The most convincing conmen fool themselves before they fool anyone else. I’m sure that this guy had convinced himself that he was faking it until he was making it, and that soon he’d be have legitimate money to spare to pay everyone back with interest. 

Specifically for killing a man with a single punch to the face. He later also killed people with his bare hands as a terror tactic while being reduced to a guerilla in his own land, but since that was supposed to be stealthy I assume it involved less punching and more strangulation. 

And we still won’t. Helm didn’t build the fortress, it was built before Rohan was even founded. It was renamed after him because he used it as a base of guerilla operations when Rohan was overrun with enemies. 

He didn’t build it. It was built back when Rohan was still a province of Gondor called Calenardhon. It was renamed after Helm because he holed up in that fortress for months when the rest of Rohan was overrun with Dunlendings and their Umbarian allies.

Would this then sort of be the Star Wars prequel of Middle Earth! Not in that or sucks but that it’s about everyone turning bad and the ending is a huge bummer?

I imagine regular home insurance would do. It would probably be equivalent of tripping and falling while doing exercise. 

Well, to get pedantic...

And they’re not even making the right quote. 

Really? I found the biggest problem of The Hobbit to be the incredibly inconsistent tone, constantly switching between cartoonish slapstick and serious drama, as well as the lack of focus on the actual main characters. I don’t think anyone needed to see what Alfred Lickspittle got up to, much less to have a whole…

She does have one, albeit very small and thin. 

Like, you’re getting tell Elrond’s story? What was it like being raised by the sociopaths who murdered his people and kidnapped him and how does it affect him?

I love the actual novels, but couldn’t really muster a whole lot of enthusiasm even for the appendices, let alone any extended texts. Tolkien seemed to treat most of that stuff as mythology, and for me it lacks a compelling narrative.

While they’d be the minority, there would absolutely be plenty of people imagining that the vaccine is what transformed people into zombies in the first place, and would insist to their dying breath that they must have been slipped a dose without their consent when they get infected. 

Also makes you wonder where he’s going to keep his stuff or sleep. That’s like switching from a camper that’s your literal home to a Ferrari. 

You’re describing D&D dwarves. The LotR dwarves were were never described with Scottish stereotypes or as consuming unusual amounts of alcohol.

Tolkien’s dwarves went through a great deal of evolution during his writings. Over time he came to understand that he was repeating some unpleasant anti-Semitic stereotypes and took conscious effort to distance himself from them.

The magical creatures were also called dwarfs before Tolkien started influencing literature, and some fantasy authors like Terry Pratchett kept using “dwarfs” in order to make distinction to Tolkien’s depiction. 

She specifically took the ring for safekeeping after Sauron’s treachery was fully revealed. She never used it until the War of the Last Alliance was over.

No, those are both from Batman & Robin.

One assumes that he’s planning to expand the operation, but first needs to find people he can trust.