It is still sooooooo fucking funny that tumblr, the “fuck that old man” website, the villain apologist website, AND the paranormal boyfriend website read Dracula and went “Count Dracula sucks, we hate this dude.” Planetary alignment levels of unlikely.
pro-tip: don’t ever use the sentence “thousands of years” in your worldbuilding unless you really know what a thousand years is like
Quick cheat sheet:
The middle ages were one thousand years ago
I don’t know if I need you to tell you this but Jesus was alive 2 thousand years ago during the Roman Empire
3 thousand years ago the Mediterranean and Middle East were recovering from the bronze age collapse. None of the philosophers of Western philosophy (or Eastern for that matter) were born yet
Earliest writing dates roughly to 5 thousand years ago.
Agriculture started roughly 10 thousand years ago
So yes, you can write whatever you like but if you’re telling me that an individual dynasty has been ruling since 8000 years ago (HOLA JORGE) I have to wonder if they even had writing back then
To be fair you can find one guy like that in the comment section of most metal bands on youtube
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Hi! In case you'd like to know, I disabled my Copilot key by downloading the PowerToys app (free and seems unobtrusive so far), clicking the 3 horizontal lines in the upper left corner and selecting "Keyboard Manager" under "Input/Output", clicking on "Remap a Key", clicking the "Select" button then the Copilot key (F23), selecting "Disable" under "To send:", and clicking “OK” in the upper right hand corner. I got the message “Warning: The following keys do not have assignments: F23”, clicked “Continue anyway”, and that makes it a dead key. Very satisfying to click over and over and over and watch as absolutely nothing happens.
“Tattoos are becoming unpopular”, “piercings are unpopular again”, “keep your hair natural never dye it again, it’s the trend now” literally fuck off I know what y'all are doing
on the one side we have GORGEOUSLY handcrafted armor. Looks like actual plate, the white tree of Gondor clear and easy to see and echoed on the pauldrons and even pressed into his belt! Which is folded in a LOVELY knot to hold it in place. The chainmail is REAL chainmail. And over all there’s some good wear on it, it looks like Boromir has owned and worked and lived in this armor
And on the other side we have stuff that looks like it was created for a shoe string budgeted made-for-TV Camelot production. It’s CLEARLY plastic. And wtf is that LENGTH that leaves a huge swath of his VITAL ORGANS unprotected???? The symbol is PRINTED on it, not even embossed, and so poorly you can’t even really tell what it’s supposed to be. It looks, as far as I can tell, like someone smooshed a bunch of pseudo celtic symbols together. Those shoulder things are NOT pauldrons. They seem to be some half arsed attempt at coin style chainmail? Maybe? I have NO idea what that shirt is. It looks like maybe the designers were going for a type of Gambeson, but it’s just way WAY too thin. It ALL looks like they hit the after halloween sale at party city for supplies.
This was a show with no grasp of time, no grasp of distance, and no grasp of even fantasy realism - swimming from Valinor back to Middle Earth? Shrugging off a pyroclastic flow? - so I’m not surprised it has no grasp of Hero Props.
“Hero Prop” is the term for Boromir’s armour, indeed any armour, costume or accoutrements worn by a Principal Character in LOTR or any other movie.
“Hero” has nothing to do with the character’s alignment, applying to Sauron and the Witch-King as well. It means any costume, weapon etc. made as detailed as possible because the character wearing it will be front and centre in very close shots, where an IMAX screen might make any flaws a metre high.
(Bernard Hill was amazed by the details in Théoden’s armour, some of which only he and his dresser ever saw. More here.)
Now there’s the Numenorean bargain-basement rig up there, and the full plate of the Action Heroine here.
I don’t know what it’s made of, but it looks like vac-formed, spray-painted plastic.
Compare it to an example of Elven armour from The Hobbit movies, which notoriously didn’t have anything like the development time of LOTR…
