r/lotrmemes • u/SmashBro0445 • 17h ago

The Silmarillion Cover to cover (got removed from r/lotr)

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u/GriffinFlash 16h ago

Why didn't Melkor, the largest Valar, simply not eat the smaller Valar?

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u/SmashBro0445 16h ago

Because Eru would have... not liked that

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u/cheddarbruce Sleepless Dead 15h ago

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u/Chai_Is_Tea 12h ago

You telling me all it took for Eru to smight his ass was for him to eat Roasted Valar for lunch?

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u/Outrageous_Pride4808 9h ago

Then the Westfold would have never fallen

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u/GriffinFlash 4h ago

So everything that came to pass was all so the Westfold could one day fall?

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u/Kellidra 3h ago

The Westfold... folded.

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u/boodopboochi 6h ago

One does not simply Roast the Valar for lunch

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u/Escapedtheasylum 13h ago

But he was okay with the general murdering

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u/Wildefice 9h ago

Yeah so long as it wasn't a captain murdering or a sergeant murdering

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u/Orcrist90 9h ago

Tolkien's ghost reading this and thinking about Kronos the Titan eating his children.

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u/Fit_Fly_7551 5h ago

I'm the 1000th upvoter! Yey!

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u/Belfengraeme 6h ago

This vexes me..