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[Withywindle]

Well, why not? :shrug:

[Withywindle]

1. I know for a fact I am not the only one, people!

For the record, my name comes from a small but not-insignificant river on the eastern edge of the Shire. (It's in an important scene in the 'Fellowship of the Ring' book; skipped over completely in the movie.)

[hobbit709]

4. I wasn't up at 3 AM

[Withywindle]

6. I thought you guys got up in the middle of the night to eat.

Don't you call it, like, "pre-breakfast"? :D

[AllenVanAllen]

2. They're all off fighting

the fiends of Mordor!



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[Withywindle]

3. CUTE pic!

Tolkien went through many years of wrangling, ethically speaking, about the state of Orcs in his letters. Trying to reconcile his Catholic faith with the idea of a race of beings basically created to be nothing more but low-level literary bad guys. Yet, as a writer, in all the scenes where Orcs are alone together, he couldn't help but to write them as *characters,* with distinct voices and motivations.

Oops, can't square that with a race of beings created to be mindless and damned cannon fodder.

*WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP MELTDOWN DOES NOT COMPUTE!**

And he always realized he had painted himself into a moral corner. So I respect him, whereas I don't respect the writers who blithely wrote allegories with cardboard cut-out representations of ideas and never lost any sleep over the implications.

[elocs]

5. I know there is a Peregrine Took.

I use a Tolkien quote.