I Strongly Believe That Someone Cannot Simultaneously Be A Tolkien Fan And Use AI.

I strongly believe that someone cannot simultaneously be a Tolkien fan and use AI.

The story of The Lord of the Rings is inherently anti-industrialist and pro-environment. Destroying the forces that seek to oppress and harm the environment is a significant part of the plot. AI is a force of destruction. It kills habitats and contributes to climate change.

Not to mention, AI is anti-intellectual and promotes a lack of critical thinking in a world that is rapidly being radicalized toward fascism.

Is it really worth it to destroy the world just for personal convenience? I personally do everything possible to avoid using AI because it's not worth it. It will never be worth it.

I mean, seriously. I'm not gonna tell you to go touch grass because I hate Big Lawn™️, but I will tell you to go touch the bark of a tree. Put your hand in a stream and feel the rushing water. Lay in a prairie and watch the grass wave in the wind. Listen to the birds sing. And then ask yourself: "are the cheap thrills worth it?" "Is the convenience worth it?"

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Small Watercolor Portrait I Made Of Maedhros (and By Small, I Mean The Page Is Literally 3x4.5in) I'm

Small watercolor portrait I made of Maedhros (and by small, I mean the page is literally 3x4.5in) I'm trying to force myself to not be a perfectionist with my art.


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5 months ago

Being a college student is actually the worst because what do you mean I have to go to class, then go to work, do homework and then go to bed. There's like no room in my schedule for my millionth rewatch of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.


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4 weeks ago
Watercolor Portrait Of Nerdanel. I Seem To Have Forgotten That My Blue Paint Refuses To Cooperate, So

Watercolor portrait of Nerdanel. I seem to have forgotten that my blue paint refuses to cooperate, so I foolishly tried using it for her dress.

Also, it kinda looks like she's flexing?? And I didn't realize until I was almost done and started feeling intimidated cus she's literally MOGGING ME

(Excuse the poor camera quality my phone actually hates me.)


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3 months ago

Tired of the infantalization of the Hobbits. They can be full grown men and people will be like "aw look at my baby".

It's lowkey frustrating.


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5 months ago

I need to see more people talking about the 1977 The Hobbit animated film. Imo it's the most accurate portrayal of the book and it's such a comfort movie for me.


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3 months ago

It may shock some to know that I actually don't dislike most things, I just really like talking about the few things I hate (targeted)


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5 months ago

I am The Rings of Power's biggest hater

My somewhat controversial opinion is that I absolutely despise Rings of power. Now, I know that a lot of people argue that it is bringing more people to Tolkien's works, but is it really? To me, it feels like nostalgia bait for pre-existing fans. I'll admit, I took the bait too. I saw that they had released a show that was about LotR and I got excited, but the more I watched it the more I realized how un-Tolkien it is. And for taking his name, I would expect that they would keep some sort of semblance to the fantasy that he imbued into his world.

Besides being un-Tolkien, it has a great many other flaws as well.

It's terribly unimaginative

It wants to be Game of Thrones SO bad

its predictable

The characters are terribly mis-characterized

Despite trying to be diverse, it almost did the opposite?

It neglects, or even completely retells existing stories for the sake of their own narratives.

It feels like poorly written Fanfiction (no hate to fanfiction, I literally write lotr fics)

it was made by Amazon

Tolkien would have hated Amazon

Amazon why did you do this to me

Please Amazon stop retconning my favorite franchise

Actually, Please, Amazon just stop.

You literally put a billion dollars into this, when you could have stopped global warming

Where tf is Celeborn??

(I'll probably drop more RoP hate posts eventually)


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6 months ago

This old, abandoned copy of the silmarillion was my first introduction to Tolkien's works.

My great-uncle found it in an abandoned house in 2019 and gave it to my grandma. My grandma later, being uninterested with Tolkien, gave it to me because it was no secret that I was interested in fantasy.

I spent many hours reading it over and over in Ye Olde Covid Times and, with it, watched The Lord of the Rings trilogy many times over. I was enamored with the world that Tolkien created (and still am today). I have since bought second-hand copies of all of Tolkien's works about his legendarium. (Yes I do see the irony of me reading the Silmarillion before the Lord of tha Rings)

I have such a deep emotional connection to this book. I can't even begin to express just how much the gift of a book can change someone's life.

This Old, Abandoned Copy Of The Silmarillion Was My First Introduction To Tolkien's Works.

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3 months ago

If you genuinely think that Frodo could have rode the eagles to Mordor, I think that you didn't interact with the work enough (and you're probably annoying tbh). I know it's kind of an exhausted question/joke in the fandom, but it's so demeaning to everything that LotR is.

The eagles aren't a taxi service.

They would have 1000% been seen by Sauron or his spies and been shot down.

The hobbits were the best choice, because of their stealth. They're small and difficult to spot.

It would have just made for a bad story. The whole point is that the fellowship--and specifically Frodo--didn't HAVE TO suffer, but they did anyway.


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5 months ago

It seems that my-- apparently controversial-- opinion that incest is bad and gross isn't that widely accepted in the Silmarillion Fandom. The amount of fics I've seen where people are shipping characters that are first cousins is honestly nauseating.

I'm not trying to yuck anybodies yum, but yall nasty.

I understand that there's not that large of a shipping pool, considering many of the characters are related, but goddamn there are like a million elves in Tolkien's works. I don't care if you have to ship characters who have never even interacted in Canon. Please please please, no more incest fics!


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