The Quill and Tankard

11:00 AM

Aragorn's son messes up many dead Tolkien didn't like it, through away the idea, burnt it. Went back to writing histories

Aegon

@Edlothiad Oh wow. Movies just showed Wormtongue stabbing Saruman and Legolas shooting him in turn

@Edlothiad What are the undying lands?

I never understood the whole concept of Grey heavens in the movies

Why were the elves going there? Why was that place out of Sauron's reach?

Edlothiad

@Aegon Didn't the movies show Wormtongue throw Saruman off of Orthanc?

Aegon

@Edlothiad He stabbed. Saruman fell

Edlothiad

Ok we'll start with this map

If yuo look at it, in the top right corner you see Cuivinen. That's where the Elves were born. (woke up) In the North of Middle-earth, you see "Angband" (under the word Endor) Thats where Sauron's master hid.

The Elves were old told to follow the "gods" East, so most of them walked across the land to the Bay of Balar and took the Island Ferry to the land in the West, the "Undying Lands" because everything that lives there is immortal, Elves and gods

Everything on that part of the Earth lives by the Bay of Eldamar. There, the Light Elves lived and prospered among the gods and demi-gods, the gods made light trees, that made the elves prosper

Aegon

@Edlothiad Isn't there a land link? North of helcaraxe?

Edlothiad

11:12 AM

All the while there's still some Elves in the far east and a bunch in Beleriand and the rest of Middle-earth

@Aegon Ye, but that's like the "Lands of Always Winter" but 1000x worse

Aegon

@Edlothiad Who told them to do that?

Edlothiad

@Aegon The gods, because 3 of them went to meet the gods

And Eru (Supreme Leader) whispered it to them

Aegon

So why are those lands out of Sauron's reach? Because he can't fight the gods and invade their land?

Edlothiad

Wait I'm getting to it

So then One Elf got mad because Sauron's boss stole his diamonds, so he chased him back to middle-earth, killed some elves

Lots of Wars, in the end the gods capture the big baddy and tell everyone to behave, destroy half the Earth and go back into hiding

They give an island in the middle of the sea seen here:

Aegon

@Edlothiad He was Morgoth or something wasn't he?

Edlothiad

11:14 AM

To Elrond's brother (a man) and a bunch of faithful men and give them long life

However these selfish pigs couldn't help kill all the lesser men of middle earth and then rise up against the gods in the west. When they did that The gods sunk the Islands (Killing Sauron) and moving the lands in the west outside of the circles of the Earth.

Aegon

@Edlothiad That brother is the ancestor of Aragorn is he not?

And those men are the Numenor

Edlothiad

@Aegon ye but like a good 5000 years or so in between

@Aegon Ye Numenoreans, the remenants being the Dunedain i.e. Rangers of the North

TheLethalCarrot

Just going to interrupt to boast that we've just had cake and champagne at work in celebration for getting a big contract. Back to your discussion now :P

Aegon

@Edlothiad What does that mean? Moving something outside the circles of the Earth?

@TheLethalCarrot Congrats!

TheLethalCarrot

Thanks :)

Edlothiad

11:17 AM

So when they removed Aman from the Circles of the Earth there was a path left by boat to reach it, called the Straight Road, that was only opened to Elves (and the ring bearers) with the exception of Gimli.

@Aegon Basically imagine you're sailing along, and suddenly you realise the Earth is curving away below you, because as you continue straight, you've departed from the curvature of the Earth and are sailing this road to the lands that are now "in the heavens"

Easier concept is it's there but in another dimension.

Anyways that's why Sauron couldn't get there, but the other fellas could

Aegon

@Edlothiad And being the Crafty lil shit that he was, Sauron had no way to find the path? And if he had successfully retrieved the ring of power, could he have crossed?

Edlothiad

@Aegon No cuz the "gods" would just block him

He didn't want to go back anyways, when he realised he couldn't take the west (when they sunk the islands) he realised the gods don't care about Middle-earth, so he decided to take over that

(But Eru was watching and nudging Frodo along)

Also the Eagles belong to the head God, that's why they aren't OP

Aegon

@Edlothiad How rude of them! What if he was a changed man, whatever he was? Still no second chances?

