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- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!Csli!kyle
- From: kyle@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Kyle Wohlmut)
- Subject: Re: Machines named by Tolkien's characters
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.211617.10854@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
- Followup-To: alt.fan.tolkien
- Sender: kyle@csli.stanford.edu (Kyle "FunkyFresh&IntheFlesh" Wohlmut)
- Organization: Rocking Pig Enterprises
- References: <1992Nov23.112228.19073@kth.se> <watson.722533088@bellatrix.sce.carleton.ca> <1992Nov23.191556.6156@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:16:17 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Nov23.191556.6156@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (The Man Who Knew) writes:
- >
- >Not to mention Hobbit Travel, a tourism agency (I'm not connected with it in
- >any way, BTW)...
-
- In LA the finest SF/Fantasy bookstore is called 'A change of
- Hobbit'... I think there's one in Berkeley, too...
- >
- >Trivia: What was the password which Gandalf used to open the portal into Moria?
- >No peeking now! Actually, this one's quite easy (hint: it sounds like a big
- >fruit!)
- >
- That would be 'Mellon,' Elvish (or is it Quenya?) for 'Friend...'
- Don't need to go into the details here I trust. C'mon, pick a
- difficult one!
-
- >Seen on a button:
- > Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and
- > taste good with ketchup.
- >
-
- Seen on some colossal geek's T-shirt: 'When brain-blasts are outlawed,
- only chaotic-neutral magic-users will have brain-blasts.'
-
- / i am as sad
- /''' - as the song
- c-OO Kyle Wohlmut / of a soudanese jackal
- \ (actual size) - who is wailing for the blood red
- - / moon he cannot reach and rip
- -
-