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Old 03-06-2017, 03:52 PM   #1
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I noticed in the Hobbit film that the men of Dale had a slavic look to their armor, with spiked helmets, just before Smaug came and roasted everyone.
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I noticed in the Hobbit film that the men of Dale had a slavic look to their armor, with spiked helmets, just before Smaug came and roasted everyone.
But didn't PJ also think Radagast the Brown was much more interesting as a rabbit-riding Monty Python refugee?
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I noticed in the Hobbit film that the men of Dale had a slavic look to their armor, with spiked helmets, just before Smaug came and roasted everyone.
I noticed in the Hobbit film that goblins ride Shai-halud sandworms from Arrakis.
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Sandworms! Those were Were-worms, I'll have you know! Practically almost canonical-ish.
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Sandworms! Those were Were-worms, I'll have you know! Practically almost canonical-ish.
I guess we should be just happy that Jackson didn't import a Fastitocalon to come out of the lake and be ridden triumphantly into battle by Bard and all the rest of the Laketowners.
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I guess we should be just happy that Jackson didn't import a Fastitocalon to come out of the lake and be ridden triumphantly into battle by Bard and all the rest of the Laketowners.
And why, why not a Mewlip encounter? Such a missed opportunity!
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Wasn't Khand south of Rhun, east of Harad, and southwest of Mordor?

So I imagine the Variags were ethnically distinct from the easterlings and Haradrim.

Since I always imagined Khand to be dry scrub and grassland-I figure the Variags were axe wielding Mongol/Viking/Turkic people or something like that.

Maybe Magyars?
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