Assigned to Mordor Planning/Discussion Thread

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Celuien

With regard to the storyline: I have a special fondness (of sorts) for bureaucratic hospitals, should that be a challenge.

What a great idea! I was beginning to have trouble figuring out how to make a mere bureaucracy fun to write. Dovetailing it with the hospital/dentistry scene will solve that problem! Thanks!

Originally Posted by Celuien

I can connect mantle-clocks in the Shire and hobbit legal customs with the rise of anakronisms and bureaucracy.

It may work. Can you elaborate without giving away the whole thing?

Originally Posted by FotP

I'll be on break and away from my computer from November 18-27.

I'm open to taking a break at that time, if that works best for the most of us. Obviously, the Brits amongst us aren't affected at all, but Thanksgiving Day (aka Turkey Day) has turned into such a huge normal-life-stoppage in the U.S., that we may have to take a break. Thoughts?

And now to go figure out just what these tests are going to be.......

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

It may work. Can you elaborate without giving away the whole thing?

I can try...

It's a Silmarillion style passage "Of Morgoth and the Coming of the Bureaucratic Machine." Morgoth has cursed machinery and various other items from our modern world such that when they appear, bureaucracy comes with them (a way to bring down future human civilizations that occurred to him due to his foresight that humans would depend on technology). Those anachronistic, enchantment breaking objects in the Shire activate the curse at a low level, hence legal customs requiring seven signatures in red ink, etc. Of course, with all the anakronisms in Mordor, the curse is bound to be stronger.

It's just a wild thought that came to me when thinking over the "Breaking the Enchantment" thread. I have no idea if it works or not.

[littlemanpoet]

Give it a whirl, Celuien, and we'll edit as necessary as we go.