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Why was he called toll king when he never once operated a toll booth?
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He's called that because he penned the phrase "Burn the coal, pay the toll" in an essay regarding the mixing of Men and Elves.
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he didn't really *need* a bigger dick, but i really wish the ring tempting sam with "the world would be your garden" in mordor would have been put in the film. sam seeming unaffected while in the books he just actively refused it and said he's content with his own lot seems like such a wasted opportunity since i learned it. honestly, fuck the eagles, after getting more into the story the ring interactions seem weird choices. like when frodo puts it on and it seeming to basically actively wordlessly refuse him but then him later acting retarded for it. the gandalf and galadriel tempt scenes were good but way too on the nose. even in a visual medium, stuff like how fucked boromir got and other moments would have been much more understandable if you had something even like boromir touching it or getting near it and then having like a 10 second scene of him holding it and being able to wade through a orc army. sam seeing the world become his garden and then deciding to make one with his own hands etc. it's not something that *needed* to be said but it's something that had no reason not to. especially with sam, him BEING tempted but actively refusing it is a big deal instead of the films making it look like his only issue is frodo flipping the fuck out over it.
scenes like gandalf talking about it instead make sense and was a pretty equal trade off between showing a clip of him just yeeting anything that fucks up instead of course correcting and guiding etc, but boromir just seems psycho instead of a desperate hero and sam feels almost gary stu ish. minor issues though overall, just seems surprisingly odd for the ring to be actively tempting only off screen or insinuated, or told through dialogue. or like the aragorn turning around scene which seems pretty weird and rushed without context from the books. not EVERYTHING needed hand holding but it just feels like in hindsight there's "gaps", and the ring seeming more like a generic bad thing instead of "ill make all yo dreams come true lil nigga" which pushes it toward being black and white instead of it's layers being shown which discredits the original, a little bit
scenes like gandalf talking about it instead make sense and was a pretty equal trade off between showing a clip of him just yeeting anything that fucks up instead of course correcting and guiding etc, but boromir just seems psycho instead of a desperate hero and sam feels almost gary stu ish. minor issues though overall, just seems surprisingly odd for the ring to be actively tempting only off screen or insinuated, or told through dialogue. or like the aragorn turning around scene which seems pretty weird and rushed without context from the books. not EVERYTHING needed hand holding but it just feels like in hindsight there's "gaps", and the ring seeming more like a generic bad thing instead of "ill make all yo dreams come true lil nigga" which pushes it toward being black and white instead of it's layers being shown which discredits the original, a little bit