Edlothiad

But yeah, the reason we know about all this is because Aelfwine (Eriol) an english mariner got lost on the Straight Road while sailing to the New World and was found stranded on the Island you see there called Tol Eressea, and was taught all this information and brought it back and Tolkien was merely translating it from "Old English

@Aegon Sauron had effectively died 3 times at that point, and as you increase your evil spread in the world (for sauron his ring) you lose the ability to posses a Hroa (body). This means sauron had a fairly non-existent Hroa, and was left "house-less"

after his final death (with the destruction of the ring) his fea (soul) was left to wander middle earth aimlessly

Aegon

Ælfwine of Wessex, Alfred's elder brother. Is he the same??

Edlothiad

11:24 AM

He was judged based on the malice of his fea, also he was a massive d*ck for about 10000 years

Aegon

Or just some random pre-Norman invasion Anglo-Saxon?

Edlothiad

I cant find the this Aelfwine of Wessex, but he's Aelfwine of England

Ælfwine of England

Ælfwine is a fictional character found in various early versions of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. Tolkien envisaged Ælfwine as an Anglo-Saxon who visited and befriended the elves and acted as the source of later mythology. Thus, Ælfwine is given as the author of the various translations in Old English that appear in The History of Middle-earth Series. The Old English name Ælfwine means "Elf-friend". It is a well attested historical Germanic name, alongside its Old High German and Lombard equivalents, Alwin and Alboin, respectively. The unfinished The Lost Road was intended as a tale of "time...

Aegon

@Edlothiad Oh nevermind, I mistook Æthelred of Wessex for Ælfwine

@Edlothiad Yeah saw that. A random Anglo Saxon

Edlothiad

It's pretty complex and scattered his history, I don't know it very well

@TheLethalCarrot I found champagne in a cupboard at work

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad You're a step closer to it then haha

Edlothiad

11:32 AM

I opened the cupboard, said oops and ran away

TheLethalCarrot

We had 2 bottles between all 10 of the company haha

Aegon

@Edlothiad btw is three the maximum number of times one can die?

From the movies, I thought it was like the cliche magical parrot kinda thing. His life Force was attached to the ring so he couldn't die as long as the ring survived. And he couldn't live if the ring was destroyed

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Jesus!

@Aegon Hmm, it's the most we've seen I believe

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Haha was good

Edlothiad

But Sauron is a Maia

Aegon

11:34 AM

@Edlothiad Gandalf is the same I believe?

Edlothiad

@Aegon Hmm he can't "die" he can only be un-housed. But yes his remaining strength was left in the ring

As long as it existed he could maintain his form

Aegon

What's the difference between form and body? So he was like an empty suit of armor? Like the Nazgul? eh guess it's getting outta hand. I should give it a read myself

Edlothiad

Ye Gandalf is a maia, although one greatly afraid of Sauron, and weakened for his task, having forgotten much of what happened in his past

@Aegon Nah form and body is effectively the same

The Nazgul have bodies, just in the weird white world scape thing

The Elves exist in both as well

Aegon

@Edlothiad The Weathertop scene, right. So one can pass into that World if he wears the ring

Edlothiad

Basically the Ring holds Saurons power, as long as it exists he can use said power, it doesn't give him a power boost or whatever and he is NOT a stupid eye

@Aegon Ye

Aegon

11:38 AM

@Edlothiad Kinda like how Thranduil showed Thorin his hideous face, talking of fighting with monsters and stuff?

Edlothiad

As soon as the ring is destroyed, he loses that power and dies when the tower collapses on him

(that last part is vague but is my reading of it)

@Aegon Umm sure, I don't really know how that works cuz it's non-canonical, but yea

The wraith world isn't really explained because Tolkien never seemed to care for it, he just needed a way to hide Frodo, and to make Elves seem more majestic

Aegon

@Sekhemty

Well, I don't agree. Aegon answer is very detailed like always, but was posted after my question, its answer and the associate comments were already posted here, and basically summarize all known information from here. The quotes there are the same as those posted here, and I was interested about factual reference and other canonical information, not about speculation. — Sekhemty 1 hour ago

That hurt man.....that hurttt!

