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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9251546" data-attributes="member: 29398">To an extent I agree with you here, but I'd also posit that at least some of those oddities are fairly easily explainable:Gollum was obviously kept alive by the One Ring, as we know it has a powerful anti-aging effect even as it slowly consumes its wearer.  And he was a Hobbit before, so was used to living underground.  To me the oddity there is how well and how long he survives without the Ring after losing it to Bilbo.The Ring, again, pulls Frodo to trouble on the Barrows, where the Wights would likely have remained undisturbed for ages otherwise.Gandalf, Saruman, and Radagast (and the un-named other two) are angel-like beings, and in G and S's case are mostly there to pull strings.Tom Bombadil etc. is an oddity for sure, but that whole sequence does a lot to help give the reader a sense early on that this is a very big and very old (and very strange) world.You've posted this passage before, and every time I read the bolded bit all I see is a player refusing to engage with the game as presented. The GM is putting forth a game without magic, so bloody well play a non-magical character this time! Why he praises this refusal to engage and the resulting conflict as being good things is beyond me.</blockquote>