The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP

[Jade Bahr]

 

[Anasxs]

Tired of sexista and radical people, everyone has got own way and preferences and not silly people are open to all people. 

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WE ARE BACK! 

Edited September 5, 2024 by Matt!
Just a few more hours

[Matt!]

Whyyyyy 

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[Jade Bahr]

LotR S2 E4

 

Favorite scene (Arondir is still one of my faves)

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This was hilarious LOL

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I also think these two wizards are really funny. The casting of Sauron is topnotch. I knew who he was supposed to be the moment I saw him.

 

Overall too less Sauron but the one glimpse we got was at least a great hair moment 😜 Poor Galadriel still haunted by his "fair" face LOL

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[Matt!]

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 This is insane:

 

YouTuber pulls off ‘greatest social experiment’ by secretly losing 250lbs in two-year prank

 

YouTuber, Nikocado Avocado, reveals two-year ‘social experiment’ by losing 250lbs in secret | The Independent

 

 

[Matt!]

1 hour ago, Matt! said:

 

[Jade Bahr]

🤣

 

Even better 😅

 

Bonus

 

And the cherry of all LMAO

 

According to Tolkiens The Laws and Customs of the Eldar Elven wears their golden marriage rings (silver for betrothal) on their index finger just sayin I'm so dead LOL

 

#basically me all haladriel

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[Jade Bahr]

Well deserved it's a great season so far 

 

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War Hammer Space Marine 2 came out with big success and it's probably the most assessable way to get exposed to the Warhammer universe.  It has a very cinematic and well made single player campaign. 

 

The game's aesthetics look like it was made 15 + years ago, no dei/woke, nothing. 

 

After seeing a lot of its content I can't believe that Amazon is considering producing a show.  There are almost no place for female characters, it has absolutely no appeal to women and it is even too hardcore for the majority of male viewers.

 

Everyone in Warhammer is serving evil or are extremely evil- degenerate and are ultra fascist/imperialist to the point of black comedy. They make the Samurai, SS & Romans look very soft.

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On 9/5/2024 at 4:43 AM, Jade Bahr said:

Haha I didn't thought about a Venom comparison but you're right.

 

I think in season 1 they even talked about Sauron being spiritual in his "natural form" but since you can't see a spirit let alone a spirit with no human shell I think they choosed this dark slimy mass primarily to show Sauron's story/journey somehow in pictures. It's a tv show afterall living from visuals.

 

I mean Sauron clearly sees himself as some sort of holy shiny bright saviour -implemented in the Annatar scene- but if we try to imagine something pure evil without any appealing form it's probably more like this black ugly repulsive mass!? "Guttering fetus" is one of the descriptions I read lol

 

I was like eeew when I saw it 🫣

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Tolkein said that LOTR is (in retrospect) a Catholic work.  So my interpretation of Sauron is that Tolkein used him to represent Satan like Milton did in Paradise Lost. So I think he is less an individual but more of, say a malignant force of infinite desires/greed and an entity that does not believe in the concept of morality. 

 

So naturally Sauron represents a force of infinite greed and lust for power (a human example would be the some of the Nazis or utopian futurists, some dictators or billionaires today) with an 'ends justifies the means' attitude.  This is why Sauron's war machine is so profoundly sick/immoral (the orcs and everything we see in the peter jackson films for instance show what they are).

 

Now you say Annatar as the 'fair face' of Sauron- another possible interpretation is both Halbrand & Annatar is just a tool for the ends (total domination).  So Halbrand washes his face and changes his hair, and becomes a saint like figure to fool everyone.  

 

The Warhammer 40k universe is basically one where the humans are the Orcs and the God-Emperor (Sauron) at top. It is possible that Amazon will develop this show too.

 

In LOTR (Peter Jackson) they depicted the Witch King/Nazgul (Sauron's servants) as being ghosts that wear clothing.  When frodo puts on the ring the human apparitions appear.  Sauron is also depicted as a spirit that wears armor but there's nothing organic inside.

 

 

[Anasxs]

There are more gay and bisexual people in the world I thought 

 

 

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I watched a bit of the Trump-Harris debate.

 

It's quite obvious that Harris memorized and then recited counter-talking points against Trump.  ABC news was also working against him.

 

Trump's repeated use of the same talking points all the time (in the debate with Biden he just repeated the same talking points he does at his rallies ) make it pretty easy to develop ones to oppose it.

 

It goes to show how brain dead Biden was..

 

Also Taylor Swift came out of the woodwork to endorse Harris after the debate lol.

[Jade Bahr]

4 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

Now you say Annatar as the 'fair face' of Sauron- another possible interpretation is both Halbrand & Annatar is just a tool for the ends (total domination).  So Halbrand washes his face and changes his hair, and becomes a saint like figure to fool everyone. 

That's pretty much it. With the face of Halbrand he tried to seduced Galadriel (kinda successful kinda not I think he at least tempted her and managed to make her questioning her own morals etc)...

 

Also not to spoiler anything but we also got a glimpse of Saurons "spiritual form" in E1 of S2

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"he forsook his body, and his spirit fled far away and hid in waste places; and he took no visible shape again for many long years."

→ The Silmarillion: Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age

after Adar "killed" Sauron -played by Jack Lowden- with his own stupid crown (also one of my favorite scenes so far)

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... and now in S2 Annatar is about to make Celebrimbor his ring puppy. I mean you only can seduce people when you give them something they desire and I think the show nailed this part of Sauron so far.

 

I already feel sorry for him when he realizes -too late of course- the evil behind the “fair face.”

"what have you done to me?"

 

poor guy

 

I also think the fairer he gets the more merciless he is

 

bonus

 

actually he was doomed the very first moment

[Jade Bahr]

Of course LOL

 

‘The Lord of the Rings: Hunt for Gollum' Will Be Split Into Two Films

Ian McKellen has confirmed that Andy Serkis’ upcoming “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt For Gollum” will be split up into two films.

McKellen, who will be returning as Gandalf, explains that he still hasn’t read the script, but that it’s supposed to be by finished early next year. “I’m told it’s two films,” the actor told ITV’s This Morning.

It was recently reported that Serkis might be using AI to de-age his LOTR actors, which include McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom. The story of ‘Gollum’ is set only a few years after 2003’s “The Return of the King.”

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6 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

Also Taylor Swift came out of the woodwork to endorse Harris after the debate lol.

 

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