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.
Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Connie Neil - Jul 13, 2009 10:02:04 am PDT #16456 of 30000
brillig
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.
sumi - Jul 13, 2009 10:18:27 am PDT #16461 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Oh come on, without Luthian we wouldn't have Aragorn or Elrond!
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 10:18:44 am PDT #16462 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I was just being flip.
I can't ever tell - especially when my geekiness is engaged. It's all a serious question that needs a serious answer. (sigh)
-t - Jul 13, 2009 10:20:08 am PDT #16463 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am all for the serious answer to the flip question, actually. Makes for fun thinking.
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 10:21:53 am PDT #16464 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Oh come on, without Luthian we wouldn't have Aragorn or Elrond!
Pish. :) Illogical extreme: without Illuvatar, we wouldn't have the *world* for the story to take place.
Luthien is the centerpiece of a different work - the Quenta Silmarillion. She's no more significant to the story of LotR than Arvedui Lastking is; just another ancestor (illustrious, without question) of Aragorn. (And all these Halfelf marriages are so incestuous - Elros is Aragorn's umpteen-gazillionth granddad, and is Elrond's brother. So Arwen is Aragorn's 1st cousin.)
Luthien (and Beren) make me cry; that's what's on the Tolkiens' tombstones; that's how he thought of her. (Tearing up typing this; I'm so mushy inside.)
sumi - Jul 13, 2009 10:25:18 am PDT #16465 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Yeah, first cousin many times removed. (I'm not sure how much that matters. Of course, it probably depends on how much that family on the human side intermarried. I really can't recall that.)