Lord Of The Rings Memes

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 22 points 3 weeks ago

You put em in a smoker for a few hours 🥔🧖‍♀️

https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-to-make-a-one-hitter-out-of-a-potato/

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[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago

Been there, done that. Prefer apples.

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Rule 420: if it exists, you can smoke out of it

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[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago

🤣 1

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[–] spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 33 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

He didn't carry a grown ass man. He carried a grown ass hobbit.

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Would that not be a grown man to his perspective?

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

No, it would be a grown hobbit. Gimli would be a grown dwarf, Legolas a grown elf, and Boromir would be a grown man.

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[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Hobbits are a race of Man.

In the same way the Noldor or the Sindar are races of elves and the Petty-Dwarves are a race of dwarves.

Frodo Baggins is a grown ass man by any definition of the term.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit#Description

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Kind of.

Tolkien presented hobbits as relatives of the human race,[T 4] or a "variety"[T 6][11] or separate "branch"[T 7] of humanity.[11] In Tolkien's fictional world, hobbits and other races are aware of the similarities between humans and hobbits (hence the colloquial terms for each other of "Big People" and "Little People"); nevertheless, hobbits consider themselves a separate people.[T 8]

Considering the vastly different physical and mental characteristics I think it's probably more fair to view them like we view Orangutans and Humans as all belonging to one taxonomic family but not being the same species. In that regard hobbits are not men.

Edit: or probably more accurately, a genus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo in which case I think I concede you're right after all, no matter how much I don't like the thought of hobbits being men

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago

I'm playing with the two definitions of man, man the race and man as a grown adult male

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[–] spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 2 points 3 weeks ago

Interestingly, no. Even taking it to mean, "equivalently sized person", short bodies tend to have more leverage with their limbs. It's why a lot of shorter power lifters don't look as big as taller ones. Although that can be hard to tell, since many of them just look like a chubby dude until you see them move something insane.

The true answer as to whether it was equivalent would come down to hobbit anatomy and biomechanics. They could be stronger or weaker than a similarly statured human depending on how their musculature works.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

The class system is so deep-rooted in Middle Earth that the gardener can wear the ring for hours without being corrupted and single handedly stage a jail break, and everyone still swoons over the master, who actually failed the mission.

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[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A picture of the fellowship listing theirnsocial standing, with Samwise being the only commoner, and the caption concluding it's really only strange he didn't havevto start physically carrying people even earlier

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[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

What's the deal with the hobbits? Pippin and Frodo are cousins, why are they not the same class? And the Brandybucks are higher-ranking than the Bagginses?

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[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Merry is a Brandybuck, they were the first ten Thains of the Shire and founded Buckland. He is the only son of the Master of Buckland. Pippin is a Took, they took over as Thains after the Brandybucks left, his father is currently the Thain of the Shire, and his father's sister is Merry's mother. Frodo is a Baggins, no title but wealthy and influential, his mother is Merry's grandfather's sister, and Bilbo' mother is the daughter of Thain Old Took.

And Sam, well, his father is a well respected gardener, and his grandfather was a roper by trade.

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[–] negativenull@piefed.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't forget: Sam owns Bill the Pony

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[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

The same pony not only walked all the way back to the Shire to wait for him at home, he took his peak pony physique to the asshole who abused him, planted hooves in his slimy gut, and pranced off like the fabulous heroic steed he was.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

You can't, like, own a pony dude

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[–] jade52@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago

Sam is a hero. I couldn't even go a week without eating potatoes and smoking weed.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

6 months without eating a potato?

You said this was ideal

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

That's willpower right there.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

What use is willpower if you use it to hurt yourself (ie unnecessary potato withholding)

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[–] GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

or smoking one!

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[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Wasn't "Smoking or eating potatoes" a lost chapter?

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 point 3 weeks ago

Tolkien replaced it with "A shortcut to mushrooms"

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[–] Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

They misspelled "pohtaytoh".

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Oh he absolutely topped Frodo.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

The best wingman... is a Hobbit.

[–] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

also: doesn't need to wear wigs

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's awesome, really it is. But I still have to insist that you put some shoes on if you want into this club tonight.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

And now he's reduced to mixing margaritas for Frodo and Gandalf on the Blessed Isle.

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

sam was really the MVP out of the whole bunch.

[–] SourDragon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Father is Gomez Addams

Reference

Sean Aston (Sam) is John Aston's (Gomez from the old 60s show) son

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Carrier a grown ass man's ass up a volcano

[–] theywanttocontrolyou@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Do many hobbits have that many children? Surely Middle Earth will be overrun with hobbits in a couple of generations. Or is the life of a hobbit child exceptionally fatal?

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

But too nice and submissive to be desired.

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (15 children)

Married for 62 years

13 kids

Idk about that

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[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

To the audience, compared to Aragorn?

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (13 children)

To whom within the audience? I ask because most adults I've spoken to about LotR end up agreeing that the absolute best life to live in the setting would be a hobbit's life.