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02-27-2009, 08:32 AM | #321 |
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The Chieftest and Greatest of Calamities
has a more interesting personality, and may be as mean as First/Second Age Sauron, so: + + Smaug the Magnificent
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02-27-2009, 05:18 PM | #322 |
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++Smaug
First of all, he's a dragon. And I also rather like his talk with Bolbo in the Hobbit.
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02-28-2009, 02:18 PM | #323 |
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Time extended for more voting.
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02-28-2009, 02:31 PM | #324 |
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Personally, I have to go for
++ Sauron When it comes to dragons, I'm with Anne McCaffrey: the bad ones get all the press. And if came down to Melkor versus Sauron, I'd be interested in seeing who actually comes out on top.
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03-01-2009, 07:54 PM | #325 |
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voters?
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03-02-2009, 02:34 AM | #326 |
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Okay, okay.... As a fanatical ww player, I think I'll vote
++Sauron ...though how anyone can prefer those Pernese pet dragons to Smaug is beyond me. By the way, Steve, who's Bolbo?
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03-02-2009, 07:57 AM | #327 |
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Smaug-4 Sauron-2
Next: Glaurung vs. Mr. W. Huggins
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03-02-2009, 08:58 PM | #328 |
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++Glaurung
He would smoke Bill like a cheap cigar.
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03-03-2009, 05:20 PM | #329 |
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++Glaurung
Need I say more?
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03-03-2009, 10:56 PM | #330 |
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+ + William
Because he's (relatively) nice to burrahobbits.
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03-05-2009, 11:28 PM | #331 |
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I like William, and I'd also like to see diversity in the final rounds (we already have a dragon through).
But... really... ++Glaurung I just can't go the other way in this match up.
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03-06-2009, 08:14 AM | #332 |
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Voting time extended.
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03-06-2009, 09:29 AM | #333 |
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Votin for William wouldn't make much sense: he won't be a match against anyone from now on. Therefore...
++Glaurung
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03-06-2009, 10:07 AM | #334 |
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Poor old Bill is hardly a bad guy at all, well, apart from eating a Dwarf or two perhaps. I love the fella, but ++Glaurung is just bad to the bone.
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03-06-2009, 01:12 PM | #335 |
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That was just a test... yes, a test.... to see if anyone else is alert enough to vote properly.
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03-06-2009, 02:09 PM | #336 |
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Glaurung-5 William-1 (poor blighter)
Next: Grima Wormtongue vs. Morgoth
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03-06-2009, 07:04 PM | #337 |
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++Morgoth
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03-06-2009, 08:39 PM | #338 |
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++Morgoth
Hey, he's the Once and Future Evil. He'll be back for Tolkien's version of Ragnarok, and as Durelin said, Grima is only semi-evil or evil-lite.
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03-07-2009, 04:05 AM | #339 |
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++Morgoth
Poor Wormtongue is simply outclassed.
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03-07-2009, 06:46 AM | #340 |
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You've got to be kidding. Morgoth? He is not half as interesting as Gríma. Come on! Gríma:
1. Throws Palantír out of the window 2. Stabs Saruman 3. Looks at Gandalf like mad when he asks him whether he does not want to leave Saruman 4. Eats Lotho (okay, we didn't want to hear that) 5. Was a noble of Rohan (combine with the one above) and served his master honestly in the beginning 6. Was seen riding with a group of Orcs 7. is son of Gálmód, which just sounds too cool 8. was being picked up from the saddle by Treebeard and later, he was swimming to Orthanc. And, eventually, in one version of the Hunt of the Ring, he was caught and intimidated by the Black Riders, WK himself, no less. Morgoth was just a Dark Lord. We have seen many of those, he invented lots of interesting dragons and such, but then, that's just his job. Gríma is a MAN with a LIFE. He is very interesting. ++Gríma Wormtongue
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03-07-2009, 07:10 AM | #341 |
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Battling dragons...
Hey Tuor, why don't you pit Smaug and Glaurung against each other next round?
