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Merri · 01-23-2003, 07:43 AM

It is also quite possible that the tattoo-person botched the symbol . . . Storytelling time!!

A lady at a shop we go to wanted to get the Chinese character for 'Tranquility' tattoed somewhere on her, so she asked my mom to write the character for her. My mom did so, and a few weeks later, we went back to the store. The lady had gotten her tattoo done, but the character didn't say 'Tranquility'. Instead, the tattoo-person had made it into a character that didn't mean anything except to serve as a question word (a word you add to a sentence when you're asking a question).

So, yeah. That might have been what happened to the Fellowship cast, though I hope not.

[EDIT]Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't those letters on Elijah's tattoo look a lot like Hebrew letters?

[ January 23, 2003: Message edited by: Merri ]

01-23-2003, 07:43 AM	#5
Merri Wight Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Shire Posts: 225	It is also quite possible that the tattoo-person botched the symbol . . . Storytelling time!! A lady at a shop we go to wanted to get the Chinese character for 'Tranquility' tattoed somewhere on her, so she asked my mom to write the character for her. My mom did so, and a few weeks later, we went back to the store. The lady had gotten her tattoo done, but the character didn't say 'Tranquility'. Instead, the tattoo-person had made it into a character that didn't mean anything except to serve as a question word (a word you add to a sentence when you're asking a question). So, yeah. That might have been what happened to the Fellowship cast, though I hope not. [EDIT]Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't those letters on Elijah's tattoo look a lot like Hebrew letters? [ January 23, 2003: Message edited by: Merri ] __________________ Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon. -Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card.