Edlothiad

@Aegon In that case we can close it as POB, or you can have a we don't sow meme

Aegon

@Edlothiad It does answer it tho. Not POB. His point is chronology. And the assumption that I stole the data that they already had and summarized it

Not sure how it makes it a non dupe

I did steal his quote on faceless man coin, rubbed off features cus I was too lazy to format it again. So I stole it with format from his question and just added what I make of it

Edlothiad

@Aegon I mean, you can't really steal a quote from a novel that's been printed x millions of times from anyone but the original author

@Aegon I was interested about factual reference and other canonical information, not about speculation. If it's all speculation that = POB

TheLethalCarrot

11:48 AM

@Edlothiad That comment is worthless anyway, everyone is interested in factual references and other canonical information. It's just sometimes speculation is all we have.

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Spat back fire in my reply

>So then restaurant food will still be better!
Yeah, because they're smothering your steak in butter and cooking it in a ton of grease. If you saw them make it you wouldn't want it anymore.

TheLethalCarrot

Yeah I don't really understand the problem with dupe closures.

Edlothiad

This guy needs to go to better restaurants, I've never had a steak smothered in grease...

Skooba

gosh you guys chatting so much I can't even catch up

well done

TheLethalCarrot

Blame Ed and Aeg for that with their TL talk

Aegon

11:51 AM

@Edlothiad Oh I mean as in all out copy paste, Had to use it for me answer in any case.

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon Oh well only formatting

Edlothiad

@Aegon Could be entirely coincidental, like the time I flipped a coin on its side.

Don't try it, since I've done it everyone I know won't be able to, dem's probability

TheLethalCarrot

Because that is how numbers work :P

Any of you guys do much PC gaming?

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Trust me I'm an engineer

Ok I'm behind schedule gotta do some work

@TheLethalCarrot Nah, not really

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Oooooh...

Skooba

11:56 AM

@TheLethalCarrot dupes hurt when you are new to the site, typically once you are established you get over it

or just find better ways to improve your question to not make it a dupe

TheLethalCarrot

Yeah Sek isn't that new though

I think the problem is the wording your question is "closed" as a dupe not linked, marked etc

Edlothiad

@Skooba 3k does not = new

Skooba

@Edlothiad rep has nothing to do with it

TheLethalCarrot

@Skooba Yeah but 16 qs and 22 as tells you all you need too

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Preach

Skooba

12:04 PM

@TheLethalCarrot links?

Edlothiad

@Skooba Also if it really wasn't a dupe because "the answers don't answer my question" one would be able to give reasons beyond "I'm asking for book only" and "they're more speculative than I like" (the latter not being a reason for it not being a dupe)

TheLethalCarrot

@Skooba Just the profile page...

Edlothiad

@Skooba Link to what? Sekhemty's profile?

Skooba

@Edlothiad no to the questions these comments are on

Edlothiad

The comment is posted above, just click the blue 1 hour

TheLethalCarrot

12:05 PM

@Aegon @Skooba See that one

Edlothiad

it's the one your answered, IRon coins

Skooba

oh goawd

Aegon

@TheLethalCarrot I do but I play only a certain genre

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon I play a wide variety what we talking here? :P

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Indie if I recall correctly

Aegon

12:08 PM

@TheLethalCarrot Grand strategy and Real time Strategy

Edlothiad

WOOPS

Don't know who I mixed you up with

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon Ahh I do play some RTS but not many and not most of the time

Edlothiad

@Skooba What, still winging about lack of HNQ

The man likes his history

Skooba

@Edlothiad nah

Aegon

@TheLethalCarrot What kind do you play? FPS?

Edlothiad

12:10 PM

@Skooba 1 Excuse for complaining about dupes, Rep Shae

Skooba

aegon's answer makes it a dupe but it appears he answered it after the first question was close

Edlothiad

@Skooba This isn't true?

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon Mainly at the moment, I'm just getting over a CSGO addiction for the past few months, I like your open world survival games, PUBG, used to play Arma 3 a lot. Anything I can get my hands on really

Skooba

@Edlothiad oh right

to the second part

TheLethalCarrot

I like story/walking simulator games too sometimes

Skooba

12:11 PM

had my hours backwards

Edlothiad

16 minutes later

TheLethalCarrot

I mean at the moment I have 678 games on steam + origin + blizzard games and ESO online

Edlothiad

Aegons answer was 16 minutes before the first close vote

TheLethalCarrot

Problem is I tend to get addicted to one game at a time so i never get through my backlog

Edlothiad

There are other answers that answer the question which source wikioiaf which is a book canon source.

