• The Assman
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    122 hours ago

    Am I wrong or do the wizards not remember their lives before they were sent to middle earth?

    • @pressanykeynow
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      11 hour ago

      I don’t think the original books ever told anything about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        459 minutes ago

        Iirc the books themselves didn’t say, but Tolkien’s letters say something to the effect of the Istari only having vague memories of their time as Maia, with the exception of things that they were explicitly meant to remember, e.g. Olórin’s memories of being sent back after his physical death while fighting Durin’s Bane.

        They know that they are, in our parlance, embodied angels or minor gods, but they don’t remember a ton of where they came from

  • @[email protected]
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    233 hours ago

    Doesn’t matter. While that amazon shitshow tells a different story, Gandalf (as Radagast and Saruman) only arrived in the third age, long after the War of the Last Alliance. Gandalf might be infinitely older than Elrond yet wasn’t there.

  • @[email protected]
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    4 hours ago

    Small nerd gripe. Maia is the singular form of Maiar. “I am a Maia,” or “I am one of the Maiar” get you there

  • @Blue_Morpho
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    575 hours ago

    “Well I read in a book that I was there. I can’t actually remember more than a few hundred years back.”

    Ashildr from Doctor Who was brilliant.

    • kamenLady.
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      154 hours ago

      I’m wondering now, how our little brains would adapt to living like for thousands of years. Would we really start forgetting things that are waaaay back?

      • @pressanykeynow
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        41 hour ago

        Yes and no, probably. You will remember important bits and will reconstruct/imagine other things just like you do now. Even with our short lifes not all the things you “remember” actually happened.

      • @De_Narm
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        334 hours ago

        I’ve already forgotten most of my childhood and I’m only around 30. So I’d assume, yes.

        • @SchmidtGenetics
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          That’s… that’s not normal.

          Thats usually trauma suppressing memories, sorry mate,

          • @De_Narm
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            72 hours ago

            Nah, it’s just shitty memory. I have had quite the happy childhood, actually.

            I don’t find myself reminiscing a lot and in the rare cases I do, there are quite some gaps. Even in more recent times. If I really try to dig, maybe it comes back, but I assume it’s “use it or lose it”.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 hour ago

              Yeah, I have shitty memory too… Sometimes my friends talk about something we did 15-20 years ago and half the time it unlocks a memory, the other half I can’t recall at all

              • @SchmidtGenetics
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                143 minutes ago

                Yeah, that’s it normal, hence why they remember and you don’t dude… you don’t think that’s not strange? That multiple friends recall events easily and you don’t…?

            • @SchmidtGenetics
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              043 minutes ago

              That still ain’t normal dude. You’re supposed to be able to recall memories from any point of your life…

              • @De_Narm
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                So, what’s your point? Other people might have a lot more boring childhood anecdotes to tell, but it’s not like I’m suffering in any kind. I still remember people or useful skill - the stuff I do use.

                As an added benefit of growing up quite poor, I probably just had less unique experiences I actually could recall. Like, I’ve been on three travel vacations overall. Kinda like those COVID years blurred together for most people.

          • @[email protected]
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            02 hours ago

            It wasnt specified what was meant by childhood. The further back you go the less you remember. I remember a lot more about 6-10 grade than 1-6 grade.

            • @SchmidtGenetics
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              141 minutes ago

              You should still be able to recall specific events at all portions of your life, it’s abnormal not to, but you can defend it and ignore potentially life limiting issues if you want.

      • @Blue_Morpho
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        124 hours ago

        You would forget most everything. Even big events would become fuzzy. Do you remember what you had for lunch on this date when you were 5?

  • @dustyData
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    205 hours ago

    I mean, sure he was alive. But he wasn’t physically there.

  • @NineMileTower
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    145 hours ago

    Is Middle-earth juxtaposed between Top-earth and Bottom-earth or Right-earth and Left-earth?

    • @pressanykeynow
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      So there were five godlike beings sent to fight Sauron. Only one of them did his job.

      I need to reword it.

      You are the big cool powerful god. One of your servants, a minor much less powerful god does bad things to the world. So you send five your other servants just as powerful as the bad one to deal with him.

      A lot of time passes. Three of those spend their time chilling. One joins the bad one. The last one turns out too weak. Who solves the problem? Four hobbits.

      You really should reconsider your politics after that.

      • @[email protected]
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        238 minutes ago

        Isn’t much of the power of the Maiar in diplomacy and setting events in motion? Gandalf was as much of an interloper and manipulator as he was anything else, and his hiring Bilbo as a thief was the penultimate piece of his mission, as inadvertent as I’m not entirely sure it was. Right? No, really, I’m kinda asking, I don’t know for sure.