Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

[kebabking]

Dunno, I have never seen the films or read the books tbh. Never got into Dungeons and Dragons either.

Oh dude....

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Dunno, I have never seen the films or read the books tbh.

That's a shame. You won't know how it's all going to end, unlike the rest of us.

 

[Yossarian]

OK. How about this?
Sauron - Putin
Saruman - Levtushenko
Frodo Baggins - Zelensky
Shelob the Great - NATO
Gandalf - Biden
Russian drones - the Nazgul
Ukrainian drones - the Great Eagles
Tom Bombadil - Top Cat?

 

[The39thStep]

I did take my youngest stepdaughter to see Harry Potter though.

 

[existentialist]

Ukraine war: Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin issues warning of escalation in Ukraine

Andrei Kelin tells Laura Kuenssberg Russia has "enormous resources" but UK and US weapons are to blame.

www.bbc.co.uk

Russia's just been warming up for the past year or so, when it wants to it will stop the wholesale slaughter of its own troops and really get stuck in. Fucking delusional prick.

He's not delusional. He knows he's lying. He just doesn't care. It does seem to be a very Russian thing (so I presume Boris Johnson was taking lessons from his Russian mates).

 

[existentialist]

Ta. I don't particularly have a problem with that word tbh and it wasn't me that raised the issue. However, I was pleased that we managed to stamp out the term orcs after a bit of umming and ahhing .

Did we? I must have missed that bit.

 

[Artaxerxes]

OK. How about this?
Sauron - Putin
Saruman - Levtushenko
Frodo Baggins - Zelensky
Shelob the Great - NATO
Gandalf - Biden
Russian drones - the Nazgul
Ukrainian drones - the Great Eagles
Tom Bombadil - Top Cat?

Surely TC is The Steward of Gondor in this weird fiction?

 

[Artaxerxes]

Did we? I must have missed that bit.

It was fairly common on here early on in line with the Ukrainians using it but I don’t recall the last time I’ve seen a poster use it (the Ukrainians are still going heavy on it)

 

[Elpenor]

OK. How about this?
Sauron - Putin
Saruman - Levtushenko
Frodo Baggins - Zelensky
Shelob the Great - NATO
Gandalf - Biden
Russian drones - the Nazgul
Ukrainian drones - the Great Eagles
Tom Bombadil - Top Cat?

Sunak as Gimli natch

 

[Artaxerxes]

 

[nogojones]

Dunno, I have never seen the films or read the books tbh. Never got into Dungeons and Dragons either.

Casts spell of confusion at The39thStep

 

[existentialist]

Dunno, I have never seen the films or read the books tbh. Never got into Dungeons and Dragons either.

Yeh, take another puff on that snarkpipe. You don't think you're addicted, do you?

 

[existentialist]

It was fairly common on here early on in line with the Ukrainians using it but I don’t recall the last time I’ve seen a poster use it (the Ukrainians are still going heavy on it)

That's pretty understandable. I do think dehumanising the opposition is an unwise line to take, but if you've got to point stuff at them to kill them, it's going to be easier if you don't see them as people.

 

[krtek a houby]

Dunno, I have never seen the films or read the books tbh. Never got into Dungeons and Dragons either.

If you have to watch/read one classic fantasy series, make it Lord of the Rings.

 

[two sheds]

You'll need to set aside several weeks though. Echoes of War and Peace.

I enjoyed The Hobbit though.

 

[A380]

That's a shame. You won't know how it's all going to end, unlike the rest of us.

What, when Harry blows up the Death Star ?

 

[Pickman's model]

If you have to watch/read one classic fantasy series, make it Lord of the Rings.

Or you could read one of the better fantasy authors

 

[DaveCinzano]

Or you could read one of the better fantasy authors

Jeffrey Archer?

 

[Pickman's model]

Jeffrey Archer?

I was thinking more fritz leiber or robert e howard or George rr Martin, archer being a fantasist author and not writing in the fantasy genre

 

[krtek a houby]

Or you could read one of the better fantasy authors

Am struggling with William Hope Hodgson at the moment

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

Absolute bonkers list of demands.

Do Russia have any room to negotiate anything other than Ukraine becoming a vassal of Putin's colonial empire?

 

[Pickman's model]

Am struggling with William Hope Hodgson at the moment

Worth struggling with, especially the house on the borderland

 

[The39thStep]

If you have to watch/read one classic fantasy series, make it Lord of the Rings.

I got a box set of Game Of Thrones as a present and tbh it sat gathering dust until I moved for a month to a place over here that had no internet so I had to watch DVDs . I quite enjoyed that mainly for the twists in the plot. Wasnt arsed about the dragons though.

 

[platinumsage]

I was thinking more fritz leiber or robert e howard or George rr Martin, archer being a fantasist author and not writing in the fantasy genre

You obviously haven't read Willy Visits the Square World.

 

[krtek a houby]

Worth struggling with, especially the house on the borderland

Lovecraft recommended him in an essay in one of the volumes

 

[Elpenor]

What, when Harry blows up the Death Star ?

Then he gets beamed up by the Cylons

 

[Pickman's model]

You obviously haven't read Willy Visits the Square World.

Unlike you I am not an archer afficionado

 

[A380]

Or you could read one of the better fantasy authors

Tolkien was the first to go mainstream, as we would describe it now, indeed some have argued he created the genre, and whilst they would be wrong, that certainly is seen as his place in literature. Mind I don’t actually like Fantasy that much. Having read the LOTR books twice I’m not sure I ever will again. But then The only fantasy I’d go back to is Pratchett and, arguably he isn’t really fantasy, so what do I know. ( I do like Martin’s SF though TBF).

On Screen The first few series of GOT is far more entertaining than LOTR , what with humour, proper characters and fucking.

 

[A380]

Then he gets beamed up by the Cylons

And then defeats them with his sonic screwdriver.

 

[The39thStep]

Tolkien was the first to go mainstream, as we would describe it now, indeed some have argued he created the genre, and whilst they would be wrong, that certainly is seen as his place in literature. Mind I don’t actually like Fantasy that much. Having read the LOTR books twice I’m not sure I ever will again. But then The only fantasy I’d go back to is Pratchett and, arguably he isn’t really fantasy, so what do I know.

On Screen The first few series of GOT is far more entertaining than LOTR , what with humour, proper characters and fucking.

I do like the Robert Rankin books , especially The Brentford Trilogy, which are sort of fantasy.