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Oiotári
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Apr 27 2011, 7:40pm
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**Founders Day - Madlib (Result)
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Here it is!
Extra credit (and ice cream) to anyone who can remember (and post) the original words (or at least some of them)
No Cheating! 
‘A philodendron?’ said Oiotári. ‘What’s that? But what do you call yourself? What’s your real name?’
‘Hoo now!’ replied Entmaiden. ‘Hoo! Now that would be telling! Not so sprightly. And I am doing the pole-vaulting. You are in my Founders. What are you, I perambulate? I cannot swim you. You do not seem to come in the fragrant lists that I learned when I was young. But that was a long, long time ago, and they may have made new M&Ms. Let me see! Let me see! How did it go?
...........................Learn now the lore of the Living Skateboards!
...........................First name the 1234, the funky peoples:
...........................Geekiest of all, the nurfball-children;
...........................Bedboard the Ballerina, vile are his fell beasts;
...........................Water bottle the acclivous, old as Hawaiian shirts;
...........................Pink fruit of the loom the mortal, master of ful medammis:
Hm, hm, hm.
...........................Teapot the fell beast groomer, keyboard the rum-runner,
...........................Bloomer hair dresser, rice cooker the picker o’ pecks o’ pickled peppers;
...........................Platypus is Freaking out, chocolate truncated…
hm, hm.
...........................Creeping phlox in East Bleen, Minnesota, dinner plate in parents’ basement,
...........................Roller skates neeker-breeker-crownéd; glass of bad Chardonnay is shiniest,
...........................Baby’s bottom the smelliest, ointment shiniest…
Hoom, hm; hoom, hm, how did it go? Room tum, room tum, roomty too tum. It was a truthy M&M. But anyway you do not seem to loom anywhere!’
‘We always seem to have got knitted out of the whiny M&Ms, and the femine pies,’ said Magpie. ‘Yet we’ve been about for quite a long time. We’re TORnsibs.’
‘Why not make a new zucchini?’ said grammaboodawg.
...........................‘9/16ths-grown TORnsibs, the Bermuda Triangle dwellers.
‘Hm! Not fluffy, not adorable,’ said N.E. Brigand. ‘That would do. So you skip in Bermuda Triangles, eh? It sounds very nerdy and fungal. Who calls you TORnsibs, though? That does not sound crowbaitish to me. Horses made all the old words: they began it.’
‘Nobody calls us TORnsibs; we call ourselves that,’ said Altaira.
Hope you enjoy  
..The land of long-forgotten name:
......no man may ever anchor near;
..No steering star his hope may aim,
......for nether Night its marches drear,
..And waters wide no sail may tame,
......with shores encircled dark and sheer.
..O! Haven where my heart would be!
......the waves beat upon thy bar
..For ever echo endlessly,
......when longing leads thy thought afar
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Ataahua
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Apr 27 2011, 7:48pm
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Oh that last line is *perfect*.
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A great read, Oiotari! Thanks for pulling this together!
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded b*****d with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Oiotári
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Apr 27 2011, 7:57pm
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That may have had something to do
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with why a picked that passage
Yes, I may have cheated and chose to replace "hobbits" with "TORnsibs" 
..The land of long-forgotten name:
......no man may ever anchor near;
..No steering star his hope may aim,
......for nether Night its marches drear,
..And waters wide no sail may tame,
......with shores encircled dark and sheer.
..O! Haven where my heart would be!
......the waves beat upon thy bar
..For ever echo endlessly,
......when longing leads thy thought afar
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Silverlode
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Apr 27 2011, 8:27pm
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But nerdy and fungal and 9/16 grown. Love it. 
Silverlode
"Of all faces those of our familiares are the ones both most difficult to play fantastic tricks with, and most difficult really to see with fresh attention. They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter, or their colour, or their shape, and we laid hands on them, and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else [make something new], may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. The gems all turn into flowers or flames, and you will be warned that all you had (or knew) was dangerous and potent, not really effectively chained, free and wild; no more yours than they were you." -On Fairy Stories
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Ainu Laire
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Apr 27 2011, 8:34pm
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Some lines, as expected, make no sense at all. Others make too much sense! XD Very fun.
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NARF since age 8, when I refused to read the Hobbit because the cover looked boring and icky.
