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>The farthest star yet discovered named in reference to star in LOTR.
TolkienCHADs... we won.

>> No.22363046

>>22363030
Imagine the peak of your career being the fact that you named a random dot in the sky after your favourite Product. Stemfags really do be living like this.

>> No.22363047

EARENDIL WAS A MARINER

>> No.22363056

>>22363046
Still more than any humanitiesfag would ever achieve

>> No.22363055

>>22363047
THAT TARRIED IN ARVERNIEN
HE BUILT A BOAT OF TIMBER FELLED
IN NIMBRETHIL TO JOURNEY IN

>> No.22363063

>>22363056
>humanitiesfag
Like Tolkien?

>> No.22363067

>>22363046
>being this much of a cynical lifeless automaton
might as well kys

>> No.22363070

>>22363030
Now this is Reddit.

>> No.22363084

>>22363046
Because its a random dot. Its name doesn't matter (this isn't even the scientific name that will be used) and further stars will be found

>> No.22363108
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22363108

I need to read the Silmarillion.

>> No.22363114

>>22363030
There's a few things named referencing Tolkien.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_J._R._R._Tolkien_and_his_works

>> No.22363184

>>22363030
>Earendel
Oh hell yeah. Perfect.

>> No.22363526

>>22363030
>28 Billion light years away
Big Bang Theorists aren't going to like this one.

>> No.22363568

>>22363108
Just read Ovid and skip the larping.

>> No.22363575

>>22363046
People have named all sorts of things throughout history after characters or things in literature and poetry. This is a good thing (and, incidentally, further proof that Tolkien is going to be one of the few authors of the 20th century to become a big name on the level of Dante, Goethe, Dickens, etc.)

>> No.22363584

>>22363575
the point is that in democracy the idols are merchants and brands and commercial products

>> No.22363586
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22363586

>>22363030
Is tolkien NOW the biggest attraction for manchildren? Or does that distinction still go to star wars?

>> No.22363589

>>22363584
Shakespeare was also a commercial product

>> No.22363590

>>22363584
>commercial products
TLOTR was never intended to be one, and tolkien was perturbed at it becoming one when american publishers got hold of it and the hippies started reading it en masse

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>>22363046
>>22363070
>>22363584
>>22363586
Ugh, I know right? What a bunch of manchildren, naming useless rocks after some characters in Shakespeare's plays. Imagine having enthusiasm about literature instead of cynically moping around like I do.

>> No.22363612

>>22363601
lol

>> No.22364949

>>22363063
Le patrician deathblow.

>> No.22364985

>>22363575
See, that‘s the thing, is that it‘s not on that level.

Not that it matters but we might as well have some ASOIAF names out there to let these nerds honor their toys.

>> No.22364993

>>22363070
weird, I type in 4chan.org but all I get is Reddit

>> No.22366437

>>22364993
They've migrated here because it's become unbearable over there.

>> No.22366589

>>22364985
>Noooo why didn't they name the star after my beloved Lolita fuck these nerds!

>> No.22366890

>>22363030
Isn't Earendil just Venus in Tolkienverse

>> No.22367457

>>22363046
How does naming a star after some fantasy shlock compare to deciding that a book will get the fabled #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER printed on it's cover?
Which the peakiest of non-peak my intellectual superior?
What would you nominate to the star to be called instead? Clive VIII no, Niel XXXII. Yes. That sounds adequate.

>> No.22367465

>>22363070
>>22364993
This thread >>22367011 reeks of leddit. You never saw this type of humour on here ten years ago. First post best post though.

>> No.22367474

>>22363030
Obscure new discoveries in scientific field get named by nerds.
There's a bunch of stupidly named proteins like a sonic one, a pikachu one, etc

>> No.22367487
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22367487

>>22363046

>Product

Art, literature is an art form.

Storytelling is an art form as well.

Back to prehistoric times, our heritage.

And Tolkien draws from Germanic mythology.

My dad read us the Hobbit as a kid, really loved it.

Because if this, I'm going to read the whole trilogy now.

Friend of mine loved the The Silmarillion, not decided yet.

>> No.22367492

>>22363070

Astrophysics and Lord of the Rings are much older

You are just being anti-intellectual which is just weird honestly

I don't use preddit myself, Tolkien and outer space are both interesting

>> No.22367495

>>22367487

>Because of* this, I'm going to read the whole trilogy now.

I have time to post on this site, so I have time to read great books

>> No.22367569

>>22363046
>Tolkien
>Product
A greater and more significant work of art, beauty and spirit than anything like the Bible.

>> No.22367697

>>22367569
Lotrfags, everyone

>> No.22367701

>>22363063
Brutal. And that retard just disappeared

>> No.22367716

>>22367487
Most fantasy schlock draws from European mythology at some level. Tolkien does so with as little genuine regard as anybody else except for framing it as a subordinate device to jewish mythology instead of framing it as a subordinate device to secularism.

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>>22363586
tolkien was always for stunted manchild

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>>22367569
cope

>> No.22369055

>>22363030
But Earendel is meant to be Venus.

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>>22363584
This. So much this.

>> No.22369105

>>22367487
The Hobbit is the peak of Tolkien. All the autistic lore ironically kills the mystique of middle-earth. Gandalf being an eccentric wandering magician is so much more interesting in it's fairytale simplicity than being an epic angel sent by the gods to defeat the dark lord. Shit's corny.

>> No.22369109

>>22369037
>Fingolfin, son of Finwe
Ummm what the fuck? So unoriginal. He should have used some REAL names, like Sven Svensson, or Jan Janszoon, or Johan Johansen.

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>>22369109

>> No.22369358

>>22363030
Do you think there are aliens out there looking at the sun from far away and naming it gay shit?

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>anons literally have folders full of chudjak seethe over tolkien
Lmao he really is one of the greats isn't he

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>>22369430

>> No.22371140

>>22367487
Can it even be called a product at all when about 90% of his writings were a private endeavor throughout his life?

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22371238

>>22369037
>Unnamed wives, unnamed daughters

>> No.22371670

>>22363030
Did I just get bamboozled? I remember them claiming the universe is only 13 billion years old my entire life

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22371696

>>22369043
Hungry for a meal that no longer exists

>> No.22371702

>>22371670
When you talk about light and the expanding universe things start getting fucky. The universe beginning 13 billion years ago means there's 13 billion Light years in either direction light could have reached, so about 26 billion LY across, but the universe itself has also been expanding since then, a phenomenon which cannot be adequately explained by modern science, so the universe is a lot bigger than you'd think it is. Or, at least, that's what current science has figured out so far.

>> No.22371724

>>22363046
>>22363584
>>22363586
>>22364985

Imagine seething over something that's 26 billion lightyears away lol. That's some next level anger issues.

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22371730

>>22363030
Whats hiding here?

>> No.22371733

>>22363030
How can the star be that far if the universe is only 13.7 billion years old?

>> No.22371736

>>22369993
One of these books doesn't exist

>> No.22372913

>>22363575
>People have named all sorts of things throughout history after characters or things in literature and poetry. This is a good thing
How is it a fucking good thing? Can you even name any examples of this actually happening?

>> No.22372921

>>22363046
it's amazing how soulless you are.

>> No.22372981

>>22372913
>Can you even name any examples of this actually happening?
Yes, I can. There was a star named Earendel which is a reference to a novel by the author JRR Tolkien.

>> No.22373009

>>22363030
*zooms in*

>> No.22373082

>>22363526
speed of light can be suspended and overridden by God