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balaenabooks · 9 months ago

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At the risk of making professor tolkien rotate in his grave like a goddamn rotisserie chicken, I propose the ents/entwives, instead of being just tree people, could be redesigned as sentient hadrosaurs.

I mean, they're ridiculously huge, those elaborate headcrests are perfect for amplifying their trumpeting calls (or for intense infrasonic rumbles), and they could be perfectly camouflaged in a forest (their legs would just look like tree trunks).

They could also be redesigned as sauropods for similar reasons (but you'd be missing out on the crazy headcrests).

Tolkien made the Silmarillion like the history of our world, so where are the dinosaurs? And don’t bring up dragons and shit. I want Turin killing a velociraptor.

#although i think the real reasons there's no dinosaurs in arda are these:#1) tolkien was a hardcore traditionalist catholic so dinosaurs and evolution would have clashed with his beliefs #and 2) in tolkien's time dinosaurs weren't the active intelligent colorful animals as scientists and general public know them today #they were seen as big stupid evolutionary failures and not much more than hollywood movie monsters #and tolkien probably didn't think of them as a good fit for his fictional world #i believe that if tolkien knew what we know now about dinosaurs he absolutely would have put them in middle-earth #the balrog would have been a fiery demonic carnotaurus

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