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Lightfoot
Rivendell
Oct 20 2013, 1:52pm
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replaced with Chinese workers after they demanded holiday a bonus and overtime pay. Santa decided that cheap labor was better than pointy eared dentist wannabes.
Faithful servant yet master's bane, Lightfoot's foal, swift Snowmane
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Heatherleawv
Bree
Oct 20 2013, 6:03pm
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All that glitters is not gold...
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CuriousG
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Oct 20 2013, 9:07pm
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Are there any vegetarian orcs?
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CuriousG
Half-elven
Oct 20 2013, 9:09pm
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And why didn't Santa fly the Ring to Mt Doom in his sleigh?
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Would Rudolph's blinking red nose have given them away?
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N.E. Brigand
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Oct 21 2013, 3:47am
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Tolkien wrote extensively about North Pole Elves.
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See his "Father Christmas Letters".
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noWizardme
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Oct 21 2013, 8:33pm
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How do you know "there are no stupid questions"?//
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Disclaimers: The words of noWizardme may stand on their heads! I'm often wrong about things, and its fun to be taught more.... "nowimė I am in the West, Furincurunir to the Dwarves (or at least, to their best friend) and by other names in other lands. Mostly they just say 'Oh no it's him - look busy!' " Or "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
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Darkstone
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Oct 21 2013, 8:42pm
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...is the one that's never asked. However, there are always plenty of stupid answers.
****************************************** I met a Balrog on the stair, He had some wings that weren't there. They weren't there again today, I wish he would just fly away.
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noWizardme
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Oct 21 2013, 8:52pm
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The is a double-plus- unstupid question. It deserves a thread of its own. //
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Disclaimers: The words of noWizardme may stand on their heads! I'm often wrong about things, and its fun to be taught more.... "nowimė I am in the West, Furincurunir to the Dwarves (or at least, to their best friend) and by other names in other lands. Mostly they just say 'Oh no it's him - look busy!' " Or "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
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CuriousG
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Oct 21 2013, 9:45pm
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If the only stupid question is the one that's never asked, and we've been asking away, are you saying we haven't reached THE stupid question yet because we haven't asked it? And how will we get to it if it must remain unasked? How did we get stuck in this conundrum? What game will we play next?
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noWizardme
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Oct 22 2013, 9:32pm
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Do we see Tolkien's ideas on this evolving as he writes, do you think?
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That, by the way is not my proposed stupid question, though I do sometimes do my best work by accident
What I mean is: By the end of Shadow of the Past, I've got the impression that Saurons enemies will be "hard pressed" to survive while nobody at all is using the Ring. I infer that Sauron 's victory while Ringless is likely, but not inevitable. With the Ring, he's assumed to be unbeatable. Come Council of Elrond, Tolkien needs to persuade us that the Ring should go to Mordor. He's quite explicit about the perils this involves. The alternative which gets quashed without much debate is to dump it at sea. Gandalf's argument against this is that it is not completely risk-free; and also that Sauron might retrieve it eventually, even if he has to wait on a geological timescale. The lack of argument about that has always somewhat dissatisfied me - I expect someone to point out that the risks of Sauron getting the Ring if it heads East may be so great that they outweigh the slim chance of a surprise complete victory. (OK Gandalf might or might not know about the chances of divine aid subtly tipping the odds in his favour; if he does, he's not very explicit about it. ) Maybe Tolkien wants us to see Ringless Sauron as well nigh unbeatable at this point: the more that's so, the less there is to lose by risking the attempt to destroy the Ring. It's the Council of Elrond chapter which is the tricky corner, therefore. Later we get the idea that Sauron fears a rival getting the Ring. Aragorn et al deliberately play on this fear, acting as if they had the Ring, such that Sauron has little time to crush an upstart Ringlord before he or she becomes adept. As for Aragorn & troops, putting it all into this does make sense, because they are so close to Mordor. Even if Sauron remained Ringless (Shelob ate the Ring, say) his conventional forces can probably crush them all. At best, perhaps they can weaken Sauron enough to help forces further west to rally.
Disclaimers: The words of noWizardme may stand on their heads! I'm often wrong about things, and its fun to be taught more.... "nowimė I am in the West, Furincurunir to the Dwarves (or at least, to their best friend) and by other names in other lands. Mostly they just say 'Oh no it's him - look busy!' " Or "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
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