Thanks for all the replies. Interesting and entertaining as always,.
Did that really annoy anyone else? The bullet came out whole, so it must have penetrated his skull. Except his skull is unpenetrable so that makes no sense.
Well, yeah, if his skull was impenetrable, then it should have, honestly, just bounced off, or only been lodged in the skin / muscles on his skull.
I chalk it up to dramatic license, to demonstrate Wolvie’s healing factor.
No kidding. I’m imagining Skald puttering around the volcano lair, wearing his Evil Overlord headgear and shirt, but with pajama bottoms and slippers. The adamantium portals haven’t been maintained for a while, so he just leaves them open and put in a screen door to keep the critters out. The vast refectories where his hordes of minions once dined are empty, and only Madge (who was looking for work after she lost her job at the middle school cafeteria) can be found there now, making Sloppy Joes with Mac & cheese for herself and the janitor.
I think what **Theo **is trying to say is that the bullets should have shattered or at the very least scrunched on hitting Wolvie’s impenetrable noggin’. Except in the movie, the bullet comes out pristine, like it hasn’t even been fired.
It didn’t bother me, but I did notice it too.
Personally, I would need to see the long-form vault record of her birth as a non-werewolf before I would be convinced. :dubious:
The Gaurhoth of the Silmarillion are translated (by the Professor) as “werewolves”, but are not explicitly described as shape-shifters – though I would think that to be implicit in the definition of ‘werewolf’. But if the Gaurhoth and the Wargs are explicitly equated, one the ancestor of the other, I’m unaware of it.
In the Silmarillion, werewolves are described as “fell beasts inhabited by dreadful spirits that he [Sauron] had imprisoned in their bodies.” The plainest interpretation of that would be that there were originally two types of creatures: a disembodied, malevolent spiritual being; and a fearsome animal, possibly more akin to the now-extinct dire wolf than the more familiar gray wolf. The Wargs could be descended from the werewolves or the soulless beasts from which they were created. In either case, they would not be “ordinary” wolves. (Note that in Tolkien’s world, it is possible for animals to possess human levels of intelligence and will without having souls.)
The use of the word “imprisoned” implies that the spirits did not enter the bodies willingly (although they could have been deceived) and could not change their form.
Of course, the Silmarillion as we know it is cobbled together from some of Tolkien’s unpublished notes, with large chunks rewritten by others, so it’s of questionable authority, unlike “The Lord of the Rings,” which we can take as gospel, and “The Hobbit,” which we can consider mostly true except for an occasional embellishment or emendation by the narrator.
I think the Perfesser uses the term as he does deliberately. Remember, part of the conceit of the Silmarillion is that it’s a translation of an ancient text, and such things are by their very nature often inspecific and seemingly misleading, as language changes over time. CF: the KJV using “witch” to mean “poisoner.”
The date on her gravestone would be proof enough for me.
Didn’t you hear? Skald let the janitor go in the last round of layoffs.
Dibs on the sloppy Joe.
Sauron on Wargs: