TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

Misguided people may watch this movie instead of doing something about the carnage in Iraq

[Sheilbh]

Incidentally the Sheilbh household has split again. Zulu v The Eagle has Landed.

[Viking]

For some reason I thought they were goblins in the book.

iirc it was Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Goblins and Orcs.

[Syt]

I thought it was humans, dwarves, elves, goblins and wargs. But it's been a while since I read the book.

And Wikipedia, lotr wikia and others are sometimes saying goblins, sometimes orcs. I'm going to assume a mixed contingent of goblins/orcs, plus wargs.

[celedhring]

Tbf I got confused a lot between orcs and goblins back when I first read the whole saga. They are two words to represent the same thing - in the books at the very least.

[Tonitrus]

I always thought they were essentially two words for the same thing in ME.  And then you had the Uruk-hai, which were Sauraman's orc/elf mutation.

[Berkut]

Wasn't it that "goblin" was the generic term, and orc was more specific? IE, all orcs are goblins, but not all goblins were orcs?

At least in the Tolkien world? I forget...

[celedhring]

"Goblin" and "Orc" are words in different ME languages for the same creature IIRC.

[Tonitrus]

I read something that suggested it was more a shift by Tolkien himself from Hobbit to LotR (goblin to orc) to better fit his linguistic intentions and move away from using fairy-tale trope terminology.

[Eddie Teach]

The Master. Slow and unengaging.

[Martinus]

This...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galavant


...could be good, or really bad.  Biggest potential downfall is leaning pretty heavily on big name guest stars.

So many TV shows stealing Fables' shtick and still no one will adapt Fables...

I believe there were attempts but they couldnt reach a deal.

[Admiral Yi]

I always thought they were essentially two words for the same thing in ME.  And then you had the Uruk-hai, which were Sauraman's orc/elf mutation.

I believe plain vanilla orcs were also the result of Sauron fucking with elves.

[Tonitrus]

I always thought they were essentially two words for the same thing in ME.  And then you had the Uruk-hai, which were Sauraman's orc/elf mutation.

I believe plain vanilla orcs were also the result of Sauron fucking with elves.

I thought that went all the way back to Morgoth. 

[celedhring]

I always thought they were essentially two words for the same thing in ME.  And then you had the Uruk-hai, which were Sauraman's orc/elf mutation.

I believe plain vanilla orcs were also the result of Sauron fucking with elves.

It was Morgoth who did that 

EDIT: Tonitrus'd

[Admiral Yi]

  I withdraw.