The Middle Earth Popularity Cup

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

Bad analogy there Groin. Everyone knows that reading Lord of the Rings leads straight to any number of addictions (particularly pipeweed), and even worse, bouts of sanctimoniousness.

Originally Posted by Morthoron

You said it yourself, Gandalf is the original Rolling Stoner, and he exhibits many primary traits of a hippie, as already pointed out by Lal, who perhaps fit in well with the Carnaby Street crowd at one point in time.

You infuriate me with your lack of seriousness in the matter, and making a mockery of the subject in the process!

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

You infuriate me with your lack of seriousness in the matter, and making a mockery of the subject in the process!

Groin, please read the header of this forum. It is 'Middle-earth Mirth'. Mirth, by definition, indicates amusement, humor and wit. Please be indignant on a forum where such priggishness is more acceptable.

Oh, and Lord of the Rings is a book of fiction, not a holy text of biblical proportions. Take a deep breath, and...smoke some pipeweed for relaxation's sake.

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

Groin, please read the header of this forum. It is 'Middle-earth Mirth'. Mirth, by definition, indicates amusement, humor and wit. Please be indignant on a forum where such priggishness is more acceptable.

Call it the dwarf in me, but I dislike the way you raise serious subjects and than dismiss them in a shroud of annoying silliness like some elf.

Oh, and Lord of the Rings is a book of fiction, not a holy text of biblical proportions. Take a deep breath, and...smoke some pipeweed for relaxation's sake.

A holy book it might not be, but it is certainly not a hippie book. As for the pipeweed smoking I'll leave that up to for you to do.


++Boromir

He may not be as loyal or ethical as Beleg was, but he was dutiful and took pride in his deeds.

[Strongbow]

++Beleg

[mormegil]

++Beleg

Boromir is so boorish and banal.

[Andsigil]

++Boromir

I think he was as ethical as anyone. His problem was that he was like the vast majority of us. It takes a Gandalf, a Galadriel, or a Faramir to resist the call of The Ring. Had the overwhelming majority of anyone in ME been in Boromir's shoes, they'd have taken it, as well.

I'm one who thoroughly believes that mercy to the wolf is cruelty to the sheep. But I'd still accept the Temporary Insanity defense from Boromir's lawyer if he were on trial.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

++ Beleg

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

Call it the dwarf in me, but I dislike the way you raise serious subjects and than dismiss them in a shroud of annoying silliness like some elf.

Nonsense! I haven't shown the slightest bit of seriousness in this whole thread! The nerve that I should be subject to such insinuation!

But as this is the holiday season, I shall ignore your prattle. In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn, "I come to bury the hatchet, but not in your pointed head."

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Hm. Both characters are not among my favorites, and I don't want to wear out the coin, so let's see if I can come up with another means of choosing.

Beleg: guy who sticks by a friend, gets mistaken for an orc by said friend and is killed; said friend repents only because he drinks Ulmo-blessed water and regains his grief-stricken insanity.

Boromir: guy who tries to stick it to a friend to grab the Ring, repents, and gets killed by orcs while defending relatively defenseless hobbits.

Tough call.

*flip*

++Beleg

[skip spence]

As much as I love the story of Túrin and Beleg I'm going with ++Boromir who is a more interesting character than his opponent.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

++Boromir

is the more interesting personality of those two. Besides, of all the remaining characters, he is probably the closest to poor old Saruman

Oh, and P.S.

Call it the dwarf in me, but I dislike the way you raise serious subjects and than dismiss them in a shroud of annoying silliness like some elf.

Groin, one more word about Elves from you and I am going to neg-rep you

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

Nonsense! I haven't shown the slightest bit of seriousness in this whole thread!

Oh, but you should, Morth. You've been too dazzled by the bright lights to notice the seedy underbelly of the so-called Middle Earth Popularity Cup. If ever a cup could be said to possess an underbelly, this cup does. Don't you think it a little strange when a rank outsider like the so-called Beleg keeps beating the favourites? What do you know of the money that's changed hands... the bribery and intimidation... the organised crime syndicates behind bookmakers like the so-called Bêthberry? Not to mention the fact that it's run by notorious underworld kingpin skip "Shady" spence?

It's rotten, I tell you! Rotten to the core!

[Nogrod]

Darn it!

That's just what I feared! When the going gets tough the LotR-idols will prevail...

Well one must try and hope for some kind of a miracle; in Middle-Earth things have been accomplished in the last moments before as well!

++ Beleg

So a final between Gandalf and Boromir... That's just an anticlimax! Like this was some movie-fansite! ... Oh, sorry... it would have been Legolas and Frodo then...

Maybe I'll just have to forgive you your conventionality.

[skip spence]

Alas, Beleg has finally run out of miracles and is eliminated by the score of 8 votes to 6.

Originally Posted by Nerwen

It's rotten, I tell you! Rotten to the core!

Hey now, that's a half-truth at best.

Don't you think it a little strange when a rank outsider like the so-called Beleg keeps beating the favourites?

The fact that Beleg is now out proves conclusively that you are wrong.

What do you know of the money that's changed hands... the bribery and intimidation... the organised crime syndicates behind bookmakers like the so-called Bêthberry? Not to mention the fact that it's run by notorious underworld kingpin skip "Shady" spence?

My unseemly wealth and affilation to organized crime has little or nothing to do with the results of the of the past month or the fair and generous odds provided by Betberry. Since your post contains libelous statements without any factual support, I advice you to delete it immidiately for everyone's best benefit (not least your own).

Semifinal 2:
Gandalf vs. Túrin

[Andsigil]

++Gandalf

I both like Gandalf and still dislike Turin.

I just don't understand all of the fascination with someone who poisons everything he touches, and then tries to rectify this by touching and poisoning more things. Oh, and feeling a lot of anguish about it.