Re: stone-giants in the hobbit just trolls?
Öjevind Lång
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> Supposedly, lots of people look at weather balloons and think they're
> instead seeing UFO's. People see heat waves (mirages, or whatever) and
> think they're seeing water. Is it possible Bilbo and company were
> actually seeing trolls and just thought that they were seeing
> stone-giants, instead?
>
> Based on the description of them in The Hobbit, it doesn't sound like
> the dwarves were the first people to see them, so perhapes everyone
> else who saw them was similarily confussed in what they were seeing?
LOL - clearly, everybody was taken in by this troll, even despite the
signature appended to it. This was funny!
I only saw this thread today. Honestly, people, can't you tell when
someone is taking the piss?
Öjevind
Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III
You lie. And "stone troll" is clearly a typo for "stoned troll."
Derek Broughton
> LOL - clearly, everybody was taken in by this troll, even despite the
> signature appended to it. This was funny!
If trolls ask an interesting question, I'm always willing to bite - but I
don't see any signature at all.
> I only saw this thread today. Honestly, people, can't you tell when
> someone is taking the piss?
In this case, not.
--
derek
yawnmoth
Derek Broughton wrote:
> Öjevind Lång wrote:
>
> > LOL - clearly, everybody was taken in by this troll, even despite the
> > signature appended to it. This was funny!
>
> If trolls ask an interesting question, I'm always willing to bite - but I
> don't see any signature at all.
The fact that I'm kinda talking about trolls in my post has me a
little confussed...
Regardless, I don't think I was being trollish with my post. As you
observed, I didn't attach a signature.
In fact, if there are any trolls in this thread, Öjevind Lång might
well qualify as being that troll (although I suppose this post, now,
too, qualifies as being a trollish post)...
JimboCat
>Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Öjevind Lång wrote:
>>
>> > LOL - clearly, everybody was taken in by this troll, even despite the
>> > signature appended to it. This was funny!
>>
>> If trolls ask an interesting question, I'm always willing to bite - but I
>> don't see any signature at all.
>I'm a little confussed, myself - is the OP suggesting that I'm a troll?
> The fact that I'm kinda talking about trolls in my post has me a
>little confussed...
Irony is sweet, but confusion is like vinegar: I declare this the
"sweet and sour" thread of the week.
Jim Deutch (JimboCat)
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editing articles in the Wikipedia instead." -- Öjevind Lång
Michael O'Neill
Mjany thjanks for brjinging thjis ujtter TRJOLL to my attjention.
I ijnvoke Martinez' Pjolicy of Djealing with TRJOLLS.
It cjomes as njo sjurprise tjo sjee thjis wjanton TRJOLL bjeing
pjerpetuated by a Balrog Wings prjomoter ajnd fjellow trjaveller ojf
ojther ujtter TRJOLLs.
Whjat hjave thjese grjoups cjome tjo???!!!!!111!!1!1!
M.
Öjevind Lång
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[snip]
> Mjany thjanks for brjinging thjis ujtter TRJOLL to my attjention.
>
> I ijnvoke Martinez' Pjolicy of Djealing with TRJOLLS.
>
> It cjomes as njo sjurprise tjo sjee thjis wjanton TRJOLL bjeing
> pjerpetuated by a Balrog Wings prjomoter ajnd fjellow trjaveller ojf
> ojther ujtter TRJOLLs.
>
> Whjat hjave thjese grjoups cjome tjo???!!!!!111!!1!1!
Michael, you *must* lay off the whiskey.
Öjevind
Öjevind Lång
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[snip]
> Although this is Treebeard's take on the Ent's origins, it does not appear
> to be accurate. As described in 'Of Aule and Yavanna', the Ents were
> created, akin to the Eagles, when spirits summoned "from afar" dwelt among
> the kelvar and olvar. In _Letters_, Tolkien elaborates saying that they
> "...were either souls sent to inhabit trees, or else that slowly took the
> likeness of trees owing to their inborn love of trees." (#247 p335). But
> who's to say? Maybe the Elves did indeed teach > them language.
I think the one doesn't exclude the other. They could be spirits inhabiting
trees *and* have been taught to speak by Elves.
Öjevind
Bill O'Meally
> "Bill O'Meally" <OMea...@wise.rr.com> skrev i meddelandet
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But who's to say? Maybe the
>> Elves did indeed teach > them language.
>
> I think the one doesn't exclude the other. They could be spirits
> inhabiting trees *and* have been taught to speak by Elves.
Yup.
--
Bill
"Wise fool"
Gandalf, THE TWO TOWERS
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