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09-08-2012, 11:52 AM | #281 |
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Who played Earendil? Because I played Elwing! It was a funny coincidence.
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09-08-2012, 12:11 PM | #282 |
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Kath has the victory with Arkenstone.
Wilwa has also messaged me with the winner of "Dangerous" and has chosen... ++Minas Morgul. Citing she did not believe Sauron beats his places outright. Minas Morgul as the home of the Ringwraiths and drawing Frodo to its call fulfills dangerous. The name itself also sounding threatening translating to "Tower of Black Sorcery." So, sally wins for dangerous.
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09-08-2012, 12:42 PM | #283 |
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Hurrah!
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Bah, Minas Morgul is nothing without Sauron. Who played Sauron? I would've picked it. (The only other possibility for me would've been Silmarils I think.)
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09-08-2012, 02:07 PM | #285 |
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the phantom - 3 (Honest, Insane, Violent) Gwath- 3 (Neglected, Charming, Rank) Nogrod - 2 (Extraordinary, Peaceful) Menel - 2 (Cuddly, Ridiculous) sally - 2 (Chewy, Dangerous) Kitanna - 1 (Deadly) Lhuna - 1 (Weary) Lottie- 1 (Melodramatic) Kath 1 (Attractive) ---- ROUND 17 G55 your choice of sensitive taters: Bert Barliman Butterbur Miriel Nienna Beren Beleg Strongbow Ossiriand Cirdan Gwaihir Windlord Huorns ---- ROUND 18: Green tater: Radiant (shining, glowing, sparkling) Judge: the phantom
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09-08-2012, 02:12 PM | #286 |
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One of them just struck a note...but I want to hear peoples' opinions, and maybe you'll be able to convince me to pick a different one. And no, I'm not telling which one resonated with me, it's more interesting this way.
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09-08-2012, 04:13 PM | #287 |
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Nienna is definitely the one that jumps out at me, seeing as she's known for crying, heh heh.
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09-08-2012, 04:16 PM | #288 | |
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Of those in play this round I'd say quite many would fit the term "sensitive" (susceptible, sympathetic, tender). On the top of my hat I'd think the following at least merit consideration (in the order they appear on the list)... Barliman Butterbur - Haha, always willing to know how people like him, ready to please everyone, feeling strongly about his guests and his own honour ("What would others think if they knew something happened in the Prancing Pony"), sympathtic to the bone, susceptible, especially to flattery, and a bar-tender. Nienna - Now if there ever was a trump-card to "sensitive" you should consider Nienna. If you are the "ladý of pity and mourning" you need to be sensitive and have loads of sympathy. And being susceptible goes more or less as a job descritpion for Nienna. Maybe not as funny a choice as Butterbur, but to the point on a level of her own. Beleg - So sensitive and tender-hearted towards Túrin it proved his own downfall. Sympathetic to the edge of that being tragic. Gwaihir - Always so sensitive and susceptible about who can ride him and how much and what for... Huorns - Very sensitive to the opinions and actions of others towards forests. Their tenderness and sympathy is pretty limited though and towards any "out-group" they seem to be everything but that. But a nice choice still as I tihnk it is their susceptibility and sensibility that made them join the cause when Gandalf did his "Saruman-tricks". Others I don't think fit so well, but maybe after some thought I can come up with words on their behalf as well. But at least now I'd say the five aforementioned are the contenders.
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09-08-2012, 04:17 PM | #289 |
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Nienna and Miriel are probably best for "sensitive" in the typical sense, though Bert would probably count toward the "takes everything personally and complains about it" type of sensitive.
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Perhaps payback for Minas Morgul?
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I may or may not be here at DL, so just in case I'm choosing now. And so far nothing was said to dissuade me from votin what jumped out at me from the first glance.
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09-09-2012, 12:03 PM | #293 |
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Kitanna gets her 2nd.
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09-09-2012, 02:10 PM | #294 |
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the phantom - 3 (Honest, Insane, Violent) Gwath- 3 (Neglected, Charming, Rank) Nogrod - 2 (Extraordinary, Peaceful) Menel - 2 (Cuddly, Ridiculous) sally - 2 (Chewy, Dangerous) Kitanna - 2 (Deadly, Sensitive) Lhuna - 1 (Weary) Lottie- 1 (Melodramatic) Kath- 1 (Attractive) ---- ROUND 18 the phantom has these for "Radiant"...oh boy heh Romenna Varda Nessa Tuor Arien Two Trees of Valinor Golfimbul Phial of Galadriel Ulmo Ithilien *Remember no more red taters left and will update this with Round 19 shortly. (only Round 19 and 20 left). ---- ROUND 19 Green tater: Conceited (vain, smug, self-centered) Judge: Lottie
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09-09-2012, 02:58 PM | #295 |
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I must have missed this or not paid attention... so we're not going to play our hands empty?
