Narnia or Middle Earth?
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And popcorn, theres popcorn in Mordor.....
I'm serious people there is!
Yeah, we left it there
office
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That's a great way of putting it! I still prefer Narnia, though.
narniahp4ever
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I choose Narnia... I think I love nature and animals more than other things...(yeah i'm weird)
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Shadow_Kitty
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Sadly i'm going to have to say Middle Earth.
But see, I do a great deal of watching the movies... and they were both filmed in the same place. So talking about the place itself, there about the same.
But see, I do a great deal of watching the movies... and they were both filmed in the same place. So talking about the place itself, there about the same.
Mozart the Meerkitten
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lol, I just combine Narnia and Middle Earth in my daydreams (best of both worlds 
) .... and sometimes Anthropos but hardly anybody knows what that is.
) .... and sometimes Anthropos but hardly anybody knows what that is.
SeaStar
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and sometimes Anthropos but hardly anybody knows what that is.
I want to read the Anthropos books...they sound interesting...but my library system doesn't have any.
Mozart the Meerkitten
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I want to read the Anthropos books...they sound interesting...but my library system doesn't have any.
lol, is the library I go to the only library with those books?!?!
'Course I have no clue how my mom found those books, I've searched and searched for them at our library. But then again I can't find the LOTR books again there either.
Zella
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I want to read the Anthropos books...they sound interesting...but my library system doesn't have any.
I have the same dilemma.
Narnia, definitely, and I'll tell you why.
1) In Middle Earth, all too often might makes right. How would you like to appeal a speeding ticket to Boromir? I can just see you objecting to Wormtongue that he can't seize your home without a warrant because you have "constitutional rights".
2) Talking Beasts. Paws down. Elves are, as I understand it, immortal vulcans with emotions. And that's if they let you see them. I'd rather share a Rib-Sticker Stew with a fox and badger any day and nobody tells funny stories like an otter after his third round.
3) In Middle Earth, your life was only really interesting if you were obscenely wealthy, powerful, or unlucky. The peasants working out in the field to coax corn and peas out of the soil had precisely the same sort of interesting life that the ones in 15th century Flanders and Bavaria had. And they probably lived just as long. Which wasn't very. And if you were obscenely wealthy, powerful or unlucky, someone was shooting at you.
You have to get out of the beautiful princess mindset. You have the chances of the New York Lottery of being Lashima of the Lovely Locks with men fighting and dying for the right to call you "Sweet Baboo". You have to forget being the Mighty Man of Valour whose blade stops at nought but mercy to the repentent foe. You have a better shot at being a star quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams than being the greatest warrior of them all. You are a fish monger. You are a dish washer. You are a floor sweeper. And that's if you're lucky enough not to be the assistant grave digger.
1) In Middle Earth, all too often might makes right. How would you like to appeal a speeding ticket to Boromir? I can just see you objecting to Wormtongue that he can't seize your home without a warrant because you have "constitutional rights".
2) Talking Beasts. Paws down. Elves are, as I understand it, immortal vulcans with emotions. And that's if they let you see them. I'd rather share a Rib-Sticker Stew with a fox and badger any day and nobody tells funny stories like an otter after his third round.
3) In Middle Earth, your life was only really interesting if you were obscenely wealthy, powerful, or unlucky. The peasants working out in the field to coax corn and peas out of the soil had precisely the same sort of interesting life that the ones in 15th century Flanders and Bavaria had. And they probably lived just as long. Which wasn't very. And if you were obscenely wealthy, powerful or unlucky, someone was shooting at you.
You have to get out of the beautiful princess mindset. You have the chances of the New York Lottery of being Lashima of the Lovely Locks with men fighting and dying for the right to call you "Sweet Baboo". You have to forget being the Mighty Man of Valour whose blade stops at nought but mercy to the repentent foe. You have a better shot at being a star quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams than being the greatest warrior of them all. You are a fish monger. You are a dish washer. You are a floor sweeper. And that's if you're lucky enough not to be the assistant grave digger.
Lady Lasaraleen
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Too right EveningStar. the average person in middle earth would be a peasent or maybe a soldier. Me being a woman means i won't get the chance to be the latter. Eowyn was a princess when it all said and done. Normal life wouldn't be as exciting as in Naria.
Dryads, talking beast, fauns. It wouldn't matter if you were royal or not everyday would be an adventure
Narnia is my first love and in a way we could get to Aslan Country (heaven) for real. I'll see my younger brother again
Copperfox
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My laptop's programming STILL WILL NOT permit me to copy and paste anything, but I still can RECOMMEND something. A month ago, on YouTube, an entertainment commentator called NERDROTIC posted a video titled "Why They Hate The Lord of the Rings." I recommend it strongly.
Nerdrotic speaks about the politically-correct grievance-peddlers who claim that Mister Tolkien was a white supremacist, because he populated Middle-Earth chiefly with white people. Funny thing here: Chinese kung-fu movies and Japanese samurai movies depict locations populated with Chinese and Japanese people!-- yet those moviemakers don't get called racist.
Nerdrotic speaks about the politically-correct grievance-peddlers who claim that Mister Tolkien was a white supremacist, because he populated Middle-Earth chiefly with white people. Funny thing here: Chinese kung-fu movies and Japanese samurai movies depict locations populated with Chinese and Japanese people!-- yet those moviemakers don't get called racist.
Copperfox
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"MenNeedToBeHeard" is a YouTube channel which I only just encountered >since< viewing the above-described video.
In a video titled "Sorry, Disney, But No", the host justifiably roasts the stubbornly-persisting movie formula of Women Good Men Bad, Women Smart Men Stupid, Women Strong Men Weak, Women Brave Men Cowardly....... but somehow the very same omnipotent goddesses CAN STILL COMPLAIN of being oppressed by the (imaginary) patriarchy.
Believe it or not, a few months ago, I had the >displeasure< of becoming acquainted with a woman who--SERIOUSLY, not jokingly --claimed that she simultaneously >was< omnipotent, and a helpless victim of misogynists. Anyone smarter than a tadpole should realize that if you're omnipotent, you >can't< be victimized. \\\\ Lady, you keep using that word; I don't think it means what you think it means.
In a video titled "Sorry, Disney, But No", the host justifiably roasts the stubbornly-persisting movie formula of Women Good Men Bad, Women Smart Men Stupid, Women Strong Men Weak, Women Brave Men Cowardly....... but somehow the very same omnipotent goddesses CAN STILL COMPLAIN of being oppressed by the (imaginary) patriarchy.
Believe it or not, a few months ago, I had the >displeasure< of becoming acquainted with a woman who--SERIOUSLY, not jokingly --claimed that she simultaneously >was< omnipotent, and a helpless victim of misogynists. Anyone smarter than a tadpole should realize that if you're omnipotent, you >can't< be victimized. \\\\ Lady, you keep using that word; I don't think it means what you think it means.
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wonderings
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Middle Earth was written as a sort of pre-history to our world, so in a sense you are living in Middle Earth. The races in Tolkiens works faded into myth and legend and were almost forgotten save for stories. A neat idea to give some magic and wonder to our world.
Narnia is much more "heavenly" and idilic to me. Now I would love to live in the Shire, the life of a Hobbit seems pretty grand. But end of the day I will take Narnia in its golden age under Caspian or maybe the sons and daughters and Adam and Eve.
Narnia is much more "heavenly" and idilic to me. Now I would love to live in the Shire, the life of a Hobbit seems pretty grand. But end of the day I will take Narnia in its golden age under Caspian or maybe the sons and daughters and Adam and Eve.