Aegon

12:13 PM

@TheLethalCarrot Open world games make me confused heh. I tend to get lost

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon Most are alright after you've played for a little bit, then open worlds like elder scrolls you're usually only going to certain areas for quests and just doing that you learn the various main parts of the map easily

I'm currently downloading COD WWII open beta to see if it is any good. I gave up with COD a few years ago but I'll give this one a try again.

Aegon

@TheLethalCarrot I gave up on COD after getting bouts of Motion sickness. Weirdly I experience those only with COD and the ancient IGI

TheLethalCarrot

I like your Military sim/FPS games too like arma, squad and insurgency they're good games. Though for arma and squad you need to set aside at least 2-3 hours for one game

Skooba

@Edlothiad yeah so he could have answered either ;-)

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon I gave up with it because it was the same old game reskinned each time but each time it just got worse.

Aegon

12:19 PM

@Skooba I began writing it on the newer one heh until TLC came here with a dupe target

Edlothiad

@Skooba Sure, but he answered the older one. And the older one had content that also suggested it was a dupe.

Skooba

@Aegon haha good on ya

I stole a quote

Edlothiad

If you know a question is a dupe you should really not be answering the dupe, you should be closing the dupe and answering the original.

Skooba

@Edlothiad older does not automatically make a dupe. yes in most cases sure.

@Edlothiad /why not both

Edlothiad

@Skooba I know.... stop trying to teach me things I know

Aegon

12:24 PM

I interpreted a certain part of the story wrong all along

Regarding the last part - I thought she used an ordinary gold coin dipped in poison, slipped into the insurance salesman's customer's bag of gold? She'd earlier observed that the insurer bit all gold coins he was paid, to make sure they really were gold - so he died of what looked like natural causes, long after Arya had left the scene. Simply hoping someone dies of fright doesn't sound like a good plan; worse, the client might see iron coin before paying and think he was the target; and worse still, a rare, reliably-deathly-terrifying iron coin would remain at the scene for anyone to take — user568458 23 mins ago

Skooba

@Edlothiad stop saying things that make it seems like you don't know then? :-D

Edlothiad

You know I know that. That's one of the most irritating arguments "Older doesn't mean newer". Shut up and come up with a real argument. I don't need to hear your whiny crap about that shit

@Skooba read the rest of the FORKING message!

@Edlothiad TRIGGERED!

Skooba

@Edlothiad why cant we just spoon?

TheLethalCarrot

Spooning leads to forking anyway

Edlothiad

@Aegon Woah he's blown my mind

Skooba

12:25 PM

@Aegon im shook

Edlothiad

@Skooba Dibs little spoon

Skooba

@TheLethalCarrot tell that to my wife

TheLethalCarrot

@Skooba And my GF too actually... :(

Edlothiad

Although I swear on my left testicle, if you mention "old one doesn't mean target" one more time I'm going to explose, be it here or the other place

Aegon

Dumb oversight on my part. Sometimes fanfic instincts get the best of me and I see things the way I want to see, not how they are

Edlothiad

12:26 PM

@Skooba @TheLethalCarrot be grateful you have a significant other, even Jill lets me down

Skooba

@Edlothiad is your real name Eric Cartman?

TheLethalCarrot

That would explain a lot

Edlothiad

@Skooba What does Jill have to do with Cartman?

@Aegon Our coin I took to mean the FM Iron coin, not a poisoned coin, how is one meant to equate those two

Aegon

@Edlothiad Thats what I thought too. Why coat it with poison?

That guy would have known what coin it was

And wouldn't have bit it

Maybe I'll understand it better when I reach that chapter

Still pretty far behind in my re-read.

Edlothiad

Pfft I'm 1.5 lotr rereads and 2 sil rereads behind

I once thought I'd be able to reread HoME once per year. I gave up on that after it took me 6 months to read BoLT

Skooba

12:34 PM

@Edlothiad he had problems with Jill too

Edlothiad

(HoME - History of Middle-earth and BoLT = HoME vol 1, Book of Lost Tales)

@Skooba What problems

Skooba

@Edlothiad she let him down too

Edlothiad

His left hand?

Skooba

@Edlothiad isn't jill the right hand?

TheLethalCarrot

Although Eric does have a girlfriend at the moment

Heidi

Edlothiad

12:37 PM

@Skooba Depends if you're looking at the palm of the back

@TheLethalCarrot FFS, why's that name so bloody common?

