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?

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 81 points 3 months ago (29 children)

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

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's Friday. Rectangle pizza

[–] Techranger@infosec.pub 8 points 3 months ago

A breadtangle of pizza

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is that just regular pizza with rectangles on it?

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"The Man from Earth"

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[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months 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.

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I SEEN IT!!

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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 99 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 137 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Maia who?

[–] Comrade_Spood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 133 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Maia he

[–] xeekei@lemm.ee 129 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Maia ha ha

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 3 months ago (1 children)

something-something Núma Númenor

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[–] Senseless@feddit.org 34 points 3 months ago

God, I love this community.

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maia the bee!

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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 89 points 3 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

I thought the way it was worded, it was still technically the second age?

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 76 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Hey Gandalf, fuck off. Were you literally there 3,000 years ago? Or are you just going "You're younger than me, so you know fuckall"?

Fuckin boomer

[–] yogi_pogi@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

That's my take.

Bro I was alive during Rodney King riots.

Doesn't mean my opinion is more valid than someone actually there.

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[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do the balrogs have the same memory issues?

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

That's a very good question, and one that I don't know the answer to. I would guess no, as the point of the Istari losing their memories was to make them more like the people they were sent to save; it's not something about being embodied that made them lose their bodyless memories, it was part of their mission. The balrogs had no such mission

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

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

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Inner earth and outer earth.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The serious answer is it's juxtaposed with East and West. West being the Undying Lands of Valinor, and East being the much less well-explored Land of the Sun.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Christian Earth: 6000 years old

Middle Earth: 30,000 years old

Middle Earth wins again

[–] yogi_pogi@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Jesus vs Gandalf power scalers go!!!

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

Modern depictions of Jesus are correct because after the crucifixion Jesus came back as Jesus the White.

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[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't understand this so I looked it up.

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Maiar

Pretty cool.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (15 children)

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.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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