can we like, have adaptations made by people who care about the thing they're adapting
i saw this cool quote on tiktok that sums this up pretty well:
“The wealthy are limited by talent, the talented are limited by wealth”
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My fiancee and I were discussing the worst metal to use to make armor, and the obvious answers are lead and gold, but she cunningly suggested mercury. Which is a fair point, but then I wondered if solid mercury is any good. Googling told me that the melting point of mercury is -38° c (-37° f), so first you get it really fucking cold. At that point, it turns out that mercury has a tensile strength of 1900 mpa, compared to lead’s 18 and steel’s ~500-940 (depending upon the kind of steel).
Now, I know that tensile strength is not necessarily the best measure of a material’s ability to function as armor, but I’m a liberal arts major and didn’t care to actually do that much more research before going straight to, “EVIL ICE DEMONS IN MERCURY ARMOR. THE PCS CAN’T LOOT IT BECAUSE WHEN THEY PUT IT ON IT MELTS AND KILLS THEM.”
Ice Demons wielding weapons made of frozen mercury. Spearheads that break off & melt inside the target. Swords that leave tiny bits of melted mercury inside the wound (the swords re-freeze to razor sharpness while in the ice demon’s claws).
Item: blades, spears, and/or arrowheads made of mercury frozen by Ice Magic; can only be used by one with Ice Magic, but deliver whatever damage the weapon type would normally make plus equal amounts of Cold and 1d8 Poison. Once the wound has been delivered, it continues to deliver 1d8 Poison until the mercury has been removed by healing magic, Wish, &c.
Apparently I’ve seen this before? But this EXACTLY matches the description of the Morgul blade in LOTR? It felt like “a dart of poisoned ice” (or something like that), it left a piece in Frodo’s shoulder that slowly poisoned him, and the blade melted away when Aragorn looked at it. And Glorfindel warned them all to handle it as little as possible, too!
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Interesting !
That is very interesting!
Is sauron not known for heat though ?
So my idea is this :
Melkor had some ice maiars in his ranks.
The weapons are cast forged. Since it is impossible to heat and form it. Like we did with bronze swords in the past!
The good news is if you able to make armor or swords out of mercury :
It is literally unbreakable!
The tensile strength means the strength it takes for a material to break while putting it under stress.
As a example alloyed titanium has a tensile strength of 650-1250mpa!
Way below mercury.
But I don’t think that the Nazguls had those kind of blades when they where mortals as humans normally have a body temperature over -38°C
But as wraiths?
Sure
I mean we don’t know the body temperature of them as they are literally invisible and lost their bodies!
And they don’t like fire!
Understandable if your armor and weapons literally melts of you in the moment the temperature rises!!
Now another question:
Are then the ancient enchanted númenórian blades just really hot butter knives?
I am fully on board with the Ice Maiar hypothesis ! And they could have made friends with Sauron, who, even though he is more fiery, is also an outstanding smith and would have put them to good use for sure.
Mercury sword/armour as wraiths, it is SO cool !
What about the butter knives ???? Whaaat ? You have to explain this one !
HOT butter knives because the lore said that just “enchanted númenórian blades” can cut ring wraiths!
Butter knives because Hobbits are smoll.
Hmmm, so the Númenorians would have invented self-heating butter knives/ blades ?
Look, if we consider all the gifts the Valar and Elves have given them, and also that a self-heating blade is surely a very Fëanorian thing to invent, it might be less crazy than it sounds.
Also maybe their swords just run righteously warm ?
Treating shitposting very seriously as usual.
Hm but if the enchanted nΓΊmenΓ³rian bladesTM are just room temperature warmβ¦Then that would mean you could take any knife to stab the wraiths in this scenario. Sooo Iβm thinking more like that :
Also it says they are nΓΊmenΓ³rian enchanted blades
not gifted by the elves enchanted blades
Let the race of men have some invention of their own!
Maybe they liked instant toasted bread!
@lemurious another fic idea for you
no, i dont lose hyperfixations. theyre just moved to a different, slightly less used, shelf in my brain.
And then one thing happens and they move back to the front shelf of my brain
I read this fic ones about Luthien sacrificing her freedom to save Beren, and basically live as a servant/concubine in Angband, and learns some spells from Mairon. And then in one chapter Thingol tries to rescue her with an army, but she tells them she chose to stay there willingly, etc, and begs them go home, but then Morgitg just kills them anyway although they made a promise he wouldn’t if she tood her father what she did. And then something with Daeron being captured and luthien tries to help him.
Thats like what i can remember from it, but it was SO GOOD! And im afraid it has been deleted, cause ive been looking for it for a long time. But if it isn’t, like if anyone has read it or seen it, PLEASE TELL ME. I need to know
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Finally! I draw Silmarillion and LoTR again!
Sauron. And wolves.
Whenever I see a queer invalidate another queer's relationship with god, I just get disappointed. "We need more complex queers!" You can't even handle religious queer people.
If you think that abandoning faith is the only solution to religious traumas, I'm REALLY fucking sorry to say you have a very small worldview. Maybe YOU gain comfort from disowning god, but others will redefine their faith to accommodate their queerness.
It is so incredibly difficult to word how complex faith is, there's a lot I could say.. But I guess to set the record straight, queer religious folk AREN'T your enemy. A queer religious person likely gets treated like shit just like you do, except now you're putting them into a position where they're simultaneously getting shit on by bigoted religious people AND the queer community that's supposedly oh so accepting of them.
This isn't even touching on how tunnel visioned you are that you forget how broad religion is in the first place. You guys DO know that when someone says "god", they might not be referring to the Christian god.. Right?? RIGHT?? (which is implying that major religions like christianity even have consistently AMONGST THEMSELVES like holy fuck they can't even agree on what day you're meant to go to church and what calendar is correct)
Anyways, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I love you Christian queers. I love you Muslim queers. I love you Jewish queers. I love you religious queers that fall outside the abrahamic religions: Taoists, Buddhists, Hindus.. I love you religious queers whose religion is too niche or unappreciated to ever come up. I love you religious queers who have many gods or no gods. I love you indigenous queers.
If you think religion is completely incompatible with queerness then fuck off, this isn't the blog for you.
O Stars that in the Sunless Year
With shining hand by her were sown,
In windy fields now bright and clear
We see your silver blossom blown!O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
We still remember, we who dwell
In this far land beneath the trees,
Thy starlight on the Western Seas.
Varda, the Star-Kindler, from the Silmarillion (x)
I went a little wild with the sparkly stuff BUT in my defence: it’s Varda after all!
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