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05-22-2006, 01:25 AM
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Byronic Brand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The 1590s
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Chryssy isn't a real dragon...
++THE KING OF FAERIE He's basically Celeborn in another guise. Celebornites! To my banner!
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05-22-2006, 01:30 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers.
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Celeborn is a mighty warrior and great wise strategist of high Telerin pedigree. Alf is more of a generically mysterious cook. If he's any Elf from the Lord of the Rings, it's Gildor Inglorion. At least Chyrsophylax puts up an interesting character, one that the reader can enjoy. Alf is pretty much boring- almost as boring as Goldberry.
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05-22-2006, 01:43 AM
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Wight
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: In the house of Tom Bombariffic
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++Goldberry
The ol' ball and chain. bombariffic
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05-22-2006, 06:28 AM
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Regal Dwarven Shade
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold
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Out of all of Tolkien's dragons, he's the only one that made it to the end of the story. ++ Chrysophylax Dives
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05-22-2006, 09:11 AM
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
Posts: 7,066
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++ CHRYSOPHYLAX DIVES
Now that we're down to the FINALS, I'm changing up my strat, and voting for who I really want to win. He IS the most interesting of the three, and he's smart enough to know that he can outlast ol' Giles and go back to his hills and get his treasure back, ... not to mention give a certain stewpid Giant a tongue lashing, tail lashing, and general whoop-on. So thanks, everybody, so far, for playing into my ultimate plan. And you all thought I wanted Smith to win..... 
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05-22-2006, 09:19 AM
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Riveting Ribbiter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Assigned to Mordor
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I've given this some thought.
Both of the candidates (Smith and the Queen of Faerie) I would have wanted to take the title are gone. I'm left with the following choice: Goldberry: Just doesn't strike me as a winner for the competition. Marrying Tom after he kidnapped her and all that. Alf: I know you want me to vote for him, Ang. But I thought it over, and I just don't see him as a Celeborn model. And he still has the same name as the furry alien that I can't stand the sight of.  Sorry, but I can't vote for him.Chrysophylax: Not my favorite dragon, as I said a couple of times before. But at least he's more interesting than Goldberry and isn't a synonym for an obnoxious extraterrestrial. Kuru also makes him interesting.  So, though it's with a heavy heart that mourns the loss of the Queen and Smith, I vote for: ++ Chrysophylax Dives
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05-22-2006, 09:26 AM
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Byronic Brand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The 1590s
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Zzzz. Oh well, I suppose it's poetic justice; I must have caused such boredom in the Hobbit Survivor final round...
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05-22-2006, 10:25 AM
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Mischievous Candle
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: So near to Russia, so far from Japan, quite a long way from Cairo, lots of miles from Vietnam.
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++ Chrysophylax
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05-22-2006, 11:42 AM
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Byronic Brand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The 1590s
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Wait! Everyone! Reconsider! You're about to openly vote for the favourite of the Moddess!
Now, some time ago Smaug won this game. He has the Dragon-power factor. He destroyed a Dwarven kingdom, gained a priceless and bewitching hoard, talks in riddles, and dies in an iconic confrontation with an epic hero. The last especially is a vital prerequisite for a proper dragon. Chryssy is a parody of a dragon, up against a parody of a hero. He eludes death, causes no serious damage, and is part of no noble, dramatic tragidy, but a burlesque comedy. His name is cod-Greek, not Nordic and scary. There is another choice, my friends! The Faerie King! The King in the Wood! One of the most spinechilling and haunting images of folklore. The Erlkonig, Oberon, Herne the Hunter, William Rufus. The Rider of the Wild Hunt! His disguise as a Prentice only emphasises his power. The King is no goody-two-shoes or mysterious cook; but these are his guises. His actual power is very real and terrible. He's the dark side of Faerie! And yes, Celeborn and Thranduil are variants on him, taking different aspects. No King has won Survivor yet. But I think this is a very opportune moment to break the trend, rather than voting for a second, inferior, Dragon.
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