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by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed May 31, 2006 7:09 pm
Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
Topic: Charades!
Replies: 127
Views: 114714

A non-smiley variant would be good! There aren't enough things that you can say with our smileys. I can think of lots. (No one has tried my last one yet) But I can't guess Liddy's easy one. If Alatar's movie poser was one word I would say Clueless, but it is three words. Is Alatar's TV show a US on...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed May 31, 2006 5:52 pm
Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
Topic: Charades!
Replies: 127
Views: 114714

While you were sleeping?
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed May 31, 2006 5:34 pm
Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
Topic: Charades!
Replies: 127
Views: 114714

Hurrah, we are playing the leapfrog variant of charades! Well done Jny, you were right: Shakes pair :scarey: :hug: ....Inn :cheers: ....Love :love: I had intended to go back and make it a little clearer. If I'm allowed a turn for my correct guess Its a film and book, three words, the middle word is ...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed May 31, 2006 11:22 am
Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
Topic: Charades!
Replies: 127
Views: 114714

#2 Is it The Misfits? If not, how many words in the title. We need the standard clues
#3 It's not Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice - too many words :scratch:
ETA The Fellowship of the Ring?


Btw mine wasn't Carry on Regardless. I'll post mine again when Faramond's is cleared up
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Tue May 30, 2006 12:50 pm
Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
Topic: Charades!
Replies: 127
Views: 114714

Hmmmm.

Whoops Apocalypse?
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Tue May 30, 2006 11:43 am
Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
Topic: Charades!
Replies: 127
Views: 114714

Well, in that case ... carry on. I thought the joke was the utter impossibility of doing charades in a place where everything has to be written down. Silly me. But we should figure out a way to do charades in writing ... like all synonyms or something ... because they are so much FUN! Jn Well if we...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Tue May 30, 2006 9:21 am
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: Your favourite Tolkien artistes
Replies: 299
Views: 296481

I think Cor Blok is wonderful, in particular the Amon Hen illustration and I wish PJ had used the idea in the film
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu May 25, 2006 1:10 pm
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: Siege of Minas Tirith vs The Siege of Belgrade
Replies: 6
Views: 8626

Finding these historical parallels is entertaining. The one you quote is particularly so. The danger lies in stretching the parallels too far and also implying that Tolkien copied the incident into the book. I remember once on TORC I drew a parallel with Théoden' and his bodyguard's attack on the So...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Thu May 25, 2006 10:18 am
Forum: Arda Unmarred
Topic: The poetry of nature
Replies: 51
Views: 86640

I was on the train a couple of weeks back passing some thickets and small woods and realised for the first time that they glowed inside with greenness due to the transparency of the leaves. Later the leaves will be larger, darker, more opaque and the sense of looking into these woods will be of myst...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Tue May 23, 2006 4:59 pm
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: Is Eärendil a Christ-Figure?
Replies: 46
Views: 25932

*waits patiently for Athrabeth to produce her book of critical studies on Tolkien*
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Tue May 23, 2006 3:14 pm
Forum: Tol Eressëa
Topic: Christian Foes of 'Da Vinci Code' Debate How to Fight It
Replies: 675
Views: 198582

In my alternative Hollywood casting for LOTR I had Keanu down for Imrahil.
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Tue May 23, 2006 9:31 am
Forum: Tol Eressëa
Topic: Christian Foes of 'Da Vinci Code' Debate How to Fight It
Replies: 675
Views: 198582

*We have to get to a library - fast!*


Always a sound policy in times of doubt.
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Sun May 14, 2006 10:45 pm
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: Were all orcs evil?
Replies: 102
Views: 53145

I'm with Ax and Elflover over this. I am seeing theological contortions purely to justify the withholding of mercy from orcs. Just because the societies in Middle Earth behaved a certain way due to their history and culture and physical necessity doesn't make it right. I am sure that any protagonist...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed May 10, 2006 6:16 pm
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: LotR: What do you dislike about the Books?
Replies: 121
Views: 53350

ToshoftheWuffingas wrote: Sam storming the Tower of Cirith Ungol and finding the orcs have conveniently killed each other off stretches credulity too far too. But that was one of my favorite parts in the book Sam once inside Cirith Ungol and everything that follows is truly wonderful and it has som...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed May 10, 2006 5:56 pm
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: LotR: What do you dislike about the Books?
Replies: 121
Views: 53350

OK, more seriously the 17 year gap and the fact that the Nazgûl are not sufficiently developed. The Black Riders in the Shire and on Weathertop need rewriting.They seem unbelievably inefficient. This could be accepted if it were explained better. Sam storming the Tower of Cirith Ungol and finding th...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed May 10, 2006 5:46 pm
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: LotR: What do you dislike about the Books?
Replies: 121
Views: 53350

They are too short.
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed May 10, 2006 4:17 pm
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: Were all orcs evil?
Replies: 102
Views: 53145

A soul stretched thin as butter over too much bread
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed May 10, 2006 10:45 am
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: Were all orcs evil?
Replies: 102
Views: 53145

I agree with Sass. Tolkien himself didn't solve the orc problem so we are allowed a little speculation on these matters. Ax's point of view seems to me to be the easiest to sustain. By selective breeding they are inclined towards the worst in human nature but are not intrinsically irredeemable. I th...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed May 10, 2006 9:27 am
Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Topic: The Motives of Frodo and Sam
Replies: 65
Views: 34355

I like Jn's concept of ripples of responsibility and morality expanding out from the self. I vaguely remember from one of Tolkien's letters he said that the cupboard love of children, dependent on gratitude, was merely the starting point or first step for higher things. Is a getaway driver's respons...
by ToshoftheWuffingas
Wed May 03, 2006 4:18 pm
Forum: Tol Eressëa
Topic: The Devil
Replies: 25
Views: 15446

What we do is our own responsibility. Blaming evil on a mythological figure is just a way of saying that bad things are not our own fault. Moreover it easily slips into demonology with exorcisms and accusing people of being possessed and using that as an excuse to mistreat them.