I love the fact that you add in just enough real but fairly obscure lore to lead a reader to thinking you are being serious and then Wham!, Pow! You got us.
Well Done!
Now **Skald **has to assign you a comic book alter-ego.
I’ve always thought Tolkien’s world were just the Ragnarok Pantheon. An Asatru Northern Tale.
All of the Beasties that live in a Saxon Mind.
Gandalf is the child of Baldur
Odin and Thor are the Dwarves creation and legacy
Loki is the Orcen Father
I’m kind of up in the air about the elves. they are maybe a feminine Godess… Freyr perhaps.
Of course, Man is just Man.
Dellingr the Eye.
No, clearly not. His inspiration was a mix of Norse, heavy on the Finnish, Celtic, Roman Catholic, Spencer, George MacDonald and a few others. The Norse inspired the Dwarves and especially their names of course. Gandalf’s name came from the Elder Edda too of course as it was originally going to be Thorin’s name.
His creation myth mix heavy on Finnish musical power and his Roman Catholic upbringing. His Elves were Norse to some degree but the Celtic Sidhe were a heavy influence. Mostly though he took inspiration from many sources and then came up with his own painstaking and extremely beautiful and complex world.
Well, here is a man, a story teller, that creates mythologies within mythologies. A saxon-viking-celtic-welsh tale, redefining Arthur, religion is his world, the world he creates is from religion. I guess the Americans have Joseph Smith, but that is a poor substitute, and look where he has gotten us. Tolkien is a man who inadvertently made religion with a compelling story of fiction. Pretty much the history and wellspring of all religions.
I think you might like to lessen the Germanic influence in your Celt-centric interpretation.
Actually, QtM is not known to have fought against the Lensmen, nor for Eddore. So no worries.
Now, Skald. Ahem. [sub]can I get some of those Galadriel pics you mentioned?[/sub]
You are, of course, kidding. But Kim the Rhymer actually did some photoshop work with Galadriel and Cate Blanchett’s scene in some Judi Dench movie I can’t remember the name of.
On to other business…
::runs Captain Carrot and Terrifel’s posts through comic book analzyer::
Terrifel, based strictly on post 3 of this thread, is Peter Parker, in weisenheimer rather than emo mode.
Wait, all this time I thought that Captain Carrot refered to Carrot Ironfoundersson of Discworld. I still think this is true. How obscure is the Superhero Captain Carrot?
You’ll have to ask Captain Carrot which Captain Carrot the name Captain Carrot refers to. I’m only answering because I enjoy typing Captain Carrot.
Can I find true happiness just by writing “Captain Carrot”?
Yes. Yes, I can.
You’re the goddamn Batman. You don’t get to be happy. Never being happy is the price you pay for being the coolest super-hero.
Technically I think “the goddamn Batman” is considered a distinct subspecies of Batman, much like “Silver Age Batman” and “Schumacher Batman.”
I’m not sure what you mean by the latter. Are you referring to those imaginary movies you guys thought up one one long, LSD-fueled weekend? Because, as I keep TELLING you, NO SUCH MOVIES WERE EVER MADE.
But if the movies were never made, wouldn’t that make Batman happy?
There, I’ve run rings round you logically! 
Yes, I’m the goddamn Batman, and if I want to be happy, are you going to stop me? :dubious:
See above. Being Mister Mxyzptlk, I am naturally omnipotent and can only be stopped if you can trick me into writing, saying, spelling, or otherwise verbally representing my name backwards.
There are at least three obvious ways you could do that, but I’m not giving hints.
The movies were never made in the DC universe. Obviously.