Gandalf is a fraud?! - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Nerwen · 04-22-2008, 06:44 AM

What I can't work out is whether the original poster, this Lord Kimboat fellow, is joking or not. I mean, his argument sounds deliberately far-fetched, the sort of thing alatar comes up with. I thought that he was being tongue-in-cheek with the bit about Gandalf hardly using magic ... but as some people have suggested, maybe the guy really does think D&D is universal.

Is he just an idiot? Or has he successfully pulled our collective leg?*

*so to speak.

Lord Tataraus · 04-22-2008, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Nerwen

What I can't work out is whether the original poster, this Lord Kimboat fellow, is joking or not. I mean, his argument sounds deliberately far-fetched, the sort of thing alatar comes up with. I thought that he was being tongue-in-cheek with the bit about Gandalf hardly using magic ... but as some people have suggested, maybe the guy really does think D&D is universal.

Is he just an idiot? Or has he successfully pulled our collective leg?*

*so to speak.

He is not joking, with all rebuttals and challenges to his theory he hasn't yet retracted it and its been a couple days now. Anyone (at least on that forum) who puts up jokes and far-fetched theories is found out and admitts to it with the first day usually.

Nerwen · 04-22-2008, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Lord Tataraus

He is not joking, with all rebuttals and challenges to his theory he hasn't yet retracted it and its been a couple days now. Anyone (at least on that forum) who puts up jokes and far-fetched theories is found out and admitts to it with the first day usually.

Oh dear.

*shakes head sadly*

The Sixth Wizard · 04-22-2008, 06:52 AM

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and thus one becomes an Ardan agnostic or atheist

I can be an Ardan agnostic? Sweet.

alatar · 04-22-2008, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Nerwen

What I can't work out is whether the original poster, this Lord Kimboat fellow, is joking or not. I mean, his argument sounds deliberately far-fetched, the sort of thing alatar comes up with.

Huh? I really must work on my reputation.

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Is he just an idiot? Or has he successfully pulled our collective leg?

Or, like some here, is he stirring the pot, winding up those of us who will fanatically defend Tolkien at all costs, regardless of the silly statements we have to make (at times) in order to do so?

What better fun than to see a straw man thrown into a hornet's nest?

04-22-2008, 06:44 AM	#1
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