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Oromë is one of the Valar, essentially demi-gods in Tolkien’s universe. He’s like the huntsmen God.

The battle of the Valar might refer to the Battle of Powers, in which the Valar fought against Melkor (another Valar, but evil and very powerful) and his army for basically trying to take over the world, or it could refer to the War of Wrath, which was fought between the Valar, men, elves, and dwarves against Melkor (now named Morgoth) over the Silmarills (very fancy powerful gems made by one of the elves) and, well, the taking-over-the-world thing again.

None of this is referenced in the original book(s), so as a reader you just think, “Theoden (King of Rohan, a major city of men) is a badass, he’s getting compared to some made up God.” But when you’ve got the context, it’s one of those inexplicable hype feelings.

You haven’t seen the latest chatGPT update?

Grond

I noticed that Walmart has started using the cheap shitty ones again. Haven’t looked to see if they claim to be reusable but they’re hardly durable enough for the first go.

A while back, I was a big fan of the lemonade flavored Trulys (alcoholic seltzer). I started stacking empty cans on my desk, letting them accumulate for a couple days, until eventually the desk would get bumped and the tower would fall.

After a while, I started hot gluing the cans together.

Long story short, I have a five layer pyramid of lemonade Trulys atop the shelving unit in the front room. I forget it’s there, but people usually ask about it within the first 15 minutes of coming over for the first time.

I went on a trip a couple months ago with some friends, one of which had recently gotten into photography. He brought a camera along (no idea what kind, it used film 🤷🏾‍♂️) and that little piece of plastic made the trip so much more enjoyable, through it he became our “in” for several fun interactions.

Some people will feel otherwise, but until you give me a reason to add “weirdo” myself, people with cameras are just people with cameras, haha.

Hey, someone got it

First thing to do is open the door.

My guess would be that you could control things like playlist, shuffle, etc. Like a smartwatch interface but only for music.

Thanks! For the record, nár is the elven word for fire, and melindo is their word for lover 🤓

I think the purpose of it would be to control the device the headphones are connected to, rather than be the source of the media

Had the moth (sorry, The Moth) been in the books, it absolutely would have had a name.

This is factually incorrect.

If The Moth had been in the books, it would have like seven names.

“Gandalf called him Message Bringer. And he was called Fuzzy One, and also Window Whacker; and the Elves in their tongue called him Nármelindo, or Flame Lover. But to the Enemy, he was Eagle Bringer, and Gandalf Saver, and the Men of the West called him Arisen Caterpillar.”

They are part horse though, right?

For anyone else curious:

The Moth is the name given to a non-canonical small moth that comes to Gandalf occasionally, forewarning that Eagles are coming, or used by him to summon them.

- LotR wiki

Yeah, I was gonna make the joke, but got lazy.

It works under every definition of it, really.

Fun fact: the word “factoid” means a false bit of information that is being passed as fact. It doesn’t mean “a small interesting tidbit of information”.

Though I suppose the official definition will be changed since the proper one is seemingly dead

Quick edit: looks like it may have already been altered.

Hey, some looks you gotta build yourself up to. I’m a dude with long hair, when I first let it grow long enough to tie back, it felt really weird being in public with a ponytail/ bun. I didn’t feel like “the guy with the ponytail” yet.

A few more trips to the coffee shop, and hopefully this guy will just be “the guy in the cowboy hat” 👍🏽