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad Heidi Turner, and I don't know anyone called Heidi so can't comment haha

Aegon

1

Q: What would happen if you used a time-turner inside the penseive?

Since the pensieve is a 'bubble-of-reality' what would happen if you used a time-turner in a memory? (Pre-Cursed Child time-turners - say five minutes to an hour) Would you go back in time in the real world or in the memory? (Yes the pensieve is Bubble-of-reality: MA: Do the memories stored...

^ Why I dislike HP

Just picture a scenario you know never happened in the canon

And ask "What if", "What would" questions

TheLethalCarrot

I don't even like the time-turner in itself

It's like a really bad version of time travel

Who thinks "I know I shall make a device so that you can go back in time! Oh but you can only do it in 1 hour increments too make it really awkward."

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot I'm swiss, My mum, sister, both grandmothers and all my female cousins ar called heidi...

Skooba

@Aegon well we get those too. "Would the War of Five Kings still happened if....."

I actually answered that question lol

Aegon

12:45 PM

@Skooba But not "What if Joffrey cut Ned's tongue, then beheaded him and then Thoros resurrected him, Will he have his tongue when he comes back?"

^ Lol actually thats answerable as well

Edlothiad

@Aegon "Would the Balrog have joined Sauron had he defeated Gandalf?" Had a great write-up from yours truly

Aegon

@Edlothiad You should be more neutral then

Stay out of comment wars

TheLethalCarrot

What if questions aren't bad when about something sensible. It's when they start saying stuff like "What if Arya was a boy?"

Skooba

@Aegon he making up for all the neutrality

Aegon

And make people deposit their sock-puppet earned rep in your account

Skooba

12:47 PM

Zapp Brannigan Neutrals

►

Edlothiad

I can't believe these Neutral jokes are being starred... It's the same shiz-nit every bloody time. There not comment wars, they're comment debates!

TheLethalCarrot

Discussion not argument?

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot When I'm involved they're definitely an argument

TheLethalCarrot

True

Aegon

@Edlothiad That's a very positive way to put 'em......Not neutral at all

TheLethalCarrot

12:52 PM

I can't post the image here because it says F but follow the link if you want to see :P

reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/72r2s3/…

Aegon

@TheLethalCarrot Oh wow I didn't notice that

Was probably too busy whining about something they did

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon Me neither little things like that are cool

@Aegon In the books the Boltons would never have done that meh meh meh meh meh...

:P

Skooba

@TheLethalCarrot they took down the dire wolf statues?

TheLethalCarrot

@Skooba Beheaded them

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot That's one of the most reposted ones. You could see that from the first trailer

And possibly in S6 as well

TheLethalCarrot

12:56 PM

I hadn't seen it before

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Bran and Rickon

@TheLethalCarrot Hmm I've seen it several times, and it must've been on /r/all as well because I didn't go on reddit much otherwise

TheLethalCarrot

Yeah I don't doubt it's been reposted a lot

@Edlothiad Is it actually meant to symbolise that In/Out of universe or is it just to show the Boltons had taken over?

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot I don't think that's actually true, just something someone mentioned once and i've taken to believe, I think the wolves may have been beheaded since the Iron-born took over, but I'm not sure

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad I can see either of them doing it to be honest

It could be symbolism for it if there are no other beheaded direwolf statues

Though I haven't toured the set so wouldn't know :P

Guess I won't be getting the audio books then

Edlothiad

@TheLethalCarrot Do you get his penis encased in gold as well? 206 quid?!

Aegon

1:03 PM

How is this not the official mascot of SFF SE

2

TheLethalCarrot

@Edlothiad I'm hoping so

Edlothiad

@Aegon IT'S SO FLUFFY I'M GOING TO DIE

Skooba

@Aegon seizures probably :P

that is awesome tho

TheLethalCarrot

Should pick a frame and keep the one

Or a different frame for each month

@Edlothiad I want CD cos my car only has CD and my phones battery life is terrible but for £206 and having not seen them anywhere else yet I'm guessing it won't be happening

Sekhemty

@Aegon I've not accused you to "steal quotes", whatever this could mean, it's just that your answer provided the same details that were pointed out in my question and its answer, so it did not add much to what I already knew. Just that. I would not have have accepted it but it would surely get an upvote.

Aegon

1:17 PM

@Skooba I finally understood the flash imagery warning they show sometime

Skooba

@Aegon yeah... happened in Japan with Pokemon

Aegon

@Sekhemty Oh I was just joking. If answers do not satisfy the OP, OP doesn't need to accept them at all, there is no obligation

Edlothiad

@Aegon Doesn't make them non duplicates

Sekhemty

@Aegon The problem is that now nobody else could give more insights now, even if more details will be given in future works

Aegon

@Sekhemty Well all the evidence points to the fact that FLM coins aren't the legal tender of Braavos, but rather minted exclusively for them and used exclusively by them

Your question was "So, do the Faceless Men use their own distinct iron coins, or just the regular Braavosi currency?"

Edlothiad

1:22 PM

@Sekhemty Of course they can. on the duplicate target.

Aegon

I think I managed to prove that their coins are distinct

@Skooba You got a frigging populist badge?

Skooba

@Aegon 2 i think

Edlothiad

@Aegon Agreed, I'm of the opinion you hit every checkbox

Sekhemty

But I don't really want to argue about this. The whole case is closed for me. I was only hoping to satisfy a curiosity and I was not be able to, despite others may think that, or that I should be explained what I really wanted to know

Aegon

@Skooba I don't like you at all now

Edlothiad

1:23 PM

@Aegon You don't? The real art is 6 Stewards and the Reversal

Aegon

@Edlothiad Nay. Not a single one for me

Sekhemty

and the reference quoted don't provide a final word about this, but again, it's fine like this

Aegon

Only steward badges I got are on SO and that too, only two

Skooba

@Edlothiad yeah reversal is a tough one

Edlothiad

@Sekhemty If you have not had your "curiosity" satisfied, then you phrased said curiosity wrongly and evidently intended to ask something else. Because every single one of those emboldened questions in your post is answered by Aegon in his answer or one of the other ones

Aegon

1:24 PM

@Sekhemty Sure no problem. Keep the good questions coming

Edlothiad

@Aegon I will get 6. Currently around 4 months of 3, 6 of 5 and around 12 of all 6

Unless I create ~5-10 fake re-open votes per day

Or have an auto-reviewer

Sekhemty

@Edlothiad No they were not answered, but we are going in circle here. Thank you for explaining me what I said and intended. Have a nice day

Edlothiad

You're welcome, Thank you for the Sass.

Skooba

@Sekhemty You can always edit your question, or ask a new one.

TheLethalCarrot

@Skooba Well not edit it so yours would be out of date

Asking a new one is fine though

To be honest i'm struggling to see what the actual question would be though to make it not a dupe

Edlothiad

1:37 PM

@Sekhemty actually as soon as you press the "Post" button you lose all ownership of your post, SE owns it. They give you the right to accept it, but you no longer own any of the content within the post. You agreed to this when you created your account and pressed the "agree to T&Cs" checkbox. Therefore we are within our rights to close that question as the site is community moderated

Sekhemty

So it is a matter of "It's not a thing of yours, so I do what I want because I can?"

Edlothiad

@Sekhemty No I do what I want because it's right, you've yet to provide a reason why they're not dupes. I've only heard you mention to things "It's not answered my question" and "I wanted sources"

Sekhemty

I don't really care who owns the text of the question, the answers, the comments, or whatsoever

TheLethalCarrot

Can we drop this now? You're just going round in circles.

Edlothiad

Was the iron coin given by Jaqen H'ghar to Arya regular Braavosi currency? Or were they a different kind, minted just by/for the Faceless Men as a mean to let them being recognized when they wanted to? Aegon has answered this. No it's not regular Braavosi currency. It's only used by the FM.

So, do the Faceless Men use their own distinct iron coins, or just the regular Braavosi currency? See above

There, all your questions, all answered :)

Sekhemty

1:42 PM

@Edlothiad well, the sources provided don't clearly answer this, they could be interpreted in either way

but again, I'm not interested in arguing

Edlothiad

"It is not meant for the buying of horses." Not currency

* If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him — valar morghulis."* Magically finds a FM again, must be for the FM

"This . . . how . . . ?" [...] "Valar dohaeris" How did she get a hold of a FM coin, oh she knows the FM words, lets say them back

That sounds pretty unspeculative to me.

