Tol-in-Gaurhoth LI: The Pain of Wargs

[Kath]

Samwise:

Arrived pretty early on and began disecting Eomer's narrations. Said 'at the risk of becoming prominent'. I didn't think much about that yesterDay but now given then knowledge of his role I wonder whether a wolf might have picked up on it.

Lommy says she recalls spotting him as a wolf before - possibly setting herself up with something to fall back on if she's a wolf and needs a scapegoat.

Kitanna has him as undecided in her thoughts, maybe she was simply a kill with no trail.

Ah! Nogrod noticed the prominent thing - but I think put a different interpretation on it.

Has as suspicious: Legate, Rune, Brinn, Lommy, Shasta , Nogrod

Has as innocent: Gwath, Kitanna

The rest he seems pretty unsure about. Then votes Brinn because he doesn't want to wonder why the baddies would leave her alive. It's odd reasoning for a vote to me ... I can see why this would have made him suspicious to innocents and interesting to wolves.

Legate went straight from Samwise not standing out to suddenly doing so for being contrary, voting safely (I must disagree here, if the person was a safe vote the manner of it certainly wasn't!), repeating that we shouldn't focus on the prophecy. I'm not quite sure I understand his being contrary thing - especially that quote he has about Gwath. Gwath shows independent thinking and is applauded for that by being thought of as innocent - hardly seems being nice with a twist of suspicion. Perhaps this is Day 1 suspicion, making the most of the little you have - or it may be me reading it with the knowledge of the outcome.

Nog still making a big thing about 'prominent' and Samwise's answer to that being picked up. I think the confusion must result from the language barrier because it seems obvious to me that Samwise was saying he had been worried about getting noticed for having too much content in his post and then found that Nogrod picked him up for not having enough in there to warrant the prominent comment. Given, say, Lommy's post which I think came before Samwise's I can see his point somewhat if he'd only seen character based babble before posting.

Kitanna had some very good points on Samwise's vote. Why was Brinn being left alive any more important than anyone else being left alive. He can have had no more information than anyone else unless the Ranger had powers we don't know about.

Legate says he's likely to vote Samwise.

Now, having focused on Samwise earlier, Nog suddenly puts him in the same category as me when trying to work out his role, simply giving him a 'so?' which seems pretty odd.

Kitanna repeats that Samwise looks odd but decides that the recklessness of the vote means he is unlikely to be a wolf.

Really odd reasoning from Legate about his vote. He had reasons for voting Samwise, and yet felt it necessary to explain why he was discounting everyone else. If Samwise was the only person he had real suspicions of, why go through the motions?

Nogrod is now suddenly back to having Samwise as a possible wolf when he'd previously been a huh?

Legate votes Samwise.

Nogrod votes Samwise.

Soo, from this. Lommy, Kitanna, Nogrod and Legate were the only ones who had any real contact with him or spoke much about him. Lommy I'm unsure about here, I don't think she interacted with him enough to bother looking at it in great depth. Kitanna I am inclined to think actually may have thought Samwise was Gifted and backed off once she'd figured that out. Legate is consistent and does find adequate reasons for suspicion, I don't like his vote explanation but that could just be his style. Nogrod I don't like for his flip-flopping.

So out of the two that voted for him I would put Nog as the wolvish one, but I wouldn't discount Legate.

Right, off to look at Kitanna, hopefully will get that done before dinner.

Oh, and might I say having only just noticed - Lommy ... Kathie? Please no. Kat, Kath, Kate, Katy, Katherine, oy you, any of them, but please don't make me sound like some middle aged person trying to sound young!