Tol-in-Gaurhoth XIII: Enter Shamville

[tar-ancalime]

And tar, for whom I am quickly gaining a most deep respect, your cool analysis and mine are not the same.

Oh,

lmp,

really! While I appreciate the compliment, I fail to see any "cool analysis" from you at all. Our posts have been very different, true, but it's not due to any base motives on my part, I can assure you. The difference is this:

My posts have been the result of ruminations on the comments of others: the "wait and see, then share my thoughts" approach.

Your posts have been deliberately inflammatory. You submit these plans (and I do think you're putting them out solely as objects of discussion: to get us talking about your plans instead of about you,) then wait for the inevitable arguments to ensue. Just toDAY you're giving as good as you got with both Lalaith and Anguirel, merely arguing rather than adding anything new. To tell you the truth, it's this argumentative quality that you've displayed from the start that is at the real root of all my suspicions of you. If you hadn't argued with so many people already, you'd be...maybe not pure as the driven, but much less noteworthy in my eyes.

I utterly regret that in this post I'm doing much the same by rising to your so obviously proffered bait, but there it is. At least you have pushed me out into the open with the root of my suspicions of you, and even caused me to think through them more carefully.

I'll be back later with more analysis, and you can be sure that it will be just as cool, just as reasoned, and just as honest as before. I'm still pondering the lmp, Anguirel, Lalaith triangle, not to mention Wilwa's early certainty, and I don't want to let lmp's obvious disdain for my approach to cloud my judgement.