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[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 9 points 5 hours ago

Three guys wearing a red shirt

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 hours ago

three clones of tom scott, who say "we are standing in an elevator going to the 5th floor" in perfect unison as you enter

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

My two older brothers and my dad

[-] hedhoncho@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago

Honestly if I was a woman any dude in life. Maybe even those goth dudes on black horses. Def the trees tho. They Hott af

[-] superkret@feddit.org 17 points 8 hours ago

Figures that the safest men to be stuck with aren't human men.

[-] Kyuuketsuki@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 hours ago
[-] superkret@feddit.org 12 points 4 hours ago

He's 87 years old at the start of LOTR.
He descends from Elros the Half-Elf.

[-] eyes@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

He's got Elven heritage. He's the 64th descendant of Elros, brother of Elrond. I think he's also decendend from a Maiar as Elros and Elrond's great great grandmother was Melian.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 29 points 14 hours ago

I tried to come up with a counter argument and realized pretty quickly that I didn’t want to.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 12 hours ago

I mean, they're objectively correct.

[-] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 11 points 12 hours ago

Not if yer a fucken orc!

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 21 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I'd choose: Boromir, Ned Stark, and Sean Bean.

No way anything bad can happen to me with those magnets around.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago

I dunno. Might take Sharpe instead of Ned Stark, good to have someone that knows how to use a rifle

[-] Baylahoo@sh.itjust.works 17 points 12 hours ago

The whole elevator would just crash through the foundation. You'd be collateral when Death gets a 3 for 1 final destination style.

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Nah, I think it'd go more like this:

  • Get it in the elevator and see them all in there.
  • Go to press the button for your floor (the top floor) and see that it's already pressed.
  • Have a pleasant trip up.
  • Arrive at your floor and the doors open.
  • All three politely allow you to exit first.
  • Step out of the lift safely.
  • Elevator malfunctions, plummets and crashes through the foundation.
  • Walk off thinking how nice they all were.
[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 24 points 16 hours ago

The fact that they had to go to fictional characters is significant.

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

The people you know well enough to trust them are close to you but unknown to others, so other people wouldn't really appreciate your unswer if it was just some common unknown people. You mostly cannot bet on the character of celebrities, because you don't know them personally (see Gaiman). Fictional characters are known by many people and their personalities are nicely described in the books, movies, whatever....

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

it really isn't, people comfortably stand in elevators with men all the time lol

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 31 points 14 hours ago

We're in the LOTR community, the sample may be a little biased

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 7 points 14 hours ago

Yes, but the person who responded to the question wasn't in a LOTR community.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 9 points 14 hours ago

All the other people who answered weren't posted here

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[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 8 points 15 hours ago

Good point!

Okay, real world examples from me (notably, a big dude, so y'know, probably not as in tune to things as I could be):

Bernie Sanders My brother My Uncle

... I... Really thought I'd have better options until I really started thinking about it

[-] Shou@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah. Same issue here. So how about:

Bob Ross. Carl Sagan. Steve Irwin.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 hours ago

I'd swap Steve for Bernie.

Not because I think Steve would hurt anyone directly. But at any moment he may be like "would you like to see this deadly spider I've got in m'pocket?" And then pull out a spider that even spider scientists didn't know existed or some shit. He would never let the spider hurt you, but you'd have a heart attack anyway.

[-] Shou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I think he'd respect the spider enough not to keep it in a pocket. Though Bernie seems popular in the comments too.

[-] tetrachromacy@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago

Somewhat related: that's a dream blunt rotation right there

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 points 12 hours ago

I feel like Gimli would hog it, Aragorn would obviously be awesome, and Legolas would be chill but you could tell he's thinking your weed sucks, he's got a much better connection.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 hours ago

i like to imagine that weed is the opposite of beer when it comes to elves and dwarves, elves barely even notice while dwarves start giggling when standing next to someone puffing a blunt

[-] tetrachromacy@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

Gimli, it's a blunt, not a microphone

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 101 points 20 hours ago

Everywhere they went people were getting kidnapped, orcs were invading, trees were coming to life, and the dead were rising. Id want to be far away from that elevator.

[-] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 48 points 19 hours ago

Yeah that’s as safe as being a marine hanging with the master chief.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 25 points 18 hours ago

You take that back, I protect my marines while playing!

You know.... As much as possible while charging headfirst into the most powerful empire the galaxy has seen in 100,000 years hell bent on destroying humanity and all we represent...

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[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 7 points 16 hours ago

Look bro, I just handed you an entire SPNKR rocket launcher and a Scorpion jump seat, whatever you do with those afterward is no longer my concern. I'm busy driving.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 19 points 19 hours ago

You know for a fact that they'll literally coming charging across the countryside to rescue you though

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 15 hours ago

Not much countryside for the charging in most elevators, though 🤔

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[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 81 points 19 hours ago

So ackshually...

Aragorn was descended from Elros who was a half-elf, but that was so long ago he may or may not be a full man depending on how racist one is about miscegenation.

Legolas was an elf and Gimli was a dwarf, so explicitly not Men.

How about Eomer and Faramir instead?

[-] VubDapple@real.lemmy.fan 9 points 12 hours ago

Elros and Elrond had a choice as to become Eldar or Edain. Elrond chose Eldar, while Elros chose Edain. Once they chose their mixed nature was resolved.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Not exactly, since the Númenóreans still had longer lives than Men due to their elven heritage. So while one could absolutely make the argument they were Men, there's also a case to be made saying they weren't pureblooded Men.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Boromir would've made them feel safer.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Faramir didn't try to take the Ring from Frodo, unlike Boromir.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 30 points 18 hours ago

Men as in males, yes.

Men as in humans, mostly no

[-] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 31 points 18 hours ago

Let's be real. We're all NPCs so if any of the men are from something with action, we'll probably end up dead. My pick would be Bob Ross, Mr. Rogers, and Steve Irwin. Super calming and chill

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