What are they gonna do with the Ring's power, how would it even corrupt them in any useful way
Because those Eagles are in fact not just big birds but rather the favoured subjects of Manwe, who is the Lord of the Valar and servant of Eru, and they are clever beings that think for themselves, have Kings and Chieftains and so on, and notably are proud and imperious types. The Ring would almost certainly be able to seduce them with dreams of becoming dominant over the other beasts of the world, hunting and slaying as they see fit, and so keeping the Ring away from things with wingspans like fucking fighter jets and talons as long as your arm seems like a pretty good idea.
the worst part of the harry potter epilogue is that all the names in it are terrible
like, the names in that series aren't generally subtle but the epilogue is basically "hey kids you're all named after dead friends and relatives ok cool"
SCORPIUS wasn't
That's the one part of the ep I like, because it makes me think of Farscape. Oh Scorpy, you're one of my favorite supervillains of all time.
Also Tolkien was a Catholic and the Eagles are a big of a representation of divine intervention, and in his view you do not question or demand divine intervention but rather hold to faith, do your best, and if God does intervene then that's Gods will and plan, for He moves in mysterious ways etc.
Also Tolkien was a Catholic and the Eagles are a big of a representation of divine intervention, and in his view you do not question or demand divine intervention but rather hold to faith, do your best, and if God does intervene then that's Gods will and plan, for He moves in mysterious ways etc.
So him talking to the butterfly was his version of praying?
Also Tolkien was a Catholic and the Eagles are a big of a representation of divine intervention, and in his view you do not question or demand divine intervention but rather hold to faith, do your best, and if God does intervene then that's Gods will and plan, for He moves in mysterious ways etc.
So him talking to the butterfly was his version of praying?
Mythrandir is literally an angel sent to Middle-Earth. He can ask for it whenever the hell he wants.
Also Tolkien was a Catholic and the Eagles are a big of a representation of divine intervention, and in his view you do not question or demand divine intervention but rather hold to faith, do your best, and if God does intervene then that's Gods will and plan, for He moves in mysterious ways etc.
So him talking to the butterfly was his version of praying?
It's not really a literal representation (it is sort of, though), but 1) Gandalf is an angelic being anyway, so things are a bit different for him, and 2) Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings are rather different in a number of ways, and this is one of them.
These are the same arguments that people make when hey have no idea what plot holes are and say a narrative is full of them.
Care to explain?
The things you are complaining about are things that are ultimately inconsequential and things that the narrative simply does not care about. The world building is extensive when it comes to the school and Harry's environment before school, and the sports world and stuff that matters to harry. The political and economic stuff only matters inasmuch as Rowling sees fit to make them basically conservative nightmares. Asking why wizards don't heal cancer is missing the point. What matters is that the school feels like a breathing living place and that diagon alley feels like a hidden anachronistic wizard area, and they do.
Why didn't wizards help in WWII? Who cares? They did or didn't and whatever. The minister is part of the British government but they have no place in actual muggle affairs? Yes because the narrative revolves around the genre convention that magic must stay hidden from the world at large.
You're looking for things that don't matter and that the narrative has no business broaching.
If you want a book that wants to somewhat seriously examine magic coming into the real world and how that would effect politics, read Jonathan strange and mr. Norell
Like I said before, the crux of those issues is that HP exists in this British bubble. Yeah you have foreign schools and hermione sends her parents to Australia iirc, but for the most part, the series doesn't even deal with voldemort's impact anywhere other than the UK.
It's fine if you keep everything confined within that bubble but test it too much and the whole thing pops.
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Why would it need to involve anywhere else? Voldemort is a domestic threat, not an international one (he doesn't really seem to be interested of anywhere outside Britain), and magical society is small enough that overseas relations might be very ad hoc rather complex, formalised diplomatic and economic affairs.
People don't have wills read aloud anymore. They used to do it when people were illiterate, but nowadays you can just let people read the will for themselves. But was estate attorneys who did it when it happened.
Why would it need to involve anywhere else? Voldemort is a domestic threat, not an international one (he doesn't really seem to be interested of anywhere outside Britain), and magical society is small enough that overseas relations might be very ad hoc rather complex, formalised diplomatic and economic affairs.
