My apologies, I barely understand that, you have left my area of geekdom. At least I know the ones from the Superfriends 70s kids show.
Er…he was an elf. Elves may be hot, but I’m fairly certain they’re not much for the loving, 'cept in the house of Finwe.
(By the way, I’m deliberately not doing the umlaut. Just to be a dick.)
Steve Trevor was Wonder Woman’s boyfriend from the 40s to the 80s. Being a mortal man involved with a woman who could take Superman in a rassling match 2 times out of 5, he saw his penis grow smaller each and every year until they relaunched Wonder Woman and they let him get involved with Diana’s best friend Etta.
It was just a silly joke, I wasn’t serious at all.
That sounds close enough.
My jokes are WAY sillier than yours. If you push me I’ll demand a vote of the membership, or maybe a light sabre duel. (Well, you’ll get a light-sabre; I’ll take a ak-47. 
Ah, the Indiana Solo Maneuver…
I think Sam would definitely been preferable as a Ring-bearer to Merry.
Merry’s skill as a tactician during the Scouring of the Shire shows that had he gotten hold of The Ring he would have used it and his native Fallohide charisma to build a halfling army, leading the forces of the West to storm the Dark Land, and setting himself on the throne in Barad-dur (no doubt with a booster seat).
Let’s try to keep this clean, shall we?
I’m sure it’s a whoosh, but just in case:
Puissance.
“The Hafling Third Foot will Advance! They may be tall as Orcs, boys, but they can still die! Aim for their knees! Fire!”
Okay boys, I’m veering the subject here a bit: Regarding the One Ring; when the dear Prof. Tolkien decided to write his really long story about Middle Earth, he could have had Bilbo as the ring-bearer. Why did he instead advance the time frame and introduce Frodo? Bilbo had grown quite a bit as a character over the course of The Hobbit, and he would have been a beloved, known protagonist.
But Prof. T., being the expert storyteller that he was, instead brought Frodo to life. I wonder why.
Any thoughts beyond he was a great writer and knew what he was doing?
Oh, I thought you were referring to the depiction of the Eye of Sauron in the LOTR movies.
Of course it’s a whoosh!
He went back and forth on the protagonist of the Lord of the Rings. It was going to be Bilbo and then it was going to be Bingo. The companions changed often early on including a Frodo Took. Actually I think Meriadoc was the first Hobbit to really be locked into the story. The Good Professor was among other things hung up on Bilbo living a “Happy Life”. There was a point where Bilbo was to be married and have a son. I think it was a Folco Took was going to end up as a fifth Hobbit that arrived in Rivendell separately as Gandalf carried him as a decoy and actually lost him but he was rescued by the Elves. Trotter the Hobbit Ranger with wooden shoes was originally in the Strider role. There was a mystery to who Trotter was, one of the Tooks that ran off years before, maybe Bilbo himself, an unknown son of Bilbo from after he left the Shire or someone else. I don’t think Tolkien even decided for sure before Trotter was replaced.
Frodo Baggins and his parents emerged only slowly. Tolkien had already got as far as Rivendell before Frodo Baggins was even named. Tolkien had finally decided on Bilbo’s adopted heir being the Ring Bearer as he wanted Bilbo to have a peaceful retirement. He played with the time to the party and the time before the Hobbits left the Shire quite a bit. He also realized early on the tone of the LotR was going to be darker and more grown-up and this was another reason to make another the central protagonist.
Jim (I hope that helped a little.)
So he wanted Bilbo to have a nice retirement and a new character would fit better with the darker tone of the new story. Hmm. Makes sense.
PS - I’ve skimmed through HOMES enough to be familiar with Trotter and Bingo. I bet JRRT would have been just as happy if that info had never been published. (speaking figuratively of course, since publication was posthumous).
Maybe, maybe not. But I am glad it was published, it certainly is fascinating. Meeting Marmaduke Brandybuck for the first time was a trip.
But a bigger thrill was visiting the Tolkien Collection at Marquette University, and seeing the original title page for LOTR, written in JRRT’s spidery style, and reading:
** [del]The Magic Ring[/del]**
The Lord of the Rings
Which makes one wonder: just what kind of ring was that, again? 'Cause we sure didn’t see any fingers… but there are rings for your flaming puissance, or for your Dark Tower.
They’d probably be a little less prone to slipping off at an awkward moment, too…
I’m pretty sure there’s a lotion for that.
Plausible as well…depending on the meaning of “consume”.
So about this Ring of Barahir. Would this be the oldest artifact in Middle Earth? I can’t think of too many other dinguses that were wrought in Valinor.
The Palantir’s were made by Fëanor himself by most account and thus are probably older.
:eek:
Dude! You did the apostrophe-plural thing1 Fix it, quick, or the Pullman fans will start mocking us!
Damn, I get the special characters correct in the name and blow simple punctuation. 3½ years of trying to improve and I still make and miss the stupid little mistakes.
BTW: What is the ‘thing1’ bit? 