Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26486187-20170504001959/@comment-29773086-20170505010248

TheSquidychicken wrote: Thindithron the Great wrote:

LordDainTheAwsome wrote: Just saying, I know all of this, this is just a bit of fan-faction ;)

This is how I think it would play out realisticly. You think you have a better knowledge of what is 'realistic' in Middle-Earth than Tolkien? There must be hundreds of considerations for each of the decisions made in the lore that Tolkien thought of. So what would happen 'realistically' is what Tolkien said would happen.

I know these are your own thoughts, but don't propound them as more 'realistic' than Tolkien's. He didnt say that he had better knowledge than Tolkien. He just said thats how he thought it would happen realistically.

(Well actually he said realisticly but who cares about spelling :P)

Also he said "fan-fiction" That basically means the way he likes to imagine it. I know, mellon-nin. But no one's ideas are more realistic regarding Middle-Earth than Tolkien's. He is free to think this or that might have happened, but it isn't 'realistic'. It is, as you say, 'fan-fiction'- but fan-fiction where we already have 'author-fact' is a little odd, really. It's like saying 'I think Gandalf would have taken the Ring if offered' or 'I think Frodo would never have been able to carry the Ring all the way to Mordor'. That is to say, triggering to loremasters, and inviting rebuttal, which I did.