LOTR future is the ultimate goal of humanity @Wood-Ape - OK/MN

Since my father is a stonemason I’ll put in a pitch for brick and stone buildings

@godric it absolutely does not lmao

im mostly kidding

a future they never made it to. F

Unfortunately very little Numenorean archietecture survived the end of the Second Age. Even in Minas Tirith, only the black wall is auhentically Numenorean, with the rest of the city being constructed or rebuilt by Gondorean Kings durring the early third age.

The most intact survivng Numenorean structure in Middle Earth today is Isengard, recently given to the use of the benevelent Wizard, Saruman the Wise

One thing you guys need to remember is that much of the image of the Soviet Union is due to immigrants exaggerating for sympathy.

I grew up around Eastern European immigrants, I know this.

Immigrants from literally every country will try to convince you that their life was absolute hell.

Actual Eastern Europeans in Eastern Europe are more likely to give you an answer like, "eh, there was good parts and bad parts" while immigrants will go on about "waaa poor me".

I'm not gonna try to tell you it was a first world paradise, but the idea that it was Africa tier starvation is insane.

@Ben Rainsford - OH did we just become best friends

anybody who posts Minas Tirith with an accurate outer wall is a friend of mine

I wonder how many other dissident right groups have long conversations about European art styles. I'm willing to bet it's just us and GI

And yet even the height of Numenor itself was a pale shadow compared to the bright but short-lived Noldor kingdoms, which themselves were echoes of the far West.

*FAR WEST POSTING NOW

Tolkien was a true mid-century Anglo. He could not conceive of a cosmology and civilizational cycle that was not ultimately phases of decline.

FINGOLFIN GANG

THIS IS NOW ANTI MORGOTH HOURS

Tasteful edit

yeah I goofed

been re reading lately

I read once a year tbh

good night evropa

any of you guys pick up Gondolin?

https://youtu.be/caeRXCoFBLg

Any you gents read the wheel of time or lionessa yet?

@Kingfish No, I have too many books I haven't read already.

I have the first WOT book

havent gotten very far

heard it drags a bit

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxPUgrktzn8
Get it

@Kingfish I would read the Sill every Christmas from ninth grade to sophomore of College. Should give it a look again.

WOT can get /tiresome/ but it really is worth the time

For my Tolkien nibbas out there, Christopher Lee did the Audible version of Children of Hurin

it's magical

The first 3 wheel of time books are great after that the author loses focus and its angry aes sedai women glaring at each other and rand slowly going insane for book after book, punctuated with a few really cool events.

@godric I have seen Blind Guardian live at least 3 times in Denver 10/10 great shows

It really needs to be abridged.

I heard he can't write women for shit

@TylerHess Yeah I hear the girls go full anime harem tier

Absurdity

is that a feminist critique or is he actually just bad at it