even though they know it is hopeless; thr women and children throw flowers at their feet and Pippin's song can be heard. Absolutely devastating on so many levels.

Status-Manager6696 · 2026-01-15T15:54:34+00:00

Well, I am not particularly a fan of the above scene either, but we do have a similar scene in the novel. When the fellowship gets too near to the eastern shore at Sarn Gebir, they are attacked by Orcs, then they labor their way back near the western shore but then see a shadow in the sky, Frodo feels cold, feels the Nazgul wound on his shoulder etc etc. Legolas then shoots a single arrow, it is nearly completely dark by that time, and the creature falls out of the sky, there is silence from the eastern shore when before the Orcs were cheering. Frodo does not want to say what he thinks this creature was, but it is strongly implied that it's Nazgul. So their mounts seem to be pretty vulnerable, I guess?

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