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12-14-2008, 02:28 PM
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Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
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12-14-2008, 03:39 PM
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A Mere Boggart
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I like Galadriel, she's probably the best and most complex female character in the whole thing (apart from Ungoliant), but I'm afraid old Grandalf must take my vote here.
The crusty old pipe-smoking hippy with a sharp tongue and a knack for fireworks, he's just excellent. No wonder the flower power generation wanted him for President - we can only dream what the world might have been like had he taken up office. Man. I mean, he's an Odinic Wanderer, how utterly cool is that? Maybe if Galadriel had left the house now and then... Tolkien did about as good a job as is possible in conjouring up the spirit of Merlin Himself for his story, and for all we joke about him uncloaking he's an elemental being and straight from the ancient real world - a 'magic elf' as the name translates in Old Norse.  ++Gandalf 
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12-14-2008, 04:09 PM
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Flame of the Ainulindalë
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Oh my! We were so close! And now it becomes the safe LotR-run for all the fun-girls and -boys...
 Andsigil and Aganzir, I'll promise to vote against your favourites from now on incessantly. And will call for others to do the same. That was a disgrace. Party-spoilers...   Hah, if you happen to disagree on a vote? Hmm... a tough one... I'll vote for the less cute or handsome or well-known or emotionally charged...
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12-14-2008, 04:12 PM
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12-14-2008, 05:30 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Well, Nogorod, you have your choice now, as I'm going opposite Aganzir this time and voting for ++Gandalf.
Unlike Lalwendë, I don't see any hippie characteristics in Gandalf, other than the fact that he has no visible means of support and always seems to live at other peoples' residences. If I did see him as a hippie, I'd be voting for the Lady of Lorien, instead.
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12-14-2008, 06:07 PM
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Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
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http://vegassmokes.com/churchwarden_pipes.htm I still have it, proudly displayed in an oaken Bronzeworth barrister bookcase. I haven't smoked...ummm...anything from it in decades, but since everyone in my house is carping about my cigarettes, perhaps I'll go to Churchill's Tobacconists and buy some vanilla black Cavendish, which, if I remember correctly, had a great aroma.
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And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision. |
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12-15-2008, 04:01 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
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Aieeeeeeee you voted Boromir instead of Maedhros despite what morm and skip said about chicks digging him? Tsk tsk!
 Well, at least I don't have to decide between any of my three favourites in the finals now (now that evil skippy has matched Gandalf and Galadriel against each other). Speaking of which, I'm thinking about abstaining this round... I'd like to vote Galadriel to get less popular characters into the finals, and Gandalf because he's probably the only one who can prevent Sam from winning the whole competition...
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12-15-2008, 09:35 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Gandalf represents more of a prophet than a hippie (I don't know where get the idea that he's a hippie). After all it was the task of the Istari to help the peoples of Arda in the fight against Sauron, Gandalf was the only one of the Istari that stuck to the task which made him a "voice in the wilderness", "a stone doomed to rolling." I just love the way he stirs up the hearts of rulers to fight and spreads the news of what is happening. I do wish that Tolkien would have written a book purely on the travels of Gandalf! ++Gandalf
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12-15-2008, 05:30 AM
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A Mere Boggart
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I mean, he's not a benefit scrounger because there's nowhere in Middle-earth to sign on, and he's not a New Age Traveller because he hasn't got a caravan, nor is he a tramp because he hasn't got a dog-on-a-rope. So, hippie it is  Nothing wrong with an old fashioned style hippie anyway, they're cool. I sniff a thread idea...
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12-15-2008, 08:32 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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++ Galadriel
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