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I would... rob the Gondolinean library and Pengolodh's archives at first... then watch the Fall of Gondolin... then move to Númenóre some years later ~ and become part of the King's Party 😖hifty: at least as soon as Sauron comes to Númenóre 😊 ~~ some years or millenia later Id again watch the Fall of Númenóre and afterwards find myself a lovely little Talan in Eryn Vorn the Dark Forest... or in Southern Mirkwood near Dol Guldur 😖hifty:
Hope I'd have so much time as a Mortal 😖 maybe I should dedicate my time to Sorcery and try to find some evil life-prolonging methods like lovely little rings of gold 😈
If I were in the Fellowship?
Errrh - leave them before they try to cross Caradhras, make my way to the Gap of Rohan, find myself a lovely horse and ride either to the deserted haven Edhellond or to the Sea of Nûrn... or, better, the Haven of Umbar ✅ and then? Ummm no idea 😑 ~
I hate following posts by exa they are so big lol, i cannot write as much.
Quite simply i would fly up sit on the top of barad dur and watch the battle.
Fly up and sit on top of the White Mountains and watch the battle.
Fly up and sit on top of Ephel Dúath and watch the battle and come to save the day when i was needed 🙂
I'd interview Tom Bombadil and
A) Ask him to tell me exactly WHO and WHAT he is.
B) Get really angry when all he gives me is some annoying little song.
C) Lock him in the closet until he gives me the answer 😈
I'd probably ask Galadriel to relate her personal favorite and most affecting stories in the history of the Noldor as she experienced it, her reasons for the embalming of Lothlorien, her perception of the Elves' purpose and achievements, "tell me about Aman" etc. etc.--and then, I'd toddle over to Bag End and have tea with Sam, Merry and Pippin (and Frodo if he was still around, but I don't think I'd get anything out of him--Sam is more likely to talk. ) Also I liked the idea of listening to Bilbo's songs!
I'd bring Forlong back to life, and ask him what his final thoughts were, fighting alone and unhorsed in the middle of enemies...
I'd love to chat with the herbmaster of the Houses of Healing. Have a nice long discussion on the names and uses of all of the healing herbs in the land... then ask where I can find them.
I'd talk to Halbarad, about what it's like to be one of the Dunedain. It's got to be pretty bad, growing up in pretty much secret, and then being shunned by the general populace. Then I'd ask how his ride to Rohan went... any trouble on the road, and whatnot.
I'd love to ask Sauron some stuff...:
Me: So, Lord Sauron, what were your final thoughts when the Ring was destroyed?
Sauron (sarcastically): Well, my first thoughts were "Oh. Well, that's certainly not a good thing. What shall I do in my soon to be endless amount of spare time? Will they let me take my knitting needles into the Void?"
Me: No, really... what were you thinking? Anything along the lines of "Melkor's gonna be p!$$ed?"
Sauron: Actually, it was more like "Oh f#%@" and then my volcano erupted, my house crumbled, my armies ran away, my undead servants erm, died, and I lost all form and power." It's really an interesting experience. How would you like it if in one second, you were proven dead wrong on some pretty important issues, and then you lost everything? It's not fun.
Me: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring up such painful memories...
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in the fellowship eh?
well first thing i'd do is say at the council of Elrond...
"hmmm, well iknow i'm good with a sword and a pretty kick ass fighter, I've heard great things about Boromir, Legolas is an elf, and Gimli a dwarf, so i'll just give them the benifit of the doubt, this aragorn fellow looks kind of tough but his sword is broken, but the elf seems to know him, so yeah okay...
Gandalf... well no quarells there!!! this guy kicks ass!!!
but er... four hobbits? hobbits, I mean really?!? WTF Elrond? Why take hobbits... there's nine ringwraiths!!! if we're going to do this 9 on 9 thing can we even this up a bit.... say err... I'll trade in merry for Elrond, Sam for Radaghast (we can bully him into this - besides 1 wizard is great, but 2 would be sweet!!!), i'll also give up frodo for a Haldir or that Eyomer dude from Rohan... and er... pippins cool but i don't know...
say Boromir... you got a brother or something?"
Originally posted by StillPrettiest
hobbit-style... that would be fun! 😛 I'm more of the elven-warrior-princess type. Be part of the Mirkwood army. Is there a Mirkwood army? 😕 I know there's a Loth-Lorien army. Hmmm...
Warrior Princess? Hmm, that's something rarely seen in Middleearth 🙂
The elves didn't have real armies in the sense of fulltime-soldiers; everybody learned to fight with sword, bow, spear or whatever, but they had no fixed "army". The fighters used to call themselves "hunters" rather than "soldiers" and in their free time went hunting orcs individually 😛 🙂 and, yes, Mirkwood had warriors like that 😉 they had loads of them in the Battle of the Five Armies for example, or in the Battles Of The North (paralelly to the War of the Ring in the South)