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06-28-2007, 03:28 PM
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Animated Skeleton
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Is THIS how you imagined the vampires?
 This is Games Workshop's "Terror of Arnor" which has been officially confirmed to represent a vampire. What i'd like to ask is this: Is this how you imagined the vampires in tolkien? (just to verify this is a substantially bigger model than those represnting the human-sized characters) Last edited by sallkid; 06-28-2007 at 03:34 PM. |
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06-28-2007, 03:35 PM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
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It is positively clear that this figure resembles more one certain thing: a balrog. Yes, a big, mean, nasty, black, winged Balrog... *runs for cover* But seriously, I always imagined the vampires in Tolkien just as giant bats, nothing more (cf. Lúthien's metamorphosis).
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06-28-2007, 03:57 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Mar 2006
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It looks too similar to a Fellbeast; it lacks individuality. Tolkien was quite vague on the vampires (probably intentionally), but I think he imagined something more unique than this.
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06-28-2007, 04:03 PM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
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Concerning the vampires, I think you are right about the "unique": they are some sort of enigma, like Beorn for example (when this thread is popular). A-ha! I know now! Gothmog the Lieutenant of Morgul was a vampire! Well, why not?
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06-28-2007, 04:33 PM
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Flame of the Ainulindalë
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Far from it!
It has no resemblance to any believable vampire whatsoever... It's kind of a messy get-together of vampires, bats, gargoyles, balrogs or whatever monsters you can think... in a scale that is only unbelievable and clumsy. Just think of bat-like humans and you're on your way to true vampireship... it's a lot scarier anyway.  Even if I don't exactly applaud the movie of the League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen (or whatever it was in English) the scene where the vampire-woman showed why no one needed to protect her by killing very suddenly the guy who was threatening her was something I liked a lot. It had something like a vampire-feeling in it. Neat and sneaky but at the same time over-aggressive and scary... vampirish in short. Scary, not the imbecile fantasy-stereotype which always goes for the lowest common denominator. People would not have feared of vampires through ages around the Western world if they weren't actually terrible - and believable...
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06-28-2007, 05:22 PM
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Pile O'Bones
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 I pictured them more like the above image, bat-like. |
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