The one thing people never really sell hard enough about LotR is that its principal arc is about the nerdy fat guy who's scared all the time and only came along to support his crush evolving into the actual badass action hero of the whole sagahttps://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1216526657277845506 …
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Tolkien himself confirmed the actual hero of the story isn't Frodo, it's Sam
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Replying to @KevBeirne @arthur_affect
Did the movies change that? I saw the Rankin-Bass one like 50 times as a kid and it keeps overwriting my memories of that one. Doesn't help when people keep enabling me with stuff like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7IIKE3k-_s …
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Replying to @KevBeirne @arthur_affect
Also now that I'm rewatching that, what the hell was up with Frodo and Sam being able to pass themselves off as orcs? Isn't it a well established thing that hobbits are very very short relative to everyone else, and orcs are uh... not traditionally so?
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In the books goblins and orcs are the same species, and "goblin" is just a word more commonly applied to the younger smaller ones (but not always, hence "The Great Goblin" from The Hobbit) In the films they changed this but left it unclear what the relationship was
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But anyway Orcs apparently grow continuously through their life cycles, the way "primitive" life forms do (fish and reptiles and bugs), rather than going through adolescence and hitting a fixed adult size like we do
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So the species range in size from nasty little "goblins" (called "snaga", "slave", in their own language) to the big scary "orcs" ("uruks") as they grow older Orc society is a Darwinian process where size connotes both age and ruthlessness, since most Orcs die young
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Apparently Orcs retained their immortality from their Elf DNA (the leaders like the Great Goblin are both really big and really old) but their physiology has been twisted up by Morgoth's magic into something that suits his ideology
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So anyway, it doesn't seem weird based on the book lore that there should be low-caste goblins scurrying around that no one cares about that Hobbits could disguise themselves as
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