Where is everyone from??

[Ainaserkewen]

Hmm... I wonder who would win a hockey game, Gondor or Arnor. Somehow I can picture a crowd of screaming, red jersey-clad Arnorians rowdily cheering on the Fornost Flames in a Game 7 game against the Pelargir Lightning....

Ah, but where would they get the ice?

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Ainaserkewen

Ah, but where would they get the ice?

Well, if I remember my Silmarillion right, Melkor was a big ice-maker at one time. Perhaps the executors of the Utumno Estate (Messrs. Gorthaur, Balrog, & Smaug) sold the company. I can imagine the EHL (Elven Hockey League) having been interesting in purchasing it to provide an arena for the Lindon Canucks and the Rivendell Maple Leaves. Or perhaps Cirdan went into the ice-and-zamboni business after that disastrous foray into discovering the north-east passage. THAT was quite a mission. One king and two palantiri never seen again, and the Ring of Barahir saved only by a turn of luck...

Still, the great days of the EHL are long gone. Remember when Wayne Gretzndil played with the Annuminas Oilers? Pity they traded him to the Minas Tirith Kings....

[Ainaserkewen]

You have me in stitches Formendacil, I have to say Hockey has never been this amusing. Even the guy next to me is asking what the heck the EHL is. For the sake of pride, I didn't tell him.

Remember when Wayne Gretzndil played with the Annuminas Oilers? Pity they traded him to the Minas Tirith Kings....

Gretzndil!

I thought about someone getting steamed of how off topic we are with this Canadian Hockey theme, but then I thought, what is the topic again? Oh yeah, where everyone is from...I'm...uh, from Canada, if you didn't know that already.

[Milady Revenwyn]

I belong in either Edoras or Hobbiton, however I'm originally from San Jose, CA. I currently go to school in Searcy, AR.

United States, of course. :P

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Ainaserkewen

You have me in stitches Formendacil, I have to say Hockey has never been this amusing.

Hockey can be very amusing. Particularly if you don't take the game as seriously as diehard hockey fans do. Okay, so I was cheering Calgary all the way last spring, but it didn't break my heart when Tampa Bay won, and I never really watched a game before, and hardly a game since.

Originally Posted by Ainaserkewen

I thought about someone getting steamed of how off topic we are with this Canadian Hockey theme, but then I thought, what is the topic again? Oh yeah, where everyone is from...I'm...uh, from Canada, if you didn't know that already.

I'm probably risking the wrath of the Barrow-wight just by having replied, but I'm sure that an adept BDer will turn this thread back to its original source eventually. Or else send it packing to the Mirth forum.

It IS a mirthful topic after all. I can see it going on indefinitely as the games are played out between the various teams (not all that unlike the Warg-praising thread, if I think about it...).

For example, since middle-earth is a much less pampering culture than our own, the EHLPA would not have objected to a salary cap (which might be because the EHL could hire goons... er orks... to make them play), so we would be in the middle of a hockey season right now.

One wonders how the Fornost Flames would be doing after their run at the Stewardly Cup. Daeron Sutter would likely be pushing his team just as hard, and Jarome Igindur would still be scoring a great deal (assuming his was still with the team and not traded to some expensive team like the Osgiliath Rangers), and Miika Kiprussion would still be a great goalie, but would the FIRE be there!!! Would the fans still have cause to roam the streets of Fornost in rowdy ecstasy? Would hockey fans in Bree still flock to the Prancing Pony to catch the show together? Would tickets at the Palantir Stadium still cost an arm and a leg? (To be extracted by one of the orks at the door.)

These are the questions that haunt the middle-earthian hockey fan. Well, that and whether or not he'll get in trouble for giving this thread false directions, so that it is now lost in the jungles of crossover hockey mirth, and far off the straight road leading to the location all BDers wish they hailed from: Valinor.