DOUBLE EDITED?! O boy, the irony of the world. Okay, we'll let Mith edit it as he pleases.

And, thank you, Ulmo, for that simple explanation! Who would've known they were amphibious?

Hopprims! Now, Children, behave. This is your teacher telling you to SETTLE DOWN!!!!

(Hey, does anyone know how long a frog can stay under water??? Just curious.)

[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Child, the only sane one in the group!

GREAT WARG----

We did it again. We double posted, although thankfully it doesn't matter here. (Just to reassure you, I'm not editing this post!)

sharon

Pray tell - which of you brave souls is going to announce to Pio and Mithadan, especially, that you are bound for the coast of Númenor to pick up stray hobbrim.

Or is the consensus that you all will be skulking off in the dead of night.

Leave the poor elf with the soon to be fuming Man!!!

Really, though, I suppose this will happen Tuesday or Wedenesday, am I correct?

OK -- "serious" questions. This was listed way back at the end of thread one and no one answered.

In the fanfiction, should Child go by Child or Cami (from Camelia Goodchilde)

also in the fanfiction, shouldn't we change Kali's "baby talk" that we used early in the story---none of the other sea creatures have trouble speaking Westron?

I think we should edit your name to Cami.

And yes, let's change the way Kali talks. I had trouble doing the baby-talk, so I think many of my exchanges with him use language just as the rest of us speak.

Yes to Cami.

Yes to losing "baby talk". (Though it wasn't "baby-talk", it was "Pukel-Men talk"!)

Frogs can stay submerged indefinitely, but must come on land to eat.

Any other questions?

Bird

Yes, from your last post - the heart to heart with Rose - are you up at sometime for another venture out with the Star? Probably Fourth Age, since that will be where we end up, will it not, at least in this story?

[ September 15, 2002: Message edited by: piosenniel ]

Wow, we have some talent Child! We got talent, yes we do, we got talent, how bout you? O no... I think staying up till 2 doing essays for english has done things to my mind...

Yes to Cami, no to Pukel/baby talk. Well Pio, if you want Khelek to come, go ahead. If you think it'd just make Mithadan even more fuming then... RUN!

Ok, now that I've read your posts, I guess that I don't really care whether the hobbrim have gills or absorb oxygen thru their skin or whatever-- what I care about is that they can go DEEP. Birdland, your Sunken Gondolin was Nice and deep, right? Way down? Not just twenty feet below the surface? Deep. They can stay under for as long as they need/ want?

DIVE, DIVE, hobbrim! They can, right? Plumbing immense depths? Please.

I see hobbrim as being able to go as deep as they like, though I can't see them preferring the dark, deep depths where all the fish have BIG eyes and SHARP, POINTY TEETH!

Pio - Bring it on!

[ September 15, 2002: Message edited by: Birdland ]

OK, Bird, I'll take that happily. You'll see why later. :-D

[ September 16, 2002: Message edited by: mark12_30 ]

I'm closing the ongoing Lonely Star thread and opening a new one. We're close to the size limit for threads and I don't want anyone to accidently lose a post. Look for The Lonely Star -- Chapter 4.

Also I've added a post by editing Child's "knocking on the door of Mithadan's cabin" post. You may want to read it before proceeding to the new thread.

[ September 17, 2002: Message edited by: Mithadan ]

Pio, check your private messages.

Mithadan check yours - I just returned home! I say we delete!

Apologies to all for rearranging the posts on Lonely Star -- Ch.4. Piosenniel and Mithadan had their timing off, requiring some things to be moved around. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

Mithadan - It's about time! I was expecting that to come up somewhere...

Everyone - So the rescue's scheduled for tomorrow or tonight?

Great Warg -- The hobbits still have to go off on their rescue of the hobbrim. Plus, it takes 20 days or so for those Elven ships to arrive.

Ahh, ain't love great! No one can accuse our RPG of "lacking in love." We had one relationship which was tragically split apart (Child and Maura) and another which looks like its going on the right track! I hope they plan a spring wedding!

sharon

Story timeline - Levanto is just going to do the second meeting with the Elders - I will probably write that tonight.

So, we are about 4 days into our 20 day wait for the Teleri.

I believe we time shifted to the day after midsummer's day (Loënde) in Númenor which gave us a remaining 38 days before the Numenorean ships reach the West and the world is broken.

So, 16 days til the swan ships arrive
34 days til the Island is sunk!

So, you hobbits and hobbrim and the kindly shapechanger had better load up the boats and go looking for the lost kin.

Child, are you telling Pio you're leaving? or Mithadan?

Hmmmmm! We've only had one side of the kiss so far - don't plan the wedding yet! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[ September 17, 2002: Message edited by: piosenniel ]

O well, go ahead, start planning! Actually, maybe to honour the hobbits, how about the day they are liberated from Numenor? Which would be... what's the season right now? Oi, you lose track of seasons so easily when you time-shift...

It is just after Midsummer Day at the present in the story. We will time shift ahead a year after we rescue the hobbits, so it will still be summer when we get them to Meneltarma.

And if there is a wedding, there should be some lovely poetry in honor of it - is Khelek game to do this for a fellow elf?

Pio --

Hey, it's not just me. I fear you will be returning to the 4th age in a ship which is curiously devoid of hobbits! Remember, Gandalf told all the hobbits we could chose. Some will chose column A (hobrim) and some will choose column B (land hobbits).

Perhaps, Cami and the other hobbits will "tell" after Pio announces her engagement?

sharon

A quick note to Mark12_30, who I think is reading this thread now. I'll delete this later.

I sent you a PM. Did you receive it? I have some stuff to send you.

Bethberry

Whoa! Hold it a sec! Pio has not been proposed to as yet. Mithadan the Cautious could get cold feet you know! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

And we do have a battle coming up - the elf could bite the dust again if she doesn't remember her mithril shirt this time!!!!

Hmmm... a poem. Yes, I could do that. After all, I got plenty of practice when I was bored during the summer. Just don't mind if it mentions the Sea too much, okay? You know how Khelek is with the Sea and the West. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Strangely devoid of hobbits?! You're all planning to leave us?! Oh my... this will be a sad trip back...

Pio -- I thought you meant leaving to go to the Third Age. LOL. You mean leaving for the hobbrim rescue. Mistress Bird is supposed to lead that rescue, but I guess I get to do the "dirty work" again of telling Pio and/or Mith. Hopefully, they'll be in such a good mood, they'll never hear what I'm saying. Cami

Awwwwwwwww! Birdie loves a love story. You two are the cutest couple on Middle-earth! What am I saying? you're Half-Elf and Smidgin-O'-Elf. Ain't like Eru exactly hit y'all with the ugly stick. (Birdie wonders what kind of wedding gift she can by with twelve silver pennies. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] )

But then, there's poor Birdie; always a bridesmaid, never a bride, and all her friends going off the make "choices" and get hitched. (Sigh) Maybe she'll join a Book Club and get a cat.

Bird, you are priceless! I haven't laughed like that for a while! And before we all get carried away, may I remind you that: 1. it was only a kiss; 2. Pio hasn't hit Mith upside the head yet; 3. there's still Sauron and a number of Numenoreans to deal with; 4. there's the issues of the age difference (several thousand years) and distance (last I heard, Pio wants to live in the West, whereas Osse threatened to skewer me if I came that way again) to deal with. The smart money is on one or the other beating a hasty retreat.

Ah, but Mithadan, this is Middle-earth. Love conquors all -- remember Beren and Luthien. I think the odds are better than 50/50. sharon

P.S. This was my post #1,000. Such a romantic way to go over the top!

[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ]

There can only be three man-elf unions, Proffessor Tolkien said so. Therefore, either this will blow over rapidly, or, one will die off, or -- GASP-- we will depart the Canon-Friendly road. (Nay, roared Mithadan, it cannot be so!)

And anyway, you guys are all a bunch of over-romanticized night-owls. GO TO SLEEP. And so, meanwhile, shall I. Who the heck cares about a stupid transcript (or new job) anyway.

Oh, the heartbreaking irony. Mithadan singing Levanto's song. (choke)
This over-romanticized night owl is going to have a hard time sleeping after that. Drat you, Mith. You .. you... you... (WAUGH sob )

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Tem and Tocca would be so proud.

[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: mark12_30 ]

You two lovebirds could always take out a lease-with-option on a nice seaside condo on Tol Eressëa. That would solve THAT problem. (Although whose family you'll spend time with on holidays might be a issue.)

[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: Birdland ]

Child! - (Birdie circles fist in the air) Whoop-Whoop-Whoop!

Bethberry - I'm "second shift". I've got another hour before my "day" winds down. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: Birdland ]

Mark 12_30, though JRRT mentions 3 unions, he also adverts to a fourth in the house of Dol Amroth (Mithrellas was her name). BTW, I agree on one thing, poor Levanto. Remind me to not let him watch my back.

Bird, I almost choked on your last post.

Oh, and I hadn't read the follow ups to "the kiss" before I made my last post on this thread. OK, so it wasn't "just a kiss". It was a KISS.

Bird

Pio has sent Levanto to also scout along the coast of Hyarrostar re: the hobbrim dwellings. He should be bringing back some info early NEXT a.m. to the Star.

*sniff! You're abandoning me?!

Is this the no 'cake and eat it too' policy?!

[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: piosenniel ]

Yeah, Mith's really gonna want Birdie going along for the honeymoon.

"Gee, Honey: I'd really like to go for a moonlight cruise through Ithilien, but Birdie and me were gonna go down to the First Circle and see if we could pick up some drunk Corsairs, just like the old days!"

[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: Birdland ]

What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
What shall we do with a drunken sailor,
Ear-ly in the morning!!!!!

You should have seen Mandos blanch when I sang him that one!! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Well, it didn't take long for everyone to know about it. Next time DON'T kiss in front of a hobbit. LOL!

But really, who didn't see it coming. LOL!

You can't kiss like that and not go the whole way.

MITH- I think you could go to the west with Pio if she stood up for you.

Dear Rose,

Hmm. I take it you have yet to experience being a parent inter--er, wakened in the middle of the night by a child. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Bethberry

PS. Sorry for intruding. I couldn't resist. No, actually, I didn't want to resist.
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[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: Bethberry ]

Hear hear, Mithadan and Pio! Besides, you have Gandalf, Veritas, and Khelek to vouch for you! Tol Eressea, here we come!

And are Elves really that... preppy in the morning? Or is it just the way Pio described it that makes me laugh? Hard to imagine Elrond sweeping into the dining room, exclaiming what a lovely morning it is, and then having utter silence and everyone staring at you.