Ring of Silvianus Puns

For the longest time I bought into the assumption that LOTR is the best story/movie trilogy out there, but after years of trying to see it, it's actually just crap. I bought games, watched the movies, read literature, googled the backstories and even read some part of the shitty book passages that read like a try-hard wannabe bible.

**Plot holes everywhere: **

• One scene Gandalf the gray can take on a Balrog as a gray wizard and then one scene he gets owned by the Witch King as a white wizard.

No one fking knows what the ring actually does*

• So this Sauron guy is supposed to be strong, but the ring is not the reason he is strong. It just makes him strong by giving him control over the other rings, and only someone as strong as himself could really use it to it's fullest potential. So really Sauron doesn't need the ring, yet he expends so much of his resources getting the ring. But also apparently he does need the ring because if it's destroyed he loses most of his power even though he is powerful without it. It's just a cluster fuck of contradictions.
• Also if he was powerful without the ring wouldn't the first scene in the first movie where they cut his finger off and he loses effectively pointless?

Scene with Frodo are painfully boring

• I feel like their instructions to the actor was "Okay so just look like you taking a shit whenever anything remotely scary happens."

They just keep leaving

• Like when the Witch King had Gandalf cornered and broke his staff. The horn blew so he decided to leave and miss out on a big chance to cripple the enemy?
• He also had a chance to take the ring from Frodo, his most paramount goal, but he leaves because his fellbeast got hit by an arrow yet when he was attacking a randomy soldier (Merry) and his fellbeast got beheaded he didn't even bat an eye and kept fighting some rando on the battle field and eventually got killed. Why didn't he risk his life for the more important goal of retrieving the ring?

No goddamn idea what Boromir or Faramir even did

• Essentially the movie just uses the ring as a plot tool to make characters do things they otherwise wouldn't do without any actual explanation as to why they did them.

The Palantir

• It pretty much functions as a plot tool like the ring. People stare into and encounter it and they do random stuff they wouldn't otherwise do.

Not going to lie, the movies are good mostly because of the production quality and cinematography. And the games are

I decided to propose to my gf of three years on our third anniversary. I flew her to Vietnam and after a couple of weeks travelling we ended up in Cambodia. She had wanted to see Angkor wat and some other temples that were on her bucket list. After a long day of hiking in the heat through ruins we retired back to our hotel and when we were alone together I proposed and she said yes. We kissed and I had planned to take her to the waterfall the next day to celebrate. It’s really beautiful. She took a shower and I laid in bed thinking what an amazing day I just had and how I would get to spend the rest of my life with the women I loved. When she came out of the shower however she was in tears. She handed me back the ring saying she couldn’t accept it because she didn’t want her memory of my proposal to be in a hotel room.

I played it cool and said I understood but truthfully it hurt. It seems to me that I had offered her something of value. A lifelong commitment and partner. I took her halfway around the world and helped her cross off something she had wanted to do most of her adult life. I felt that if she valued me it wouldn’t matter that the proposal wasn’t exactly what she wanted. It was me and our future together she was saying yes to and not my delivery. If she had found a million dollars in a dumpster she wouldn’t throw it back because of where it came from. So she can’t possibly value me or what I have to offer as an individual if she’s willing to reject it because she didn’t like the place I asked.

I’m preparing to end things when we get back. She wants me to propose again and better and then she’ll say yes, but I’m done. Am I wrong? Should I do it over? What do you think.

Any advice is appreciated.

--Update to the story. Hi and thanks for all the comments and help.

I ended up following the advice of one of the commenters. The conversation with my girlfriend went something like this: Me: No that was my proposal. You rejected it. It's never going to happen again. GF: So we aren't getting married? You aren't going to propose... ever? Me: No never. I'm glad you were the one I proposed to and I'm happy that I found the courage to take that step and make such a huge commitment. But no. It was a one-time thing. If you want to marry me, you'll have to propose.

I decided to see how things went and planned to give her till my birthday (July) to make her proposal or I would end it and move on. She did while we were hiking a trail back home. I accepted.

But that would defeat the whole porpoise.

And in perfect WWE fashion it's a spectacular documentary.

I said "you don't know what you're Tolkien about."

But I’m just grasping at straws here.

tl;dr: Accidentally sent my gf the picture of the engagement ring, kept her from opening it, had to come up with a fake surprise to throw off her suspicions.

 

So this was actually a few months ago. I (24M) had just recently bought an engagement ring to propose to my at the time girlfriend (24F). I was on the phone with a good friend of ours to tell him the news, and wanted to send him the picture of the ring as a way of telling him while talking to him.

