Annoying Unbelievers

[StarJewel]

To me, people who ask questions, even dumb ones, are okay. If they have read the books and really don't get something, well, everybody misses things sometimes. But the ones who haven't even touched any of Tolkien's books, or have seen maybe one or two of the movies, well, sometimes I just want to whack them with a dull sword. These are the questions that really got me (and believe it or not, all of these are from the same person)...

1. So, why did Aragorn and Arwen get married if they are related?? That is, like, so perverted!
2. Why is Elrond so ugly? I thought Elves were supposed to be hot.
3. Which one is the elf...Aragorn or Boromir?

When this person asked me these "questions", I just looked at her in utter shock and walked away.
Saucepan Man, kudos for the 9th or 10th level thing! People at my school mainly think Lord of the Rings is just an offshoot of DnD.

[Gil-Galad]

ah ha! i remember what i was going to post!


i joined a couple roleplaying sites that feature lotr rpg's, well those people there are rather big unbelivers, i have to keep lecturing them what can and can not be allowed! i got 5 people claiming to wizards, one person being a sorceress grand-daughter of Saruman! one guy creating his own race in teh Brownland claiming it to be a super-training camp aganest sauron! another person claiming to be an elf princess in Edenwaith where her realm controls thousands upon thousands of elvish horsemen! and so much more it blew my mind!people being aragorns brother cousin etc...a cave troll that is smart and good.... a talking dog...a vampire lord of the north that can decimate every army! and probaly much mroe i forgot... well i kept arguing and got booted from one of the sites...week after i checked on it and it was desolate...saying that they joined another rpg site...i just have to say good riddance!

[Silmiel of Imladris]

My friend and I got and the biggest fight (If you can believe this) over Glorfindel coming to the rescue of Frodo. I had read the books at that time and she was just starting and wasn't even at Flight to Ford yet. But she kept insisting that it was Elrond who rescued Frodo on horseback not Glorfindel. Good Grief! She just would not take my word for it even when I had read the books and she wasn't at that chapter yet. Of course she had to turn this trival squabble into and all out duel to the death. Luckily we got over it and still love eachother.

[Novlamothien]

one of my friends, who knew a lot of Greek and Roman mythology, had trouble understanding that the Valar were not like the Greek and Roman gods, that there were not Valar of love, and war and the moon, etc. She thought that-for example-Varda was the "goddess" of the stars, Yavanna was the 'goddess' of the earth...
You get the point. I spent forever trying to explain that this was not the case, and I don't think she got it.
Well, at least I got to discuss the Sil a little.

If anyone can think of a good answer to this question, their input would be appreciated. I have only read the Sil once, and I might have missed something.

Namarie

[ohtatyaro]

Here (by here I mean the real place I used to live, not the place on the internet), there is a place in one of the parks they call 'foul place'. But I hear it was fair once - when I was some three or four years old, it was called Eglador, and teenagers gathered there to have fun - read poetry (Tolkien's or theirs) and discuss Tolkien. Now it is full of drunken dudes who say they are elfs. As their idea of the proper behaviour for elfs is to find some 'orcs' and beat him or her up, it is no pleasant place to go. I can't say 'anymore', I don't remember when it was.

Those dudes is what I call 'annoying experts'. Dude with the club is annoying, and when he pretends to know what he is about - I'm an elf, you're an orc, come here, you!- that makes them 'experts'.

[ohtatyaro]

Mifire - I meant to put it to into "annoying Experts". Probably I will. But those dudes might be unbelievers too - I mean, if you try to tell them they are wrong, they won't beleive you.

[Gil-Galad]

well i have ot admit one thing, when i was very young and havn't read hte books yet, i played a lotr map on a game, there i thought that Glorfindel was a woman...