The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[darjr]

@darjr , you got to use spoiler tags! Newb!

Tick tick boom!

 

[darjr]

There are a few posters here whose every post is accompanied by the Curb Your Enthusiasm music playing in my head.

Oh, sorry, I’ll turn it down.

 

[darjr]

"But Morgoth himself the Valar thrust through the Door of Night beyond the Walls of the World, into the Timeless Void; and a guard is set for ever on those walls, and Eärendil keeps watch upon the ramparts of the sky. Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days"

- The Silmarillion

(I'm excited about the illustrated edition coming out this fall...)

The guard upon the walls grows weary in their long unending watch. Always Morgoth promises soothing for such heavy burdens.

 

[prabe]

The guard upon the walls grows weary in their long unending watch. Always Morgoth promises soothing for such heavy burdens.

Does Morgoth also promise a happy ending?

 

[darjr]

I've read I Ching/Tao Te Ching, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Dharmapada, Gilgamesh, various and sundry medieval myth collections, most of The Koran, and a goodly chunk of The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare (the hefty collection that Picard would occasionally wave around on ST:TNG). I barely made it through a single pass of The Silmarillion.

This is why I haven’t blocked you yet. We can’t be friendsz

 

[darjr]

Does Morgoth also promise a happy ending?

Oh, sorry, I’ll turn it down.

 

[Parmandur]

I'd say sort of like the dryest, least readable portions of the Bible.

The stories are rich, and dark. The prose? Not so hot.

Yeah, partially because large parts of the Silmarillion are summaries, combinations or rewrites by Christopher Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay of other, weirder texts, like extended narrative poems. Which is why the History of Middle Earth is there, with all the bizarre details and alternate versions.

 

[Parmandur]

I've read I Ching/Tao Te Ching, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Dharmapada, Gilgamesh, various and sundry medieval myth collections, most of The Koran, and a goodly chunk of The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare (the hefty collection that Picard would occasionally wave around on ST:TNG). I barely made it through a single pass of The Silmarillion.

I mean, it's not as dense as all that.

 

[Cadence]

"Looks at his own country in his lifetime...".

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

WHY WON'T PEOPLE LET ME GRACEFULLY EXIT A CONVERSATION??!!!???!


Oh .... wait. They don't have that power over me? I swear, one day I will remember that. After all, I've only been on the internet for (thinks for a second) .... oh no.


I'm not going to remember this, am I?