All posts by Fandyllic
It took the Valar to take out Morgoth... the Númenóreans and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men were tough, but...
Glamdring, because then maybe I could hang out with Gandalf... or whoever had it in Gondolin.
Well, learning about Tolkien stuff is why most people come to this wiki. Welcome!
LOL, then why did you spell it "Silmarillian"?
...and? I just said there is no evidence of that. If people are going with headcanon, they should say that.
^ No evidence of this.
The only thing that is written is that the went into the east and the south and very little is heard of them after that Mandos probably knows, but he didn't tell us.
Apparently, The Silmarillion is hard to spell.
@MenthilArtisan thanks for the support.
Are you still having problems making links? You never answered my question about the editor.
There are basically two types of editors:
Help:VisualEditor (I'm guessing you're using this one)
Help:Source editor (the one I use almost exclusively; specifically the 2010 wikitext editor)
You can always read the help page: Help:Editing
@Drour1234 I never pose my opinion as fact and your opinion about that is misleading.
Whether you like it or not has no bearing on whether it is lore accurate or not. Your comment about me is definitely off topic.
@Hnollw I don't know what you've heard, but The Lord of the Rings (LotR) does not explore magic and monsters more quickly than The Hobbit. It is probably about the same or one may only introduce magic and monsters slightly earlier depending on what you classify as either.
FYI, LotR does not have any dragons, but The Hobbit does.
@MenthilArtisan it would be good to know who you've heard this from, because their are many biased and unreliable commenters out there.
Not as bad as The RIngs of Power (TRoP), but The War of the Rohirrim (WotR) had to invent more stuff. Since WotR only follows the lore in showing basic known events and characters that are known, it is pretty close except for the invented name of Helm's daughter and her prominence in the plot.
Neither is that lore accurate, but since TRoP invented more stuff, changed some things that were probably very unnecessary, and totally f'd the timeline, it was probably worse.
Without knowing the specific criticism you're talking about, we can't say what is valid or not.
Húrin
From his wikipage:
According to The Silmarillion, he was the greatest warrior of Men in the First Age.
I hope you've gotten that off your chest. If that's not defensive, then you really must need to vent.
Keep posting and I'll keep commenting. I don't hate your stuff, but I would like it if it were better. That you get so defensive isn't my fault.
Unlike most people on these Discussions I participate in editing the wiki as much as I do here... maybe more.
I never said stuff that is inspired by Tolkien or borrows heavily is bad, but we shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking tons of it is original when most of it is just modified. I'm a big Warcraft fan and it rips off Tolkien heavily, but still manages to develop very original origin stories for other things. HP has some original stuff, but if you removed it, there were would still be so much that basically are just renamed versions. There have been several articles written about so many things that are parallels to Tolkien in HP that not other fantasy franchise comes close.
Many great fantasy writers have credited Tolkien for inspiring them and admit to taking many of his ideas and making them their own, but I've never heard Rowling give him any credit... maybe someone can find something where she does.
As mentioned by Icecreamdif in the very first reply nearly ALL fantasy after WW2 probably ripped off Tolkien in some way. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were hugely influential. The common conception of elves were completely changed, the idea of wizards was solidified, hobbits and orcs really didn't exist in the way Tolkien established, intelligent dragons like Smaug became more the norm, creatures like wights and Nazgûl were copied, it just goes on and on...
Maybe, but it doesn't make your poll any good.
By Christopher Paolini? I mean any YA fantasy series with dragons is unlikely to be super original, but it isn't close to as bad as HP. Also, Paolini was a teenager when he wrote Eragon.