What's your favorite mythological beast?

Brokehorn4000 · 07-11-2002, 12:29 PM

I just wanted to know what kind of mythological beasts everyone likes. And if you don't like any mythological beasts, have you ever made something up in your imagination?

My favorite is a dragon.

Arathorn · 07-11-2002, 01:07 PM

I think I'd go for Dr. Doolittle's pushme-pullyu. It's a farm-type animal (forgot if it's an ox or something else) but has heads on both ends.

Claenoic · 07-11-2002, 02:31 PM

OOoooooeeeiiiish....... Very close tie between a pegasus and a Basilisk.

sun-star · 07-11-2002, 02:45 PM

I don't know, the unicorn maybe.

***HOBBIT*** · 07-11-2002, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Brokehorn4000
I just wanted to know what kind of mythological beasts everyone likes. And if you don't like any mythological beasts, have you ever made something up in your imagination?

My favorite is a dragon. And according to the Chinese zodiac, I was born in the year of the dragon!

Hmm I'd have to think about this to answer it, but ya know you just told us your age. You were born in 1988, which means you are 14. Unless of course you were born on the past dragon years, but I'm guessing I'm right. I might not be, and it doesn't matter in the least. Am I right?

Andúril · 07-11-2002, 03:30 PM

The IPU.

emplynx · 07-11-2002, 03:49 PM

the Balrog.

HobbitChick88 · 07-11-2002, 04:37 PM

I guess mine would be the dragon and the unicorn. I think they are both wonderful and beautiful in their own way.

Wayfarer · 07-11-2002, 04:39 PM

I'm a die-hard dragon fan.

BeardofPants · 07-11-2002, 05:56 PM

Hmm. Difficult choices! I guess I'd have to go for the satyr, the sphinx, the chimaera, or the basilisk.

noldo · 07-11-2002, 07:29 PM

Griffins.

Aragorn · 07-11-2002, 08:52 PM

The Balrog...but the Chimaera is a close second...

samwise of the shire · 07-12-2002, 04:15 PM

I LOVE dragons. They are so COOL. I have dragon posters, and a stuffed dragon puppet. Unicorns are next THEN we get the Ents in there. Hobbits aren't beasts...are they?
Sam

arawn · 07-12-2002, 04:58 PM

Mordicants, from Sabriel by Garth Nix

Or sphinx, the Greek version.

Brokehorn4000 · 07-12-2002, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by samwise of the shire
I LOVE dragons. They are so COOL. I have dragon posters, and a stuffed dragon puppet. Unicorns are next THEN we get the Ents in there. Hobbits aren't beasts...are they?
Sam

I'm glad there's other dragon fans! I have this really cool poster my friend gave me by Paul Jaquays called 'Dragon Mountain'. It has a big red dragon on a cliff that could pass for Smaug, except the background has a snow-covered mountain.

Concerning your question about hobbits, I'm not sure myself, because I thought Tolkien came up with them. But I don't think they would fall into the catagory of beasts, because they're quite civilized.

Brokehorn4000 · 07-12-2002, 08:03 PM

Reign of Fire looks like a great movie for dragon-lovers, and the game doesn't look that bad either!

samwise of the shire · 07-12-2002, 10:17 PM

I think you're right about that hobbit thing Brokenhorn. So what category would they fall under? Faeries? *shrugs shoulders*.
My poster is this picture of these two dragons fighting. One is in the air and that one is brownish red and it's rider is a woman, on the ground is this green dragon. It's really cool because behind the red dragon it looks like the sun is setting so it turns the sky yellow and then it fades down into the cool snow and blue and green of the earth. It's neat.
I dont have any unicorn stuff though, not even a statue. And it seems to me that faery and dragon stories are so much more cooler to read and write than unicorn stories. Most of the time unicorn stories deal with healing and I am DEFINANTLY not a healer.
Well Welcome to the moot friend Brokenhorn,
Sam

Erawyn · 07-12-2002, 10:33 PM

Griffins or those horse eagle things, or the giant eagles in lotr!

samwise of the shire · 07-12-2002, 10:50 PM

Are those horse thinymabobs Hippogriffs or are those the sea horses?
Sam

HobbitChick88 · 07-12-2002, 10:56 PM

I love hippogriffs! I had forgotten about them, they're some of my favorites also (sorry, I kinda threw that in there @ the wrong time

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07-11-2002, 12:29 PM	#1
Brokehorn4000 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: America, Land That I Love! Posts: 179	What's your favorite mythological beast? I just wanted to know what kind of mythological beasts everyone likes. And if you don't like any mythological beasts, have you ever made something up in your imagination? My favorite is a dragon. __________________ ****************************** "Even if you're going in the right direction, you'll get run over if you just sit there."-- Paraphrase of a quote from some famous guy. Last edited by Brokehorn4000 : 08-14-2002 at 04:02 PM.

07-11-2002, 01:07 PM	#2
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	I think I'd go for Dr. Doolittle's pushme-pullyu. It's a farm-type animal (forgot if it's an ox or something else) but has heads on both ends. __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

07-11-2002, 02:31 PM	#3
Claenoic Queen of Prolonged, Unexplained Absences Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Texas. 'Nuff said. Posts: 556	OOoooooeeeiiiish....... Very close tie between a pegasus and a Basilisk. __________________ Very Biased Alternate Script (but it's funny!):Click here! FREAK RAIN!!!!!!!! O.o Queen of prolonged unexplained absences and long, loooong car rides. Well, hullo everyone. As you can see, I don't hang out here muchly anymore. There's a good reason for this. Y'see, I've been hanging out at a different chatboard called Cardboardia. So far, I've been havin' a blast. Not that I don't love the TLA, but the magic of Entmoot is lost on me. So, as soon as TLA ends, so will my existance here, probably. Who knows though? I might stay. Highly unlikely however. This is a good bye in advance, then. Unless you want to join me and my group of friends at Cardboardia. Cheers!

