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Alassëa Eruvande
Valinor
Aug 30 2012, 3:35pm
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Scenes From The Hat
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Greeting and salutatorians, my dear TORnfolk, and welcome to another edition of SFTH. I am your lovely and talented Mistress of the Hat. For today's back-to-school edition,
Where did people of Middle Earth go to college? And did they graduate? Invisible bonus points for telling us their majors!
Remember your // for subject-only posts for us threaded readers, and PM me with your fabulous suggestions for a future SFTH!
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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DanielLB
Immortal
Aug 30 2012, 3:48pm
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The Necromancer went to the University of Baltimore
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Just to study their zombie course.
And all Hobbits study Brewing and Distilling at Heriot Watt University (Edinburgh) 
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Delrond
Rohan
Aug 30 2012, 3:54pm
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Amon Soil U. It took a while, like sand through the hourglass, but yes. Loam-sharking, claymation and silt screening.
A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
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TomthePilgrim
Rohan
Aug 30 2012, 3:55pm
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Legolas studied at Wake Forest . . .
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. . . but he was a party boy. After seven years he finally acquired a degree in PhysEd, minor in Pottery Making.
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began
Now far ahead the Road has gone
And I must follow, if I can
"Thorin sat up with a start. 'Something is not right,' he muttered to himself as he stood up and
looked towards the mirror . . . . . . . . . 'Durin's bones', he gasped, 'what's happened to my beard?'"
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Alassëa Eruvande
Valinor
Aug 30 2012, 4:13pm
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You, sir, have a dirty mind. I dig it. 
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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Bombadil
Half-elven
Aug 30 2012, 4:35pm
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Most of the Dwraves belonged to a legendary Fraternity @
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The Colorado School of Mines.
In Golden Colorado
(Actual accredited College)
just south of The Coors Brewery
where they each...developed a taste for
the Finest. Mead&Weed in the West?
Bomby missedOUT since he& Goldberry were
30 miles North in Boulder and didn't like FratBoys
much....
Bomby
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Escapist
Gondor
Aug 30 2012, 4:43pm
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Thranduil also went to the School of Mines
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where he had the highly skilled dwarves there do most of his work for him (with payment of course).
He was a returning student who already had a few other degrees but was vacationing in the area and thought that since there was also a school there, why not attend?
Show or do not show, there is no tell.
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DesiringDragons
Lorien
Aug 30 2012, 5:19pm
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Ninja'd! I was going to say Hogwarts just to be cheeky.
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But Explosives Engineering beats all. XD
Not an MA nor an MS, but an MEE.
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Aug 30 2012, 5:42pm
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Sauron only spent one semester at UB...
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The Necromancer went to the University of Baltimore
He then transferred to Miskatonic University where he majored in Biology with minors in Psychology and Sociometrics.
Little-known-fact: Sauron played offense for the school's football team, the fightin' Cephalopods (go, 'Pods, go!).
'Thus spake Ioreth, wise-woman of Gondor: The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known.' - Gandalf the White
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Compa_Mighty
Tol Eressea
Aug 30 2012, 5:57pm
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Radagast went to the San Diego Zoo University to become a veterinarian
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Gandalf went to Roke...everyone knows Middle-earth never quite managed to develop as good a school of wizardry as the one in the isles.
Aragorn went to Bravos Tech... the high society of Middle-earth sent their promising young elites to the best schools of the world, regardless of what continent they were located in. Aragorn learnt military tactics and fencing, hence his flawless "water dancer" technique.
Visit Mexico from A to Z! Index to the whole series here.
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Escapist
Gondor
Aug 30 2012, 5:57pm
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Another graduate of the School of Mines was Galadriel.
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She was working towards her PhD in the highly cutting-edge, in-demand, and potentially world-changing field of Cryptography.
During her time as a student she blew up the curve multiple times and even came up with her own invention to help stop the dark lord from taking over the world.
However, no matter how many times and ways she excelled, all her fellow students couldn't shake the idea that she was really enrolled there to obtain her MRs. It was very hard for them to accept her work as a woman and an equal in such a male-dominated field. In order to get people to accept her invention she had to share it with Celeborn and have him do the advertising, otherwise no one would take it seriously. She also could not use her invention as her thesis because she feared that the dark lord would then be able to find it, so she spent the rest of her life keeping it hidden from him while simultaneously using it to preserve and protect those that she loved most dearly.
In the end, she never ended up graduating with the PhD. Instead she left with the MS, deciding that it was more important to keep her invention secret rather than giving in to the temptation employing it as a hacker and taking over the world herself - or seizing the fame and glory by publishing it. She was content to simply diminish, and remain Galadriel.
Show or do not show, there is no tell.
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elevorn
Lorien
Aug 31 2012, 5:18pm
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I always had it that the Orcs were the Frat boys, always slobbering on one another and fighting about the littlest things. Pick any school with a good football team and you will see a student section full of the every saturday in Fall.
The dwarves I figured went to to Georgia Tech, after what engineer wouldn't go there.
The elves well, well they had their choice of any Ivy league school they wanted because they fight the tall white good looking mold required on the entrance exams.
I'm guessing Gandalf dropped out of MIT after that Good Will Hunting guy solved the equatiion before he could, btw a side note, Saruman actually used Will Hunting as name in college an no one really liked him either so like a good boy he transferred out and finished a degree where the rest of the pretentious people go who seek after world domination but never actually succeed (Duke, just kidding).
Galadriel graduated from an all boys college because she followed the sons of Feanor wherever they went.
Elrond of course has a Stanford, Harvard and Yale education all with minors in feminine literature, and one in under water Hugo Weaving, I mean basket weaving my bad.
Sauron went to Cambridge, which is why he is always disliked by all of his buddies who hold doctorates from Oxford.
Bilbo was a State College man, proud but simple majorred in antiques.
Aragorn studied at Westpoint, but as he did not want to follow his father he left the school and enlisted in the Green Berets, though he never found a liking to the hat.
"clever hobbits to climb so high!"
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Bombadil
Half-elven
Aug 31 2012, 7:18pm
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Rumor it had it in Boulder that a Great Beauty.
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of Special Magnifence had transfered
From Western State
A last never-ing ending Boy-daious
Beauty..strangely named "Gladiolus"
Without any doubt she claimed
the. The Last HOMELY-Coming crown
Representing her Sorority
The Tri-Delt-Durins?
Of course.. she was dating the captain of
Miners Football team
Thorin
who stole her away some Guy?
Celeborn
who was kinda a BookWorm.
Every Saturday their Football team
consisss..ded of
Legolas dude from Calgary Canada..Wide Dceiver?
BOMBUR Rtackle
BIFUR RGuard
DWALIN Center
OIN LGuard
GLOIN LTackle
RightEnd..another. Transfer Student
EOMER..from sum school called "Southern Rohan community
College"
Okay..FILI&KILI were Linebackers..backing up their
Safety. Faramir..
This team went 13-O
On the sidelines.. grouchy Coach called GrandElf..
had ORI taking Notes ..and
The WaterBoy?..a Freshman Intern.. everyone called
BILLYBoy?
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Ethel Duath
Half-elven
Aug 31 2012, 8:30pm
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Wormtongue: Harvard College, with degrees in Communication, Psychology,
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and Public Administration (with a concentration in Deception, Intrigue, and a minor in Chicanery).
Diploma withheld, pending investigation of possible involvement in theft of Chancellor's globular paperweight . . .
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weaver
Half-elven
Sep 5 2012, 2:51am
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Boromir, Degree in Boasting from Brawny U...
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Nice to see SFTH again! This was a fun one! 
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