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Well done, sir! You have out-nerded me. I stand corrected. He had a number of takes on the origins of orcs: bred from heat and slime...

To the best of my knowledge it's only a couple of things which at best give a mild implication. A passage about Bilbo's appearance in a...

They might have had. There's plenty of stuff in the History of Middle-earth series, and I'm sorry I can't remember which volumes now...

That hobbits never used footwear. They did in fact wear boots on the long journeys they take in the stories. Their shoelessness is meant...

They figure the quote is from a Patagonia catalog or maybe one of those "van life" conversion companies.

I don't think those people know they're paraphrasing Tolkien.

Pointy-eared elves

I've already given examples - at a certain level of abstraction, but can elaborate a bit if anyone cares for the detail of decades-old...

"That cave," says Terrin, breathing hard on the ledge, to Stryke as he sees its light through the gloom, "is that where you're taking us?"

Terrin holds fast to Copper's rope as he kicks his legs towards the cliff, keeping his staff close to his body to increase his buoyancy...

It's movement, but seeing as everything (swimming in the water, climbing the cliffs) costs 2 feet of movement for every 1 foot you move...

Does it take my action to "utilize" the rope, or is it considered movement?

@Hriston - it occurs to me that if you can make it 'Swimming' to S32, you can have Advantage on 'Climbing the Cliff' with Copper holding...

This thread does NOT need to delve in what roleplaying is or isn't, but this bar of 'basic roleplaying' being akin to method acting is...

Who said it always corresponds? There's a huge gulf between always corresponds and never corresponds. It has to never correspond for it...