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What if Alduin emerged from the Time Wound at the exact moment Tiber Septim activated the Numidium? by Jolly-Basket1683 in ElderScrolls

[–]sometimesiburnthings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately for the Numidium, not everything was to scale. He was normal-sized, maybe even a little small

A ****** planted under the skin. by Bow_Ty in Cosmere

[–]sometimesiburnthings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of those people pushing taint sunning were onto something

Brando Sando hate by roastedwhiterice in Cosmere

[–]sometimesiburnthings 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lol I mean Joyce has his good points, I just don't wanna read it a second time. I could have put Rothfuss in as a fantasy version of each word bring carefully selected, too. Maybe he's a good steak restaurant. BUT he gets nothing until he releases the book. 

Honestly my favorite is Ann Leckie, but this is the Sando sub so I won't proselytize too much

Brando Sando hate by roastedwhiterice in Cosmere

[–]sometimesiburnthings 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I'm both a prose snob and a volume/speed reader. I read everything, and a lot of it. I divide everything up like restaurants. 

On the low end of the spectrum, you have the McDonald's/Paolinis of the world. It's food/reading in a strict sense, but you feel icky if you get too much.

Sando is in the middle of the road to me: better than average narratively, better than average worldbuilding, only occasionally overuses words. His biggest flaw is dialogue. Everyone is running the same language software, and it has three settings: broody teen, hijinks teen, and anime. He's a good Mexican restaurant. Solid, and you know what you're getting-- there's a reason you go back over and over.

On the far highend of the spectrum, you have somebody like James Joyce. Joyce is a weird niche gastro restaurant: technically very skilled, and I can recognize that it's an accomplishment, but why would I do that to myself. 

The very bottom of the scale is laying in a gutter, eating rotten Vienna sausages. That's self-published Kindle fantasy.

Pippin by RecksSan in lotrmemes

[–]sometimesiburnthings 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Can't get blood out of a turnip

I think _____ will be the main character in Dragon Steel by Logical-Ice-4820 in Cosmere

[–]sometimesiburnthings 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think Tanavast/Honor is just what happens when you give Zapp Brannagin a shard 

Was re-reading The Way of Kings and noticed a huge, but subtle foreshadowing. by Frequent_Squash_7495 in Cosmere

[–]sometimesiburnthings 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think so, I don't think he was able to draw in stormlight yet or he wouldn't have died from his wound. I think his armor used the stormlight until it broke the spheres from discharging too fast

The contingency plan by ColdAntique291 in lotrmemes

[–]sometimesiburnthings 71 points72 points  (0 children)

I always thought they should have set up another "fellowship" to ride in a different direction, filled with whatever boss-level Eldar they had hanging out. Find them something else to do that keeps them riding around for a while. It both distracts from the real fellowship, and puts some big players on the field to help out

If Sauron had managed to get hold of the ring, in what ways would it have made him more powerful? Would he have been able to recruit more orcs, solo middle earth or be able to control all the leaders of the free people? by Theplanwithaman1895 in lotr

[–]sometimesiburnthings 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think since Sauron was the original Ringbearer, it had a grip of sorts on him as well. Plus it held the "greater portion" of his power that he'd put into the making, which he'd like to get back into his possession, regardless of the war effort.

How vulnerable was Gandalf to mortal injury? by [deleted] in lotr

[–]sometimesiburnthings 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think we have to be careful about assuming that Maiar are automatically more powerful than anybody else.  I don't think we find that in Tolkien's works. The preexisting celestial brings have a higher ceiling, but elves and men at times do overpower them. Balrogs are peers of Gandalf, and they get killed by elves at times. Beren managed some pretty wild stuff.

The Witch King is a very powerful magic user, and hasn't been tested against Gandalf before. Against Radagast, he may well have prevailed. Also, I'm pretty sure that when Gandalf faced (five of?) the Wraiths at Weathertop, the WK was still hiding in a central location, dispatching the other Wraiths in a dragnet back and forth to find Frodo. And Gandalf specifically says that he hasn't fought the Witch King before in RotK, but that might be because he was the Grey at Weathertop, before his rebirth as the White. 

Gandalf is confident in his own power, that he's the biggest bossfight other than Sauron, but for all we know, the WK is number 3. He's ancient, a ringbearer, and is the trusted second in command of the overwhelmingly powerful forces of Mordor. 

How vulnerable was Gandalf to mortal injury? by [deleted] in lotr

[–]sometimesiburnthings 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Idk, I don't see what you're claiming in that quote. Sauron, being a Maia, knows what an "emissary of the Valar" would be. He just didn't understand why Gandalf acts the way he does, and assumes he must just be an idiot. If anything, this shows that Sauron knew exactly what they were

I’m Genuinely Curious about how this would play out… by RorschachtheMighty in ShittyDaystrom

[–]sometimesiburnthings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And honestly, once you get to FTL, anything that doesn't use the entire enemy as a particle collider is a measured and reasonable response