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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Mordor University, Wisconsin Campus
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Well thank you Latchwen, I'm flattered. I really wanted to find something both geologic and LOTR realted, and I'm pleased with the result.
~Pyro~
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Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: London, UK
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Terrifyingly nerdile as it is I chose my screen-name in homage to Apple Computer's Great High Poobah of software. Tragic I know.
Could be worse though. I very nearly went with Teleporno for sheer amusement value ![]() |
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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Welcome to the Downs, Avie! Your alternate possible name choice would have surprised a lot of people who haven't read HoME! I wonder what Tolkien would think if he realized the connotations of that name nowadays...
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Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: London, UK
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Thank you for your kind welcome. Happy to be here!
One indeed wonders if the good professor had been over-indulging in the pipeweed when he came up with that particular linguistic gem ![]() As you say though, words change their connotations over time. No doubt Prof T would revolve in his grave to think that his noble Elf creation now conjures up visions of....erm....certain specialist telecommunications services! ![]() ![]() |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Aiea....
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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I half wonder if it even occured and maybe someone had to point it out to him ...surely if he noticed such things he wouldn't have called the Uruk/Orc in Cirith Ungol (not Gorbag) THAT.... but maybe it just meant a type of tobacco or a bird like a cormorant then........
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Between the fortune cookie and the post-its.
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Wight
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: here, there, everywhere...
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hey, it's still alive
I'm glad this thread is not dead, but lives one
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Lindo means Songbird.
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