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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Client: "What do you mean you can't get me driving privileges?"
Lawyer: "How many drunk driving cases have you had in the past?"
Client: "What does that matter?"
Lawyer: ".... Well given that this is a Felony charge due to the number of them you've had before...."
Client: "You fucking suck at this!"

....

Lawyer: ARE YOU DRUNK RIGHT NOW?? ಠ_ಠ

Client: It's late in the day, I can have a drink if I want, I know my rights! You don't fucking own me! *stumbles into file cabinet*

[Xantalos]

The fact that my family has been gone for a full day now and didn't even leave me any notice of where they were going or what they're doing. What the hell, guys?!

Warning, you might be in an M. Night Shamalayan movie.
Serious now, hopefully you find them. Da fuq.

[lordcooper]

The fact that my family has been gone for a full day now and didn't even leave me any notice of where they were going or what they're doing. What the hell, guys?!

Warning, you might be in an M. Night Shamalayan movie.
Serious now, hopefully you find them. Da fuq.

The twist is that you were your family all along.

[Loud Whispers]

The fact that my family has been gone for a full day now and didn't even leave me any notice of where they were going or what they're doing. What the hell, guys?!

Warning, you might be in an M. Night Shamalayan movie.
Serious now, hopefully you find them. Da fuq.

The twist is that you were your family all along.

Does this happen a lot? Is this everyone but you?

[lordcooper]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer

[Descan]

... Okay, assuming that's actually written well, I want to read that.

So. Badly.

[Devling]

... Okay, assuming that's actually written well, I want to read that.

So. Badly.

Agree.

On the other hand...

The orcs are completely evil. Like, not even a little not evil. Super evil.
The fucking evilest. Murder your brother evil. Live in a ash wasteland evil. Worship the deity of evil levels of evil.

[Frumple]

I hear it's pretty decent, but suffers a little from translation issues. Supposed to be alright, one of the better examples of Tolkien fanfiction.

[Descan]

... Okay, assuming that's actually written well, I want to read that.

So. Badly.

Agree.

On the other hand...

The orcs are completely evil. Like, not even a little not evil. Super evil.
The fucking evilest. Murder your brother evil. Live in a ash wasteland evil. Worship the deity of evil levels of evil.

From what I can tell, the point of the Last Ringbearer is that we're assuming the original books were a massive distortion of real history to suit a victorious and prejudiced Gondor.

I mean, just because certain books from the 1800s say that black men are uncivilized and barely sentient, or that 1940s propaganda literally called the Japanese "yellow devils", doesn't mean that they actually are those things.

Same here, the assumption is that all we have on the Orcs and their evil-ness is written by the Gondor men, so therefore circumspect.

[Guardian G.I.]

Lord of the Rings was often criticized in Russia because some people assume that Mordor is an allegory of (Soviet) Russia.
The Orcs in the Last Ringbearer are clearly meant to represent Russians, and war-mongering, imperialist and genocidal Elves are obviously Americans.

[Putnam]

Funny, since it was mostly written when Russia was a great ally to Britain.

[Knight of Fools]

Even during WWI, though, there was a lot of tension between Russia and the West. The East and West weren't exactly close buds even before WWII. The Cold War was a long time in the making, and it wouldn't surprise me if Tolkien really was trying to draw up Russia by making the orcs.

After all, One does not simply walk into Russia.

[Guardian G.I.]

It is a popular opinion in Russia that the West has been planning and trying to destroy Russia for centuries, despite all alliances and treaties. Russia has been invaded numerous times by Teutonic Order crusaders, Lithuanians and Poles, Swedes, French, English, Germans and even Americans, so it's no wonder that Russians think the whole Western world is conspiring against them and views them as uncivilized barbarians.

[Neonivek]

Well that would be a pretty ridiculous belief if it wasn't... pretty true.

[Xantalos]

Oh god why am I reading debate threads that involve 40k. This is a stupid idea.
So many fanboys.