>>217765641
How did potatoes exist in Middle Earth if they come from South America?

>>217765709
What is middle earth anyway? Like another random planet where innovation just doesn't exist and everyone is stuck in perpetual dark ages?
Is it an extra dimensional fantastic place within this universe accessible through some earth portal?

>>217765775
>innovation just doesn't exist
what makes you say that?

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Stop, my invincible ghost army.

>>217765775
Its earth "in another form of imagination" is how Tolkien described it. LOTR takes place in "the third age" but the universe and planet was originally created by God in their universe as an eternal garden of eden sort of paradise before the angel morgoth broke bad and corrupted it (hes basically just satan)

The world is corrupted by his evil which is why the elves, eternal and pure beings, are leaving middle earth in the movie. They cant stay there anymore and are going to the eternal paradise in the west.

>>217765805
They are in middle ages tech for thousands of years.

>>217765775
It's Earth's mythological past. Before magic dies and all the other races disappear so it can become the normal world.
Gandalf is unironically a christian angel and Eru is the god of the jews.

>>217765641
>Why didn't they use the eagles to fly them to Mordor?
did you not see the nazgul's mounts fucking the eagles up?

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>>217765840
they didn't have palantirs in the middle ages

>>217765709
Aren't there potatoes in northern europe? Or is it all carrots and parsnips?

Why would a galaxy far, far away know what an American 50s diner looked like?

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>>217765641
Well, you see there are no orcish "restaurants" strictly speaking but there are cafeteria-type eating-houses, generally providing a cauldron full of a food to be shared among "patrons." So they would be familiar with the concept of a menu. Certainly orcish menus won't overwhelm you with choices... They're more of an overview of what's available to put in your face. Like a high school cafeteria menu.

For example:
>WELCOME TO GLOB-GLAGZ'S CARNARIUM
>THIS WEEK'S MENU
>MONDAY: BRAISED HOBBIT WITH SEASONAL ROOT VEGETABLES
>TUESDAY: LEG OF MAN
>WEDNESDAY: GENERAL SAURON'S CHICKEN
>THURSDAY: PULLED ELF SANDWICHES
>FRIDAY: MAGGOTY BREAD
>SATURDAY: MAGGOTY BREAD
>SUNDAY: MAGGOTY BREAD

>>217765814
What if that ghost army attacks Sauron with the ring?

>>217766281
Convergent evolution. All restaurants eventually trend towards the optimal form, the American 50's diner.

>>217765840
It makes sense, they are without Christianity or an equivalent so they never invented the university

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>>217765840
Humanity was in stone age tech for 200 thousand years.
Sometimes things stagnate. Modern technological progress is an aberration.

>>217765840
Magnets and oil didn't exist yet because God didn't put them there, so they were hard stuck

>>217765840
Middle Earth is straight up postapocaliptic. They used to have airships, fast communication and people lived for fucking centuries.

>>217765709
Just translation convention. They meant some kind of root vegetable.

>>217766363
Sauron can probably kill them since he exists partially in the spirit dimension or whatever. Same with any of the ring wraiths.

>>217765641

You've never been to a fine sit down restaurant in Mordor before, have you?

Also the eagles dont care for the squabblings of humanoid creatures, theyre literally and figuratively above that. It was only after the ring was destroyed did the eagles realize the importance of everything happening on middle earth.

Also George RR Martin can suck an egg, he STILL hasnt finished winds of winter after 12 years

>How did Orcs know what a menu was?
because orcs have cuisine too, it's just awful compared to everybody else. they have medicine, bake bread, and brew things too in the book, though it isn't elaborated what their medicine actually is. the shit they make pippin drink in the film makes both him and merry not really need to eat for a few days and makes them not tired for example. basically similar to lembas bread, but it's booze.
>Why didn't they use the eagles to fly them to Mordor?
the whole reason the ring even makes it to mordor at all is because sauron doesn't realize what the fellowship is doing until the ring falls into the magma at mount doom. having the eagles fly them straight to mordor would tip him off that something was up and he'd have every orc stand around the mountain making it impossible to get into the deepest part. they can't just toss the ring down the caldera of the volcano and be done with it, there's a deeper part of the mountain shown in the film where they need to go. you can bet every orc in mordor would be standing shoulder to shoulder in there if sauron knew what was going on.
>What was King Aragorns tax policy?
this is george r r martin's cynical response to tolkien's hopeful universe. george is forever trapped in his universe where hope is not possible unlike the universe of middle earth, and that makes him angry.

>>217765641
Mordor is a county like any other. You don't just gather a bunch of evil orcs and goblins together and tell them to march across the continent without any sort of economic infrastructure.

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>Radagast's red velvet pancake puppies and a Lone-lands campfire cookie milk shake... por favor...

>>217765840
Hobbiton is well past the Middle Ages. Bilbo has tea sets and grandfather clocks and stuff. Relatively modern furnishing, etc.

>>217766281
Why did Jedi living in the high tech mega city that's the centre of a galaxy spanning government make their uniforms the same as the clothes of random dirt farmers from a shithole outer rim desert planet most people have never heard of?

>>217767495
>You've never been to a fine sit down restaurant in Mordor before, have you?
I bet they do have them for Black Numenorians.

>>217765641
Why was an orc smarter than Sauron-Man?

>>217768241
kek

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>>217768870
Forgot my pic

>>217768241
(you)

>>217768885
He wasn't smarter. It's the job of the guy at the top to set goals and push things forwards. If the middle manager is saying, "oh yeah we can do that easily" then everyone's not being pushed hard enough.

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>>217766325
We're eating good all week Orc bros