Sekhemty

Ok, I get your point, and I still have a different opinion.

but please, let's everyone drop it

it is not that important

let's have a virtual drink together

and end the matter

Edlothiad

But I'm enjoying myself

I need a sockpuppet to star me more. Everyone else gets them magic buttons

Aegon

2:33 PM

I know there is this whole serious discussion going around

But this is kinda funny

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A: Why was my answer deleted?

I've undeleted it. Although it expresses some political views which some other users might disagree with, it does provide a possible answer to the question being asked, and even offers evidence from both the real world and Potterverse canon to support it. It may not be the correct answer, or a g...

Rand's answer needs one vote for deletion

Edlothiad

I know, lol

Aegon

Rand's one point is solid tho

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A: Why exactly do the Death Eaters serve Lord Voldemort?

Same reason people followed every charismatic and/or powerful evil monster - from Hitler to Stalin to Saddam, to name just a few recent examples. Most of which reasons boil down to basic game theory and human nature. The main possible reasons (or their combinations) being: They lust for real...

This answer got away with unnecessary political parallels

TheLethalCarrot

Why would you want your answer undeleted that you knew would get heavily downvoted? haha

Aegon

@TheLethalCarrot Because you have enough rep to not care about that?

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon Well I wasn't stating it from a rep perspective but I suppose thats a reason

Aegon

2:41 PM

We had a guy on History SE

Who'd ask all these Holocaust denial questions

But had enough rep so he wouldn't stop

Eventually got a long suspension

TheLethalCarrot

Good

Aegon

Nowadays there is another guy

He apparently can't seem to tell the difference between History SE and Skeptics SE

TheLethalCarrot

The above political views from a SFF answer make no sense

You can draw parallels between the two sites at least

Aegon

3:11 PM

On the very same thread

A User unnecessarily claiming that British hands were clean in WW2 is given an OK signal

While another is caught in a shitstorm for suggesting otherwise (And no that user isn't defending Hitler, Trivializing holocaust, supporting hitler as some suggest)

TheLethalCarrot

Link? But most of the time its a problem because it clashes with other peoples personal beliefs. Also how the user goes about it, if you're drawing parallels it's fine but if it looks like you're essentially using the answer to platform your own beliefs it's not.

Aegon

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A: If Dumbledore could take on Grindelwald, why didn't he take on Hitler?

For the same reason Axis wizards didn't take out Allied leaders In addition to the other answers, I felt one important aspect of the situation was overlooked. Wizards are an international community, and are generally on good terms with one another (obviously there have been a few major wizarding...

TheLethalCarrot

For the most part that answer is essentially drawing parallels at least. It'd be fine without that last paragraph

Aegon

@TheLethalCarrot Funnily enough, the controversial answer is using the assertions

The non-controversial one for no seeable reason is just stating that Brits were essentially angels come down on earth

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon Yeah everyone's problem with that answer is that it goes against their own beliefs, kind of ironic.

@Aegon Yeah it needs editing out.

Aegon

3:27 PM

Well since the OP hasn't responded to my request and half an hour has passed since, I guess will have to DV and move on

TheLethalCarrot

Probs best

TheLethalCarrot

3:44 PM

Is this official?

Aegon

@TheLethalCarrot Aye

TheLethalCarrot

Free answer for me then I'm guessing

Aegon

@TheLethalCarrot Is there a question on that somewhere? I don't see it

I NEEDS THE GOLD

TheLethalCarrot

@Aegon Not that asking about what type of antlers elk have haha

Was essentially answered in the comments by the OP

Aegon

Oh okay

TheLethalCarrot

3:48 PM

So I'm just going to collect some extra information and answer it myself

Edlothiad

Which question, this is something I have to see

Aegon

tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory

^ Time-Travelling Hitler Killers

Edlothiad

The question you linked @Aegon makes an attempt at making his statement relevant to the answer (it isn't and should be removed), the issue with the other guy is he's got a political agenda he's CLEARLY trying to get across. His answer provides nothing new and is supported by 0 canon. Next point, SS has done some pretty awful nazi-sympathising things in the past and is a troll. He is just trying to continue trolling.

TheLethalCarrot

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A: What is an "elk" beyond the Wall?

It appears to be left unclear as to what type of antlers the elk have in the books. Although from the text it can be inferred that the antlers are more similar to that of the US elk. From a nearby oak a raven quorked, and Bran heard the sound of wings as another of the big black birds flapped...