Like reading an encyclopedia. Was quite a rough read.
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This is something I noticed people have been saying, but I never had such problem. I think it might be because Ive had read a Czech translation, so it might have been more palatable than the original Tolkiens English, which can get rather verbose.
Then again, I like reading wiki articles about my favorite games’ lore, so it might be just me being massive nerd.
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the only way i finally got sort of a handle on that one was by actually making an outline on several pages of legal pad.. and now that i think about it, it was absolutely worth it..
Every race has at least one fatal flaw. For the elves, it's basically pride/conservatism (in the original sense of stopping change). Dwarves, greed. Humans, thirst for power. Hobbits, small mindedness. Ents, laziness. Orcs are only flaws basically. They do seem to be able to build machines of war rather well, so they are industrious at least, but only with a strong leader behind them.
Even in the movies it was pretty clear that elves are racist as fuck. If they ran middle Earth they'd genocide the dwarves and enslave the men.
No. Not even close.
Why do you think the friendship between Legolas and Gimli was so notable? Cause dwarves and elves get along? No, cause they historically despise each other, talk down about each other, and distrust each other. Elrond, as well as all the elves of Lorien are openly hostile and intolerant towards Gimli and the dwarves and talk about them like they're animals. I dunno what you call that but racism
What are you talking about? Those Teleri bastards were asking for it.
I've never actually heard someone say that. Lol Or maybe I have and just tuned them out?
Haven't read the sil yet but my impression of the elves from the trilogy was that they're a bunch of intelligent, nostalgic, racist, isolationist weirdos who just so happen to be good hosts and don't wear their bigotry on their sleeves (most of the time)
