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[–] [email protected] 113 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What should we call this being so powerful and mysterious as to be completely unaffected by the one ring?

Tom

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How about this really old talking tree guy?

Treebeard!

And the huge volcano mountain that is the source of the evil artifact?

Mount Doom, naturally

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Weird common human slang names for Fangorn and Orodruin/Amon Amarth

[–] samus12345 32 points 4 months ago

Human: "'Treebeard'? What a plain-sounding name. Ooh, 'Fangorn' sounds exotic!"

Elf: "'Fangorn'? What a plain-sounding name. Ooh, 'Treebeard' sounds exotic!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That explains why "Cry of the Black Birds" was on the official soundtrack.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

About to name my next child Humanbeard

[–] samus12345 33 points 4 months ago

To be fair, he has other, more exotic-sounding names. Tom Bombadil is the name the hobbits gave him.