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And now I fear trees
Apr 17, 2015 1:28 AM
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SittingarounddoingnothingK3life
Damn that poem gave me *ugh*.. gave me shivers...
istilldontknow
10 years to read that poem though
RoAnnon
Obligatory Tolkien upvote, though that poem would get one anyway
Kevm4n
DUUUUDE, THEY SHOULD TOTALLY DO LIKE A MINI SERIES OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF DIFFERENT PEOPLE WORE THE RING!!
0void00
So it would pretty much be Etrian Odyssey.
Stormels
No one is gonna mention that that art is from Ergo Proxy?
railgap
I've played Tiny Tina's Assault On Dragon Keep, I know what Ents are like when they go bad.
Zxaskad
As a huge Tolkien fan, I absolutely love this...
Tea4One
That pics a wallpaper designed after the Proxy of death. From Ergo Proxy
randomspamemailsqaz
http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2rqqt3/eu_an_ent_gets_the_one_ring/cnifqrc a fantastic author answered this prompt on reddit
Tom40
I'll have to check this out when I have more time
creativitylack
http://imgur.com/bz8FhH7
Quadrant4
I am groot.
Archaon6044
that's really fucking metal
OneThrustToRuleThemAll
The hour of bark ends where the termites begin.
boobisboobbackwards
ooh, this is good stuff 10/10!
ShawnSolo12
I AM GROOT!
Shikouza
i was looking for you
klenkidd
Anyone else thinking of the redneck tree? http://www.somethingpositive.net/arch/sp05042002.gif
Jagger767
Oh look, a 3.5 monster out of a blue campaign. terrible will and ref for a CR 8. would get crushed by any spell caster.
klenkidd
Lucky for redneck trees that you are not a spellcaster.
bisendmeyournudes
Holy fuck, this guy is the greatest poet of our time...
Veldareth
You haven't read much poetry, have you?
bisendmeyournudes
Eh... Not much of a poet lover
defaultentry
HE WOULD CONQUER MIDDLE EARTH...sometime in the next 5-10 centuries...orcs would die waiting for their orders. entire generations would 1/2
defaultentry
grow up, NOT KNOWING WHAT THE START OF THEIR ORDERS WERE.
RyanMcFlyin
nothing would happen because the Ents were not one of the major races the ring was originally created to enslave.
8BitArchitect
Neither were Hobbits, and Bilbo/Frodo/Smeagol had some major issues after bearing the ring for a while.
RyanMcFlyin
I thought so too, and had a loong debate with my wife... she claims hobbits technically fall under the 'Men' category...
8BitArchitect
Yes, but Wizards are Maiar, and they were affected/wary of the ring, and Sauron didn't create any rings for them.
RyanMcFlyin
oooh- touche! Perhaps, though, it's because they are Maiar. Sauron is/was one. Either way, well played!
Doopapotamus
How are they going to solve the Lady Ent problem even if they had the One Ring?
imstillscrolling
I always thought both the books and the movies lightly alluded to the possibility that the entwives were near the shire.
interficiabo
I never got this impression. What makes you think so?
imstillscrolling
Nothing specific, just a general sense when hobbits spoke of the forest around The shire and the way they questioned 1/2
underageotters
Yesterday upon the stair, I met a main who wasn't there. He wasn't there again, today. I wish, I wish, he'd go away.
Contagonist
ah. 'The Yehudi Principle'
LunaChic
That's one of my favorite poems. :)
FedEXguy
If you proofread carefully, you'll know why I read this in an exaggerated Mexican accent.
underageotters
Yeeeeeahh I saw it when I logged in today.. My instinct is to delete and the repost but the effect apparently went across anyway.
TravDrinksBeer
Yeah I didn't even notice and read it as "man" haha
underageotters
I just saw that my phone changed man to main.. :p kinda takes away from the creepiness a lil bit.
iritebooks
Naw, the man just had an Irish accent.
TheLadyNym
I'm in the middle of some random insomnia and this fucked me up, dude.
