Never watched Game of Thrones

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I haven't watched it either.
It seems to have a lot of drama and violence with sexual scenes all throughout, I heard.
There's enough of that in the non-virtual world...too much, in fact, for my taste.

See? Perfectly charming chap.

The actor who plays Ser Gregor aka The Mountain. I'd post some clips of the character in action, but they're all too gruesome.

<sigh> at least your a Tolkien fan....

Yeah but Morgoth, Sauron and the Nazgul are my favorite characters.

I believe I have seen a few episodes, even perhaps a whole season.
Sorry, but I found it boring and hard to follow - in the sense like a soap opera seems over the top and hard to follow. I don't get what all the fuss is about, but that's me.

My childhood best friend was in one season for about two episodes as "The Crone" - a whore.

I'm a Seinfeld fanatic and I'd rather watch episodes over and over OR some good old British comedy. I haven't sat down and watched a show or movie for a few weeks. Last was The Office S2 (American version).

Fascinating heirarchy going on there. Morgoth is in a completely different league to Sauron, while the Nazgul just do what they're told by the big guys. I wasn't hugely gripped when I read Tolkien's "Children of Hurin" but it it did provide an insight into all their different powers.

I'm rather fascinated by the Valaraukar or Balrogs. They were originally Maiar and therefore very powerful and scary.

I apologise for going into geeky Tolkien fan mode... back to GoT.

I haven't either.

Apart from soaps (and for the first time in my life, football) I'm always out of the loop.

I'm not sure if this is a random topic or if it's an autistic thing. It probably is quite an autistic thing as we don't (as strongly) feel the need to be doing what everyone else is doing.

This is probably snobby but last time I was in the loop, I listened to radio 4 a lot and I was at the Hay Festival.

As long as I keep getting dragged back here, and grossed out by pictures, I was very disappointed to learn that Sauron's epilogue as Sharky was cut from the movie. He bore a very close resemblance to certain politicians on their way out.

Idk Morgoth was a self-proclaimed ruler of Middle Earth from Angband. Sauron was
was a self-proclaimed ruler of Middle Earth from Mordor. Then there was the Witch King of Angmar who overthrew the North.

US Army recruiters used to ask the boys questions about Shakespeare's work. If they knew the answers, they were disqualified from most outfits.

I've never watched it. It's never appealed to me. I'm more of a crime drama fan.

Oops I forgot Sauruman, Gothmog and Glaurung. And Ungoliant and her charming daughter Shelob. Gollum too.

Morgoth was originally a Valar (known as Melchior) one of the original beings "commissioned" by Illuvatar (God, if you like) to create the world(s). He could be likened to Lucifer in his fall from grace. Sauron was a lesser being, one of the Maiar (as was Gandalf, Saruman, the Balrog and.. I think... Tom Bombadil).
Morgoth was powerful enough to create and "will" evil, while Sauron could only pervert and distort what already exists.

It took the entire host of the Valar, Maiar and Vanyar to break Thangorodrim and overthrow Morgoth, which was so cataclysmic it caused Beleriand to sink. Whereas it only took a host of Numenoreans and Noldor to overthrow Sauron. I've read debates as to what Tom Bombadil was.