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Eruonen
Half-elven
Sep 29 2015, 3:36am
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Channel flipping and came across Apocalypse World War One - it made me think
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One of the films images was striking showing Germans advancing with flame throwers. The films are colorized and immediately, it made me think of Glaurong the great worm and similar from the Silmarillion. Easy to see how JRRT may have incorporated such imagery
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Elarie
Grey Havens
Oct 1 2015, 1:16am
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I don't know if you've watched the Hobbit movie EE appendices but on one of them Peter Jackson talks about using WWI footage of a massive flame-thrower as a basis for Smaug's fire. They show a brief clip of the old footage and it's really horrifying and scary. It makes me wonder if Tolkien ever saw one in person during the war.
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Gold is the strife of kinsmen,
and fire of the flood-tide,
and the path of the serpent.
(Old Icelandic Fe rune poem)
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Eruonen
Half-elven
Oct 1 2015, 3:08am
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Yeah, I remember that. It was seeing the colorized film that was striking.
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The flames were basically chasing the troops back out of their trenches - whoever was not engulfed in them already. It just looked like Glaurong advancing across the ground destroying everything in his path.
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