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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The Uruk-hai Saruman makes by crossbreeding Orcs and Men are supposed to be bigger by quite a fair bit Possibly they have human growth and maturation rates rather than Orc ones, meaning he can make stronger troops faster
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