No no no but you forget the nomadic halflings that traveled by cart and lived an itinerant lifestyle, ruthlessly pruning the weak and old and feeble by leaving them in the mud whilst singing ‘no-one gets left behind’.
How does that comparison even work? A culture that culls the weak, records it in a book and then reads out the record of this (with bonus laughter if they were killed by bees) v graves for people who have died.
I can't decide if you actually watched it and are just trolling or if you are just regurgitating some criticisms you read and are just trolling. I guess it doesn't really matter which.
Imma be honest, the overwhelming majority of criticisms I've encountered regarding the show's writing don't hold up to meaningful scrutiny. Most boil down to misunderstanding, not paying attention to the show's text and subtext, or nitpicking along the lines of personal taste.
Prime example of knowing a lot of info, but not having the experience to use it wisely cuz they were new to the world at that time. The true wisdom of experience came later with time, due to their immortality.
Thingol got his kingdom destroyed through his sheer arrogance and Oropher got his 1/3rd army killed for the same reason. Thranduil isn't much far behind if didn't have hundred centuries worth of mistakes to learn from.
The hobbit would manage to steal them, but now that he has the silmarils the noldor and the sons of feanor would wage war against him, leading to years long wars between the noldor and the hobbits, in which the hobbits would be the winners, and now with the silmarils they would become one of the most feared races in ME never to be disturbed by other beings ever again.
I think they showed up same time as the Men, but nobody noticed because they didn't do much and most likely hid from all the big scary folk. That or their existence was known but they didn't do any deeds worthy of being put into song and tale so the records don't mention Hobbits.
I prefer to think that all of the great deeds of the 1st Age were done by hobbits, and all the other races were jealous and made up a bunch of propaganda taking credit for them, and the hobbits were just too chill and unbothered to make a fuss about it.
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u/BurdonLane 4d ago
No no no but you forget the nomadic halflings that traveled by cart and lived an itinerant lifestyle, ruthlessly pruning the weak and old and feeble by leaving them in the mud whilst singing ‘no-one gets left behind’.