The New Hobbit Hole

[g'nad]

sneakin'...

[g'nad]

sneakin'...

[ksen]

Nyuk nyuk nyuk

[Overtaxed]

Now we can continue elf-bashing.

[ksen]

Hey, at least you got the binary Precious. ;^)

[g'nad]

Ain't seen Corin today

Y'know, I really didn't mean to hyper post...that's the honest truth...the globe kept spinning and ...

[Overtaxed]

[ksen]

Now we can continue elf-bashing.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled elf bashing for a test of the Precious Sneaking System, this is only a test.

Sneak

We now return you to your elf bashing. Good day.

[ksen]

...the globe kept spinning and ...

Too much of that home-brewed Miruvor.

[Overtaxed]

Must have been a good batch!

[JenB]

Hi, good bye, nother 13 hour day. With luck I'll post a longer reply at some time. Is this worth it? My brain is scrambled.

[ksen]

Now we can continue elf-bashing.

I read about Thingol's "bravery" last night. Morgoth gets back to M/E and sets up camp in Angband. Some time goes by, the Sun and Moon get put into place and Morgoth decides it is time to send his bands of critters out to ravage the countryside.

Thingol puts up a good fight at first. In fact he routed one orc host, with the help of the dwarves of course. However the second host of orcs had gotten the best of the other elves (Teleri?).

So does Thingol race back to help the Teleri? NO! He runs back to his fortress and has his wife raise the mountains up around it so no one can get in. Nice guy to have watching your back.

[Corin Stormhands]

Ain't seen Corin today

Corin's here. He's just taking advantage of the fact that school's out and he doen't have to get a kid on the bus at 7:00 a.m. He'll be back on schedule soon.

At which time he'll stop talking about himself in the third person...

[Overtaxed]

Hello, you must be going?
You cannot stay, you came to say
You must be going.
You'd like to stay, but just the same
You should be going.

[Overtaxed]

So does Thingol race back to help the Teleri? NO! He runs back to his fortress and has his wife raise the mountains up around it so no one can get in.

And Jen wanted everyone to read Silmarillion? Hehehehe

[ksen]

And Jen wanted everyone to read Silmarillion?

You know what they say, be careful of what you ask for, you just might get it. ;^)

I'll admit that I am exaggerating just a tad so we can have fun elf bashing, but The Silamarillion has been a great read so far. I would heartily recommend it to anyone who has an interest in M/E.

[Overtaxed]

Maybe I'll try it again sometime then. My recollection from the first read was that it was sooo dry. I didn't care about the "characters" at all so it was just like reading a history book. I'd rather go to a site like Encyclopedia of Arda where I can get the facts, just the facts.

[HairOfTheDog]

I hope HOTD gets her first couple of cups of coffee before logging in today. ;^)

[sip]

[ksen]

I didn't care about the "characters" at all so it was just like reading a history book.

I'll agree that it does read a bit like a history book, but I like history. The pace of the narrative in The Silmarillion is quite a bit faster than in The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings. I believe it had to be that way because Tolkien was trying to accomplish two different things with the two different storylines. One was to chronicle in tremendous depth and detail one grand adventure, while the other was a telling of many different stories, each having the potential of being as long as The Lord of the Rings story cycle, if dealt with the way they could have been.

The Silmarillion serves to give breadth and depth to the world of M/E as a whole and more specifically to add a richness to LoTR that no other fantasy writer has yet matched.

[ksen]

[sip]

Heh, heh, morning Hair! ;^)