I want to make a hierarchy of "how deep in are you?" Tolkien content/lore. Anyone want to contribute some "oh jirt, we're really in it now" stuff for me to rank by intensity of obsession?
Here's what I have off the top of my head (not in order):
They're taking the hobbits to Isengard
Middle Earth is flat, but only to Elves
The various titles of the Red Book of Westmarch
Everything about Westron and the translation-ception
Intimate understanding of hobbit family trees
Intimate understanding of elf family tries
How many Glorfindels discourse
Do balrogs have wings discourse
Viggo Mortensen broke his toe on camera and you can see it in the final cut
Viggo Mortensen bought his horse
Sean Bean hiked everywhere
Most of the riders of rohan were played by women
All but one fellowship actor got a matching tattoo
The New Zealand airplane commercial
Tolkien hated it when people called the battle of helms deep "the battle of helms deep" because it should technically be called "the defense of hornburg"
Saruman's techinicolor dreamcoat
C.S. Lewis and Tolkien friendship / inklings
Beren is Tolkien's self-insert and Luthien is his wife.
Middle Earth is post-apocolyptic from an Elf perspective
Tolkien is the magician's apprentice
Tolkien hated that santa was in Narnia
The Diana Wynne Jones encounter
Knowing how tall various characters are, especially Aragorn
wizards and balrogs are the same species
Why does Frodo suddenly forget sindarin when Faramir tells him about the a place literally called the spider steps?
Knowing exactly what pieces of early medieval northern european folklore Tolkien snuck into the books, especially The Wanderer poem.
Tooks kicking ass in the scourging of the shire
Knowing that Aragorn and Arwen are distantly related
Knowing what constitutes a legal marriage for elves
Do Elves get periods lore
Is that a weed? discourse
Noldor propaganda discourse
Are Frodo and Bilbo unreliable narrators discourse
Sindarin accents/dialects discourse
Tolkien didn't like writing battle scenes
Tolkien hated it when people saw WWI/industrialization allegories in LOTR
conversely, C.S. Lewis REALLY needed everyone to know that Aslan was jesus
Tolkien didn't have enough female characters but he drank his respect women juice
conversely, C.S. Lewis had plenty of female characters but was frightened and confused by them
tolkien stole a bus one time
The Various Names and Nicknames of Jirt
PHFs, PEFs, PDFs, and PMFs.
Related to the above, the Cassandra Clare connection
Leonard Nimoy's bilbo baggins song
Knowing Tolkien's first civilian job
2000s era Faramir discourse
Knowing who has the 3 rings
The terrifying implications of Tom Bombadil
Racism and Anti-semitism in tolkiens works
Conversely, the fuck-off letter Tolkien sent the nazis
Is the shire more technologically advanced that other parts of middle earth?
Historical migration paths of the hobbits
Hobbit class system analysis
Pippin is destined to be the highest ranking hobbit of his generation
The Heavy Metal/Black Metal connection
The names and marriages of Merry, Pippin, and Sam's children
The intense Swedish Translator rivalry
Okay that's it from the top of my noggin. I'm sorely lacking silm lore here but any other additions are appreciated!
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