A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.
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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
I really like Harry Potter too, although I didn't get into until after all the books came out. I tried reading the first book when I was 11 or 12, but I didn't like it then because the bullying Harry receives from the Dursleys and Draco hit too close to home at the time and also because of some other reasons such as disliking the house system (which does get criticized in-story in the later books and it's my optimistic view that things get better for interhouse relations by the time of the epilogue). I later got curious about Snape from having read about him on the Internet and was curious about this character who seemed to be a villain on the outside but actually was on the good guys' side. I waited until the last book came out because I didn't want to read it if he turned out to have been evil (on Voldemort's side) all along. The time I started reading the first book again was when I was 22 and I actually found the Dursleys to be funny with some of their sillier behavior, and I ended up liking it a lot more and getting all 7 books and watching all the movies.
And yes I was pleased at how Snape's story turned out in the end and he, Luna Lovegood and Hagrid are my top 3 Potter characters.
On the subject of My Little Pony AND Harry Potter, I saw a shirt that combines the two mentioned on Equestria Daily at this link:
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2014/04/harry-potter-crossover-shirt-on-24-hour.html
edited 1st May '14 1:33:05 PM by Rainbow
I would have to say that the most boring/drawn out moment in Lo TR was: When Merry and Pippin got captured by the orcs, and were being dragged along while the orcs marched. I just remember that being especially long, and I stopped reading the book for a day or two because of it.
"Moody Stops Bicycle Theft, Takes No Prisoners"- Harry Potter and the Natural 20I have a really weird relationship with Tolkien's works. I read The Hobbit, which I really liked and because of that, watched The Lord of the Rings films. After the films, I tried to get into the books and Fellowship didn't really hook me. :/ It's been a while, but I think I had an issue with his rambling too. Which, now logically strikes me as weird since I liked The Hobbit, but I can't remember if there were a major writing style difference or not (it's been over a decade since I touched either...).
FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshiI like the descriptive style, provides many striking images in LOTR, but especially the Silmarillion with it's epic battles and larger than life power struggles. The Sons of Feanor, the War of the Jewls to gain them back from Morgoth's empire, the fifth batle of Beleriond where an army of dragons and Balrogs decimated the massive host of elven, men, and dwarf forces, and showing the earliest histories of the gods and elves.
The most boring part for me was the second half of The Tower Towers. It got so bad that when I finally finished it and got to ROK, I started skimming.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayThe Silmarillion is awesome! The epic scope of the books meant that Tolkien's rambling didn't matter, because everything he rambled about was completely epic!
And yeah, he wrote The Hobbit with a different style, which I preferred. I might enjoy Lot R more a second time, as I was slightly young when I read it, but I've been occupied with other things. If I reread something, it's normally a case where I want to relive my old excitement.
I started the first book but didn't find it interesting.
Speaking of which, time to shill Worm again.
edited 1st May '14 1:50:17 PM by storyyeller
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayPretty much, the extra details just add to the rich feeling of history and epic deeds. Turin Turambar's story on it's own would make a great dark fantasy epic movie.
It's all the necessary ingrediants, Tragedy, a doomed romance, a cursed destiny, a black sword wielded by an antihero, and set near the height of Morgoth's dark power.
I'm enjoying Worm so far. Need to read more of it. I'm still quite early. It has a slow start, but picks up nicely.
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I would watch that so hard! I'd also bawl my eyes out every time.
I was actually given The Children Of Hurin as a birthday present. Knowing the story rom The Silmarillion doesn't stop it from hurting.
edited 1st May '14 1:56:38 PM by Sereg
Yeah, The Silmarrilion is honestly a lot more interesting than Lord Of The Rings, mainly because it lacks all of the Purple Prose. I wouldn't say that Tolkien is a bad writer, but he's definitely niche; you have to have a special appreciation for florid language to enjoy it.
Reaction Image RepositoryThe majority of the books of the series are written so that they don't really rely on or mention events from previous books. I suggest a good book to start on would be 3, High Wizardry. The ending is brilliantly written, especially the last two chapters. You should read it!
Admittedly, the first book was a little slow, and doesn't really reflect the rest of the series.
"Moody Stops Bicycle Theft, Takes No Prisoners"- Harry Potter and the Natural 20With this discussion of fantasy fiction from our world, it made me wonder what kinds of things would be in Equestrian fantasy fiction. I was thinking that if they had such a thing, it might involve places like the Everfree Forest where natural processes happen on their own without the aid of ponies (although that may not count as "fantasy" since it is a part of what would be the real world to them), magic doing things that it can't do in the show canon (I'm not sure what that would be, though) or maybe even a world with NO magic? It's unclear as to how the ponies' technology runs, but I've read that it's Word of God that such things are run using unicorn magic (such as the Flim Flam brothers' cider machine). If that's the case, then the technology of our world, which runs off of electricity, might be seen as fantastical to the ponies of Equestria.
Going off of the idea that perhaps ponies would see electrically-run technology in the same way that we would view their magic, other ponies might see the Equestria Girls world as being a fantasy world in itself.
Harry Potter and Tolkien, huh? I liked the HP books, but I'm not a huge fan. The books are good, but pretty damn flawed, especially the later ones. There's a lot of padding, especially regarding the goings on of school life; a lot of the characters are flat, most notably Ron; there are plot holes created by forgetting about magic introduced in the earlier books; Harry is totally unsympathetic during most of the sixth book and even has some honestly despicable moments; the whole house elf thing is never really resolved satisfactorily; Harry/Ginny has no chemistry while Hermione/Ron makes no sense; I dislike Chosen One narratives; and it just bugs me that for all the books' grandstanding about how wizards are not superior to muggles, in the end no muggles are actually involved anywhere in the story aside from Harry's abusive family, let alone get to take part in saving the world from Voldemort, and when everything's over the muggle world is still left totally in the dark about the wizard world despite the fact that the wizard world produced a world-level threat that would actually have done more damage to the muggle world than the wizards. At the risk of Godwining (because Voldemort is basically magic!Hitler when you get down to it), it's like if Jews were never allowed to know that Nazis existed.
As for Tolkien, I've read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, but couldn't get past the first, I don't know, 50 pages or so of the Silmarillion. Guy was a master of worldbuilding, absolutely no argument there, but his narrative chops were not on the same level. The Hobbit aside, his books just dragged on and on, almost more like a history lecture than a story. When it comes to LotR, I actually prefer the movies.

Alright, I'll try those ideas out later. (I'm currently at moms shop, again)
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