The only flatworlds I've seen are the Disc and the world upon which the story of Golden Sun takes place.

Luna should be able to tell them what shape the planet is. She's like pony Neil Armstrong. First mare on the moon.

You know, I've been thinking, that depending on how quickly the lassoing the moon was, that might actually be faster than moving the Sun. Assuming that it took, say, a minute to lasso, that would be about four times faster. In the Mach 19000 range, especially consdering the fact that I didn't add in the loop around the planet.

EDIT: As I said, the comic show Equestria from space anyway.

Other flatworlds I know include Creation and Arda (the planet that The Lord of the Rings takes place on, which is also explicitely, our world in the past), used to be flat until Eru scrunched it into a ball (insane stuff happens in The Silmarillion).

edited 19th Jun '13 5:05:52 AM by Sereg

@Sereg: The lassoo looked like it was manipulating space at a level that would not be possible without pretty high-level magic :V Also Arda is a convergent past for this world which is connected to several pasts.

edited 19th Jun '13 5:10:03 AM by AceOfScarabs

Eh, how she achieved that speed is irrelevant, the opoint is that she can do it.

I mean, their are Medaka Box characters which can achieve infinite speed by destroying the time it takes for them to do something. All that matters is that it means that they do things instantly.

EDIT: Arda is a very poweful universe though. There are also characters that can carry the sun aroung there, and it's explicitely our sun. And such characters get curbstomped by a dog and a spider.

edited 19th Jun '13 5:19:02 AM by Sereg

Go, Apple!

@Sereg: you misunderstand, the lassoo is moving "normally" as far as momentum and acceleration go. Space is being manipulated to allow it to grasp and move the moon.

Read this

edited 19th Jun '13 5:34:35 AM by AceOfScarabs

Thank you guys. Love that cheerleading Pinkie too Kyler.

I'm just drawing atm. Fancy Free is getting such a personality now too. At the start, basically imagine a rule 63 Trixie. A big, loud flashy large ham show off absolutely full of himself. He even composed himself a theme tune. I hope, in his first adventure, to knock him down a peg and make him a better person. As to intelligence, he is very intelligent and quick witted (big user of the Indy Ploy) but is also naive and head strong. Prone to issuing (and accepting) challenges too. So, a bit like Rainbow too.

edited 19th Jun '13 5:48:07 AM by ApplelightLimited

@ Apple....

-Hugs-

edited 19th Jun '13 5:46:32 AM by Seraphem

Huh. I did not know that.

Peter Jackson should adapt The Silmarillion for the big screen because I really want to see that visualised.

Oh hey, I got good news! I can resubmit my work for Uni by the 19th August with corrections made. I'm not fully licked yet!

That's great news, Apple!

That is the best reaction image ever.

Pinkie Pie as Freddie Mercury.

I can't even.

@ Purple. That would be hard to make a movie of, it wasn't one story, it was collection of several separate, yet interconnected stories throughout the First Age. It was more like a dramatized history text book then a novel.

My understanding of The Silmarillion was that it was a short story collection. 22 Short Films About Middle Earth, as it were.

Pretty much, but each one takes place a little later in the timeline, all building up to tell the overall important stories of the First Age.

@Ace: It results in the same effect. Like folding space to avoid going faster than light. The end result is that you're still creating the effect of faster-than-light travel.

@Purple: There are loads of awesome scenes in The Silmarillion which would be awesome to see, but it's written like a history book. It wouldn'tadapt well. Unless you made it into ... like nine movies or something (which would admittedly be awesome). Then there's the fact taht it's written from elf perspective, so you get situations like, "This is extremely urgent! So let's sit on our butts and do nothing for three hundred years!" (It may be about the elves, but it tends to be the humans who actually do stuff (usually, there are some awesome exceptions).

Another thing is that generally, each generation of elf is less powerful than the last, so yeah, the elves from The Silmarillion are crazily powerful (Galadriel's from that time, so she still is). You have things like a character throwing Venus into the sky, a dog beating up Sauron, Morgoth destroying a continent-sized lighthouse with a punch, a dragon destroying a mountain range by falling from the sky, the dwarf-king's bodyguards scaring off a bunch of balrogs, etc etc. etc.

EDIT: And basically ninja'd with a better explanation.

EDIT: It's divided into five main parts, the longest of which is Quenta Silmarillion (History of the Silmarills) and each chapter of that is basically a story. It tells the story of how Feanor, most gifted of the elves created the silmarills, the most perfect jewels, how they were stolen by Morgoth, and how the elves tried to get them back.

edited 19th Jun '13 6:17:17 AM by Sereg

Feanor is easily my favourite Elf, would love a movie with him. Fingolfin is a close second.

edited 19th Jun '13 6:18:08 AM by Badwolfwho

Though several movies WOUOLD be awesome. And plenty of the stories could make good movies in their own right. Start with the creation of Arda and all the things Melkor did to ruin it, leading to the creation of the Elves, death of the Two Trees, and Feanor's betrayal and death. Lead into some of the other stories, like the children of Hurin and Huor. Beren and Luthien would make an epic movie just on it's own. And finally after a few, end with Earnindil's journey and the War of Wrath.

True.

The beggining might be a bit hard on people who aren't already fans, but cool.

Making it a contender for one of the most depressing movies ever, but still cool.

Oh, yeah! That might be my favourite part!

A suitable climax.

EDIT: Of course, all this takes place before, the aforementioned ball-scrunching. That only happened during the fall of Numenar.

edited 19th Jun '13 6:26:25 AM by Sereg

Good luck, Apple. Do well! You deserve it.

Man, I need to finish reading that.

@Applelight: Congratulations. Make sure you don't waste the opportunity, okay?

Yeah Turin Turambar would be almost soul crushingly depressing. Though Tuor's tale isn't that bad, at least right up to the Fall of Gondolin. But we get to see a fight to the death between an Elf od the first age, and the greatest Balrog ever.

edited 19th Jun '13 6:42:51 AM by Seraphem

Morning, folks. Just cleaned up the whole kitchen and restroom. Phew.

@Applelight - Glad to see things turning well, mate. Make it count.

This Saturday, Hangout stream :V

S2e9 and e10!