Bibliomancy...Tolkien style

[Glirdan]

Okay, tried it with RotK first, nothing. Than The Sil and that just stayed put!!! Even if I blow on it, it doesn't open!! TTT did nothing. Unfinished Tales did the same thing as the Sil. and then the Hobbit and FotR did nothing. Cursed Paperbacks!!!

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Glirdan

Okay, tried it with RotK first, nothing. Than The Sil and that just stayed put!!! Even if I blow on it, it doesn't open!! TTT did nothing. Unfinished Tales did the same thing as the Sil. and then the Hobbit and FotR did nothing. Cursed Paperbacks!!!

I tried it out for fun and kept getting the coverpage or the title page to The Fellowship of the Rings...

~ Ka

[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

Sil won't open for me. I stand it up, and it slowly flops over, with either the inner front or inner back open. In other words, I guess that either my future is a blank slate, ready for me to write it myself, or I should just be happy, because, as a few others have pointed out, Sil is majorly depressing.

Tried it again using Fordim's paperback method and got this...

So the great darkness fell on Valinor. Of the deeds that day much is told in the Aldudene, that Elemmire of the Vanyar made and is known to all the eldar. Yet no song could contain all the grief and terror that then befell. The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light. In that hour was made a Darkness that seemed not lack but a thing with being of its own, for it was indeed made by malice out of Light, and it had power to pierce the eye, and to enter heart and mind, and strangle the very will.

Oh dear...that's what I get for not leaving well enough alone. I didn't think college would be that bad...!

[THE Ka]

Yay, Fordim's way worked with zero coverpages!

Here's the first one from ROTK,

Faithful servant yet master's bane,
Lightfoot's foal, swift Snowmane.

I don't like the idea of being pierced by a black dart, and then crushing Theoden.
The only thing I can get from this is I unintentually end up putting people in harm's way.

The second one from FOTR, is no better:

'Maybe,' said Gandalf. 'But I do not know yet exactly where we are. Unless I am quite astray, I guess that we are above and to the north of the Great Gates; and it may not be easy to find the right road down to them...'

Obviously, I seem to have directional problems, and I seem to figure things out as I remember more about them.


~ Ka

[Hilde Bracegirdle]

For Sam still stood upon his feet, and dropping his own sword, with both hands he held the elven-blade point upward, fending off that ghastly roof; and so Shelob, with the driving force of her own cruel will, with strength greater than a warrior’s hand, thrust herself upon a bitter spike. –TTT

My, this reminds me of Ealasaide’s story of dispatching spiders in her hall with a sword!

But other things do spring to mind as well. One must hold on to the higher things, greater than one’s self in order to overcome the crushing weight and strength of the worst of the world. Those higher things I imagine as being ideals, beauty, art or things that point sharply to the nature of Eru and his unsullied vision for Arda.

Or it might simply mean I should not suffer spiders to thrive in my house, lest they eventually overwhelm us, with ghastly designs of hanging us like so many hams from the ceiling. *shudder*

Of course I have frequently been feeling as though I have been trying to unravel spider webs at work this summer. I wonder who would represent Shelob there. The Marketing Department perhaps? I must remember to see if I can procure an elven blade through the Boise Cascade or Granger catalogs!