Middle-earth Bad Popularity Cup - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Tuor in Gondolin · 03-07-2009, 07:26 PM

Velee interesting. With time running out for the
Marrer of Middle-earth he's trailing Wormy .
As Zero Mostel said to Gene Wilder in The Pruducers:

Quote:

Leo: May I speak to you for a minute?
Max: [pulls out stop watch] Go. You have 58 seconds.
Leo: Well, in glancing at your books, I noticed that...
Max: you have 48 seconds left. Hurry hurry.
Leo: Oh, I glanced at your books, I noticed...
Max: 28 seconds. You're running out of time.
Leo: [Trying to explain, getting more nervous]
Max: Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...

Also:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nerwen
Hey Tuor, why don't you pit Smaug and Glaurung against each other next round?

Hmm. Anti-dragon sentiment? Now who wished that there might be no
border between Orthanc and Mordor so they'd go against each other?

And anyway, that would be interfering in the brackets. Of course, it
would probably help Wormy. Hmm...........!

Tuor in Gondolin · 03-07-2009, 08:05 PM

Grima Wormtongue-5 Morgoth-4

Another upset to go with:
5) The Amazin' Mets 1969 World Series win against
the Baltimore Orioles

4)

Quote:

1933: Walsall 2-0 ArsenalDivision 3 South Walsall faced a hopeless situation when they drew first league leaders Arsenal for their 3rd round FA Cup playoff. At the time, the professional Arsenal team was worth thousands of pounds, whereas little Walsall’s team cost only £70. However, Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman made one fatal error. Believing the result was a foregone conclusion, he rested three of his top players. Walsall took its chance and scored two unanswered goals, to hand Arsenal a humiliating defeat.

3) 1980 Miracle on Ice U.S.A. over Russkies

2) Kim Cattrall upsets tennis fans:

Quote:

SEX AND THE CITY star KIM CATTRALL has angered sports fans and shown her lack of tennis know-how at the opening of the US OPEN championship in New York.

Kim - who plays sex-mad SAMANTHA in the hit show - was at Monday's start of the tournament when she walked out of the match between LLEYTON HEWITT and VICTOR HANESCU at an inappropriate moment.

The 47-year-old actress left at the end of an even-numbered game - angering spectators, who know you should only leave after odd-numbered games, when the players are swapping sides.

1) Frodo does not win Middle-earth Popularity Cup !

On to the semi-finals!

Carcharoth vs. Smaug
Glaurung vs. Grima son of Galmod

Next: Carcharoth vs. Smaug

Legate of Amon Lanc · 03-08-2009, 06:37 AM

Hooray! Gríma rulezz!!!

I like the way it came out, even though we could have been a bit more original still, but good, good. Thanks to good master Noggins, we have neither Sauron nor Morgoth here. Just a pity no Orc made it through...

As for the current match:

++Smaug

Eönwë · 03-08-2009, 07:52 AM

I don't like Carcharoth.

++Smaug

Ps. Yes, it's that simple.

Morthoron · 03-08-2009, 08:18 AM

++Smaug

Wolves...they're so real world. This is a fantasy, after all.

Tuor in Gondolin · 03-08-2009, 08:40 AM

An argument for The Red Maw could be
that he was the greatest wolf to ever live (and
took out the Hound of Valinor ) while it
would hardly be argued that Smaug the Magnificent
was the greatest dragon to ever live (and, after all,
he was taken out by one human archer).

Just saying...

Now, as for voting...um...(later).

Macalaure · 03-08-2009, 08:45 AM

I do like Carcharoth.

++Carcharoth

skip spence · 03-08-2009, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuor in Gondolin

Grima Wormtongue-5 Morgoth-4

I will have to question that result. Or is this not a democratic board where each member's vote carries the same weight?

Nerwen, Morthoron, Durelin, Ibrin and yours truly voted for Morgoth. See, there's five of us! Has Grima payed off the judges or what?

03-08-2009, 06:37 AM	#3
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Hooray! Gríma rulezz!!! I like the way it came out, even though we could have been a bit more original still, but good, good. Thanks to good master Noggins, we have neither Sauron nor Morgoth here. Just a pity no Orc made it through... As for the current match: ++Smaug __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

03-08-2009, 07:52 AM	#4
Eönwë Flame Imperishable Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 3,928	I don't like Carcharoth. ++Smaug Ps. Yes, it's that simple. __________________ Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place

03-08-2009, 08:18 AM	#5
Morthoron Curmudgeonly Wordwraith Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits Posts: 2,515	++Smaug Wolves...they're so real world. This is a fantasy, after all. __________________ And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision.

03-08-2009, 08:40 AM	#6
Tuor in Gondolin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Southeast Pennsylvania Posts: 3,651	An argument for The Red Maw could be that he was the greatest wolf to ever live (and took out the Hound of Valinor ) while it would hardly be argued that Smaug the Magnificent was the greatest dragon to ever live (and, after all, he was taken out by one human archer). Just saying... Now, as for voting...um...(later). __________________ The poster formerly known as Tuor of Gondolin. Walking To Rivendell and beyond 12,555 miles passed Nt./Day 5: Pass the beacon on Nardol, the 'Fire Hill.'

03-08-2009, 08:45 AM	#7
Macalaure Fading Fëanorion Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: into the flood again Posts: 2,911	I do like Carcharoth. ++Carcharoth