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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Christian Earth: 6000 years old

Middle Earth: 30,000 years old

Middle Earth wins again

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Jesus vs Gandalf power scalers go!!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

ItsTheSamePicture.jpg

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Modern depictions of Jesus are correct because after the crucifixion Jesus came back as Jesus the White.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hey Gandalf, fuck off. We're you literally there 3,000 years ago? Or are you just going "You're younger than me, so you know fuckall"?

Fuckin boomer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

That's my take.

Bro I was alive during Rodney King riots.

Doesn't mean my opinion is more valid than someone actually there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Gandalf: I was there in spirit!

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Doesn't matter. While that amazon shitshow tells a different story, Gandalf (as Radagast and Saruman) only arrived in the third age, long after the War of the Last Alliance. Gandalf might be infinitely older than Elrond yet wasn't there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This does raise the question "Does your age count when you're in Valinor?"

Because it's literally the undying lands. Are we really going to pull rank between two functionally ageless beings? Seems petty.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not about rank or age. It's about who's been present at the last battle of the War of the Last Alliance. Also, at the time of the depicted scene Elrond never was in Valinor, so at this point in time Gandalf definitely easier Elrond's senior by orders of magnitude.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I thought the way it was worded, it was still technically the second age?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The second age ended with the ending of the war of the last alliance, so Gandalf did arrive later, but not "long after"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I assume you forgot a "not" after the "but". I just looked it up though, Gandalf left Valinor for Middle Earth around 1000 T.A. I don't know about you, but I'd consider that "long after" the War of the Last Alliance.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Small nerd gripe. Maia is the singular form of Maiar. "I am a Maia," or "I am one of the Maiar" get you there

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 days ago (1 children)

something-something Núma Númenor

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 days ago (44 children)

"Well I read in a book that I was there. I can't actually remember more than a few hundred years back."

Ashildr from Doctor Who was brilliant.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Am I wrong or do the wizards not remember their lives before they were sent to middle earth?

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