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I did say stuff to that effect, I think. There is no direct evidence in the text for it that I know of, so I think the point stands - Tolkien isn't a guy who thinks of humans as supreme and awesome, finding out the secrets of the Universe for themselves. That's not his ethos. He's much more...

Guys, you seem to be arguing against a position I am not taking. I didn't say there's "no knowledge or people doing magic anywhere except for the wizards". That is nothing like anything I have said. So please stop. My argument is far more limited - that there is no *evidence in the text" for...

With respect, you are now interpreting the text. Which is fine, but does not carry the weight of what is in the text. Even if there are others who use magic in the world, it remains that there is no support in the text for calling them "wizards".

Mod Note: Hey. In the future, please don't do that. A (+) thread is called such because the moderation rules in it are a little different than normal. The moderators do not, and will not, support a (-) thread. We do not support threads that amount to concerted efforts to badmouth stuff. The...

A wooly mammoth clocked in at around 4.5 to 6 tons, while modern estimates for average T-rex is between 5 and 8 tons. So, the T-rex was probably a bit bigger. Note that no single human likely won out against a healthy adult mammoth either. Mammoths were hunted by larger groups of humans who...

The only entities called "wizards" in Tolkien's work are Maiar. Humans/Numenoreans using magic are referred to as a "sorcerer", and all of them, as I understand it, are connected to Sauron. I don't know that there's much or anything in canon to suggest there's "spells the mortals came up...

People also think that Tolkien's "wizard" is the same as everyone else's - what he isn't is a D&D wizard/M-U.

Mod note: Hey. It is okay to disagree, but there's no need to be rude about it. Please be better.

Also, you can make a system foolproof. You cannot make it damnfoolproof.

With respect, we have been living in a post-fact world for a while now. Humans are more than willing to allow their fears and frustrations to stunt them, no AI required.

To make it clear, if one of the moderators, upon reading it, sees the direct reference, that is a problem. The point is to allow some space to breathe on the general, common frustrations of life in the internet age, not for folks to badmouth specific targets where they might not get caught...

Mod Note: Hey. Guess what? Putting a little halo on it doesn't mean it isn't insulting. You seem to have developed a bit of a habit of taking jabs at people. It is time for that to stop, please and thanks.

That is more work than just deleting the "https:"

I broke the link for you.

And from this, we might learn that while it might be important, design isn't everything.

Hey. Uncool. You are vigorously antagonizing when someone indicates to you that you are coming on too strong, and you don't back off. So, back off already.

Sure. But it then follows that simply stating your preference will not really inform others of your thinking.

By that logic, we should never have bought rulebooks, because using rules at all is letting others make decisions for us.

Because Gygax, et al. weren't particularly good technical writers. Remember, the need to say thing in particular ways so they'd be understood is something that game writers learned over time. How to write a game did not leap into being fully formed from Gygax's left elbow, or something.

Yes, I was speaking to US copyright.