Talk:2609: Entwives
This seems like one of the earliest-released comics in recent history Dextrous Fred (talk) 14:00, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
There seemed to be two versions of the title text; on mobile, there is a youtube link visible, but this is not present on my chrome desktop view Dextrous Fred (talk) 14:05, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
- The comic is a link, like 1017: Backward in Time and many others. Many Android browsers simply choose to show the target URL beneath the title text. The YouTube URL is not part of the title text, on a PC you can just click the comic to open it. --NeatNit (talk) 11:47, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
The mouseover text in android devices is this youtube link - [[1]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt2qCjL6-n4 DefectedWBC (talk) 14:18, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
Is LotR the lowest scoring major motion picture on the Bechdel test? 172.70.206.95 14:37, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
- Unlikely, depending on how you define major motion picture.
- Some major films do even worse on the Bechdel scale than the Lord of the Rings films, which at least had three memorable, prominently credited female roles. Lawrence of Arabia had no actresses credited in the cast list. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World had no actresses credited in the cast list, nor does IMDb list any uncredited actresses for it. --172.70.178.33 19:20, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
- There's no such thing as 'lowest scoring' - it's framed as a pass/fail test.172.69.79.203 11:39, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
As pointed out in YouTube’s comment section, the video seems to be a joke, not actually the only female interaction in the films. Chortos-2 (talk) 14:49, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
- In response to Chortos-2 comment, I would think a slight edit for accuracy along the following lines -- instead of "a video showing" change to "a video that purports to show". As they discuss, the point still stands, but the added accuracy would hurt, would it? 172.70.114.251 15:39, 20 April 2022 (UTC)newbie
Gender imbalance among readers and viewers of lotr as well. 172.70.230.53 14:51, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
I feel like it's weird that nobody's brought up that this is an Ent comic on 4/20. For context, reddit.com/r/trees (the weed subreddit) has an in joke where they call themselves ents, basically. Bazzherb (talk) 15:44, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
So who is the third hobbit supposed to be? --162.158.203.38 15:56, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
- With the caveat that (by movie standard reference) the hair colours are inverted — there is one dark-haired hobbit and three light(er)-haired ones — I'd say Pippin - if he's the taller one of the sidekick pair like I think he is, rather than Merry. But I can't guarantee the first two are Frodo and Sam (or which is which is which) because fairer-haired Sam is taller than dark- (and spiky-)haired Frodo in the reference cast photos I've just checked. (The necessary on-film rescaling/standing-in-a-hole of non-midget actors to play hobbits/dwarves might complicate these group tableaus!) Perhaps they are all Hobbits Of Another Story, coincidentally in a fellowship with another generic Human, Dwarf and Elf. Or else drawn more faithfully to the book (which I have yet to check) than the film adaptation? 172.70.85.177 16:30, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
- It is not a third hobbit. It is Gandalf: He is a conjurer of cheap tricks and can normally make himself larger, but the Ents can see right through him. That is his natural size depicted. Sebastian --172.70.250.231 06:35, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Considering Arwens and Ents age, I would actually suspect that yes he totally knows her. -- Hkmaly (talk) 18:19, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
- My first thought was that, especially with both races having an interest in trees... But then I decided that their opposing views of trees (habitat vs livestock) might have encouraged a natural racial separation, or at least less likely to socially mix over the millenia. (Not that I wrote the text in support of it being a good excuse, I just post-hoc rationalised what I read. ;) ) 172.70.85.211 19:10, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
"...one of the United States' two neighboring countries..." What about Cuba, the Bahamas, Russia, etc.? Just because there is no land border doesn't mean there is no border. SDSpivey (talk) 15:44, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, it kinda does mean there is no border, at least in those cases. All are well outside the 12 mile zone of territorial sovereignty.DaBunny42 (talk) 00:48, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- No, the U.S. definitely has borders maritime borders with Cuba, the Bahamas, and Russia. (I can't support the "etc.", however - it's just those three, plus the maritime borders with Canada and (trivially) Mexico as well.) I will fix the text proper.Mathmannix (talk) 01:16, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Was the lack of women in the fellowship because of "the cultural biases of the era in which the novels were written", i.e. a novel writing trope? It would it be more accurate to say the series is influenced by Tolkien's personal experience of fighting on the front lines in World War I. Women were an important part of the war effort, but were not permitted to fight as soldiers on the front line. If you still want to count that as cultural bias, it would be the war-waging cultural biases of the 1900s/10s that left millions without their fathers, brothers and sons, rather than novel-writing cultural biases of the 1940s. 172.70.162.77 19:56, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
My initial reaction to the conversation between Treebeard and Aragorn was that Treebeard was about to become angry and possibly violent due to sexual envy, if he suddenly finds out that all other races in Middle Earth are enjoying normal sexual relations with eachother. A less likely outcome would be that Treebeard and his chums are all quite "friendly" with each other, and he might expect similar "favours" from the Fellowship in exchange for the Ents' assistance in fighting Saruman, etc. Or am I reading too much into this strip? Beechmere (talk) 05:27, 22 April 2022 (UTC)Beechmere
- That last bit - yes, you are.172.69.79.203 08:07, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Is Rivendell a "real place" in the Lord of the Rings or something that xkcd made up? What is it known for? --172.70.162.5 05:36, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- Rivendell is the sanctuary of the Elves. 172.69.79.203 08:07, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
