>Look at catalogue >More Tolkien-verse threads than any

>Where is the source of the water?
>how do they supply the city?

Tolkien was a hack

>>78900710
rivers go underground all the frickin time

>>78900710

>blaming the author and not the artist

>>78900710
cant you see the river you twat

Trauma from Hobbit sucking so hard that it created a propably permanent vacuum of lotr-tier Tolkien movies. /tv/ is still in denial.

Silmarillion is almost impossible to turn to movies or tv-series. Children of Hurin, for example, could be plausible but if it were made, it would take a huge dump on the legacy of Tolkien. Just like the Hobbit did.

>>78900771
There are numerous waterfalls coming out from under the city but there are no open water bodies above them. Rivers, streams and waterfalls needed large catchment areas to supply them with runoff water. The water in these waterfalls could not be coming Gondolin so they'd have to be coming from underground which is impossible.

>>78900856
>there are no open water bodies above them.
proof?

Its a /tv/ gets triggered by non canon artwork episode

>>78900660

Economically Gondolin wouldn't work. You couldn't sustain a city of its size from just collecting taxes within the walls.

Tolkien was a hack

>>78900937
They didn't require the services and beauracracy that modern societies do you dumb cunt

>>78900856
underground geyser

>>78900959
Chris pls

>>78900890
The picture. There are no visible open water bodies. In order for the waterfalls to CONSTANTLY be running water, there would have to be a catchment that at least a few square kilometres in size. The catchment surrounding the city is quite visibly large but it is below the waterfall which means it can't be feeding the waterfall. Ted Nasmith is a fucking hack.

>GoT fags who get triggered when fantasy does away with the laws of reality because it's fantasy and has every right to do that

>>78900856
>which is impossible
They could pump the water from underground sources. It's all mineral water.

>>78900660
When I see a kingdom like that I can't help but wonder about their tax policy.

>>78900710
It's clearly an impact crater with mineral springs that formed after the mountain got leveled.

>>78900710
melt water

>>78901035
You're a special kind of retard, aren't you?

>>78901947
what do you mean?

>>78901947
Fuck off, George.

>>78901035
More than half the valley is not in the fucking picture u twat

>Elves
>Inmortal
>They are like 2000 of them living in a little town
>Rohan
>A little town again with no more than 200 houses
>6 gorillion knights
>Gondor
>Just a city and an abandoned port
Tolkien is a fucking hack

>>78900710

>The First Age was a mistake

Anybody recommend reading Children of Hurin?

I read the Silmarillion a few years back so I know the whole story already. Seems like the Tolkien estate just wanted to make some easy money so unsure whether to buy it or not

They have a well. Jerusalem has no rivers either

>>78903972
>I think the writer of the books is a hack because the movies cut out parts he wrote for time
Okay.

>>78904122
It's good. It's not really a finished novel but it's way more than what the Silmarillion gives you about the story.

>>78903972
Those are Capitals of Kingdoms

>>78904593
>>78904577
lol sure the capital is a town but they have billions of cavalty
LOTR is DeusExMachina the saga

>>78900660
>Tolkien-verse
>Calling it that, instead of Middle-Earth or Arda
Movie franchises in general were a mistake.

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POST LORE

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Utumno

>Utumno was delved very deep into the flesh of the Earth. Here Melkor built his first of many dungeons and deep halls of obsidian, fire, and ice. Utumno had many hundreds of caves, tunnels, and rooms, allowing many things to remain hidden and secret for a very long time

>>78900660
>>More Tolkien-verse threads than any other movie franchise


Literally bullshit. It's capeshit and star wars.

>>78900710
Why didnt the Thestrals fly the padawans to narnia

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>Be literal Satan
>Get BTFO by a fucking spider

Embarrassing

>>78906431
>When you realize, that because of this, by extension, Ancalagon the Black would've been BTFO by Ungoliant
Is there anything Ungoliant can't do?

>>78906457
not eat herself the fat fuck

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What was his fucking problem?

>>78906665
He was an Elf

>>78906665
muh silmarils

muh oath

>>78900710
>what are mountain springs
>what are those rivers flowing out of the city
>what are the many waterfalls all over the pic
>what are all those bodies of water surrounding the city

You're a retard

>>78900660

Are those actual fountains?

>>78906431
Ungoliant isn't a spider
It's a primordial evil that took the shape of a spider

>>78900937
>taxes
>economics

get out George, no one cares about that pulpy schlock you keep crapping out, you wont have even an eight of the legacy Tolkien has and what legacy you do leave will not be positive

reminder that

FotR >>>>>>>>>>> tTT >>> RotK

>>78900710
the mountains numbnuts

>>78906944
That's like saying Balrogs aren't Balrogs because they're Maiar

What was the ultimate fate of Ungoliant? Did everyone just forget she existed?

>>78900660

>Having a large fountain the middle of the field

Tolken was a hack

>>78907014
Fotr>TTT=ROTK
Anything else is trolling

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>tfw I only watched the films and come to these threads because they're interesting despite knowing nothing about the lore