Poll of the Day > Not resonding to 2nd breakfasts,

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So I sent this dummy thicc hobbit a Shirebook message asking her if she wanted to hang out at The Prancing Pony with me. She says yes and ask for a time. I sent a message saying the time and it has been 3 days sense that message and she hasn't responded. What should I do?

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boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew

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fly, you fool!

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Im Gimli I know about the nervous system somehow

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I don't think she knows about Elevensies, Fark.
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Mead posted...

Im Gimli I know about the nervous system somehow

At least they cut that scene in the theatrical version

what about elevensies?
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Mead posted...

Im Gimli I know about the nervous system somehow

Ehh. To be fair, in the real world, humans were dissecting nerves and figuring out what they did as early as almost 4000 years ago, and they were figuring out what different sections of the brain did 2000 years ago. No, ancient Greece and Egypt didn't know everything there was to know about the nervous system, but they understood a lot more than most modern people assume people in the past knew.

Gimli's in a universe where both the elves and the dwarves used to have much more sophisticated cultures, and it's really only most of the humans who are ignorant as fuck. So I could easily accept the idea that Gimli would know about the nervous system. Especially when you accept the premise that "translation convention" is in effect (ie, they're not speaking English - we're hearing words in their language being translated into English. So if they use words like miles and leagues, or directions, or whatever, they're actually using their own measurements and words, and we're just hearing those things translated into terms WE would understand by some unseen narrator).

Translation convention is actually more valid for LotR than almost any other fantasy novel ever written, because Tolkien explicitly says that he didn't write the story, but is only translating an older work (specifically, the "Red Book of Westmarch", which is literally the book you see Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam writing in the story). Which ties into the idea he always liked to push that his stories were the real history of our world, and were more mythology than fiction. Middle Earth is literally our Earth tens of thousands of years ago.
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