I mean it certainly produces some of the most hilarious combinations when you only have two or three cards in your hand and need to pick one for a given green tater... not to talk of the last round.
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09-09-2012, 04:31 PM | #296 |
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Wow there are some good ones...
Feel free to push for underdog candidates, but I'd like to get everyone's views on these four especially- Varda Arien Two Trees of Valinor Phial of Galadriel
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09-09-2012, 05:15 PM | #297 |
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All four are good. They are the ones I would consider too.
I suppose I like Phial best, because it's an object and I tend to like objects. Then the 2 Trees. And then Arien, since it's just too true. And fourth comes Varda. However, Trees beat Phial in epicness.
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09-09-2012, 08:20 PM | #298 |
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Forgot to mention - I agree with Nog about going till the last tater in people's hands. Could we do that please?
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09-09-2012, 09:43 PM | #299 |
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I agree with playing to the last tater.
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09-09-2012, 10:00 PM | #300 |
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Dittoing the 55th and the seal clubber. Let's play last tater standing.
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09-10-2012, 06:19 AM | #301 |
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As you wish.
We may not be able to go to the very very end, since with judges not everyone will run out at the same time. But we will go as far as possible.
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09-10-2012, 08:11 AM | #302 |
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Varda- Made the stars. Angelic aura.
Arien- Sun. Angelic. Hot. Two Trees of Valinor- Both sun and moon. Phial of Galadriel- Starlight. Spelled with "ph".
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09-10-2012, 10:57 AM | #303 |
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Okay, let's toss out Varda.
Two Trees- Perhaps the "right" answer. Phial- It would be super if Galadriel was the one that played it (along with the "ph"). Arien- Gotta love the sun-lady (especially after Real Valinor's run).
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09-10-2012, 10:59 AM | #304 |
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Also- I can't possibly choose when only one person has given an opinion to this point...
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09-10-2012, 12:37 PM | #305 |
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For "Radiant" (shining, glowing, sparkling)
The "obvious" choices: Two Trees of Valinor - The most obvious of the obvious choices. 'nuff said. Arien - an excellent choice, if there weren't Telperion and Laurelin played as well, for neither Arien or Tilion carry with them the original light but a faded version of it. Phial of Galadriel - an excellent choice (well, not perhaps so sparkling but...), if there weren't Telperion and Laurelin - and Arien - played as well, for the phial is just a reflection of a reflection of the light of the Trees - so like two times removed from the original. Varda - The only possible competition to the Trees if you think of her as the creator of the stars themselves - but she is not the stars as she is their creator: so unlike the three others she doesnt radiate but creates things that radiate (wasn't she initially the dew-collector for the trees?). Is that better or worse than radiating yourself - that's up to you tp. Good or decent choices but not like the first attribute I'd give them (if you want to think outside the box, then you might find a good candidate from here): Romenna - Must be one of the most radiant cities ever built, and especially because it became the safe-haven () of the faithful later on... Tuor - if he manages to be picked by Ulmo, to become the leader of the "House of the Swan Wing" and to be the only human counted as an elven kindred, then he has to be quite radiant. Nessa - dashing speed and great dancer, not that far-fetched for radiant. Ulmo - I think all of the Valar must be radiant in some way but I wouldn't think I would go using that term on Ulmo in the top-fifty choices for descriptions on him. Ithilien - Yeah, you could say that, maybe, possibly, on some fine times. But it is in the end a forest. Hmm... Golfimbul - Well, if you think losing your head into a rabbit-hole is radiant, then why not...
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09-10-2012, 01:16 PM | #307 |
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Who then is radiant? Why, none other than, G55.
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09-10-2012, 01:37 PM | #308 |
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Everyone has at least one point now?
If it is so, great!