KnathanTheKnight
Then you shouldn't see the picture that went with this in the Scary Stories book. It's the stuff of nightmares. http://i.imgur.com/2Pcoz.gi
underageotters
Just remember: There's nothing in the dark that's not there in the light. :)
TheLadyNym
Thank you, Are You Afraid of the Dark? narrator.
underageotters
Actually I got that from M*A*S*H.
underageotters
Or maybe that's not helpful either
TheLoneWolfRunsFree
Oh GOD, can we PLEASE have a movie of this???? Or if anyone has a real good fanfiction, send it my direction! Please and thank you!
shoquastican
http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2rqqt3/eu_an_ent_gets_the_one_ring/cnifqrc
TheLoneWolfRunsFree
Oh God! Thanks so much!!!
DalMulherin5
Poltergeist is what made me fear trees....and clowns...and...everything in my house.
minusthebert
Mostly the white noise on the television
buttermyarse
It was tragic that she died so young. She would've grown into a wonderful actress.
aSwankyLemon
wait what happend
buttermyarse
She died when she was about 12/13. Before the 3rd Poltergeist film was realeased. She had a bad heart or something
aSwankyLemon
oh.. TIL
buttermyarse
Very sad
Metafyter
This is a character from Ergo Proxy
MyCatLikesToFruitcake
My thoughts exactly. Both of his forms are hot.
Neddith
So glad someone else saw this was ergo proxy
SeraRelm
Where's Timothy?
Gingerbreadboi
Currently going through it! :D
Stormels
Yay, someone else noticed!
mooglemuffins
Yeah that tumblr person is not the original author https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3222103/1/If-an-Ent-got-the-One-Ring this is.
YouCantKeepJetpackingAwayFromYourProblemsBrian
Props to you home dizzle
Rozilla
It's also a case of which came first. The post or the fiction press entry?
Ryannihilation
yeah no, the fictionpress thing is dated november 2014. this has been around a year, minimum.
SoOblivious
Comment cause of amount of awesome.
cavalupamortis
Thank you for this
unshartedterritory
Have any of you ACTUALLY read the two towers? Treebeard says this, so the author is tolkein not some dumbass blogger
mooglemuffins
I just checked, this isn't anywhere in the text of the Two Towers
SnazzyWombat
Actually the timestamp of the tumblr post is older than the fictionpress post.
TheStaleBread
How do you find time stamps on tumblr.
NiceLegsDaisyDukesMakesAMAAANOUTOFYOOOUUUU
It should be right next to the post of /when/ you posted it; you can see it on mostly every tumblr blog.
SnazzyWombat
http://misbehavingmaiar.tumblr.com/post/66872481885/lunchbagart-my-son-wanted-to-know-what-would Time stamp is 13 Nov 2013.
DoctorSpaceDog
Some of the additional stuff on the full poem I don't like as much as the short one anyway. Why is the end eerie?
zachtidmore
They wouldn't care to touch it. The Ents are old and powerful as hell. They would likely be very reaistant to the ring. Plus, 1/2
zachtidmore
If they did get corrupted, the world would just become more heavily forested. Now, if Shelob got the ring...
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jaroferic
Ents (why is that not in my phone?)
LvAllen
She would make Australia?
Cataleast
"NNNEEERD!" -- H. Simpson. I kid, I kid. But I just couldn't help reading your comment in a classic squeaky geek voice with a slight lisp ;)
zachtidmore
How did you know how I talk!? That's amazing!
jaroferic
I would point out that Gandalf, Saruman and Galadriel were all older than most, if not all the Ents; and they feared to take the ring.
zachtidmore
True enough, but I understood their hesitation to be fear of their own pride and ambition. The Ents, like the Hobbits, desire only peace
Fractoman
Not to mention they don't really do anything quickly. So even if they were able to be corrupted by the ring, it'd be damn slow.
Rheios
Ent with the ring 400 years later. "Huh. Maybe I should think about doing something with this. Take over maybe? Let me think about that"
TheBreadlord
You are partly right. But the Ents are indeed powerful creatures. Thus the ring would corrupt them quicker and emphasize their powers. 1/?
zachtidmore
Fair points, but the Ents don't want what we want. I think they would corrupt slowly because they never have looked for conflict.
TheBreadlord
true.
balthcat
Powerful, but slower to desire and to act. They might be more akin to glaciers than a tsunami.
TheBreadlord
This would indeed lead to a lot of forestation but propably more of a vile type. Poisonous plants and as you propably know ents can 2/?
