This seems to be a mistranslation, because in German, “wenn” can mean both “if” and “when”, but it’s actually closer to “when”. If you really mean “if”, you use “falls” instead of “wenn”.
So the intended meaning is in fact “tomorrow morning, when God wants it (ie. at the time God wants it), you will wake up again”
I mean, sounds like it might be worth a try, no?
Lemmy in a nutshell
What if its desire was to be so big that it can pick humans as if they were grains?
Sounds pretty dangerous, I can understand why they didn’t want to risk it.
Same here. I’ve really only ever heard three songs out of his top 10 singles but Uptown Girl, Piano Man, and We Didn’t Start the Fire I can definitely vibe with.
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
For the answer to that question, you need to read Interview with Sméagol: The Secret Account of the True Ringbearer and All the Things Nasty Hobbitses should Never Ever Ask, unfortunately Frodo threw that into Mount Doom along with the ring because it contained knowledge no mortal man should ever possess.
Well, it could also be that it only works differently on HIM
Well, then why not put that chicken on a cat, and the cat on a dog, and the dog on a donkey, and then ride all up into Mordor full Bremen Town Musicians style?
Better safe than sorry…
Yes, but without a control group we cannot really rule out whether this is race thing or a personality thing.
For instance, what effect would it have had on Boromir and Aragorn? How about Gimli? It’s possible it would have made both of the former stronger, for instance, and made Gimli incredibly rich, because that’s what their races desired. We don’t really know, do we?
It had the same effect on Bilbo and Gollum, though. The idea of its effects being dependent on race cannot be ruled out just yet.
Well, that’s just wearing it on a necklace with extra steps.
Perhaps he had a very long zoom lens
And then fuck it up, and blame the thresher
Now that you say it, I don’t remember the book ever really getting into what effects it might have on other races. All we know is it makes hobbits invisible, and that it had no effect whatsoever on Tom Bombadil. No one else got a chance to try it on if memory serves me correctly (the elves refused, the humans weren’t allowed, and the orcs never got near enough).
It’s been many years since I’ve read it however, so I’m happy to be corrected.
The black part:
That’s a good question, but I don’t remember Bilbo having to strip naked after putting it on so he wouldn’t appear as a self-animated set of clothes floating around
Well, first of all, the ring makes you invisible
I can’t argue with that, because the German “wenn” is definitely more ambiguous than the English “when”, but since it’s a lullaby, you kinda have to assume that perhaps it’s leaning more on the positive side, because who on earth would want their baby to die in their sleep?
If Germans really were this cruel, they would have been wiped off the face of the earth a long time ago.