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09-10-2012, 01:56 PM | #309 |
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Tally
the phantom - 3 (Honest, Insane, Violent) Gwath- 3 (Neglected, Charming, Rank) Nogrod - 2 (Extraordinary, Peaceful) Menel - 2 (Cuddly, Ridiculous) sally - 2 (Chewy, Dangerous) Kitanna - 2 (Deadly, Sensitive) Lhuna - 1 (Weary) Lottie- 1 (Melodramatic) Kath- 1 (Attractive) G55- 1 (Radiant) ---- ROUND 19 Next up is, "conceited," and Lottie with the call. Elrond Curufin Gondor Telvildo Gerontius The Hill of Seeing Muster of Rohan Mim the Dwarf Maeglin Taniquetil ---- ROUND 20 Green tater: Dashing (bold, gallant, elegant) Judge: Menel
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09-10-2012, 02:02 PM | #310 |
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Maeglin, Gondor, and Curufin seem the best choices to me. I would personally go with Curufin.
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09-10-2012, 02:31 PM | #311 |
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Forgot to submit a card once again...
Ah well- a fully unbiased judge in session then, right. CONCEITED NOT TRUE Elrond The Hill of Seeing Muster of Rohan DON"T RECALL THAT IT'S TRUE Telvildo Gerontius I WOULD SAY YES Curufin Gondor Mim the Dwarf Maeglin (IMO) HECK YES Taniquetil
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09-10-2012, 04:01 PM | #312 |
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Ditto.
And - woohoo! I won a round! Though I wouldn't have minded giving the victory to the Phial of Galadriel. That was one very nice choice indeed.
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Of these, Maeglin strikes me as more wicked than conceited, Gondor strikes me as more underestimating Mordor than conceited, Elrond strikes me as a funny choice but not really conceited, and the rest bore me - well, excpet for one...
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09-11-2012, 08:51 AM | #314 |
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Ouch Lottie, why so fast?
I was hoping to persuade you to pick Gondor - for it sure wasn't "underestimating" Mordor, well, at least by the times of Denethor - but they, if some, were during centuries the self-centered ones who thought they were the only lineage worthy of the great Men of old scorning their northern brothers and thinking they only could stand against the foul forces of the East etc. They were the "shield of the West" and none else could do anything but them... But it seems I'm late now... Well, next time then.
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09-11-2012, 09:51 AM | #315 |
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Gwath takes the lead and is the first to reach 4...
but we'll continue for a few rounds yet.
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09-11-2012, 02:03 PM | #316 |
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Tally
Gwath- 4 (Neglected, Charming, Rank, Conceited) the phantom - 3 (Honest, Insane, Violent) Nogrod - 2 (Extraordinary, Peaceful) Menel - 2 (Cuddly, Ridiculous) sally - 2 (Chewy, Dangerous) Kitanna - 2 (Deadly, Sensitive) Lhuna - 1 (Weary) Lottie- 1 (Melodramatic) Kath- 1 (Attractive) G55- 1 (Radiant) ---- ROUND 20 Menel, for "dashing" these are your options... Running River Imrahil Glorfindel Bill Ferny Rohan Finrod Eomer The Barrow-downs Durin the Deathless The Petty-dwarves ---- ROUND 21 Nonsensical green Part II (and Kitanna has informed me she's unable to judge this week, so going to next in line). Green tater: Spicy (hot, flavorable, tangy) Judge: Gwath
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09-11-2012, 02:57 PM | #317 |
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For my money, these are the ones that need to be debated...
BECAUSE THEY'RE TRUE Imrahil Glorfindel Finrod Eomer BECAUSE THEY MADE ME LAUGH Bill Ferny The Petty-dwarves
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09-12-2012, 11:48 AM | #318 |
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The Running River was quite clever, but the main ones that really fit the theme are the four phantom mentioned. And out of those I would pick
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09-12-2012, 01:10 PM | #319 |
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Kath gets her 2nd.
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09-12-2012, 01:59 PM | #320 |
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Tally
Gwath- 4 (Neglected, Charming, Rank, Conceited) the phantom - 3 (Honest, Insane, Violent) Nogrod - 2 (Extraordinary, Peaceful) Menel - 2 (Cuddly, Ridiculous) sally - 2 (Chewy, Dangerous) Kitanna - 2 (Deadly, Sensitive) Kath- 2 (Attractive, Dashing) Lhuna - 1 (Weary) Lottie- 1 (Melodramatic) G55- 1 (Radiant) ---- ROUND 21 Let's see if Gwath can "spice" things up with these options: Orc-draught Utumno Thorondor Longbeards Beor the Old Bullroarer Took Cram Brandy Hall Great Goblin ---- ROUND 22 Green tater: Cranky (crabby, cantankerous, grouchy) Judge: Kath
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