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[–] 207 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

Maia, he?

Maia, hoe.

Maia. Ha ha.

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WHEN YOU LEAVE MY GANDALF TURNS TO GREY

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  • [–] 108 points 11 months ago (24 children)

    I think that is a literal storyline in Belgarath the Sorcerer. The wizard, Belgarath, spends thousands of years monitoring and manipulating various family lines. One of those is a line of dryads who are tiny and all female. He was "forced" to mate with them or they would kill him with bows, but he didn't really complain about it. He is able to avoid these "conflicts" in the future after discovering chocolate makes them orgasm.

    Some times you don't think about how weird this shit gets until you explain it to someone else.

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  • [–] 59 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    Some times you don't think about how weird this shit gets until you explain it to someone else.

    Every anime ever

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    Were the dryads 10,000 year old 12-year-old girls?

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Bad memories since I read last week about David and Leigh Eddings having both spent a year in prison for horrific abuse of their adopted children :(

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah, I loved those books.

    dusty unopened book noises

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I still have them in my collection. All of Eddings, except High Hunt and The Losers. Now I don't want to give them away, yet I no longer cherish them :(

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  • [+] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I have the Dangerous album from Michael Jackson, shelved for decades without listening, for pretty much the same reason :(

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  • [+] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I knew about the allegations against MZB, luckily I never got into her books, so it's not a big loss for me - but just now I got curious and did some reading - Is this article legitimately by MZB's daughter? https://thembeforeus.com/moira-greyland-i-was-born-into-a-family-of-famous-gay-pagan-authors-in-the-late-sixties/

    That's a sad outcome - of course it is understandable that as a traumatized victim she has a risk to have a warped vision of reality - but holy cow, to blame homosexuality as the root of the problem, that's losing the plot entirely.

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  • [–] 58 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Puts a new meaning to hobbit hole.

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Just give that whole hobbit hole description a re-read with this in mind... 😶

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole and that meant comfort."

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago*

    What season of Rings of Power will this subplot be in?

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  • [–] 34 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Wonder what Tolkien would have made of all these fan theories.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Wrong.

    Some of Tolkien's specific inspirations were the Germanic Sagas, including the Nibelungenlied and Volsunga Saga.

    A theme of both is that heros are often descendants of the Aesir, specifically Odin, and Gandalf is patterned after Odin to an undeniable degree, a wise and enigmatic warrior-mage often depicted as grey cloaked, proficient in rune lore, carrying a staff or spear.

    Not only that, Gandalf means elf with a stick, and a common theory for his origin among the men that knew he lived longer than mortals is that he was literally just an elf.

    Tolkien may or may not have specifically intended it, but he'd certainly agree that you could read it that way with the influences he drew from, and it is also a special point of his Middle Earth (aka Midgard btw) that the history they tell isn't necessarily the history that happened. The hobbits having forgotten that it was Gandalf banging GranGran Took or mistaking him as an elf isn't just a likely theory, it's a probable one. Further, we also know that Maia WILL marry and have children from some of his other histories.

    Or not, and it was just an elf who died or returned to Valinor, with Gandalf just keeping an eye on the line! He's tricky like that.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    This is the first I've read this particular take, but I got about the same from my recent read of "The Hobbit". This is, at the least, heavily implied.

    There's clearly a past relationship, causing loyalty, and it specifically follows the Took bloodline.

    I'm sure there are other explanations than Gandalf loving and sleeping with a Took sometime in the past...but there aren't really any simpler explanations that include the familial (possibly genetic) aspect.

    • Gandalf always checks in with Took family members, and has done so longer than anyone can remember.
    • Took family members tend toward an adventurous spirit that defies explanation in their Hobbit culture. Took family members tend to leave home, return wealthy, and say very little about their time spent away.
    • Gandalf only takes an interest in Bilbo upon learning that Bilbo has Took bloodline.
    • Various characters criticise Gandalf's involvement with Hobbits in ways that maybe have "there's more to this" undertones. This one is iffy, there's always "more to this" with Gandalf, anyway.
    • Everyone knows Gandalf loves Hobbit....smoking weed.

    It could really be as simple as Gandalf and a Took Hobbit ages back had adventures and became practically brothers/sisters in arms. Perhaps Gandalf owes some kind of oath to a dying Took. But it doesn't feel like an oath in the books.

    Gandalf acts like distant family.

    But there's undeniably an awful lot of "Gandalf acts like an agesless great great grand uncle to all Tooks" going on.

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    [–] 32 points 11 months ago

    Fuck, that makes more sens then it should.

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago

    I can believe this. Pull some Old Toby out for the ladies and get all staffed up. Gandalf is coming out baby

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago

    That's why he's so pissed at Pippin all the time. He's an embarrassment to the family 😂

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    They don't hve extra pointy ears

    But neither do elves, as far as we know.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Might also be why all the other older hobbits dislike gandalf. They fear he is after their ladies

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    Will always upvote this one.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    So, midget pron?

    But I ain't kink shaming.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago