av_nefardec
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How can you see how I voted?
But yes, I am a zealot, and I'm not afraid to admit it
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Well there's nothing in the books that hints at anything besides what we see in WotC's design.
The Hobbit describes them as "Wild Wolves", "Evil Wolves", Grey, Dark, Wicked, Gnashing, Biting.
The picture done by WotC's artist Richard Sardinha is just a perfect depiction of this in my mind.
As for size, they need to be bigger than what WotC says. They should be at least 7-8 feet long.
Elf, orcs were originally corrupted elves, right? Well elves were on average well over 6'2" tall, so the first orcs would have been slightly shorter than that, probably 5'8" to 6'0". As time went on the orcs grew more and more wicked, and those that lived in the misty mountains, goblins, became hunched, miserable, and wretched, becoming thin and stunted in the darkness of their mountains.
But then Tolkien describes Sauron as having not only orcs in his armies, as the Snaga, the slaves, but having "Large fighting orcs", "Large Fierce" Uruks in his armies. These guys are at least 6' tall if not more, and they have dark black skin.
Perhaps we do the next topic on orcs? I have a lot to say on orcs
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Ted Nasmith is a true master landscape painter.
And ship painter
Flora and Fauna painter
Character painter
Architectural painter...
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I prefer the Hisweókë dictionary. It's just referred to usually as "The Sindarin Dictionary" - I'll see if I can find a link for you.
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Well I like the size ratios there, and man, that's a nice looking painting
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He's working on the scout currently
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Ted Nasmith is not only a great artist, but a great person. He actually had a role in TLA's future, whether he knew it or not, in helping us answer the question of whether or not we could go on with TLA as a purist fan game or whether we had to change our game to avoid copyright problems but make a game we could call our own.
We of course chose the former
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Seinfeld. (reruns on TBS)
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Well basically what I wrote is that if you have two thoughts that could be two different sentences, like:
Apples are tasty.
Apples have worms.
If you wanted to join these into one sentence, you can do it using these "conjunctions" (parts of language that allow you to join thoughts or ideas)
Apples are tasty, but apples have worms.
OR
Apples are tasty but have worms.
So you can either use a comma and then a word like "but" (Coordinating conjunction), but then you have to include the subject of the next thing you are joining ("apples" in this case, the green word) OR, you can use a coordinating conjunction (like "but") without a comma, but then you have to leave out the subject of the next thing you are joining, which is "apples", the green word in this example.
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@Adam: superficial? what does that meen?
Well the topics that the show deals with are unoriginal, but it goes about portraying them in an even more typical way, not going beneath the surface to find innovative ways. It's just too typical for me.
Seinfeld was perhaps one of the best shows ever written.
Though the show was pretty much about nothing, about real-life, everyday things, the way in which the show painstakingly examined every aspect of everyday life was just hilarious. It looked at life so closely that it was humorous
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Here's Arwen's lineage from the old forums, re-posted for you.
The names at top are as follows, from left to right:
Elwë, Melian, Bëor, Marach, Halmir, Finwë, Indis, Olwë
All geneaological information was found in the Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.
This makes Arwen:
53.125% Telerin
12.5% Noldorin
12.5% Vanyarin
12.5% Edainic (Bëor)
3.125% Maiarin
3.125% Edainic (Marach)
3.125% Edainic (Halmir)
Also, it makes Elrond's marriage to Celebrían the link between the two Telerin houses of Elwë and Olwë.
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Wow, that's really interesting - I actually worked on a geneaology of Arwen once - I'll repost it.
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Nope. A bit too superficial for my tastes.
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The Dungeons and Dragons monster manual warg is my personal preference.
According to the Hobbit, Warg was just the name of the wolves who lived past the edge of the wild, in Rhovanion. These wolves were so-called "wild wolves", and they just became known as wargs. So they're not that much different than wolves, but they are more vicious, and probably bigger.
Also, wargs had a pretty independent society and I don't think they were controlled directly by Sauron, just like the goblins of the misty mountains weren't. (Those of Gundabad, not the ones controlled by the Balrog in Moria). If you remember in the hobbit, the wargs had alliances and partnerships with the goblins.
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Yes, that would do it
What exactly was the content of your master's thesis? What did it have to do with Finwë's family?