That would be cool.
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03-07-2009, 07:25 AM | #342 |
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Not necessarily. Smaug is the coolest dragon ev@, while Glaurung is just a witless worm.
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Quote:
translation from Rohirric. Gandalf asked Grima if he liked hobbits and he thought Grima replied: "If they're prepared properly."
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03-07-2009, 09:10 AM | #344 |
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For me, it must be
++Morgoth who, in Middle-earth, is the root of all evil -- unlike our real earth, wherein it has been amply proved in recent times that the love of all money does indeed appear to be the wellspring (sigh).
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03-07-2009, 12:11 PM | #345 |
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++Gríma
Hey come one Morgoth's boring while Gríma truly is a character! Do you really want this game to have such really "basic" finalists as Glaurung and Morgoth? Blaah...
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03-07-2009, 12:17 PM | #346 |
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I'd hate to see Morgoth winning too, but Wormtongue even more so. I can't believe he's made it this far and for him to eliminate The Marrer himself just isn't right. He ain't worthy to kiss the soles of ++Morgoth's iron boots.
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03-07-2009, 12:45 PM | #347 |
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A tough choice, but I like a little moral ambiguity in my villains. Characters over archetypes.
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03-07-2009, 01:05 PM | #348 |
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Yea, yea, good, go, go, go, Lommy, Rikae!!! And you, Skip, be ashamed of yourself and go bury yourself somewhere. Bah, voting in such a cliché-ish way... (And besides, obviously bandwaggoning. I think he voted Morgoth just to save a fellow Wolf.)
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03-07-2009, 01:23 PM | #349 |
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Oh, come on, he's just silly because he's Swedish...
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03-07-2009, 01:42 PM | #350 |
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+ + Grima Wormtongue
Since he didn't get the girl and didn't get the chance to become a best selling vegan author.
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03-07-2009, 02:14 PM | #351 |
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No it's the other way around: I'm Swedish because I'm silly.
And I would go bury myself if I only could figure out how to cover myself up with dirt and at the same time lie down in an open grave. Oh well...
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03-07-2009, 05:03 PM | #352 |
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I can lend a hand.
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03-07-2009, 05:40 PM | #353 |
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So the ME popularity cup must be won by Gandalf or Frodo and the ME bad popularity cup must be won by Sauron or Morgoth?
Give me a break people! ++ Grima Let's make this more interesting.
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Velee interesting. With time running out for the
Marrer of Middle-earth he's trailing Wormy . As Zero Mostel said to Gene Wilder in The Pruducers: Quote:
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border between Orthanc and Mordor so they'd go against each other? And anyway, that would be interfering in the brackets. Of course, it would probably help Wormy. Hmm...........!
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Grima Wormtongue-5 Morgoth-4
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1) Frodo does not win Middle-earth Popularity Cup ! On to the semi-finals! Carcharoth vs. Smaug Glaurung vs. Grima son of Galmod Next: Carcharoth vs. Smaug
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03-08-2009, 06:37 AM | #356 |
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Hooray! Gríma rulezz!!!
I like the way it came out, even though we could have been a bit more original still, but good, good. Thanks to good master Noggins, we have neither Sauron nor Morgoth here. Just a pity no Orc made it through... As for the current match: ++Smaug
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03-08-2009, 07:52 AM | #357 |
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I don't like Carcharoth.
++Smaug Ps. Yes, it's that simple.
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03-08-2009, 08:18 AM | #358 |
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++Smaug
Wolves...they're so real world. This is a fantasy, after all.
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03-08-2009, 08:40 AM | #359 |
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An argument for The Red Maw could be
that he was the greatest wolf to ever live (and took out the Hound of Valinor ) while it would hardly be argued that Smaug the Magnificent was the greatest dragon to ever live (and, after all, he was taken out by one human archer). Just saying... Now, as for voting...um...(later).
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03-08-2009, 08:45 AM | #360 |
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I do like Carcharoth.
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