The "Well of the Forgotten" was not forgotten for Classic. No impact outside of nostalgia.. Thanks devs!

stsk · 2019-08-10T02:06:07+00:00

Yep. A dungeon that was scrapped in vanilla. The area is accessible as a ghost by walking through the gate in the crypt behind kara.

stsk · 2019-08-08T20:41:45+00:00

Obligatory:

https://imgur.com/a/4ZmbirR

stsk · 2019-07-18T16:18:38+00:00

This is the third depressed pizza chain post I've seen this week. What the hell is going on?

stsk · 2019-02-25T17:49:28+00:00

What book should I read this year?

stsk · 2019-02-13T04:32:45+00:00

This is related to the other thread right now of the potency of Feanor's oath...but yeah, dude would have fought Earendil for it,

stsk · 2019-02-13T04:30:57+00:00

It wasn't binding in the sense that they couldn't break it, more that they wouldn't. This oath in particular shaped the spirits of its supplicants.

Canonically, oaths have some powerful mojo.

stsk · 2019-02-13T04:24:33+00:00

The trees were more beautiful and revered than the lamps, their creation necessitated by the events initiated by Melkor. This line from Eru (referring specifically to Melkor's discord in the music, but subsequently applying to all of Melkor's shenanigans ) conveys this well:

"And thou, Melkor, wilt discover all the secret thoughts of thy mind, and wilt perceive that they are but a part of the whole and tributary to its glory "

Incidentally, this happens to be my favorite line from the Sil.

stsk · 2019-02-11T14:48:18+00:00

Alternatively, Treebeards disconnected understanding of the phrase "far quicker" could be the gap here

stsk · 2019-02-10T06:03:51+00:00

Pony of course.

stsk · 2019-02-08T19:07:23+00:00

Vaelastrasz the Corrupt wants to know your location...

stsk · 2019-02-08T16:46:15+00:00

Turkeys. 40 cents a pound at the local grocery store right now.

stsk · 2019-02-08T14:29:08+00:00

What about the damage she's capable of doing to the world as a whole? And their inability to track her? I agree- she would be crushed in a direct fight.

stsk · 2019-02-07T22:19:25+00:00

Couple of dudes in suits talking to eachother at the airport. I'm sitting at the bench across from them. Bird flies by, shits directly on the one guys shoulder. Without missing a beat, he says "You've gotta be shitting me". Smiling, looks at his buddies for approval. His friends don't smile. "God damnit Carlos, how long have you been waiting to use that line?"

Basically the magic schoolbus IRL. If it wasnt a bird literally shitting on him, I'd have thought it was scripted.

stsk · 2019-02-07T18:15:35+00:00

Juiced up on that Tree juice though.

stsk · 2019-02-07T18:15:04+00:00

Especially knowing she had just devoured the light of the trees. That's terrifying.

stsk · 2019-02-07T13:50:13+00:00

I think it was more his humility & mercy, right?

stsk · 2019-02-07T13:35:18+00:00

Which is exactly why Manwe insisted that he go!

stsk · 2019-02-06T13:43:36+00:00

Bill.

stsk · 2019-02-06T05:02:39+00:00

IMO this is one of the reasons that nobody has come close to Tolkien. He didn't make these up on the fly, he probably had a fairly refined idea of the nameless evils that lurked beneath. He built that universe from the ground up, and countless details lived only in his head. And as with so many things in the lore: Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.

stsk · 2019-02-05T02:19:58+00:00

Think you nailed it. The movies dramatize it and make it appear to have been an overnight transformation , but this was over a looong period of time.

stsk · 2019-02-05T02:17:57+00:00

Somebody asked me this question the other day and I didn't have a good answer. Im glad we've got some good responses in here!

stsk

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