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Darkstone
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Feb 12 2018, 7:51pm
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Middle-earth Conspiracy Theories
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What is the *real* reason Tolkien invented his own languages?
****************************************** 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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Otaku-sempai
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Feb 12 2018, 7:55pm
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So he could teach it to his friends and pass secret notes in class. //
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"I may be on the side of the angels, but do not think for one second that I am one of them." - Sherlock
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Ethel Duath
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Feb 12 2018, 7:56pm
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To have an excuse for mis-reading Edith's grocery list.//
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CuriousG
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Feb 12 2018, 8:25pm
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He was 99% insane, but talking to oneself in a unknown language makes you sound like a physicist, so it was good cover.//
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hanne
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Feb 12 2018, 8:30pm
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Compliance with the 1917 Gnomish Statue of Secrecy /
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NottaSackville
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Feb 12 2018, 10:55pm
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Edith got so angry when he swore in English when bumping his head //
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Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville
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Lissuin
Valinor
Feb 13 2018, 4:17am
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Umm, he did not invent any of those languages, actually.
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It was S. Morgenstern.
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CuriousG
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Feb 13 2018, 5:59am
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What do you mean, “languages”? I have a Babelfish in my ear, and everything he wrote looks like English.//
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NottaSackville
Valinor
Feb 13 2018, 7:48pm
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You can only say dwimmerlaik and dotard so many times before you're aching for something new //
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Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville
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L. Ron Halfelven
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Feb 14 2018, 4:40pm
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Wanted to pass off his annoying doodling during faculty meetings as note-taking./
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And Rose drew him in, and set him on the harpsichord bench, and put little Wilhelm Friedemann upon his lap. He began composing a fugue. 'Well, I'm Bach,' he said.
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Feb 15 2018, 5:06pm
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The forward looking professor knew what joy future generations would have carping at one another as to why he invented his own languages. /
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‘. . . the rule of no realm is mine . . . But all worthy things that are in peril . . . those are my care. For I also am a steward. Did you not know?' Gandalf to Denethor
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