[ Daily Tolkien ] Beorning questions...

Suite 101 ^ | January 14, 2000 | Michael Martinez

[JameRetief]

The Daily Tolkien articles by various authors	The Tolkien Virgin articles by Mark-Edmond
ARTICLES 01-10
ARTICLES 11-20
ARTICLES 21-30	ARTICLES 01-10
ARTICLES 31-40	11) Of the Sindar
41) Love in the Trees	12) Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor
42) The Philosophical Etymology Of Hobbit	13) Of Men
43) Exploring Tolkien's Fourth Age	14) Of the Return of the Noldor
44) Origin and History of the Ents	15) Of Beleriand and its Realms
45) It's all in the family: The Elweans and Ingweans
46) It's all in the family: The Finweans
47) Beorning questions...

[JameRetief]

Your Daily Tolkien Ping!

Coming from many sources, these articles cover many aspects of Tolkien and his literary works. If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post articles such as this let me know. Enjoy!

[Mr. K]

um... you guys realize this is all make-believe, right...?

[ecurbh]

Ring Ping!!

[HairOfTheDog]

um... you guys realize this is all make-believe, right...?

Very much so. What can we help you with?

[Mr. K]

ha ha- just yanking some chains- I am harmless! I love LOTR, I just get a kick out of some people who are a little too fanatical about it.

I have read the books AT LEAST 40 times.

[HairOfTheDog]

OK then, I haven't read the books anywhere near 40 times, so perhaps it is all in how we define fanatical!

I almost flamed you for your post, and you turned out more pleasant than I thought. At least you aren't fanatical about being a troll!

[Mr. K]

oh yeah well #$^($%$#&^



(just kidding)

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

ha ha- just yanking some chains- I am harmless! I love LOTR, I just get a kick out of some people who are a little too fanatical about it.

It wasn't funny the first time you spammed (identical posts, off topic, cut and paste) the Hobbit Hole threads with your "humor", and it won't be funny the 40th time, either.

People who "get off" on "yanking the chains" of people who they imagine they are superior to (for some reason) are legends in their own minds, and nowhere else.

[HairOfTheDog]

Is he really a habitual troll? - I was treating him cheerful naïveté!

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

Well, he had at least one identical post on an earlier thread that I know of, from yesterday or a few days ago, so it's not the first time he has posted this identical message. I'll post a link.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/841455/posts#5

ummmm... it's all make-believe!

My memory was off; it was about six days ago, not a couple of days ago, but the wording is very similar and the message identical. Whether there were earlier similar attempts at "humor" I do not know; I have not seen them.

Now, I have no problem with people making the occasional lame attempt at humor (we all have been guilty of this), but when the first attempt falls flat, merely repeating the same "joke" over again does not serve any purpose except to make the "humorist" look silly and/or desperate for attention.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

....I would be more impressed if Mr.K actually attempted to demonstrate that he possessed some knowledge of Tolkien. Anyone on an anonymous internet forum can claim to have read LOTR 40 times; people who have actually read LOTR 40 times, however, can talk endlessly about arcane details of Middle Earth, and they don't mock those who are similarly inclined and learned in the subject material.

[HairOfTheDog]

Thanks Buffalo Wings.... You have my sword (and not just for pretend :~D)

[Mr. K]

Geez you guys would you relax a bit??? (You see what I mean H.o.t.D.... some of these guys have NO sense of humor at all...)

I posted almost an identical comment last week ("um.. it's all make believe") and not only do I get FLAMED for this but accused of being a liar, troll, etc etc. and he actually has a LINK to my past post...!!!

Grow a sense of humor guys! I have only posted (in what I thought was humorous vein) 2 LOUSY COMMENTS poking a little fun!

I think I will stick to poking fun at the DUNE people... (you want to see some REAL fanatics... *sheesh* )

ONCE AGAIN PEOPLE I AM ONLY FUNNING YOU ! I LOVE LOTR I SWEAR!!!! Especially the part where GANDALF wears the moisture conserving suit while tossing Frodo into a giant sand worm or something like that...


(heh heh)

[Mr. K]

Yes I have read them at least that many times, and even bought a gold edge $65 copy (15 years ago that was a lot of money) for my son and read it to him when he was 5.

And no I cannot name a single character (except the main ones) by heart, just because I dont want or need to memorize it, I just enjoy reading it. Especially the giant worms.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

In other words, you are either lieing, or are a very poor reader, or you have an extrordinarily bad memory.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

Yeah, you're a barrel of laughs, like the guy in school who used to pull chairs out from under people when they weren't looking, and then say "hey, can't you take a joke?" when they got angry at him.

You're just a pathetic troll, begging for attention from people who could care less about your opinions. Go find something more useful and educational to do, like pulling the wings off of flies, or making fun of cripples. You should enjoy it.

[Texaggie79]

I noticed something strange whilst watching TTT my 4th time. In the scene where Gandalf is calling the lord of all horses by whistling I noticed what looked to be like tennis shoes with laces under his robes. I pointed this out to my nephew and he agreed that it was, indeed tennis shoes.

Can anyone tell me if this is so?

[HairOfTheDog]

They do kinda look like tennis shoes there!

I have seen other shots, particularly riding, where he looks like he is wearing some flat white laced boots. I will keep my eye out!

ecurbh, do you have any of those costume portraits of Gandalf the White that show his feet?