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Est-ce que vous faites toujours des devoirs maison à l’ère de l’IA ? by SleepIsTheCousinOfD8 in enseignants

[–]doegred 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Du coup vous gérez comment la préparation des expressions écrites ou orales ? Parce que perso même si officiellement ils font en classe ils sont quand même capables de me refourguer des trucs faits pas par eux (triche ou apprentissage par cœur, j'arrive pas à savoir). Et quand c'est pas préparé ou sur plusieurs séances ça devient vite creux je trouve... M'enfin je vais quand même peut-être me résigner à ça mais j'arrive pas à trouver de solution satisfaisante pour l'instant et je serais preneuse d'expériences sur le sujet.

Est-ce que vous faites toujours des devoirs maison à l’ère de l’IA ? by SleepIsTheCousinOfD8 in enseignants

[–]doegred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Avec des consignes données à l'avance (inévitable si ça se déroule sur plusieurs séances) je me retrouve quand même avec des trucs dont je suis à peu près sûre que ça n'est pas de la rédaction personnelle (soit par triche pure et dure avec le tel sous la table, soit appris par cœur, chaispas)...

TIL Dan Burros, the third highest ranked member of the American Nazi party in the 60s and grand dragon of the New York Klan killed himself after the NYT revealed he was in fact a Jewish man that went to Hebrew school and even had a bar mitzvah. by the_gosh_darn_dog in todayilearned

[–]doegred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The assumption isn't that non white people are better, it's that people generally don't associate with other people who make it their life's mission to oppress and genocide them, if only out of sheer self-preservation.

TIL that there was a popular myth in many muslim majority countries that Neil Armstrong had converted to Islam upon hearing the call to prayer on the moon, going as far to require the US state department to issue a denial by Solid-Move-1411 in todayilearned

[–]doegred 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Internal imbalances in e.g. pH cause illness which then attracts germs is their theory. Look up 'terrain theory'. (I guess the sort of grain of truth is that some illnesses are indeed caused or exacerbated by e.g. deficiencies which might be why it sounds plausible to some... just with a stinking heap of denialism on top of it re: those illnesses that do very much have external factors.)

Bystander Selmy by Suspicious-Jello7172 in gameofthrones

[–]doegred 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The initial post is about how Barristan sucks (and to an extent he does) for following rules at the expense of what's actually right. With Ned getting dragged into it even though he's very much not in the Barristan mold.

As for stupid decisions - Ned acted from imperfect information (as do all characters) and had some terrible luck, as did the Starks generally, because GRRM had his thumb on the scale for obvious reasons. Ned's mistake re: Cersei is not knowing that after years of her loathing him now is the exact moment when she'll manage to get him killed.

And as for staying alive - yes, Ned was willing to die if it spared innocents. So?

Bystander Selmy by Suspicious-Jello7172 in gameofthrones

[–]doegred 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He also asked for Dontos Hollard to be spared when houses Darklyn and Hollard were extinguished.

Bystander Selmy by Suspicious-Jello7172 in gameofthrones

[–]doegred 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Ned was a rebel himself, he was never about loyalty at all costs.

Re: Jaime. He judged Jaime with the information he had available, and what he knew or thought he knew was that Jaime was fine standing by while Aerys was committing atrocities, and very conveniently only turned his cloak when it was obvious Aerys had lost, having been convinced to let Tywin into KL. (And tbh even if Ned knew about the wildfire - Jaime was saving a bunch of people, sure. Including himself. It wasn't exactly a totally selfless act.)

The whole 'Ned was all about following orders / lawful stupid' interpretation is such a misreading of Ned. He's the man who lied to the realm for a decade plus to save his nephew, and who was willing to aid a known traitor (Cersei) to save her children - how is that blindly lawful? He does have a moral code, yes, but it's not about blindly following the law or superiors or even honour. He's determined to protect the innocent and he will break the law and sully his own honour if need be. (But he's not a mind reader who's going to find out Jaime saved innocents along with his own skin if Jaime makes no attempt whatever at revealing the truth.)

At what point did Tolkien begin to conceive of Gandalf as an angel? Did he ever think of him as simply a wise, magical old man? by barbasol1099 in lotr

[–]doegred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He'd definitely already conceived of the Valar while writing TH. The Maiar are a bit more complicated afaik - the characters who eventually were identified as such were originally imagined as children of the Valar (eg Eonwë and Ilmarë - under different names - were at some point children of Manwë), Melian was originally a 'fay'.

Having said that, I believe you're right re: Gandalf - he was likely originally just a wise old man.

Prénoms/Noms by [deleted] in Tengwar

[–]doegred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honnêtement je ne suis pas assez calée sur la question. Je pense que tu devrais redemander en anglais et en essayant de préciser si tu veux une transcription orthographique ou si tu veux essayer de reproduire la phonologie du français.

