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DevsBro
10/22/19 4:24:56 PM
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Some random elf gets to kill Smaug.
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ThePrinceFish
10/22/19 4:27:10 PM
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My only problem was the boring slog of Tolkein describing a fucking tree for like three pages and then summing up a fight in a minor paragraph.
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PIITB415
10/22/19 4:27:37 PM
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And the awful signing bits. I quit after the 2nd song came on. Fuck that book.
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Awakened_Link
10/22/19 4:29:09 PM
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Wasn't it Bard the Bowman? He was pretty significant.
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Questionmarktarius
10/22/19 4:30:08 PM
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DevsBro posted...
Some random elf gets to kill Smaug.

That's just some random guy.
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gunplagirl
10/22/19 4:30:13 PM
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Awakened_Link posted...
Wasn't it Bard the Bowman? He was pretty significant.


Yeah it was
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DevsBro
10/22/19 4:31:02 PM
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Awakened_Link posted...
Wasn't it Bard the Bowman? He was pretty significant.

Well I don't so much mean that he was insignificant among elves as he wasn't a main party member. I'd have expected Thorin to do him in, or maybe all the elves working together, or something.
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GeneralKenobi85
10/22/19 4:31:45 PM
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Bard isn't an elf.
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DevsBro
10/22/19 4:32:37 PM
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GeneralKenobi85 posted...
Bard isn't an elf.

Oh.

Regardless, he wasn't who you would have expected.
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EndOfDiscOne
10/22/19 4:33:37 PM
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DevsBro posted...
GeneralKenobi85 posted...
Bard isn't an elf.

Oh.

Regardless, he wasn't who you would have expected.

Oh, you were serious?
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dr_marble
10/22/19 4:33:37 PM
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ThePrinceFish posted...
My only problem was the boring slog of Tolkein describing a fucking tree for like three pages and then summing up a fight in a minor paragraph.

PIITB415 posted...
And the awful signing bits. I quit after the 2nd song came on. Fuck that book.

It was actually the first book I ever quit on, and I've never looked back at Tolkein. Except that Pearl Poet translation if that counts.
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GeneralKenobi85
10/22/19 4:36:07 PM
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DevsBro posted...
GeneralKenobi85 posted...
Bard isn't an elf.

Oh.

Regardless, he wasn't who you would have expected.

Well his ancestor did get killed by Smaug. And the arrow he used was made by Thorin's grandfather. So there are the links to Smaug.
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gunplagirl
10/22/19 4:37:24 PM
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GeneralKenobi85 posted...
DevsBro posted...
GeneralKenobi85 posted...
Bard isn't an elf.

Oh.

Regardless, he wasn't who you would have expected.

Well his ancestor did get killed by Smaug. And the arrow he used was made by Thorin's grandfather. So there are the links to Smaug.


Didn't somebody from the group pass the info along about the exposed part of Smaug's chest not being embedded in jewels?
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GeneralKenobi85
10/22/19 4:40:14 PM
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gunplagirl posted...
GeneralKenobi85 posted...
DevsBro posted...
GeneralKenobi85 posted...
Bard isn't an elf.

Oh.

Regardless, he wasn't who you would have expected.

Well his ancestor did get killed by Smaug. And the arrow he used was made by Thorin's grandfather. So there are the links to Smaug.


Didn't somebody from the group pass the info along about the exposed part of Smaug's chest not being embedded in jewels?

Some random bird told Bard about it after he overheard Bilbo talking about the weakness.
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Freddie_Mercury
10/22/19 4:42:22 PM
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from his perspective the dwarfs are random
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DevsBro
10/22/19 4:43:39 PM
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Freddie_Mercury posted...
from his perspective the dwarfs are random

Only an orc deals in absolutes
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SideshowBob311
10/22/19 5:29:25 PM
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Yeah I'm not going to deny how massively influential Tolkien's work is...but goddamn his books are an awful read. It felt like a solid 3rd of Two Towers was spent/wasted describing a forest.
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