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L. Ron Halfelven
Grey Havens
Jul 7 2009, 2:36pm
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Time to spring some Middle-earth Logic Problems on them./
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"What happens now?"
"Well, we wait until nightfall, then Aragorn, Legolas, and I leap out of the rabbit..."
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GaladrielTX
Tol Eressea
Jul 7 2009, 5:47pm
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The TORNsib formerly known as Galadriel.
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Dwana
The Shire
Jul 11 2009, 9:40am
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That's how my daughter learned it!
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I was so jealous. I had to just memorize the darn thing.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Jul 11 2009, 1:38pm
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Before I learned that, I had made up a "Quadratic formula rap" which wasn't particularly helpful but which always got me a round of applause. It went like this:
First you take a minus and you put it with a 'b'
Then a plus-or-minus (it looks like a key)
Underneath the square root the discriminant you see:
That is, 'b-squared minus 4ac'
Next you draw a line all across the way,
And underneath the line you put a '2 times a'.
It looks like a dragon, it clears up all confusion.
This is the formula that gives you the solution.
The dragon thing works for students who are more visual than auditory: the original negative along with the division line is the mouth, the b is the eye with an eyebrow, the plus or minus is the neck, the square root is the wing, the 2a is the front paws, and the x= is the fire coming out of its mouth. You have to imagine the tail and the back paws, and you have to remember the expression inside the square root.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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dernwyn
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Jul 13 2009, 2:58am
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I love it - gotta show my math-teacher hubby!
Thanks, Aunt Dora! 
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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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