Best Post of the Week

[Bêthberry]

Right. I forgot reason the fifth: it's darn funny.

[Encaitare]

Ah, yes, I just read that one. Delightful; it gave me many a chuckle. Note to Kransha: I wanted to add to your reputation for it, but apparently I gave recently and can't again for awhile... oh well, I suppose it's the thought that counts.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Bêthberry, what a wonderful thread idea! I'd have seconded your nomination for Kransha's great post if I hadn't read The Saucepan Man's post on the 'Reunification of the Entish Bow' RPG first. As it is, I must cast my vote for that one. My reason(s):

This is parody at its very best! The names are hilarious, the characters well-drawn, their dialogues side-splitting, the ideas sparkle with wit (Aerophaunts!!), the clever inclusions of movie allusions and non-LotR references, the descriptive writing, especially at the beginning, commented by the sentence:

One thing that could be said about the weather of Muddled-Mirth was that it had a profound sense of occasion.

And all of that so well-written that the only complaint could be the one Tolkien heard about his book - it wasn't long enough!

I could quote the whole thing, but go ahead and read it yourself!!

[Bêthberry]

Estelyn, a superb nomination and one which I'm sure makes SaucepanMan feel better about how Kransha upstaged him on the Why are there no women in the Fellowship thread.

I am in a quandry here, as I have found another post which I think stands head and shoulders above the rest--and this isn't a quick shampoo job to get rid of the flakes.

Am I allowed two nominations in one week? Can I say this is a tie? Yes, I believe I can.

Therefore, let me call upon kudos for Imladris' Post #1 on her thread The Capturing of Myth in the Movies forum.

Movie threads are rarely as well argued and well-thought out as Imladris' thread here. Often, they depend upon a simple statement of "well I liked" or "this is just my opinion" rather than a reasoned argument. (Not to be 'holier than thou' here, I've been guilty of this simplistic response myself.)

Imladris provides a clear sense of what she means by myth (well, okay, she cribbed it from Lewis, but she acknowledges that *insert winking smilie here as I might have used up my limit*) and by Peter Jackson's treatment of myth. She provides examples which demonstrate her point.

More importantly, I think she also gets us thinking about what a mythological impulse is. We all tend, I think, to refer off hand to Tolkien's mythology or Legendarium but we don't often ask just what it is that makes Tolkien's fantasy a mythology.

Definitely worth a read and very deserving of thoughtful replies!

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

... makes SaucepanMan feel better about how Kransha upstaged him on the Why are there no women in the Fellowship thread.

Aw, how could I feel too bitter! After all I was just going for a wind-up.

Thanks for the nomination, Esty. It does make me feel better about staying up to the wee hours to finish the post and feeling very bleary-eyed the next morning at work.

I don't wish to make this thread too REB-centric, but I do feel compelled to nominate Mithadan's latest post in REB2 (I can't do that link to a single post thing, can anyone explain? Edit: I can now, thanks Helen).

This, to me, goes beyond good parody. It skilfully merges the parody of two different genres, not just by mention but by capturing the spirit of both at the same time. We have the wraith confused about his nature, a wonderful characterisation in itself, a reference to the wraith's well-known fear of water and a novel remedy for it, superb incorporation of other ongoing characters and, the icing on the cake, not just one but two fantastic parody characters from a well-known sci-fi classic. Can't you just hear Captain Cirkdan enunciating those words? As for a parrot (Dr Macaw, no less) uttering those famous words ... well, what more can I say?

This has just gotta be best (humorous) post of the week, if not year.

[mark12_30]

Saucie, look at the upper-righthand corner of a post. There's a green "#" and a yellow number. Clicking on the yellow number will display just that post. Then link as usual.

Watch out where the Huskies go
And do not eat the yellow snow;
But if on yellow text you click
You will find a BD link.

[HerenIstarion]

Can it be done statistically? Say, the post getting most reputation + most views is the winner for a given time period. The least unit may be week, and we may make monthly/yearly bulletin by the end of each month/year.