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• Re:Discworld (Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday February 06 2021, @07:38AM

  by Arik (4543) on Saturday February 06 2021, @07:38AM (#1109567) Journal

  "*look, cards on the table, I fell asleep after reading 10 pages of The Hobbit, so we're talking strictly Peter Jackson here and I may be doing Tolkien an injustice... Shoot me."
  
  *Pulls the trigger on an old 20th century slug thrower, *pop* *pop* *pop* subsonic rounds but they're hollow points*
  
  Yeah, the trilogy is dense text. Not quite as dense as the Silmarillion but close. The Hobbit? That's a child's book, literally written to read to a child at bedtime.
  
  Jackson's adaptions are a very pale shadow of the original.
  
  "where the Shire looks just about self-sufficient, the Elves presumably eat moonbeams and the world of Man consists purely of siege-magnet fortified cities with no visible infrastructure."
  
  Jackson's adaptions are a very pale shadow of the original.
  
  "I mean, look at the battle of Pelinor Fields - big alluvial plain, between two major cities... any student of Pratchett would be yelling out "Where are the -ing cabbages?!"
  
  The fields were dotted with barns and grain silos, sections were in grain, sections were pasture, sections were orchards. The cabbages? They were grown on poorer grounds, typically higher grounds. No one grows cabbage on land that will do better.
  
  "Do the Riders of Rohan survive on an all-horse diet and, if so, what do the sodding horses eat?"
  
  The horses eat grass. The Rohirrim reside on a vast open grassland based on prehistoric Ukraina. They live mostly in small villages, and raise cattle for milk and meat but also grow grain and a lot of cabbages.
  
  

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