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05-28-2008, 09:59 PM | #161 | |
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Captain Janeway and Gandalf are two of my role models.
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05-29-2008, 02:55 AM | #162 | |
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I agree! Ingwe got me into Voyager a lot and from seeing just aboutt every episode, I gotta say Janeway is a great role model. Janeway's one of those who doesn't let the Prime Directive get in the way. She creatively "uses" it to her advantage and spoils the fun for everyone else. Nobody but Janeway could have gotten that ship through 7 years of total danger. I'm not too sure about Kirk because I haven't seen many of the older Trek. I'm very much not old school in that way.
Gandalf, Galadriel, Arwen, and Captain Janeway are all just the coolest. Gandalf is your unbiased God-like figure and Galadriel, Arwen, and Janeway show that girls can kick butt more than pretty much anyone ellse. Picard was too polite and had plenty of opportunitties to steal stuff from the Borg but never did. Janeway had pllenty of opportunities to steal from the Borg and well she did, and evven improved upon it! So if Janeway and Gandalf went up face to face in a battle in a cross-universe way, it's just my opinion, but they'd both be quite evenly matched, until Janeway took Gandalf's powers and improved upon tthem. Her ship was so great it spawned shuttles out of nowhere! Anyway, if I was going to be on topic, which I should because I've been an administrator on my Ingwe's site for a while and usually kill people for going off-topic, then I'd havve this to say .... You're addicted to Lord of the Rings if you know who Denethor's father, grandfather, great grandfather, and the exact years that they reigned as steward, when they were born, how long they lived, the names of their wives, and the names of other siblings of their heirs. Quote:
A funny piece of information. My sister came up with a name for the syndrome that makes people dress like Gandalf everyday. It was something like "Gandalfylitis". It's described as an inflammation in the part of the brain that deals with trivia regardingg things like TV shows and movies but more specifically targets the area of the brain responsible for memorizing how Gandalf talks, how he dresses, the staff he holds, etcetera. With some people, everyday is Halloween, or opening night for Lord of the Rings in that case. |
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06-28-2010, 02:07 PM | #163 |
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You Know You're Obsessed When...
1. Your mum is going to the grocery store and asks if you need anything. You reply by kneeling, clasping her hands and saying, "I would have gone with you 'till the end."
1.5)You know you're an even bigger nut when you've trained her to respond, "I know." instead of throwing you in the nuthouse. 2.When your gerbil Frodo dies, you hold him to your chest and cry, "Not asleep - dead!" 3. Your mum wander into your room looking for the scissors and you look at her and say, "I cannot give you what you seek!" 4. Your best friend, who has never seen the movie, knows every plot twist and surprise ending, and can recognize every actor and character by sight. (You give her the box set for Christmas ) |
06-28-2010, 02:34 PM | #164 | |
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06-28-2010, 02:49 PM | #165 |
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06-28-2010, 11:10 PM | #166 |
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You know you're obcessed with LOTR if:
-your life's dream is to collect every book by/concerning Tolkien/ME/LOTR/Elfs -you argue tirelessly with your uncle over whether santa's elves are really Elfs (they're not!) -you get mad every time someone spells "Elfs" "Elves" because Tolkien prefers first spelling -you have The One Ring and wear it secretly tucked into your shirt -you have The One Ring and haven't put it on because you're afraid the Nazgul will come -you have argued with your teacher whether Gandalf is a wizard and uses magic or an Istari who uses the power given to him by Illuvatar. -you own three copies of LOTR-one very nice version for display-a paperback version for actually reading-and an extra copy in case you lose any of the others
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06-29-2010, 12:39 AM | #167 | |
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-you spent the past year stalking Christopher Tolkien just to get his email and home address to be able to write him...and yes, I have them both!
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Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien |
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06-29-2010, 11:57 AM | #168 |
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... in English, and then the same in your first language if this isn't English
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06-29-2010, 09:42 PM | #169 |
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Wait, Tolkien preferred "Elfs" to "Elves"? Where is that from? Or did I misunderstand you?
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06-29-2010, 10:26 PM | #170 | |
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06-30-2010, 01:36 AM | #171 |
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Yes, he preferred the first spelling rather over the second...still rummaging through my folders of letters and essays I have of his to directly quote it...will report as soon as I find it
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Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien |
06-30-2010, 09:58 AM | #172 |
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Would that be 'Elfs' for Shakespeare-type fairies, with Elves for the Eldar?
He certainly preferred Dwarves for Dwarfs for his own creations, with Dwarfs as the term for the fairy-tales ones ...
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06-30-2010, 04:32 PM | #173 |
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Except when he preferred 'Dwarrows,' that is.
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06-30-2010, 06:29 PM | #174 |
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Or Dwerrows, don't forget.
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08-02-2010, 03:17 PM | #175 |
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Fer sher! Dwerrows... But hey, question - is everyone satisfied with the chosen cast for the movies, or would you have liked someone else? (i.e Aragorn should have been played by ________)
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08-02-2010, 03:40 PM | #176 |
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Not Stuart Townsend, that's for sure.
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08-02-2010, 04:09 PM | #177 |
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Huh, I'd be interested to see that. The only thing I found (through googling) was that he prefered 'elf' to 'fairy'. I could've sworn that in all of his stories he used the word 'elves' over 'elfs'.
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08-02-2010, 04:41 PM | #178 |
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Certainly, he used it the vast majority of the time, which would be strange, if he preferred elfs (given that he showed no qualms at using dwarves over the more common dwarfs). Elfs is such a rare occurrence that intuition wants to make of it an out-right error; even the MW doesn't seem to recognize it, though the OED lists it as a form (and provides the interesting tidbit that originally, "elf" was masculine and "elven" feminine).
Of course, scarcity of usage was never something to scare JRRT away, so that doesn't really show much. I would be interested to see the citation, though.
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08-03-2010, 04:55 AM | #179 |
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08-12-2010, 05:05 PM | #180 | |
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