>...and then Bilbo whispered to a thrush, a particularly old thrush perched on the mountain, mind you, who conveyed the message of Smaug's missing scale to Bard, who was very good with a bow, you see, and then Bard shot Smaug with the black arrow, which was a very special arrow, forged by the dwarves under the mountain long ago, which instantly killed Smaug!GRRM's autistic edgelord criticisms of Gandalf are nothing compared to this bullshit. If a modern author wrote this slop he would be thrown into a pit and torn apart by apes.
>>24948231Smaug was hit in the vulnerable spot of the dragon's belly.Turin does the same with his black sword to Glaurung in the 1st age.Hmm I wonder if it is just a coincidence that the arrows that killed Smaug was black like Turin's sword.
>>24948236We don't make black generalisations here thank you very much
>>24948236I take issue more with the fact some random thrush was involved in this very tense and serious moment. Not to mention Bilbo and Bard can somehow communicate with a fucking bird.
>>24948248It is not some random Thrush. It is from a group of birds that used to communicate frequently with the men of Dale in the past. Bard can understand it since he is a descendant of the last lord of Dale.
>>24948231Every incident, every snippet of poetry, every line of text in the Hobbit or LOTR makes perfect sense if you know the history of Middle-Earth. No, more than that - everything is the way it is because there was no possible way for things to turn out differently unless you ignore or discard the history of Middle-Earth. By complaining about Tolkien's supposed asspulls, you are outing yourself as a lorelet who hasn't even read the Silmarillion twice.
>>24948231Why do people perfomatively hate Tolkien? How would you know this much about the Hobbit unless you were an actual fan? Enjoying fantasy without enjoying Tolkien is like being a Christian whilst hating Christ (I hate Jewbrahammadans I'm just using this as an example).Just admit you like him and that your life is at such a low point you're desperately trying optimise your 4chan trolling algorithm because your soul is ugly and you have nothing else going on.
>>24948231>and then Bard shot Smaug with the black arrow, which was a very special arrow, forged by the dwarves under the mountain long ago, which instantly killed Smaug!The black arrow was some random guardsmen's dad's lucky arrow. This guard was introduced to the reader one page ago and there is no hint that he was talented with a bow. There is one passing mention to the idea that the black arrow might have been forged by the dwarves but no real confirmation. Please stop comparing Tolkien's works to that hack Peter Jackson that turned a short book into three full length movies and therefore had to pad them out with meaningless shit
The only thing i dont like about tolkien is his reliance on providence and constant references to christianity. Other than that,the thing that makes me fume the most are the alt right grifters insturmentalizing and taking intellectual property over tolkien, using it in online discourse and warping and bastardising the m story and morale to their ends (most notably their assertion about evil never being able to create but distort, which is ironic coming from them). We're talking about a man who wrote personally to hitler telling him to piss off, i have no doubt in mind he would regard the average poltard with disgusted contempt and restrained hatred.
>>24948327Pretty good page, this guy might be talented.>>24948352What an absolute parody of a useless faggot.
>>24948273>Pro-Nationalists Spain and war veteransHe was based unlike GRRM semi-feminist cucks
>>24948352>We're talking about a man who wrote personally to hitler telling him to piss offOnly on autistic anthropological grounds over his antisemitism and because Hitler wanted to promote his works in the lens of Nazism, to which Tolkien did not assent. He didn't call Hitler a heckin' fascist chuddie or condemn his politics.
>>24948273>How would you know this much about the Hobbit unless you were an actual fan?I read the book.
>>24949426Oh i'm sorry i badmouthed your precious totalitarian egomaniacal genocidal dictator, i will be more careful in the future, i wouldn't want any of you terminally online losers to finally flip and shoot out a school because of me.
>>24949426He called Hitler a ruddy little ignoramus
>>24948352>>24949426>>24949474Tolkien disliked nazis and Hitler for being too left-wing.
>>24948248>not knowing the bird languageerlendr
>>24949473>Oh i'm sorry i badmouthed your precious totalitarian egomaniacal genocidal dictator, i will be more careful in the futureNo harm done just don't do it again
