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Bezos or Bozo has no idea what he's doing. The same can be said about Disney and the MCU, they have a ton of money and can't hire better writers and directors for their shows and films!


They can, but they don't. Disney doesn't currently hire writers, they hire activists to write.

I heard they preferred to be called Global Change Warriors, not activists. The word activists carries too much of a negative connotation, such as when the words white and male are used concurrently in the same sentence.
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... can someone explain to me why the master Elven smith Celembrimbor had never heard of mixing metals to make an alloy?


That one bugged me too, so I looked it up. Apparently, bronze was the only alloy metal until the 1500's.

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Yes, but we are talking about elves who have been alive for umpteen billion centuries. Surely their knowledge would have eclipsed that of mere mortal men.
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... can someone explain to me why the master Elven smith Celembrimbor had never heard of mixing metals to make an alloy?


That one bugged me too, so I looked it up. Apparently, bronze was the only alloy metal until the 1500's.

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Yes, but we are talking about elves who have been alive for umpteen billion centuries. Surely their knowledge would have eclipsed that of mere mortal men.


That would have simple enough. All they would have to do is invent the blast furnace and perfect the iron folding technique of forging. If I understand the history correctly, the Chinese started folding iron about 1000 BC. But it really advanced when the Japanese improved on the technique for sword making. A sword made the Japanese way was EXTREMELY more solid and sharper than any other sword. At the time, that advancement was like inventing the slingshot while everybody else was throwing stones.
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Common myth re: Japanese swords. I love them but European swords were their equal or better for the last 600+ hundred years (essentially the entire period of Katana production).

Smelting technology and ore sourcing defined processes more than outcome. Europe advanced to modern smelting earlier and benefited, plus access to better source materials.

If we are talking pre-Katana then things are all over the place. If we saw a gap equivalent to sling-shots vs stone throwing it would have shown up on the map and my keyboard would look quite different* today.

* though would likely say the same thing on the back
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The elves in the series must be less intelligent than humans. Same with the books and prior series. To have that much time to learn and advance individual knowledge, combined with equal intellect, should yield better Elven strategy and decision making than we see. Certainly on a relative basis vs humans. Yet humans seem roughly equal in terms of strategy and decision making.

Apparently the Elves could manage being a bit dimmer by making up for it through experience and practice.
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... can someone explain to me why the master Elven smith Celembrimbor had never heard of mixing metals to make an alloy?


That one bugged me too, so I looked it up. Apparently, bronze was the only alloy metal until the 1500's.

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This would make some 'historical' sense, although Halbrand was pretty quick with an example.

My impression when I watched the show was just that Celembrimbor never considered it. He had his hands on a small amount of a mystical metal, which they were almost literally associating with purity. Why would you think to dilute it and possibly ruin it?
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Bezos or Bozo has no idea what he's doing. The same can be said about Disney and the MCU, they have a ton of money and can't hire better writers and directors for their shows and films!


They can, but they don't. Disney doesn't currently hire writers, they hire activists to write.

I heard they preferred to be called Global Change Warriors, not activists. The word activists carries too much of a negative connotation, such as when the words white and male are used concurrently in the same sentence.


I edited my post out of respect , but that's a lot of letters so I'll just shorten it to Glob. Warriors.
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Inconceivable!


My feeling exactly about the last 22 seasons of The Simpsons. It's poorly written, unwatchable and fans who grew up watching the early episodes would prefer to watch the first 9 or 10 seasons repeatedly than ever waste their time on the post 2000 drek. I give a new episode a try every couple years in hopes that they'd hire someone that can write, but it's still crap. If I had their budget I'd make a simple change of hiring Conan Obrien and giving him complete control of what other writers to hire to make the show entertaining again.

Getting back on topic, I thought the last episode was decent but it's definitely not a series I'll ever re-watch.
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Q: How many Golden Globe nominations can you get with one billion dollars?

A: Not a single one. 😂
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Q: How many Golden Globe nominations can you get with one billion dollars?

A: Not a single one. 😂


LOL
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I would say that part of that has to do with Amazon distancing itself from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2021, I believe. Another part would be that the writing and acting were both lackluster and wooden.
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The comments are gold, too.
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It took me a few tries, but I finally made it through the series. To do so, I had to stop and reset my way of thinking about the thing. As a Tolkien lover, I found plenty to object to - people doing things they never did in places they never went thousands of years away from when something actually occurred. It felt kinda like the writers skimmed through the LotR appendices, read the chapter titles in the Silmarillion and, regarding the lifelong work of the godfather of fantasy literature, thought "meh, we can do better."

As I said, what got me through was resetting my thinking. Don't think of it as anything but what it is - a bit of rather overwrought fan fiction. It makes it easier to find the parts that are worthwhile. For example, I thought the actress playing Galadriel was really good. And there were some interesting details here and there. But it should never, ever be considered canon, any more than a story about Jesus and his disciples inexplicably waking up in 1960s America and starting a Vegas lounge act should be considered part of the Bible.
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It took me a few tries, but I finally made it through the series. To do so, I had to stop and reset my way of thinking about the thing. As a Tolkien lover, I found plenty to object to - people doing things they never did in places they never went thousands of years away from when something actually occurred. It felt kinda like the writers skimmed through the LotR appendices, read the chapter titles in the Silmarillion and, regarding the lifelong work of the godfather of fantasy literature, thought "meh, we can do better."

As I said, what got me through was resetting my thinking. Don't think of it as anything but what it is - a bit of rather overwrought fan fiction. It makes it easier to find the parts that are worthwhile. For example, I thought the actress playing Galadriel was really good. And there were some interesting details here and there. But it should never, ever be considered canon, any more than a story about Jesus and his disciples inexplicably waking up in 1960s America and starting a Vegas lounge act should be considered part of the Bible.
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The comments are gold, too.


This is perhaps the most brilliant thing I will see about this. My god I feel like I don't have to watch a single episode now. LOL! Brilliant.
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Amazon stopped paying to have the negative critic reviews hidden. This happened today...





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