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Twinsies!

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If I had a nickel for every time Richard Armitage played a character with a dragon related illness, I would have 2 nickels... which isn't alot, but it's strange that it happened twice.

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Actually, my first introduction to LoTRs was the animated film... I saw it at a video rental store while staying with my dad when I was about 7, and rented it.

Then FoTR came out, like that year? But I didn't see until it came out on video.

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So book!Thorin was 195 at the time of his death, and for some reason trilogy!Thorin was 104 when he was killed by the pale orc.

Our boy is old.

Also, why shave off 91 years? He's still a cradle robber

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Coming from a so-called modern era where fantasy characters are all sullen Abercrombie models we're told look plain and ordinary, The Hobbit is hugely appreciated for giving us strange, hairy heroes under 4 feet tall who sing and dance all the time.

What do you mean the tall handsome Aragorn isn't the hero of LoTR? Nope, it's the tiny halfling. Nope, the tortured brooding king in The Hobbit is a dwarf.

Beautiful stuff.

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I love that this is actual dialog, describing actual events in the show.

Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x07 || 3x12

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He really does.

He's the reason (largely) for Bilbo's adventure in the first place, which is how he came across the ring and the origin of his fortune. All of which is why Frodo is roped into the happenings of FoTR in the first place. Not to mention, Thorin gifts Bilbo the mithril silver armor/shirt, which is then given to Frodo and saves his life... so yeah, Thorin haunts the rest of Bilbo's life and the FoTR narrative.

if you think about it, thorin kind of haunted the narative in fotr

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Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.

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I hate when a hyperfixation forces you to do work, like write something, publish it, etc. Because inevitably another hyperfixation will all but joust the former from its horse, and you're left scrambling trying to get rider A back on the horse to finish The Work, and rider B is having none of it.

What do you mean I have to finish by deep dive essay into slasher films? We're in Middle-earth, there are Dwarven kings!

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I never made this connection before... holy shit.

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Gandalf, I thought you said this place would be easy to find. I lost my way, twice. I wouldn't have found it at all had it not been for that mark on the door.

Richard Armitage as THORIN II OAKENSHIELD THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (2012)

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I have to say, regardless of some of the edit choices in The Hobbit trilogy, which people may feel good or bad about, the one thing that stands out to me is that Thorin Oakenshield was beautifully captured.

I feel like Armitage gave us a definitive Thorin that feels very true in nature to the Thorin on the page, and I'm grateful for that.

Also, they let him be kind of majestic, which is obviously fitting for a king, but also that was one of the things that stood out in the book, how Thorin was always regarded somewhat separately with a level of awe.

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Harping on my Bagginsheild ways, as one does, it is worth noting that in terms of complimentary races in the Tolkienverse, Dwarves and Hobbits are uniquely well-suited.

Both dwell underground (Dwarves more than Hobbits, but the inclination is there all the same)

Both are private peoples suspicious of outsiders.

Both love a good meal and wine and are always happy to eat and make merry.

Both (to greater or lesser degrees) collect and hoard valuables.

Both are quite short.

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I mean, you would, right?

Friendly reminder that Bilbo brushes his feet hair

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There was definitely an agenda when they wrote/played the scenes between Thorin and Bilbo, because I swear to god the romantic tension is intense, complete with aborted confessions and swelling music. But the book? The book is not very shippable at all.

They really worked to put that romance in there.

The gay agenda is real, and Peter Jackson is behind it.

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I'm sure watching Xena as a kid had nothing to do whatsoever with how I turned out.