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Hi! Should there be an article about the Rippaverse? It's all over the news. Ericdec85 ( talk) 01:53, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
In German there is a term "Serie" for series like The Simpsons and a term "Reihe" for rather loosely connected items like the James Bond movies. What would be a proper term for the latter in English to distinguish it from series like The Simpsons? I have seen "franchise" but this does not fit e.g. for movies of arthouse directors like the Three Colours trilogy. Could it be "set", or "group", or "collection"? How do you call a series of series, like " NCIS" with "NCIS", "NCIS L.A." and so on, if you don't call it "franchise"? -- 178.9.172.92 ( talk) 09:01, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
Venezia F.C. have a new logo. How can I get the svg? 94.247.8.9 ( talk) 09:03, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
What is the music sub-genre of tokusatsu intro music?
They usually have a very specific sound.
I am talking about songs like those ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69LKsTflxEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0oCN4WKwRI
177.206.34.42 ( talk) 18:10, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
If I understand it right, the basic sequence of events was: 1) Khazad-dûm is a huge city of dwarves, happily singing and mining away. 2) They eventually dig deep enough to awaken the Balrog. The Balrog kills a heck of a lot of them, and the rest escape/flee to other regions. Khazad-dûm is left deserted. 3) Orcs move into the abandoned Khazad-dûm and increase their population until they become a serious threat to travellers and lesser settlements all over Middle-Earth.
Questions: 1) Do I have the above basically right? I read LOTR a long time ago but couldn't make it through the Silmarilion and subsequent works. 2) If yes, why didn't the now-awake Balrog attack the Orcs? Was the Balrog sympathetic to Sauron? I thought it was at least as old as Sauron and wanted to kill pretty much everything, so I don't see why it would let the Orcs take over the city. We know it didn't go back to sleep because Gandalf & Associates ran into it near the entrance of Moria near the end of the Third Age. Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA ( talk) 23:39, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
Another possibility: the Balrog does eat orcs, but they keep growing in numbers anyway and have little to no concern for the fate of other individual orcs. And so they would stay despite the conditions, whereas other more reasonable races would have fled long ago. Cambalachero ( talk) 21:00, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks everyone. The book I was reading [1] (extremely good if you're into that sort of thing) tries pretty carefully to follow Tolkien's canon, so I wondered about this issue. Later in the book it became more apparent that the Balrog was supporting the orcs and maybe directing them. I had forgotten or not noticed the bit in LOTR about Gandalf calling unwanted attention to himself by starting the fire. So I thought maybe the Balrog had picked up the presence of the One Ring rather than of Gandalf. Anyway, I guess Tolkien never really makes the matter clear. 2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA ( talk) 02:08, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
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Hi! Should there be an article about the Rippaverse? It's all over the news. Ericdec85 ( talk) 01:53, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
In German there is a term "Serie" for series like The Simpsons and a term "Reihe" for rather loosely connected items like the James Bond movies. What would be a proper term for the latter in English to distinguish it from series like The Simpsons? I have seen "franchise" but this does not fit e.g. for movies of arthouse directors like the Three Colours trilogy. Could it be "set", or "group", or "collection"? How do you call a series of series, like " NCIS" with "NCIS", "NCIS L.A." and so on, if you don't call it "franchise"? -- 178.9.172.92 ( talk) 09:01, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
Venezia F.C. have a new logo. How can I get the svg? 94.247.8.9 ( talk) 09:03, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
What is the music sub-genre of tokusatsu intro music?
They usually have a very specific sound.
I am talking about songs like those ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69LKsTflxEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0oCN4WKwRI
177.206.34.42 ( talk) 18:10, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
If I understand it right, the basic sequence of events was: 1) Khazad-dûm is a huge city of dwarves, happily singing and mining away. 2) They eventually dig deep enough to awaken the Balrog. The Balrog kills a heck of a lot of them, and the rest escape/flee to other regions. Khazad-dûm is left deserted. 3) Orcs move into the abandoned Khazad-dûm and increase their population until they become a serious threat to travellers and lesser settlements all over Middle-Earth.
Questions: 1) Do I have the above basically right? I read LOTR a long time ago but couldn't make it through the Silmarilion and subsequent works. 2) If yes, why didn't the now-awake Balrog attack the Orcs? Was the Balrog sympathetic to Sauron? I thought it was at least as old as Sauron and wanted to kill pretty much everything, so I don't see why it would let the Orcs take over the city. We know it didn't go back to sleep because Gandalf & Associates ran into it near the entrance of Moria near the end of the Third Age. Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA ( talk) 23:39, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
Another possibility: the Balrog does eat orcs, but they keep growing in numbers anyway and have little to no concern for the fate of other individual orcs. And so they would stay despite the conditions, whereas other more reasonable races would have fled long ago. Cambalachero ( talk) 21:00, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Thanks everyone. The book I was reading [1] (extremely good if you're into that sort of thing) tries pretty carefully to follow Tolkien's canon, so I wondered about this issue. Later in the book it became more apparent that the Balrog was supporting the orcs and maybe directing them. I had forgotten or not noticed the bit in LOTR about Gandalf calling unwanted attention to himself by starting the fire. So I thought maybe the Balrog had picked up the presence of the One Ring rather than of Gandalf. Anyway, I guess Tolkien never really makes the matter clear. 2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA ( talk) 02:08, 19 July 2022 (UTC)