• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        22 days ago

        according to Google they have a life expectancy of 100 years, so they do age a bit slower but a ~20 year difference should still be noticeable

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      22 days ago

      If your only source is the movies, one of the annoying gripes about them is they have this deceptive editing that makes it seem like Frodo left the Shire within a relatively short timespan after the birthday party.

      Frodo got the ring on the 22nd of September of 3001. He leaves Bag End on the 23rd of September…of 3018.

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        22 days ago

        Interesting, though that still doesn’t explain the aging part though. I get that Hobbits age slower than humans but if their life expectancy is only 100 years, the difference should be noticeable right?

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          22 days ago

          Sam aged, Frodo did not. I recall several mentions throughout the books that Frodo was considered unusually young-looking for a 50-year old hobbit, just as Bilbo himself was very young-looking for 111. Owning the ring seems to basically just pause your aging, even if you’re not using it.

          Sam was also twelve years younger than Frodo, but since Frodo stopped aging for 17 years, he wound up effectively older, physically speaking.

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        22 days ago

        Someone should edit the movie to have a transparency of a calendar having its pages blown in the wind until it lands on 3018.

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          22 days ago

          Yes, I have always from the first time I saw the movies thought that’s what they needed. A five second clip of that and nothing else about the movie has to change!

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    21 days ago

    Middle Earth itself has been described as the “ring” that Morgoth poured his own power into. Since a river is an extension of Middle Earth, it means Morgoth really was the true Lord of the Rings.

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    22 days ago

    1850 years with the ring and accomplished nothing? What did he expect to be different? The ring didn’t work. Try something new.

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    22 days ago

    So like, an animated series featuring river fish, like Finding Nemo but with the One Ring?

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      21 days ago

      I would watch this again and again and treasure it and call it my precious FOREVER.

      The movie could be a long story arc with the main fish getting the ring stuck around them and having all sorts of adventures, learning valuable lessons and finally returning to their spawning point to teach the other local fish all the knowledge the main fish had learned. It would all wrap up to this beautifully happy ending and BAM! Déagol grabs it. Movie ends.