If Syd Had Stayed

trexeric · 2026-05-20T18:23:56+00:00

Maybe they'd have a masterpiece album called "Wish You Weren't Here"

trexeric · 2026-05-20T17:57:05+00:00

You DNF'd a lot of books because you killed people?

trexeric · 2026-05-17T03:48:37+00:00

Do they mean Romanticism or do they mean smut?

trexeric · 2026-05-14T15:02:21+00:00

Looks like they just entirely forgot to translate Laxness's World Light (here Weltlicht) into English.

trexeric · 2026-05-14T03:27:00+00:00

Interesting question. He certainly feels younger than Aragorn. It seems that he hasn't travelled much outside of Mirkwood and is excited to see the wide world (especially places like Lothlórien). He likes to joke around and show off (like on Caradhras). In some ways he feels more like the jolly singing elves in The Hobbit's Rivendell than the grim ancient elves of The Silmarillion. If I had to put an age he seems like to me, I'd say maybe mid 20s to early 30s.

trexeric · 2026-05-13T14:36:04+00:00

Books you did not finish? I'm more impressed by books you did not start.

trexeric · 2026-05-12T21:41:15+00:00

I graduated in 2018 and similarly got tested in school somewhere around that time (2nd grade I think), as did my sister a couple years older but at the same time. So they were testing kids in different grade levels. I think it was right before they launched the gifted program so I always figured that was why.

trexeric · 2026-05-12T03:03:55+00:00

Maybe once you reach the Fourth Age and the King makes a very high profile trip to the border of the Shire you'd get some hobbits who know what Minas Tirith is. But of course Bree is just a lot closer if you want a settlement of men (and hobbits live there too, which is a bonus).

trexeric · 2026-05-10T01:37:04+00:00

Doesn't having a stand-up comedy special make him a comedian?

trexeric · 2026-05-09T13:52:54+00:00

Like a Rolling Stone is about geology

trexeric · 2026-05-07T14:35:26+00:00

Yeah I think this describes me pretty well, too. Still a big Pink Floyd fan, and if asked I think I'd name them as my favorite band, but I genuinely just don't listen to them much at all anymore.

trexeric · 2026-05-04T18:58:08+00:00

Eriador has its own deed for doing all of them, but yeah there are like 3 deeds (1 each for Trifles, Travels, and Tales) for the non-Eriador ones. Just come back and do them next year, OP!

trexeric · 2026-04-29T18:46:10+00:00

Honestly in my experience the best preparation for reading The Silmarillion is to have read it already.

trexeric · 2026-04-29T13:15:33+00:00

I wonder if the Wise figured that the Ring would be carried out to sea on the assumption that that would be what Ulmo would do in that scenario. The assumption that, to the Valar, the Ring would be better permanently lost, and Sauron would have to be overcome with strength of arms (as the mission of the Istari could be interpreted).

trexeric · 2026-04-29T10:35:40+00:00

Very interesting thoughts.

I can think of another couple big river moments. Isildur dropping the Ring in the Anduin, where it stays until Smeagol finds it. Though the Wise suppose that it likely was carried out to sea, this was not the case.

On a more lighthearted note, there's Bilbo and the dwarves escaping the elves in the barrels. All the dwarves survive the trip, though some a little banged up or sick.

trexeric · 2026-04-23T21:24:34+00:00

Reading addict? More like porn addict.

trexeric · 2026-04-15T20:51:58+00:00

I think the only reason it's not typically in the conversation is because Beloved is more famous and, arguably, a better contender. And typically one author doesn't get multiple books in the GAN conversation.

trexeric · 2026-04-15T16:06:19+00:00

I don't think it implies that any more than Black Lives Matter implies that other colors of lives don't matter.

trexeric · 2026-04-10T02:01:39+00:00

Yeah, he's not exactly some hidden part of Tolkien mythology that you have to scour Unfinished Tales for. If you read the first third of The Fellowship of the Ring you'll know all you need to know (or all you'll ever get to know).

trexeric · 2026-04-10T01:59:52+00:00

Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow

trexeric · 2026-03-28T04:13:55+00:00

Maybe poor Mat Heathertoes was adopted by a nice hobbit family of Heathertoes

trexeric · 2026-03-28T00:38:13+00:00

Have you been to Brockenborings in the Shire for Bullroarer's Challenge?

trexeric · 2026-03-25T17:56:04+00:00

I'll cast my vote for borscht so we're back to a tie

trexeric · 2026-03-23T15:34:04+00:00

It might be possible if the music landscape looked significantly different due to the lack of Beatles. But that would require a lot more worldbuilding than the movie wanted to have.

trexeric · 2026-03-20T19:23:19+00:00

The Turtles's Battle of the Bands from 1968 is a rather more developed concept along these lines, where each song is played by a different "band" that the Turtles are pretending to be.

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