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"Tolkien drafted the Witch-king as a fallen member of Gandalf’s own order. In The War of the Ring, p. 331, Gandalf describes him as having belonged to their order before turning evil."
I mean. That's a stitched up wizard hat and blue robes if I've ever seen them.
Goodnight.
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So as for the kids...
S1E2: Play in oversized Dwarven heads, told to return to bed, carried off as Durin makes childish jokes. S1E4: Their singing-and-hitting "knocking game" repeatedly interrupts Disa. S2E2: Disa says they miss tugging Grandad’s beard. S2E3: "Wait till your children grow up". Etc etc
... but were allegedly 17-5 = 12 years old in S1-2. And not shown.
Nope. Kids don't exist. Soz.
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Bet. Kemen, Anarion and Elros for the three Numenorian Nazgul. Can't be Pharazon, Elendil or Isildur. No Kings left. QED.
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I don't get how every "reveal' in the first two seasons of Rings of Power has been a fan base trolling bait-and-switch and yet the fan base is... Being trolled by how "obvious" the "big reveals" on Day 1 launch have been
Kid isn't even from Angmar you troglodytes
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I know people aren't here for my Rings of Power commentary, but here's my moderate-spoilers bet.
"Could the real witch king please stand up" is going to be the bait-and-switch of the season, like Sauron in S1.
- The Lossoth Nazgnagôl pulls an identical facial expression to the WK wraith at Amon Sûl in FotR
- The Harad Nazgnagôl's speech to Durin is word-for-word the WK's to Eowyn in the RotK book
- All of them have the dwarven runes for "spear of terror, shadow of despair" on their crowns, which is how Gandalf described the WK in the RotK book
It's been made too obvious. That "other fan theory" remains the correct one. Redemption is coming.
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Brilliantly timed and executed initiative by Alex. The community needed this and needed it yesterday. Thrilled to support however we can!
Polyhedra in Polyhedra just passed 100 issues & PRs!
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10,404 record packings, all exactly certified
1,694 record improvements from the community in 10 days
17 people & teams credited
4D 5D & 6D records
📄 …and a paper in JOATP stemming from that!
Thanks to @konoha_ily2 @BuilderOfAgents @davidmbudden @small_LM and all the others who have contributed!
And specially to @yoheinakajima whose paper was so helpful to extend this research
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Eyeballing some of the 2000+ tetrahedra packing records PingYou holds on polyhedrainpolyhedra.wiki
If you pay no attention to anything else I ever tweet, pay attention to this one construction.
It is the sum of all math, truth and beauty in one weird-cube. Pinky promise.
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