06-17-2003, 03:26 PM | #41 |
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Trivia Quiz: Who knows what Ungoliant was? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One Mother of a Spider...possibly the Mother of all Spiders and her last known surviving descendant was Shelob [img]smile.gif[/img] |
06-17-2003, 04:43 PM | #42 |
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Is that the one who devoured a silmaril, or was that shelob herself (I was about 13 when I read the silmarilian, nearly ten years now)
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06-17-2003, 05:08 PM | #43 |
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No, I don't think Ungoliant swollowed a Silmaril...I think that would have destroyed her, A wolf swollowed one along with Beren's hand....but it died when the Silmaril ate out it's innards I think.... |
06-17-2003, 06:08 PM | #44 |
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Possibly the Balrog did have wings, but...
No! No! NO! Don't start that again! This hydra-like debate has caused more ill-feeling and spite than you know! The War of the Wing never ends...
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06-17-2003, 08:06 PM | #45 |
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Aw, don't worry, Tancred, we're just sparring. I can see, though, how in a forum with really dedicated Tolkienists, ink (if not blood) would spill. To quote Michael Martinez, "People are very impassioned about their vision of Tolkien's world." True words!
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06-18-2003, 12:42 PM | #49 |
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Real wings...fake wings...smoke wings...hot wings...What difference does it make???
I have a far more pertinent question about the Balrog in Durin's Keep. In the book (and the movie), Gandalf knows their is a Balrog in the depths of the Keep. That is why he gets so ticked at Pippin for knocking the skeleton (and it's armor) down the well. As powerful as Gandalf is, even HE is afraid of facing a Balrog in combat. So once the party defeats the orcs and ogre(?), he has them running at max dit dit to get out of there before Mr. Fire and Brimstone shows up. Then they get trapped in the Dining Hall and are surrounded by more than a thousand orcs. The situation looks bad and the odds seem unbeatable. Suddenly, a footstep rumbles through the cavern and a sulphuric smell drifts menacingly into the Hall. Then the Balrog ROARS!!!! - shaking the very foundations of this dwarven-crafted cavern. The orcs ALL run away before you can blink an eye....yet the party stands there transfixed....waiting to see just WHAT could be coming towards them. EXCUUUUSE ME!!!!! This thing just scattered ALL the orcs like field mice with it's voice alone, it's footsteps cause the bedrock of the cavern to rumble, and even Gandalf turns pale at the prospect of facing it. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW???? RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!
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06-18-2003, 12:49 PM | #50 |
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But weren't the Spiders of Mirkwood Shelob's children? Seems like I read that somewhere. If that was the case, then obviously, Shelob wasn't the last of her line!
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