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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: The World That Never Was
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![]() I do confess, I am guilty of falling under the "Annoying Experts" catagory (according to just about everyone I know, anyway...) Abedithon le, ~*~Aranel~*~
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don't be hasty, not everybody should know everthing about lotr, don't expect that everyone in your school knows where mordor is! heck only like 75% the people in my school (500+ peeps) have seen all the movies! don't judge a book by its cover, even though they act like newbs, don't think that people around them aren't
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wandering through Middle-Earth (Sadly in Alberta and not ME)
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It is true I guess not everyone knows where Mordor is but the last person you go to tell where Mordor is is your Gym teacher.
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Alright, I have to say this. (Here's a fine example of my being an Annoying Expert)
Why, why, oh, why, would they go and make new books?!?!? Alright, so we have a book. A fine book. So fine, in fact, that we're going to make it an epic movie. So now we have a fine movie. Not as good as the book, but fairly good nonetheless. But WAIT! I've got a wonderful idea! We make books from the movies! We just follow the script that was a corruption of the original (read: real) book, which cut out dozens of characters and plots and scenes. So now we have a book that was made from a movie that was made from a book. Will someone explain to me the logic in this?
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I tried to just let everyone have fun. After I had won with Frodo, they kept playing and gave me Galadriel to start over with, and I was on the verge of winning then (they were still filling their first gamepeice) when it was time to go. I tried not to be annoying. (Really, I did, because I wanted them to come back and play again.) But I felt pretty bad all the same. It drives people crazy when I say "We wants it, precious." I really haven't found that many annoying amateurs around. Most of the time I'm just happy when somebody speaks of the movie in a positive way. It's tempting to raise a mug and shout, "AN ALLY! WE WILL FORM A LEAGUE OF FRIENDSHIP THAT WILL LAST DOWN THROUGH THE AGES, AND OUR PEOPLE WILL AID ONE ANOTHER AT NEED! HAIL TOLKIENDOM! "
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: The World That Never Was
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I'm going to have to get LotR Trivial Pursuit (I can't believe I don't have it yet! *sob*) but it will be tricky to get anyone to play it with me. Everyone knows me too well. ^ ^;;; Here's something rather sad to contemplate: I finally talked my 28-year-old cousin into reading LotR (he'd read The Hobbit, but not LotR, though he has seen the movies). But--and this is really quite sad--he gave up before he even got to Chapter 5 of Book 1! He's gone to college; he's had to read all those horrible medical textbooks! How can he not handle LotR? So sad... Abedithon le, ~*~Aranel~*~
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Jan 2004
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I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to LotR, but I'm always willing to learn from people who genuinely know more than me...
I've read LotR once thouroughly, the hobbit twice, I've started the Silm and I have a book of maps of Middle Earth...I think I also have a book of illustrations from various Tolkein books, but that doesnt really count... There is this one guy at my school who is really annoying...he thinks he knows everything about everything, not just LotR...He once told me that he liked how Tolkein portrayed Sauron as the dark master of Isengard..."Uh...No, Chris...that would either be Saruman, or Mordor...", to which he replied, "What do you mean, Sauron's the master of Isengard"..."Uh, no. Saruman is the master of Isengard, Sauron is the lord of Mordor.", he then shot back, before walking off in a huff "You know I meant Saruman, stop being so bloody pedantic."... This is one of many occasions i've wanted to smack him in the jaw with a lead pipe... Last edited by Hama Of The Riddermark; 06-23-2004 at 10:26 AM. |
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