strange facts about ourselves

[RebeccaFog]

I don't know, Pica... Daisy looks highly suspicious to me!  Better make sure you keep all sharp objects and blunt instruments of doom away from her...

Keep her away from your credit card, too.

[RebeccaFog]

Feathered minions?

I feel another version of the apocolypse coming up.

[Pica Pica]

Daisy said that I can't trust people like you, she says that the only reason she wants my credit card is because I am so clumsy and forgetful she wants to keep it safe...she also says she has her eye on you.

[tekla]

keep it safe

Keep it secret, keep it safe.

[sunny-side]

keep it safe

Keep it secret, keep it safe.

Daisy has the Precious now?  What a nasty, tricksy hobbit.  Doesn't Pica know that hobbitses are not to be trusted?  Tch.


Back on topic, odd thing about me is that I have read everything by Tolkien, lol.  Either that or I've read almost everything and have missed something along the way but when I find it, I'll read that too   Also have read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings at least three times through.  What a silly hobbit I am

[tekla]

I seem to read LoR about every 5 years or so, no matter if I need to or not.  Read it the first time in 7th grade, so that's 8 or 9 times.  It keeps its strength through repeated readings.  I was told once that JRR was a hunt and peck typist who used only two fingers and it took him 13 years to type out the manuscript.

[RebeccaFog]

The eye of Daisy is upon me.

which, oddly enough, falls within the scope of this topic. 

[sunny-side]

I seem to read LoR about every 5 years or so, no matter if I need to or not.  Read it the first time in 7th grade, so that's 8 or 9 times.  It keeps its strength through repeated readings.  I was told once that JRR was a hunt and peck typist who used only two fingers and it took him 13 years to type out the manuscript.

I totally agree.  Each time I have read it I've noticed something else, and reading all of his other middle earth books just lend even more depth to the trilogy and I notice even more.  There's so many big timeless lessons in them too, it's fantastic.

Also weird about me is of all the fantastic male characters in all those books, I had to go and become attached to.. not Aragorn, not Legolas... but Faramir!  I was so ticked off when the movies messed him up.  Ah, oh well.  So glad I'm not the only LotR nerd in here, haha.

[tekla]

The more I read it the more I'm convinced that the real hero is not Frodo, but Sam.

And, while we're on the subject.  OK, they chucked the ring.  The mountain is exploding.  Certain death is imminent.  And, POW! here comes the eagle to save them.  Now wait a moment.  Nice as it was to save them after they ditched the ring, where the hell was that eagle when they were trying to get into Mordor?  Could have shorted the entire deal by several volumes.

[ativan]

Why didn't they just melt the ring down, like at the end, in the first place? It's not like the technology was beyond them...how'd they make it in the first place? And why didn't someone just sell tickets to have a peek or even a touch? I sure as hell would have been using it to make money and get the fck out of that weird place first thing. I also would have screwed with those dead spirit things like crazy. That would be fun, I could do that all day and not get tired of it. It'd be like slapping republicans all day.

Ativan

[tekla]

Well it's the elves that are the real Republicans of the LotR.  They create the evil, they are unwilling to destroy it, and they sit and posture and then bug out.  The only thing they are missing is a big speech about family values.  Oh, wait, they have that too.

But thinking back, I'm pretty sure the ring can only be destroyed where it was originally forged, so that's in the cracks of Mount Doom.  So, OK, riddle me this... if the elves were so smart, how did they ever think that a ring of total power, made in Mount Doom could ever be a good thing?  How in the hell does that scenario ever end well?  Fools, playing with powers they could wield, but never rule.

[ativan]

You are correct.  Maybe the birds just couldn't get that close to the doom, until it was melted again.
Damn, just not going to hijack today

Ativan

[ativan]

So help me, if I have to read those stories again................Although the fellowship of the ring is on somewhere on Satelite TV everday here....

[sunny-side]

Sauron forged the One Ring by himself. Only the other rings of power were forged with the assistance of the elves.

This.  Sauron at the time was playing "good guy" and trying to make amends for evil that had been done.  So he started making rings of power for everyone as a token of, well, "see I'm a good guy now, I'm making you gifts!"  The elves were suspicious and so they made their own and didn't let him touch theirs, which is good because he tainted the others.  The ones he made for the dwarves made them overly greedy and dig too deep, that's how the balrog in Moria was awoken.  The ones he made for the men turned them into ringwraiths.  And the one ring to rule them all he made in secret.

The more I read it the more I'm convinced that the real hero is not Frodo, but Sam.

I'm 100% with you there!  Sam was pretty much awesome.

You are correct.  Maybe the birds just couldn't get that close to the doom, until it was melted again.
Damn, just not going to hijack today

Ativan

I always figured this.  They probably would've been shot down or something.  There was total chaos going down on the side of darkness at the time they finally swooped in for the rescue.  If they had tried it before, they would've been noticed, but who cares about some eagles flying in when your leader is freaking out and dying?


Also, sorry for the whole veering off topic thing.  Um... >>;

Strange fact: I taught myself html and css.  I'm still just an amateur but I know more than the average bear. There we go, back on topic, lol.

[foosnark]

Moria scared the hell out of me when I read LotR as a kid.

My copy of Return of the King -- from a fancy boxed set, handed down by my dad, which had seen better days but had cover and box art by Tolkien -- had a printing error. A couple of lines during the siege of Minas Tirith were repeated.

[espo]

Also, sorry for the whole veering off topic thing.

That's what andros do, we veer .... alot hehe

[foosnark]

I almost never sit "properly" in a chair.  Sideways, sitting on one foot, slouching way back, and/or one leg over the arm depending on what kind of chair it is.

I have a standing desk at work, but I picked up a comfy barstool so I don't have to stand all the time.  Right now I'm turned sideways, I have one foot up on another desk and the other foot crossed under it on the back of another chair.  No wonder I keep having back problems...

[espo]

Take care of your back, trust me.

[sunny-side]

Also, sorry for the whole veering off topic thing.

That's what andros do, we veer .... alot hehe

So I'm noticing, lol

[Julian]

I have one nearsighted eye and one farsighted eye. Much of the time I wear one contact lens.