 

So I put him on speaker phone and clicked into the text thread, attached the picture, and clicked send. Welp, it was immediately after clicking send that I noticed the texts in the thread didn't look right. I looked up at the name at the top of the thread and my heart stopped: It was my gf. "Shit" I said over the phone. My friend asked what was wrong, and I told him I'd have to call him back. Tried finding a way to cancel the message to no avail.

 

As a last ditch effort, I called her, as the message did not yet say "Delivered". She answered the phone and I immediately said "Do you see the message I just sent?" "Yeah...it says attachment, why?" Immediately I blurted "Dont open it! Just delete the thread. Please."

 

She sounded concerned, and asked "Is this something I should be worried about? You're kinda scaring me lol". "No, no," I said, "I just have a little surprise for you I was trying to show someone and don't want to ruin the surprise." She relented, but still seemed (naturally) very suspicious. "Ok, I deleted it. Didn't look at it." I know your first thought might be that she looked anyway, but I can 100% promise you that girl would never, ever lie to me. The 1 or 2 times I ever tried to tell a little fib to skirt around something (usually just not wanting to get nagged about something) she was highly upset about it and demanded complete honestly between us. It's just not in her to lie, and she's honestly terrible at it (ie: trying to keep anything as a surpise for me she cannot hide it to save her life).

 

So I had avoided the disaster of her seeing the ring, but now I had her HIGHLY suspicious of me, and needed a way to throw her off the scent. So I immediately went and found a cute little necklace on Etsy I knew she'd like, and bought it and had it shipped to her house. Later that week she got it and texted me, saying I was very sweet and she loved my surprise. Phew. A few weeks later I actually managed to pull off a surprise p

They confirmed it via this tweet. They also revealed a new map (last one ?) with Numenor in it. Apparently the rumor about the Young Aragorn story was wrong (or they changed their minds).

I'm not super well versed in LOTR history but it could be the Forging of the Rings or the Last Alliance War (the one in the LOTR movies prologue)

EDIT : Thanks to u/Harkoncito, for the people who don't know what is the Second Age :

> The Second Age lasted for 3441 years and ended with the downfall of Sauron's army when he was defeated by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men following the downfall of Númenor.

> This age was characterized by the rise (eventually with increased insolence) of Númenor, the rise of Sauron in Middle-earth, the creation of the Ringwraiths, and the early wars of the Rings between Sauron and the Elves. The Ring of Power also came into existence during this period.

Essentially it's what we see in the prologue of the movie trilogy.

I’ll call it my No Worries Atoll.

Exciting finds bring new excitement, but the team must move quickly since time is running out before they must suspend operations for the harsh winter ahead.

So me and my girlfriend have been together for 3 years and we both loved thia cartoon called "Steven Universe". Although it's a cartoon it gets really deep sometimes.

So on an episode there was a song called "Here Comes a Thought" and it became our song especially the part that goes "Take a moment to think of just flexibility, love, and trust". It was sung by the character that represents a strong relationship by fusion. (Would take to long to explain what this relationship is and why it's strong and what fusion is.)

So I thought about a ring that represented what that character stood for. I had the ring custom made The ring had 3 gems a ruby, sapphire, and amethyst. (I didn't know garnet could come in purple, I didn't get the show wrong, shut up about it) Red and blue, and purple to show the connection of the two.

So when I proposed at first she was so excited and she said yes on her way home we started talking about the ring.

First she said "I love it but why did you choose it."

I explained it to her and she said

"So you bought me a ring based of a cartoon"

I was shocked by this we had always watched the show together and loved the song I mentioned earlier. I thought that instead of getting some bland expensive clear rock I would get something that meant something, or so I thought.

I asked her "But I thought you loved the show, it always meant more to us than just another tv program."

She said "yah but why would you buy something so important based off it"

Once we got home I had to go on a drive only and think.

So am i the asshole for buying a ring based off a kid's show.

Edit: Alright so we talked about the ring then we talked more about life and what we would do after getting married. This made of realize we're not ready to be married. That we both need time to ourselves. So... we broke up. Not because of the ring but because we realized we weren't for each. I know that kind of came out left field but that's what it is.

I doubt you could even imagine it

When I was growing up in the nineties, movies like “Willow,” that had come out less than ten years prior (in the 80’s,) felt old. However when looking at movies that came out in my teens (late 90’s/early 00’s,) some have aged badly, while others still feel relevant, like Lord of the Rings, whose graphics still look good to me twenty years later.

Is that true for gen z teens as well, or does the LOTR series feel old or dated?

^^^

When I got back from the door she asks, “Who was it?”

I said, “It was a pest control company but I told them we didn’t need them because mine is leaving on Monday”