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Longhornfan1024

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  1. Villa have been the more threatening side in the last 20 minutes since Tyrone's fuck-up... requiring multiple top-shelf saves by the Chelsea keeper.

    Still 1-nil to the visitors though.
    Y'all generally had the better run of play throughout the game, but a couple of poor mistakes, great keeping by kepa, and a poor reffing decision made the difference. As a Chelsea supporter, it's weird being on the good side of a game like that after the year we've had.

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  2. More of a rye question than a bourbon question here.  I've been trying to add Manhattans to my cocktail rotation so that I'm not always drinking old fashioneds and margs.  I've been using Carpano Antica Formula for my vermouth and so far I've tried Sazerac, Whistlepig 10, and EH Taylor Rye as my ryes.  I thought Whistlepig tasted the best for the Manhattan.  What is everyone's favorite combo when you make yours?  I'm more interested in trying more ryes since I can always just drink them straight unlike the vermouth.  Ideally, it would be something fairly easy to find since I'm not going to be on any frequent buyer lists at this point.    

  3. Yeah, I'm on team y'all don't know what overrated means.  At this point in the thread only Snow's (agreed; it's overrated), EYM, and maybe Hopdoddy could be considered overrated.  Everything else is generally already considered mediocre to acceptable, which is right on point for most popular/accessible places.  

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  4. 17 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    So as we know, almost nothing in this show is a throw-away line.   it has some sort of meaning, even if its only for the bookfags. 

     

    Hearing the story from the Elf King telling Elrond that his father basically self-sacrificed and rode out to try and stop the coming war, we know he never returned, supposedly going to the same place that they were sending Galadriel  but that story kind of implies that he went alone on the quest, so no one expected him to return.

    meanwhile... we somehow have an older, beat-up elf now in charge of the orcs.

    is there any chance that Adar is Elrond's father?

    That's a big nope unless they want to royally piss of everyone who's read the Silmarillion.  To cut the story short, Elrond's father is currently on a boat that is able to sail/fly to the furthest reaches of world and is seen is a star in the night sky because of the Silmaril he wears on his head(the star whose light Galadriel captured to make the vial Frodo uses).  His sacrifice is the reason the Valar returned to Middle Earth to defeat the original big bad Morgoth.  It would be like if someone made a movie that's meant to be a serious interpretation of the Bible and when Jesus rises from the dead he becomes a bad guy (which actually sounds kind of cool if he were a flesh eating zombie).  

  5. 9 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

    This show is intentionally leaving a lot of things in the dark as it's timeline seems to be all over the place or at least ambiguous.

    A quick read of the Appendices in ROTK wrt the chronology of the second age clearly shows this. 

    I took a dive into the appendix just to clarify a few things and now I m more confused than ever.

    Agreed on this.  I'm pretty sure we're looking at different time periods.  At least for Galadriel and Arondir.  

  6. 8 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    Yes but in the movies there were regular orcs moving about in daylight as well, alongside the Uruk-Hai.  And not just near Mordor where there was a veil of darkness, but also the warg-mounted orcs attacked the Rohirrim in broad daylight en route to Helm's Deep.

    The descriptions basically say that orcs don't like sunlight, since they were originally born in darkness, but they can tolerate it when they must.

    Maybe the orcs in Rings of Power react more strongly to sunlight, because they're thousands of years closer to their birth, and haven't built up as much tolerance to sunlight, as the orcs of the Third Age?  Just guessing here.

     

     

     

    The orcs in LOTR were essentially forced to go out in the sunlight or face death at the hands of the Uruk Hai or Sauron.  It has never been clear to me, but there may also be different 'breeds' of orcs that have differing resistance to sunlight.  The Hobbit mentions 'goblins' that won't even leave the caves to chase Bilbo and the Dwarfs.  It may be that they just didn't have the motivation.  Or they could be much more susceptible to injury from the sun than the orcs in LOTR.  /nerdout

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