What about Luthian? Or Aragorn's mom?
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sumi - Jul 13, 2009 9:57:20 am PDT #16451 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 9:58:24 am PDT #16452 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Farmer whatsisname's wife with the mushrooms? Goldberry?
Goldberry is Bombadil's wife; you're thinking of Mrs. Maggot, "a Queen amongst Hobbits" :) I don't think she's given a first name.
I keep meaning to memorize the Dwarven poem re: Moria, because the flow of the language is so gorgeous in that.
The poem I'm slowly memorizing is from the History of Middle-earth, volume 3 - "Lays of Beleriand". The Lay of Larethian - 3223 lines. I have 180 committed to memory; the rest just won't stick. The best parts, of course, describe Morgoth:
"Far in the north hills of stone In caverns black there was a Throne By flame encircled..."
Toddson - Jul 13, 2009 10:00:27 am PDT #16453 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
yeah yeah - 3223 lines of epic poem, 180 memorized.
But do you remember birthdays?
Connie Neil - Jul 13, 2009 10:00:30 am PDT #16454 of 30000
brillig
I love Lobelia! I wonder if Sackville-Baggins was a reference to the Sackville-Wests.
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 10:01:41 am PDT #16455 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Mmm...Shelob. I never think of her as a "female character", because she's a gigantic spider-demon. But you're right, she *is* hugely important.
Luthian isn't in Lord of the Rings. :)
However, you're ALSO very correct about Gilraen mother of Aragorn; though she doesn't appear in LotR, her behavior totally informs Aragorn's early life - and is so tragic.
"I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept no hope for myself."
Connie Neil - Jul 13, 2009 10:02:04 am PDT #16456 of 30000
brillig
The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge's fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls;
The shadow lies upon his tomb
In Moria, in Khazad-dum.
I shivered the first time I read that.
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 10:03:01 am PDT #16457 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
But do you remember birthdays?
Except for very rare exceptions, no - that's what Google Calendar is for. (The exceptions are holidays - mine is April 1, my sister's is July 4, my mom's is Kitty Hawk Day - I got my maternal grandfather's birthday wrong by a week MY ENTIRE LIFE.)
My brain is full of *useless* trivia, nothing *useful*. :)
Jessica - Jul 13, 2009 10:03:03 am PDT #16458 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Goldberry is Bombadil's wife; you're thinking of Mrs. Maggot, "a Queen amongst Hobbits" :) I don't think she's given a first name.
Yes, those were meant as two separate guesses. (Perils of punctuation standing in for tone of voice)
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 10:03:33 am PDT #16459 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Yes, those were meant as two separate guesses. (Perils of punctuation standing in for tone of voice)
Oh! Sorry. :)
-t - Jul 13, 2009 10:04:33 am PDT #16460 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I never think of her as a "female character", because she's a gigantic spider-demon.
Best that we don't, probably. I was just being flip.