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Old 03-07-2009, 05:03 PM   #1
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No it's the other way around: I'm Swedish because I'm silly.

And I would go bury myself if I only could figure out how to cover myself up with dirt and at the same time lie down in an open grave. Oh well...
I can lend a hand.
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Old 03-07-2009, 05:40 PM   #2
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So the ME popularity cup must be won by Gandalf or Frodo and the ME bad popularity cup must be won by Sauron or Morgoth?

Give me a break people!

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Let's make this more interesting.
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Old 03-07-2009, 07:26 PM   #3
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Velee interesting. With time running out for the
Marrer of Middle-earth he's trailing Wormy .
As Zero Mostel said to Gene Wilder in The Pruducers:

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Leo: May I speak to you for a minute?
Max: [pulls out stop watch] Go. You have 58 seconds.
Leo: Well, in glancing at your books, I noticed that...
Max: you have 48 seconds left. Hurry hurry.
Leo: Oh, I glanced at your books, I noticed...
Max: 28 seconds. You're running out of time.
Leo: [Trying to explain, getting more nervous]
Max: Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...
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Hey Tuor, why don't you pit Smaug and Glaurung against each other next round?
Hmm. Anti-dragon sentiment? Now who wished that there might be no
border between Orthanc and Mordor so they'd go against each other?

And anyway, that would be interfering in the brackets. Of course, it
would probably help Wormy. Hmm...........!
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Old 03-07-2009, 08:05 PM   #4
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Grima Wormtongue-5 Morgoth-4

Another upset to go with:
5) The Amazin' Mets 1969 World Series win against
the Baltimore Orioles

4)
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1933: Walsall 2-0 ArsenalDivision 3 South Walsall faced a hopeless situation when they drew first league leaders Arsenal for their 3rd round FA Cup playoff. At the time, the professional Arsenal team was worth thousands of pounds, whereas little Walsall’s team cost only £70. However, Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman made one fatal error. Believing the result was a foregone conclusion, he rested three of his top players. Walsall took its chance and scored two unanswered goals, to hand Arsenal a humiliating defeat.
3) 1980 Miracle on Ice U.S.A. over Russkies

2) Kim Cattrall upsets tennis fans:
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SEX AND THE CITY star KIM CATTRALL has angered sports fans and shown her lack of tennis know-how at the opening of the US OPEN championship in New York.

Kim - who plays sex-mad SAMANTHA in the hit show - was at Monday's start of the tournament when she walked out of the match between LLEYTON HEWITT and VICTOR HANESCU at an inappropriate moment.

The 47-year-old actress left at the end of an even-numbered game - angering spectators, who know you should only leave after odd-numbered games, when the players are swapping sides.


1) Frodo does not win Middle-earth Popularity Cup !

On to the semi-finals!

Carcharoth vs. Smaug
Glaurung vs. Grima son of Galmod

Next: Carcharoth vs. Smaug
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Old 03-08-2009, 06:37 AM   #5
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Hooray! Gríma rulezz!!!

I like the way it came out, even though we could have been a bit more original still, but good, good. Thanks to good master Noggins, we have neither Sauron nor Morgoth here. Just a pity no Orc made it through...

As for the current match:

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Old 03-08-2009, 07:52 AM   #6
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I don't like Carcharoth.

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Ps. Yes, it's that simple.
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Old 03-08-2009, 08:18 AM   #7
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Wolves...they're so real world. This is a fantasy, after all.
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Old 03-08-2009, 09:50 AM   #8
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Grima Wormtongue-5 Morgoth-4
I will have to question that result. Or is this not a democratic board where each member's vote carries the same weight?

Nerwen, Morthoron, Durelin, Ibrin and yours truly voted for Morgoth. See, there's five of us! Has Grima payed off the judges or what?
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I can lend a hand.
Oh dear. I do hope we can find a better use for your pretty little hands.

++Smaug

And yeah, hail Morgoth, Giver of Freedom and Lord of All!
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Old 03-09-2009, 11:46 AM   #10
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Exactly!

It's time for meta-reasoning up here! So take your time.

I'm ready to vote for Smaug if it's the one you would think that would be able to challenge Melkor. And let's join forces to beat Morgoth on the next round already. That would be our safest option...
Obviously. However, you see, it could not have resorted to this had people not voted so carelessly the "cliché" guys like Morgoth or Sauron in the earlier rounds already... it's the same as in the previous popularity cup, where you end up with Gandalf and Frodo, or what was it... come on...

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Because I don't want the final to be between two dragons - boring.
Yes, I thought about that as well - but you (all people) should have thought about that in the earlier rounds!

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Actually, my "favorite" baddie wasn't even in the running to begin with. Where was Gollum?
Well, for example I don't consider Gollum a baddie... certainly not of the same sort as the Dragons, the Nazgul, Sauron... you name it. (Although there were some even in this contest, true... like the Master of Lake-Town... but with him, still, he is somewhat "plain negative" in some aspects, he is more of a baddie than Gollum, who is just too... complex to be classified as mere baddie.)

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And yeah, hail Morgoth, Giver of Freedom and Lord of All!
I say we bury him also with you, since you are so good friends...
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Old 03-09-2009, 12:35 PM   #12
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Actually, my "favorite" baddie wasn't even in the running to begin with. Where was Gollum?
I did consider Smeagol, but especially book Gollum
is really more tragic then irredemably evil. One of the
ways PJ messed up was (and he and Andy Serkis actually
bragged about this) making Smeagol's almost turning away from
thralldom to the Ring be always idisingenuous in their version of
ROTK. Still, Gollum with the Precious would have
been a formidable candidate.
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A short off-topic rant, if you don't mind
This might seem petty but I have to note
This Tuor fellow's lines are oddly short
at first I thought there might be something more;
but scanning them revealed uneven feet.
While posting in blank verse can be quite fun
such arbitrary breaks can disconcert
and interrupt the flow and reading ease.
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Smaug-6 Carcharoth-2

Next: Glaurung vs. Morgoth
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