Video gabed the radio star.

By buying this duck you have already made the wrong decision.

This is the sound I make when I’m calling my cat to come home for the night…

Tis a terrible day to be able to read…

Yeah he was borderlining on messiah-ish but I think given Tolkien’s distaste for allegories, he didn’t want to make any character too messianic.

My reading of Aragorn is not of a messianic figure, but more of an example of what a true leader should strive towards. He left no one behind, " we will not abandon merry and pippin to torment and death." He knew when things were beyond him, parting ways with Frodo, knowing he would eventually be a risk to Frodo. Most of all, putting his kingship for the betterment of the people.

I think it resonates even louder for me now because of the current geo-political situation.

No worries. I appreciate you coming back to reiterate and elaborate on your thoughts. And having a civil discourse on Tolkien.

I just want to add on some details about Aragorn for those coming to know more.

That whilst he did intend to reclaim the throne, the way he went about it was about as noble and selflessly as possible. He didn’t do it by conquering or by force. He did it by proving he was worthy of being king. He rescued Gondor from certain destruction. He healed people " the hands of the king are the hands of a healer. " Then when he finally does reclaim it, he ruled in a way basically the opposite of the last millennium of rulership. And worked to undo a thousand years or more of gradual decay.

“Kings made tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.”

Excuse me? Doing it for honor and valor?

They were doing it to save middle earth from a tyrant who would have enslaved everyone under his rule.

That was one of Tolkien’s concepts, that a king should protect his people and lead by example. There is no battle in which Aragorn didn’t lead from the front.

The 4th age was one of peace and prosperity. Please share the source for the peoples of middle earth living in squalor.

Thank you for that very informative comment good sir!

Are you sure? I’m hearing news about suggested tip values on almost all point of sales machines. Maybe even grocery stores.

Is couch/local co-op possible in Hell Divers 2? Its really one of the big things that sold me on the first game.

Is it a proto-dinosaur?

Revanced

If they had practiced actually firearm safety on the movie set, the guns would have been blank guns incapable of firing live ammunition.

In fact they’d should have had no guns capable of firing live ammunition on set.

All they should have had were blank firing guns and disabled firearms (e.g. firing pin removed)

You can even get a decent freshly ground and brewed expresso out of a vending machine. Why you would go to Starbucks in Italy.

In about 65 million years this guy will be the size of a T-Rex

Funny. In my day Wikipedia just came out and they used to give the same advice. In comparison, I would wager any random wiki article has a better chance of being more reliable and a better answer to your question than a Google summary.

I think halo is a pretty cool guy. He kills aliens and not afraid anything.

I totally get that they had to find some way to financially support the massive infrastructure that was necessary to do what YouTube does.

I was fine with an ad every now and then.

I was fine with an ad at the start and end of a long video.

Ads on a 30s video? Ads on an Ad? Multiple ads at the start, multiple ads in-between and at the end? Jesus h. Christ. Removing the dislike button?

That was when I switched to ReVanced.

Get out of here you descriptivist.

Don’t you know we here folk on lemmy are prescriptivists by law? God help you if autocorrect messes with your intended statement.

/s (if required)

Why not both?