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dernwyn
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Apr 27 2011, 9:02pm
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"Geekiest of all, the nurfball children"!
But I really burst out with a laugh at "Baby’s bottom the smelliest, ointment shiniest".
This was fun, Oiotari, we've got to do this more often!
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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Oiotári
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Apr 27 2011, 9:07pm
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If ointment and a bad glass of Chardonnay are both shiniest, does that mean they are the same thing? If so, does which were the makers intending it to be? 
..The land of long-forgotten name:
......no man may ever anchor near;
..No steering star his hope may aim,
......for nether Night its marches drear,
..And waters wide no sail may tame,
......with shores encircled dark and sheer.
..O! Haven where my heart would be!
......the waves beat upon thy bar
..For ever echo endlessly,
......when longing leads thy thought afar
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Oiotári
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Apr 27 2011, 9:55pm
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so I double pluralized, what are you going to do about it
..The land of long-forgotten name:
......no man may ever anchor near;
..No steering star his hope may aim,
......for nether Night its marches drear,
..And waters wide no sail may tame,
......with shores encircled dark and sheer.
..O! Haven where my heart would be!
......the waves beat upon thy bar
..For ever echo endlessly,
......when longing leads thy thought afar
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Ettelewen
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Apr 27 2011, 10:34pm
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ROFL! That fits us to a 'T'!
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Apr 27 2011, 11:06pm
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"Crowbait" is a term for a broken down, bag-of-bones horse. So if "horses made all the old words" , it would make sense that "TORnsibs" is not "crowbaitish" enough.
Well, it makes sense in a nerdy, fungal, un-adorable kind of way. 
And suddenly the Tornadoes saw afar off a greenlight, as it were a cloud with a living heart of flame;
and they knew that this was no vision only, but that PJ had made a new thing: The Hobbit, the Film that Is.
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taekotemple
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Apr 28 2011, 3:20am
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It also reminded me of an assignment in high school english where we hade to come up with a bunch of random vowels and nouns, and put them together to make poems. A few spots in there looked very much like that assignment.
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SirDennisC
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Apr 28 2011, 4:01am
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That was... uncanny. Thanks so much Oiotari. //
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Oiotári
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Apr 28 2011, 5:23pm
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I've decided Madlibs are educational
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Since I learned a bunch of new words
Such as philodendron and creeping phlox, which it turns out are plants, even though philodendron sounded like a dinosaur to me and creeping phlox sounded like some sort of sea anemone thing  just because I've seen plants before doesn't mean I know their names
Also, perambulate is definitely an awesome word
..The land of long-forgotten name:
......no man may ever anchor near;
..No steering star his hope may aim,
......for nether Night its marches drear,
..And waters wide no sail may tame,
......with shores encircled dark and sheer.
..O! Haven where my heart would be!
......the waves beat upon thy bar
..For ever echo endlessly,
......when longing leads thy thought afar
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silneldor
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Apr 29 2011, 2:03am
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Usually these things are rather hilarious.
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But this one sent me pondering in amazement. As SDC said, 'uncanny', in so many ways. This is a keeper!
I did enjoy that Oiotari. It turned out to be a delightful surpriZe.
''Sam put his ragged orc-cloak under his master's head, and covered them both with the grey robe of Lorien; and as he did so his thoughts went out to that fair land, and to the Elves, and he hoped that the cloth woven by their hands might have some virtue to keep them hidden beyond all hope in this wilderness of fear...But their luck held, and for the rest of that day they met no living or moving thing; and when night fell they vanished into the darkess of Mordor.'' - - -rotk, chapter III
May the grace of Manwë let us soar with eagle's wings!
In the air, among the clouds in the sky
Here is where the birds of Manwe fly
Looking at the land, and the water that flows
The true beauty of earth shows
With the stars of Varda lighting my way
In all the realms this is where I stay
In the realm of Manwë Súlimo
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grammaboodawg
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Apr 30 2011, 2:50am
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*wild applause* I LOVE zucchini!! :D
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Boiled and mashed and cooked in a stew!!!!
This is FANTASTIC!!! I know it's Treebeards first conversation with Merry and Pippin... but could NEVER HOPE to tackle his classic speech!
Geez... this made me laugh!! *high five* Well Done!!! Thanks so much for doing this, Oiotari!!!
You've earned some extra credit yourself!!! ;)
 
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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