With credentials like that I'm sure you could easily be a literary consultant on the project if we don't recruit yoou later as a 3D artist
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People who think they are superbly tolerant.
Meaningless rhetoric.
Superficial/facetious personalities
To name a few.
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Well you should feel no need to optimize your own models
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Yes, but I was looking also for the tower Tar-Meneldur built on Sorontil. You can bet towers will be good in TLA's Númenor!
Master of Telchar - Gamil Zirak (sp?) I believe?
What was the name of Morgoth's messenger and what gender was this messenger?
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And very nice too! How many polys is that catapult?
I'd like to see your work with other siege weaponry or ships sometime, once we get concepts up for those.
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Hmm, would be interesting to see. I know my views are quite extreme on the one side.
I'd like to read a well-founded essay in favor of the movies though, so can someone do this? It's always best to show both sides of an issue (or multiple sides) and then find a solid ground from which to base an educated opinion on the issue.
I don't want to just write a whole bunch of anti-movie propaganda without there being opposition, otherwise it will be boring and won't have the intended effect of discussion.
So maybe someone can play devil's advocate and write FOR the movies?? If that's possible
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Well, the case is that I'm (as you guys probably already know) from Norway! In Norway we speak Norwegian and no one here understands Norwegian, so I have to speak English. I am not very good in English though, (still learning it at school actually) so I want you guys to help me by giving me comments or quotes every time you answer that would be great! Just put a comment in the bottom or something, you'll decide yourself!
Well, it was actually DarkAngelBGE's (just call you BGE, or Tim, from know on, allright?) idea!
So can you guys please help me?
Well here's a point about english and punctuation. Take this sentence from above:
In Norway we speak Norwegian and no one here understands Norwegian, so I have to speak English.There are three independent clauses here, three complete sentences:
Two are joined correctly, and one is not - allow me to explain:
The three independent clauses are:
1. In Norway we speak Norwegian.
2. No one here understands Norwegian.
3. I have to speak English.
Two and three are correctly joined with a coordinating conjunction. Two independent clauses, if joined by a comma, must have a coordinating conjunction after the comma.
For instance, take these two independent clauses.
Tim likes to wear hockey masks.
He doesn't like hockey.
So clearly these two sentences contradict eachother, so you could use a comma followed by a coordinating conjunction like "but", "however", or "yet".
Note though that you can only use the comma if the two clauses are both independent - in other words, they are complete sentences in themselves, with a subject and predicate.
CORRECT: Tim likes to wear hockey masks, but he doesn't like hockey.
INCORRECT: Tim likes to wear hockey masks but he doesn't like hockey.
INCORRECT: Tim likes to wear hockey masks, but doesn't like hockey.
So I've so far talked about joining two INDEPENDENT clauses with a comma, but what happens when you join a dependent clause to an independent clause?
For example:
Tim likes to wear hockey masks but doesn't like hockey.
"Doesn't like hockey" is dependent because it doesn't exist on its own as a sentence, so to join it with an independent clause, that is "Tim likes to wear hockey masks", you use a coordinating conjunction WITHOUT a comma
So remember that example above with the three independent clauses? Now you can see what's wrong with it. Here's how that sentence should be:
In Norway we speak Norwegian, but no one here understands Norwegian, so I have to speak English.
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Braveheart really isn't that great, guys
Well everyone's entitled to an opinion, and there is absolutely no grounds when it comes to artwork to (more or less) tell another if his opinion is right or wrong. Of course some people will like it and dislike it, and it's not important which of those it is, but what is important is WHY the person likes or dislikes it.
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Wow quite a list.
I do listen to music in that scenario described above
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I think Tolkien did end up putting allegory/analogy in his work, even if he acted like he didn't want to. It's natural of all writers, and he probably felt like he was unable to control himself or that for some reason putting allegory or analogy into his work was a sign of weakness or something, but I think that's just a delusion of grandeur
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Your last sentence is very natural but change the "it's" to "is"
And remember - "its" is possessive, as in "The cat licked its paws."
Whereas "It's" is a contraction of "It" and "is", as in "It's so far away.", or "It is so far away".
To use the comma and then the conjunction, "but", the second part of the sentence has to have a subject AND a verb, so you have to say "I love 0 A.D, but the release date IS so far away.