07-11-2002, 02:45 PM	#4
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I don't know, the unicorn maybe. __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

07-11-2002, 04:37 PM	#8
HobbitChick88 Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: Sweet Home Alabama Posts: 237	I guess mine would be the dragon and the unicorn. I think they are both wonderful and beautiful in their own way. __________________ "Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars..." ~The Hobbit "And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whose you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." -Joshua 24:15 Step follows step, Hope follows courage. Set your face toward danger Set your heart on victory! "Where is Elizabeth?" "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington just like she promised, and you get to die for her just like you promised. So we're all men of our word, really....except for Elizabeth who is, in fact, a woman." ~Will Turner and Jack Sparrow, POTC fROdO LIVeS!!!!

07-11-2002, 03:30 PM	#6
Andúril The Original Corruptor Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,881	The IPU.

07-11-2002, 03:49 PM	#7
emplynx Self-Appointed Lord of the Free Peoples of the General Messages Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,214	the Balrog.

07-11-2002, 04:39 PM	#9
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	I'm a die-hard dragon fan. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

07-11-2002, 05:56 PM	#10
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Hmm. Difficult choices! I guess I'd have to go for the satyr, the sphinx, the chimaera, or the basilisk. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

07-11-2002, 07:29 PM	#11
noldo Elven Icon Maker Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Finland Posts: 517	Griffins. __________________ "I can't even think straight!" "Orange is the new pink, and men are the new women."

07-11-2002, 08:52 PM	#12
Aragorn Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Anywhere but where I should be. Posts: 369	The Balrog...but the Chimaera is a close second... __________________ And they carried them to the flatlands But they died along the way And they built up with their bare hands What we still can't do today. EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMEDDCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO till the day I die.

07-12-2002, 04:15 PM	#13
samwise of the shire Radically Tolkienited Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: If home is where the heart is, and my heart is in heaven...that should answer your question. <+>< Posts: 967	I LOVE dragons. They are so COOL. I have dragon posters, and a stuffed dragon puppet. Unicorns are next THEN we get the Ents in there. Hobbits aren't beasts...are they? Sam __________________ Jesus is my all in all <><+<><+<><+<><+<><+<><+ People who are so concerned with escapism do have a name...we call them jailers. ~J.R.R Tolkien Radically Saved, Totally Tolkienited GOD... BLESS... AMERICA...

07-12-2002, 04:58 PM	#14
arawn Sapling Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: The House of Elrond Posts: 9	Mordicants, from Sabriel by Garth Nix Or sphinx, the Greek version. __________________ "I will not say: do not weep, for not all tears are an evil" -Gandalf

07-12-2002, 08:03 PM	#16
Brokehorn4000 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: America, Land That I Love! Posts: 179	Reign of Fire looks like a great movie for dragon-lovers, and the game doesn't look that bad either! __________________ ****************************** "Even if you're going in the right direction, you'll get run over if you just sit there."-- Paraphrase of a quote from some famous guy.

07-12-2002, 10:17 PM	#17
samwise of the shire Radically Tolkienited Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: If home is where the heart is, and my heart is in heaven...that should answer your question. <+>< Posts: 967	I think you're right about that hobbit thing Brokenhorn. So what category would they fall under? Faeries? shrugs shoulders. My poster is this picture of these two dragons fighting. One is in the air and that one is brownish red and it's rider is a woman, on the ground is this green dragon. It's really cool because behind the red dragon it looks like the sun is setting so it turns the sky yellow and then it fades down into the cool snow and blue and green of the earth. It's neat. I dont have any unicorn stuff though, not even a statue. And it seems to me that faery and dragon stories are so much more cooler to read and write than unicorn stories. Most of the time unicorn stories deal with healing and I am DEFINANTLY not a healer. Well Welcome to the moot friend Brokenhorn, Sam __________________ Jesus is my all in all <><+<><+<><+<><+<><+<><+ People who are so concerned with escapism do have a name...we call them jailers. ~J.R.R Tolkien Radically Saved, Totally Tolkienited GOD... BLESS... AMERICA...

07-12-2002, 10:33 PM	#18
Erawyn Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: america junior Posts: 320	Griffins or those horse eagle things, or the giant eagles in lotr!

07-12-2002, 10:50 PM	#19
samwise of the shire Radically Tolkienited Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: If home is where the heart is, and my heart is in heaven...that should answer your question. <+>< Posts: 967	Are those horse thinymabobs Hippogriffs or are those the sea horses? Sam __________________ Jesus is my all in all <><+<><+<><+<><+<><+<><+ People who are so concerned with escapism do have a name...we call them jailers. ~J.R.R Tolkien Radically Saved, Totally Tolkienited GOD... BLESS... AMERICA...

07-12-2002, 10:56 PM	#20
HobbitChick88 Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2002 Location: Sweet Home Alabama Posts: 237	I love hippogriffs! I had forgotten about them, they're some of my favorites also (sorry, I kinda threw that in there @ the wrong time ). __________________ "Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars..." ~The Hobbit "And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whose you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." -Joshua 24:15 Step follows step, Hope follows courage. Set your face toward danger Set your heart on victory! "Where is Elizabeth?" "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington just like she promised, and you get to die for her just like you promised. So we're all men of our word, really....except for Elizabeth who is, in fact, a woman." ~Will Turner and Jack Sparrow, POTC fROdO LIVeS!!!!

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