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Celuien · 05-25-2006, 07:15 AM

Alas, I too am guilty.

Panakeia of Harad driving around Mordor in a yellow PT Cruiser and stealing Bill Shatner's toupee at a Star Trek convention isn't exactly canon.

The Hobrog, however, fits into Middle-earth beautifully.

Or maybe not...

**The Saucepan Man** · 05-25-2006, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Esty

Is parody a crime? If so, I am definitely guilty!

I, on the other hand, remain entirely blameless, as I wrote only of an overconfident and villainous Dark Lord and a Hobbit who overindulges in vittals, beer and pipeweed.

Although the Jéorri Springer episode might be considered rather wide of the Mark ...

Mithalwen · 05-25-2006, 11:11 AM

I have been a card carrying member of the canon police as an admin on other boards, forever telling people that they couldn't be half elves, Elrond's second daughter etc.... outrageous, unforgivable crimes...

My own crimes were:

- cowardice in the face of the Literati (I went in to the closet regarding liking Tolkien for most of a four year Literature degree - a few references slipped out in Linguistics but I tried not to look too keen

) .

-an act of High Treason (Here, I criticised some aspects of Tolkien's writing and I nearly got lynched).

However, while I perhaps should be shot at dawn then hanged by the neck until I be dead, someone may save you the trouble with a duel (dawn again but necessarily earlier that the appointed hour for the firing squad).

I once committed the crime of saying that Aragorn was a bit of a prig (compared to the divine Faramir) whatever happened to that gauntlet Prof Hedgethistle?

ninja91 · 05-25-2006, 12:54 PM

You caught me. Frodo led an army of 300,000 hobbits into Rhun and slaughtered all the Easterlings.

Lalwendë · 05-25-2006, 01:06 PM

I mispronounce just about all the names and words that Tolkien created. I even pronounce Tolkien incorrectly. I imagine Elrond has a beard. And I don't care.

*

Not always anyway...

I often wonder about the Green Dragon in our own RPGs. It has all kinds of creatures wandering in and out, but didn't Aragorn say that The Shire would be reserved for Hobbits only in the Fourth Age? Still, it would be dull if it was just for Hobbits.

*this is just to make it even more naughty...

Formendacil · 05-25-2006, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Lalwendë

I often wonder about the Green Dragon in our own RPGs. It has all kinds of creatures wandering in and out, but didn't Aragorn say that The Shire would be reserved for Hobbits only in the Fourth Age? Still, it would be dull if it was just for Hobbits.

Possibly that ruling has yet to be pronounced...

Although I do wonder about the "Lewis"es and "Cordelia"s that I've seen floating around on it... doesn't strike me as very Middle-Earthian.

Mind you, as a card-carrying member of AtM2, I'm not exactly an innocent... though I'd like to think that playing a rather canonical, if stuffy, member of the Gondorian side of the fence ought to count for something.

However, I must confess that about eight years ago, at a rather young age indeed, I was known to playact at being a descendent (and King of Gondor) of Aragorn, who just HAPPENED to be an excellent warrior and tracker, and who, as it happened, went about escorting roughly four hobbits, an elf, a dwarf, a man (my brother, ala Boromir), and a couple of Blue Wizards on a quest into the East to destroy the Ring- one of the Seven, somehow not destroyed in Barad-dûr's fall, and somehow still potent...

My imagination was rather under-used...

Diamond18 · 05-25-2006, 04:17 PM

I am guilty on many levels. In RPGs I am responsible for Vogonwë the Horrible Poet, the half-elven son of Geppetuil the Elven-partyking (the third cousin of Thranduil, thrice removed), and a human woman of Chippendale. Then there's his fiancée (recently wed) the half-halfing Pimpiowyn Took, a cross between a hobbit lass and a Valiant Man of the Mike (Pipsissewa Took and Éohorse son of Needahorse). As if that weren't enough, I have recently given life to the abomination that is Skittles MacFarlewyn.

And ya know what?

I am unrepentant. Destroying canon is my purpose in life.

05-25-2006, 07:15 AM	#1
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	Alas, I too am guilty. Panakeia of Harad driving around Mordor in a yellow PT Cruiser and stealing Bill Shatner's toupee at a Star Trek convention isn't exactly canon. The Hobrog, however, fits into Middle-earth beautifully. Or maybe not... __________________ People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

05-25-2006, 11:11 AM	#3
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	It's a fair cop - but society is to blame.... I have been a card carrying member of the canon police as an admin on other boards, forever telling people that they couldn't be half elves, Elrond's second daughter etc.... outrageous, unforgivable crimes... My own crimes were: - cowardice in the face of the Literati (I went in to the closet regarding liking Tolkien for most of a four year Literature degree - a few references slipped out in Linguistics but I tried not to look too keen ) . -an act of High Treason (Here, I criticised some aspects of Tolkien's writing and I nearly got lynched). However, while I perhaps should be shot at dawn then hanged by the neck until I be dead, someone may save you the trouble with a duel (dawn again but necessarily earlier that the appointed hour for the firing squad). I once committed the crime of saying that Aragorn was a bit of a prig (compared to the divine Faramir) whatever happened to that gauntlet Prof Hedgethistle? __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

05-25-2006, 01:06 PM	#5
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	I mispronounce just about all the names and words that Tolkien created. I even pronounce Tolkien incorrectly. I imagine Elrond has a beard. And I don't care. * Not always anyway... I often wonder about the Green Dragon in our own RPGs. It has all kinds of creatures wandering in and out, but didn't Aragorn say that The Shire would be reserved for Hobbits only in the Fourth Age? Still, it would be dull if it was just for Hobbits. this is just to make it even more naughty... __________________ Gordon's alive!*

05-25-2006, 04:17 PM	#7
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	I am guilty on many levels. In RPGs I am responsible for Vogonwë the Horrible Poet, the half-elven son of Geppetuil the Elven-partyking (the third cousin of Thranduil, thrice removed), and a human woman of Chippendale. Then there's his fiancée (recently wed) the half-halfing Pimpiowyn Took, a cross between a hobbit lass and a Valiant Man of the Mike (Pipsissewa Took and Éohorse son of Needahorse). As if that weren't enough, I have recently given life to the abomination that is Skittles MacFarlewyn. And ya know what? I am unrepentant. Destroying canon is my purpose in life. __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression.