2994: Númenor Margaritaville
| Númenor Margaritaville |
 Title text: I see white shores, and beyond it, a far green country under a tequila sunrise. |
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Cueball is conflating JRR Tolkien's "Numenor" with Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville". The Elf who is telling him about Numenor is very upset.
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- [An Elf and Cueball are walking to the right.]
- Elf: Aragorn was king of Gondor, but we Elves remember when his line ruled Numenor.
- Cueball: Oh, the place from the Jimmy Buffett songs?
- [Closeup on Cueball.]
- Elf [off-panel]: What.
- Cueball: The semi-mythical seafaring Atlantic paradise? He sang about it. With the fancy cocktails?
- [The Elf and Cueball stand facing each other.]
- Elf: ... You mean Margaritaville?
- Cueball: Yeah, that must be the modern name.
- [Closeup on Cueball.]
- Elf [off-panel]: Numenor is not Margaritaville.
- Cueball: "I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead," sang Tar-Pharazôn, king of island life.
- [The Elf, now facepalming, and Cueball stand facing each other.]
- Elf: Please stop.
- Cueball: "If there's a heaven for me, I'm sure it has a beach attached" is about the shores of Tol Eressëa.
- [The Elf is walking away from Cueball, to the left. Cueball raises one arm.]
- Elf: See, this is why I'm leaving the world of Men.
- Cueball: You shall diminish, and go into Key West.
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Looks like the king of island life is Ar-Pharazôn https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ar-Pharazôn 172.71.146.59
Awww this is great. I have just watched the trilogi with my kids (their first time) over the last three weekends, watching the Return of the King over two days finishing just a few hours ago. And then first now I look on yesterdays comic, and in the explanation there is so many references to the things I have just seen right now. Specifically the line "the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise." where silver glass is in the song "into the west" at the end (which I very much like) and the swift sunrise part is said by Gandalf to Pippin during the battle in Gondor. Love this coincidence. Because I'm a big fan of LoTR and of xkcd. :-) --Kynde (talk) 21:27, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
But there's this one particular harbour / So far but yet so near / Where I see the days as they fade away / And finally disappear. RAGBRAIvet (talk) 00:55, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
The Eagles are coming! Gmcgath (talk) 09:32, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
- Ar-Pharazôn: [1] --172.70.210.130 18:18, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
Seemingly xkcd has actually done a rare (silent) comic correction; in the new version, Númenor is indeed written with an accent, and Tar-Pharazôn has become Ar-Pharazôn. So part of the explanation needs to be updated. 172.71.160.93 13:15, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
- Well, whaddayaknow? One does not simply mess with the Tolkien canon, I guess. A fix has been attempted. The text associated with the edits maybe should be under a "Trivia" header? 172.68.22.191 14:49, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
Some people say that there's a woman to blame for the elves leaving the world of men, but we know that it is Cueball's damn fault. Stone of Light (talk) 01:20, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
And I always thought Westerland,Germany, was Numenor. Ask Die Ärzte. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceW3Tfh6iUI 3:15-4:50) 172.71.160.114 11:30, 7 October 2024 (UTC) Add comment