I think voldemort focused on england because that is his hood, so to speak
It has: his old teacher, his cadre of classmate cronies, the one person in the world to whom his fate seems bound, the queen, his collection of immortality items, and presumably the rest of his nose (somewhere)
once he had taken the motherland and eliminated all rivals of note who is to say he wouldn't have expanded outwards (or just declared himself world wide wizarding world leader and had his cabal start knocking over the other centers of wizard power)
Who's to say that any other country really gives a shit about a homegrown UK sorcerer? Or even know that anything is going on?
Like, we aren't talking about a people who have espionage agencies, really.
It's me I am to say he would and that they would care
Because I think it fits his super villain progression and also I like it more than a guy who wants to just be the boss of one dreary little island despite being a powerhouse
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Because those Eagles are in fact not just big birds but rather the favoured subjects of Manwe, who is the Lord of the Valar and servant of Eru, and they are clever beings that think for themselves, have Kings and Chieftains and so on, and notably are proud and imperious types. The Ring would almost certainly be able to seduce them with dreams of becoming dominant over the other beasts of the world, hunting and slaying as they see fit, and so keeping the Ring away from things with wingspans like fucking fighter jets and talons as long as your arm seems like a pretty good idea.
That's the one part of the ep I like, because it makes me think of Farscape. Oh Scorpy, you're one of my favorite supervillains of all time.
Take it and go crazy in a cave where sauron's boys will come kill them and take it back
So him talking to the butterfly was his version of praying?
Mythrandir is literally an angel sent to Middle-Earth. He can ask for it whenever the hell he wants.
I still cannot believe I'm willingly buying a Lord of the Rings game later this month
It looks super rad though
It's not really a literal representation (it is sort of, though), but 1) Gandalf is an angelic being anyway, so things are a bit different for him, and 2) Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings are rather different in a number of ways, and this is one of them.
Basically, why did Gandalf say 'fly you fools'? Because he had a secret plan he hadn't told anyone about to travel to the eagles and fly to Mordor.
Uh
Its because that means run away
Yes it is, that is why it's a joke.
Care to explain?
The things you are complaining about are things that are ultimately inconsequential and things that the narrative simply does not care about. The world building is extensive when it comes to the school and Harry's environment before school, and the sports world and stuff that matters to harry. The political and economic stuff only matters inasmuch as Rowling sees fit to make them basically conservative nightmares. Asking why wizards don't heal cancer is missing the point. What matters is that the school feels like a breathing living place and that diagon alley feels like a hidden anachronistic wizard area, and they do.
Why didn't wizards help in WWII? Who cares? They did or didn't and whatever. The minister is part of the British government but they have no place in actual muggle affairs? Yes because the narrative revolves around the genre convention that magic must stay hidden from the world at large.
You're looking for things that don't matter and that the narrative has no business broaching.
but it doesn't, which is fine
It's fine if you keep everything confined within that bubble but test it too much and the whole thing pops.
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But I also think that it doesn't truly matter to the story being told and it is coming very close to picking nits
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Avengers? Maybe a main x-book? Whatever, I'd probably read it either way.
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http://wills.about.com/od/estateplanning101/qt/What-Happens-At-The-Reading-Of-A-Will.htm
because that is a thing that happened
I think I was put in Slytherin too. I made an account, but never actually did anything with it.
It's like CRT monitors and circle dial phones.
I think voldemort focused on england because that is his hood, so to speak
It has: his old teacher, his cadre of classmate cronies, the one person in the world to whom his fate seems bound, the queen, his collection of immortality items, and presumably the rest of his nose (somewhere)
once he had taken the motherland and eliminated all rivals of note who is to say he wouldn't have expanded outwards (or just declared himself world wide wizarding world leader and had his cabal start knocking over the other centers of wizard power)
Like maybe there were nations where there wasn't such a clear divide
What would the wizarding world in China have looked like? Or Egypt? Any of the places with old stories and old powers?
Who's to say that any other country really gives a shit about a homegrown UK sorcerer? Or even know that anything is going on?
Like, we aren't talking about a people who have espionage agencies, really.
It's me I am to say he would and that they would care
Because I think it fits his super villain progression and also I like it more than a guy who wants to just be the boss of one dreary little island despite being a powerhouse