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>In a reply to a letter, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote that he did not intend for the Nazgûl-bird[2] to be a pterodactyl, though he acknowledged that it was "pterodactylic" and "owes much to" the "mythology of the 'Prehistoric'". He considered that its description left open the possibility for it to be "a last survivor of older geological eras".[8]

What did Tolkien mean by that? Did he hate dinosaurs because he was a Catholic?
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>>214988976
How the fuck did you get "he hates dinosaurs" from that?
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>>214988976
>"a last survivor of older geological eras".
This is the most kino type of giant monster.
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>>214989027
OP has terminal american brainrot, please forgive him.

>>214988976
No he just never described them based on a pterodactyl, then told others who said
>"It's a pterodactyl!"
>"No, but it looks a bit like one."
You can go back to bed now.
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>>214988976
>Did he hate dinosaurs because he was a Catholic?
refusing to believe in dinosaurs and evolution is American Protestant brainrot
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>>214989049
true, always has a hint of sadness with it knowing once it's gone their existence is gone forever
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>>214989120
Gigaboomers coped hard about dinosaurs 100 years ago. They even literally called them antediluvian in the earliest years.
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Reminder that there is zero empirical evidence supporting evolution, there are zero transitional fossils, the cell is irreducibly complex, and carbon dating doesn't work. Darwinism is a religion reliant on faith.
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>>214989139
Not coincidentally, my favorite fantasy setting is after dinosaurs have (mostly) died out, but their bones still litter the landscape.
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>>214988976
Peter Jackson's team fucking nailed it by turning them into degenerated wyverns.
God it would have looked so retarded if it was a pterodactyl with a beak.
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>>214989120
dinosaurs are not a matter of belief. evolution is

besides, there's nothing catholic about hating dinosaurs
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>>214989163
>They even literally called them antediluvian in the earliest years
dinosaurs do predate the great deluge
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>>214988976
It's a wyvern. As are most "dragons" depicted in tv and film.



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