TheBreadlord
essentially kind of mobilize forests so you could actually use that in attacking. An Ent is a powerful ally with emphasized powers. 3/4
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
Hm. I got from the books that ents can shepherd/guide the trees in the forest, but that the forest could have its own, divergent plans.
dunecat1337
You're missing the point of the whole story. The only one who could safely bare the ring was a hobbit, because they lack power.
Dekacube
Dwarves are kinda resistant to the rings as well.
LokiKingOfJotunheim
Actually, the rings made them even greedier than they already were...
ElbowDeepinaTinyOctopus
Resistant =/= Immune. Humans with rings invariably turned to Wraiths. Not so with Dwarves, they just got a little greedier.
Dekacube
But didn't give Sauron sway over them. Hence resistant.
CherrBear
Tom Bombadil could have, he didn't care just like an ent wouldn't care.
ildolce
Yeah, Gandalf says at the Council I think, if they gave it to Tom he'd just treat it like a normal ring and probably lose it
WardSharlow
I'm with you on this one. Ents wouldn't be bothered by it, I don't think.
malachitedragon
Iunno. It tempts the bearers with visions of what they want most- for Sam, it was all of Mordor covered in an ocean of flowers. I see (1/?)
malachitedragon
no reason it couldn't have tempted them with... Finding the Entwives, covering the world with forests, stuff like that. (2/2)
dunecat1337
And even they get pretty fucked up eventually.
Beardgoesalltheway
Tom Bombado
Amythyst
Better comparison would be Galadriel or Gandalf, both of whom fear what the Ring would do to them. Bombadil is likely Eru Ilúvatar.
Stoneagedudeman
It's not that they lack power. They lack the ambition for power. They have the abilities they have, and are content with that.
DrOsmium
Which is why an ent would be very resistant to it as well, maybe even more so.
dunecat1337
Then why didn't Gandalf choose an ent as ring bearer?
sindelar
Could hardly sneak a fucking ent into Mordor. I agree with you though, ents aren't immune.
Stoneagedudeman
An Ent would actually fall to the temptation, given the time. They would want to find the Ent Wives, and spread the trees as they once were.
LokiKingOfJotunheim
2 things though. An Ent would not likely even want the ring or its power. And the ring would sense this, and not try to draw the Ent in.
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
The ent would be corrupted and eventually would lead itself to Sauron where the ring will betray the ent and Sauron would take it.
SolHSA
Luckily it would take about ten thousand years to come to that conclusion.
Nibarlan
wtf those movies are long enough as is
vudak
I'd watch the extended edition. I'm all for more middle earth.
Sylmor
I thought I was too until I saw the Hobbit.
TreebeardSomeCallMe
Nah just give it to us anyway
crepesofmath
I wish more people saw this
Rokkitgrrl
Beats. Bears. Battlestar Galactica.
LordSauron
Go me.
UrpiArvasti
You rule
JohnEburt
The Ents would be uninterested as Tommy B is. Their magic is older and they have no desire for such trinkets.
Elroydb
Sauron is older than the Ents :X Elves, Men, and Dwarves are older than the rings. I think they could become corrupted as well
area42
The Ents would not touch it likely for the same reasons the Eagles would not.
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Source? The Istari are older than the ents and they want the ring, I was under the impression Bombadil was unique.
8BitArchitect
Two prominent theories are that Tom Bombadil is one of the Valar, or possibly a 'nature spirit' of some sort.
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
He claims to be older than the world itself, making him a maiar or valar (or even Eru) if he's honest. No reason to think ents are immune
iLynux
Or even Tolkein.
malachitedragon
My favorite theory: Bombadil is Eru Illuvitar himself. Why? Why not?
widderm
Actually that wouldnt happen because the ents dont want the ring and it has no effect on them because theyre one of the oldest things there
LockedKeye
The elves woke the ents, didn't they?
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Source please.
widderm
ok, i thought i knew that, but apparently i was lied to, but i have come to the conclusion that ents did not want the ring because if (1/?)
widderm
they did they would probably be able to get it, being large tree creatures, and their creation is shrouded in mystery but if they were (2/3)
widderm
Created from trees then one would assume it had no effect because theyre just trees, if they were created fromnothingthenitcouldhaveaneffect