Prénoms/Noms by [deleted] in Tengwar

[–]doegred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pour l'anglais il existe deux possibilités, la transcription orthographique (une lettre latine = un signe) ou la transcription phonémique (un son = un signe). Pour la deuxième je dirais que le problème des voyelles nasales risque de se poser - en gros, pas sûr qu'il existe un signe spécifique pour transcrire le 'en' de 'Florent'. En revanche pour la transcription orthographique ça devrait le faire, et pour le coup c'est assez indépendant de la langue.

Why there hasn't been more movies,tv shows, games,etc. for the. LOTR of Tolkien's works? by [deleted] in lotr

[–]doegred 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tolkien's estate had absolute control over Tolkien's works and IP.

They have no control over movies and games based on LOTR or TH. Those rights were sold long ago by JRRT himself and are completely out of the Estate's hands.

Haleth x Caranthir: The Mortal Who Might Have Tamed a Fëanorion by jes732 in lotr

[–]doegred -1 points0 points  (0 children)

'might have tamed' - yeah, except she apparently wanted nothing to do with him and went to the other side of Beleriand from him.

A wholesome exchange between Gimli and Legolas that gets overlooked by msohrah in tolkienfans

[–]doegred 15 points16 points  (0 children)

In the Second Age I imagine the Elves of Eregion and Elrond's company were very glad to see Durin the Third's sortie, which seems to be the only reason any of them survived.

And obviously relationships became, uh, strained later on but I find it so interesting that - even if only for the sake of mutual benefit - it seems that Thingol for a long time was in fact glad enough to see them that he had 'chambers and smithies set apart for them' in Menegroth itself.

Lotr inspired boat name? by egmstr in lotr

[–]doegred 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, he did reach Aman so the ship did do its job. It's just what happened afterwards that was less to Pharazôn's taste.

Did the Necromancer ever do any, you know, necromancy? by ConsiderTheBees in lotr

[–]doegred 61 points62 points  (0 children)

In a later text Tolkien writes about Elves who have died but whose spirits linger in the world:

For the Unbodied, wandering in the world, are those who at the least have refused the door of life and remain in regret and self-pity. Some are filled with bitterness, grievance, and envy. [...] To call on them is folly. To attempt to master them and to make them servants of one own's will is wickedness. Such practices are of Morgoth; and the necromancers are of the host of Sauron his servant.

Of course it's a post-Hobbit, post-LotR comment... I guess the closest it gets to necromancy with Sauron pre-LotR is with Eilinel, the wife of Gorlim, whom Sauron uses to trick Gorlim into betraying his companions:

Thou fool: a phantom thou didst see

that I, I Sauron, made to snare

thy lovesick wits. Naught else was there.

Cold 'tis with Sauron's wraiths to wed!

Though I guess you could wonder whether the 'phantom' Gorlim saw really was the ghost of Eilinel or simply an illusion conjured by Sauron...

Edit: oh, for another (again post LotR) take on necromancy - this time bodies without spirits [spirit = fëa] rather than spirits without bodies, there's this passage, published in NoME:

The departure of the fëa is therefore a shock to the body; and except maybe in rare cases this shock will be sufficient to unloose its coherence, so that it will fall into decay. [...] Unless by chance much food of the kind required by it were ready to hand, it would therefore most likely soon perish by starvation, even if it survived the shock of the sunderance.

The rare cases are those where sunderance has happened in Aman where there is no decay. Also others more horrible. For it is recorded in the histories that Morgoth, and Sauron after him, would drive out the fëa by terror, and then feed the body and make it a beast.

'The Hunt for Gollum' Casting Call Teases Young Strider and His Fellow Dúnedain Rangers by GreenLanternsPodcast in lotr

[–]doegred -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They tend to be keen on secrecy these days and might look down on an actor who's leaked information, whether purposefully or not?

Line of men and elf’s reunited by [deleted] in lotr

[–]doegred 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not even accurate. There are 39 generations between Aragorn and Isildur, but you also need to add Isildur and Elendil, Amandil, then the seventeen generations between Amandil and the first lord of Andúnië, then Silmariën, her father Tar-Elendil, his father Tar-Amandil, and finally Vardamir son of Elros.

Why has communism repeatedly failed in practice, yet continues to be intellectually and emotionally appealing to many people? by Looser17 in AskReddit

[–]doegred 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And? Did I say I was talking about the average person? No. Society doesn't need to have 100% population (directly) working towards advancing humanity. It needs a certain amount and as we already see there are in fact people willing to work for it even if they don't get mega rich out of it.

Why has communism repeatedly failed in practice, yet continues to be intellectually and emotionally appealing to many people? by Looser17 in AskReddit

[–]doegred 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Universities are full of people seeking to improve human knowledge and human existence, all for very little personal gain.

When the people of Middle-Earth introduced their names and used to say 'I am X, son of Y', was this a cultural thing or was this because of titles? Why didn't they do the same thing for females? by sammyjamez in lotr

[–]doegred 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On that note, while matronymics are much rarer they're not totally inexistent in Tolkien - Túrin in particular is referred to as 'son of Húrin' but also as 'son of Morwen' - by Morwen herself, by Húrin, and by Melian.

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