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So so weird that we live in a timeline where Anduril and Palantir are military contractors of the US and other governments. I know it’s somewhat of a tired obs
by sallveburrpi 10mo ago
So so weird that we live in a timeline where Anduril and Palantir are military contractors of the US and other governments.
I know it’s somewhat of a tired observation by now but I still wonder every time how badly you have to misread LOTR to name your company after the witch kings cursed surveillance artefacts.
I wonder when the first weapons manufacturing company calls themselves Angmar or Uruk-hai.
The names are really dope though I have to give them that…
- swiftcoder 10mo ago> I wonder when the first weapons manufacturing company calls themselves Angmar or Uruk-hai. Luckily/unluckily, AngMar is one of those shady medical subcontracting firms instead...
- sallveburrpi 10mo agoI guess they are named after the founders (Angie and Mark) - but still an eerie coincidence…
- pluies 10mo agoWait until my pals Saul and Ronald team up!
- ahartmetz 10mo ago"Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus" It was a Mike Judge type joke, aka ha-ha only serious.
- thatguy0900 10mo agoI don't think they misread it, I think they just liked sauron more than the good guys
- PunchyHamster 10mo ago> I know it’s somewhat of a tired observation by now but I still wonder every time how badly you have to misread LOTR to name your company after the witch kings cursed surveillance artefacts. Have you considered that it is not "misread", they just see themselves on Saruman side ?
- basket_horse 10mo agoDo you guys really think Gondor was a democratic society with privacy laws?
- dragonwriter 10mo agoSauron’s side, surely? Or else there is a need for a whole different question of “how badly you have to read LOTR...”
- erulabs 10mo agoNot to be "that guy" but Anduril is Aragorn's sword and is the most good-guy good-thing that could ever be fantasized about. It's used to defeat Sauron. And the Palantir stones are not "the bad guys tool", they were made by the Elves in ancient history and a few of them wound up in the bad guys hands. Misread LOTR indeed!
- scsh 10mo agoYes, but the elf who created them is quite a tragic character himself. To the extent that his own mother chose to die after giving birth because she knew how much sorrow he would eventually bring. So I'd be careful to not paint them as a good thing either.
- erulabs 10mo agoyou're right, and definitely Palantir is a harder sell here. But to say "they named their weapons company Anduril, what are they, bad guys?" frustrates the nerd in me quite a lot.
- scsh 10mo agoOh yeah, totally agree with you on that one.
- sallveburrpi 10mo agoThat is fair even though I referred only to Palantir with that part. Did you name this account after Eru Illuvatar?
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- paulddraper 10mo agoI know it’s been said but Anduril is the sword wielded by Aragon, forged from the shards of Narsil which defeated Sauron. And the Palantiri were artifacts given by the Elves to the greatest race of Men to govern their kingdom. No connection to the witch-king (except some post-Tolkien video game).