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I'd like to "walk" around in middle earth as I do on google earth.
If the basic concept is made all the fans would painstakingly fill in the
details.
got this app yet?
https://play.google...=com.kabam.fortress
[xandram, Jun 16 2014]
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We want to do Isengard. Pity the poor sod who arives late and has to
do Tom Bombadil ... (What WAS J.R.R. thinking ? It just doesn't fit into
the story at all). |
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//What WAS J.R.R. thinking ?// This is a gentleman
who wrote about stories talking trees, elfs and magic
rings. |
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Yes, but those things are WKTE ... |
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made a better fit than Asimov's Robots prequelling their way into Foundation. |
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I think I lost faith in the Lord of the Rings series
when they introduced Jar Jar Binks. |
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The google fantasy world is nice but opening it up to
fans makes this a fine idea. Could it be done
wikipedia style? I worry people would come to
(virtual) blows over minute but passionately felt
details. |
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For enthusiasts, it could become very
absorbing, indeed it could be said to be
hobbit-forming … |
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Avoiding all the possibilities of this being a WBNI idea,
I like the visual I get when contemplating the idea. So
a +, but just by a squidgie. |
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Can we pair this up with GPS and see where we are on it?
Maybe also put certain landmarks into the real world too..
ha? |
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shades of the Ender's Game VR world. |
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As long as a secret door gets you to "Leaf by Niggle". Be a Conductor on the Train. Sigh |
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I like it + [bungston] is right about fans arguing over
minute details, though. |
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No pun intended but midden earth, getting those quite right might be a challenge....does an elf poop in the woods? |
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//What WAS J.R.R. thinking ?//
It makes a little more sense after the Simarillion, but
only because that made so little sense that you can let
Tom Bombadill slide. |
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Tom Bombadil is indeed a great link with the mythology. |
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WIBNI? (eddy izzard voice on) I think not! (eddy izzard voice off) |
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WIBNIIW-Virtual-R perhaps |
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Didn't think about fighting fans. |
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I have the app now, will try it tonight |
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//Chronicles of Thomas Covenant... // |
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That figures, we've always visualised you as a sort of Lord Foul, but
without the redeeming qualities... |
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//Tom Bombadil ... (What WAS J.R.R. thinking ? It just doesn't fit into the story at all)// |
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I believe (if memory serves) that Tom Bombadil preceded both the hobbit & the lord of the rings. He was a character he made up telling his children bed time stories when they were little (I think he may have been based around an already named stuffed toy / doll they had). So he was (I think) created first in independent stories for toddlers, then the hobbit was written for slightly older readers (again his children, only later published). Once he was in the hobbit he was in middle earth so T. (I guess) just popped him in the history / Silmarilian. |
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Why was he added to the hobbit?.. well I can see it being to amuse / at the request of his children ('daddy, what about Tom, isn't he in this story too'). |
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Which is probably why he doesn't appear to fit to you [8th]. |
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I think he works in the hobbit (as a stand alone without the lord of the rings) but he always seems a bit strange in middle earth to me too. |
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In some ways it's a bit like a guest appearance by the wizard of Oz in Neverland (accept that wouldn't seem strange at all, if you'd previously read neither). |
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My money's still on Midden Earth |
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