New thread, and I favor "Well, I'm back" for sentmental reasons, but the "We named thedog Strider" is pretty damn funny and is more in the spirit of the first thread title.
Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Jeff Mejia - Dec 13, 2003 7:22:06 pm PST #6227 of 10005
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
Kathy A - Dec 13, 2003 11:09:35 pm PST #6228 of 10005
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
We will have to change the blurb to "Aragorn is finally King, Legolas is still the prettiest, and Sam will still kill you if you try anything."
Nilly - Dec 13, 2003 11:35:50 pm PST #6229 of 10005
Swouncing
I like "Well, I'm back" - it both goes well with the "Return" word in RotK as well as having a meaning of its own.
Cindy - Dec 14, 2003 3:42:50 am PST #6230 of 10005
Nobody
Me too, Nilly.
Nutty - Dec 14, 2003 6:46:29 am PST #6231 of 10005
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
So, no "Dude, Seriously, Where's My Precious?"
Sniff. Okay, I'll live.
Lyra Jane - Dec 14, 2003 7:10:48 am PST #6232 of 10005
Up with the sun
Aragorn is finally King, Legolas is still the prettiest, and Sam will still kill you if you try anything
Don't some people think the first part of this is a spoiler? I don't get it, 'cause books 50 years old, but I have seen people spoiler-cutting it in the movies thread.
Jesse - Dec 14, 2003 7:14:50 am PST #6233 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've never read the books, but it seems pretty well obvious that Aragorn is who they mean when they say "return of the king." I mean, it's not Elvis, right?
Nutty - Dec 14, 2003 7:47:30 am PST #6234 of 10005
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
No, no, no. It's Sauron who is crowned king. Everyone is enslaved and/or killed, and Middle-earth lives miserably ever after.
(I think advertising alone would make it really hard to remain unspoiled on that front -- he made the cover of Newsweek in full Gondorian war-garb; and except for Sauron, he's sort of the only candidate. The question for the unspoiled will be, hey, do the Gondorians take him out back and shoot him as an upstart? Or he could die tragically in a freak chain-mail accident.)
(Just trying to keep it interesting for those who think knowing the title gives away the ending.)
DavidS - Dec 14, 2003 7:59:20 am PST #6235 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Just trying to keep it interesting for those who think knowing the title gives away the ending.
Tolkien could've prevented this by simply adding a question mark. Return of the King? Maybe...Maybe NOT.
Jeff Mejia - Dec 14, 2003 8:15:41 am PST #6236 of 10005
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
t LOTR natter
Tolkien could've prevented this by simply adding a question mark. Return of the King? Maybe...Maybe NOT.
Tolkien actually wanted to name the third book The War of the Ring, because he did think that RotK did spoil the ending, but he was overruled.
t /LOTR natter