Why of course...that's the way the game of life is played. ;)

Personally, I don't care much about Mew, and not even that much about Smith but it's Farmer Giles of Ham disrupting competitions and camaraderie by insisting on being called Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo that gets me.

Therefore:

++Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo

If we could get him out of here we could start concentrating more on survival and less on having to fully and properly pronounce his name. :rolleyes:

Introducing variety, eh? Good lad! I am tempted to change my vote ...

But my current vote should stand as a token of my goodwill. Perhaps tomorrow. :D

Well, I guess you could say that. :)

Although out of my ten votes five of them have been for someone who had no votes for them at the time, two were for someone with one vote that I wasn't bandwagoning on, and three were bandwagonning votes (two of which were attempts to save the poor Man in-the-Moon :().

So I've been pretty varietious so far. :D

Aye, and we need more of your kind here, young Estel the varietious.

I think I shall follow up my hint from last night with a full nomination. One can't really call this one an underdog.

++ Mer-dog

You praise yourself too highly, Sauce, if you think my votes were in any way influenced by you. :p Or by lmp. It seems to me that, rather than a bandwagon, there was a remarkable variety of reasons why people wished to keep Smith. A true polysemy of voice rather than homology.

++Egbert Dorkins

His three brothers have all been kicked off, so it's time he's been sent off, too. And besides, his silly name conjures the image of a walking egg in traditional nerd garb (suspenders, glasses, pocket protector, et al). Let him and his brother Fattie brainstorm new names together when they reunite back in civilization.

You do remember that I ruthlessly killed Fattie, don't you? :p

*flips back a few pages*
I guess he's dead then. Well, Egbert still needs to attend the funeral. And even if they didn't find the body (he was fed to the Sea-Serpent after all), they can still fill his coffin with personal momentos and such.

End of Day the Eighteenth
 

Sorry this is seven and a half hours late -- blame it on the pain in the arse that modding werewolf is, which gave me a splitting headache and sent me to bed early. :rolleyes:

Mew, the Seagull: 4 votes

The Wizard Artaxerxes: 1 vote

Smith of Wootton Major: 1 vote

Farmer Giles of Ham: 1 vote

Mer-dog: 1 vote

Egbert Dorkins: 1 vote


And so, Mew flew away rather anticlimactically.


Day the Ninteenth finds 28 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Moon-dog
Mer-dog
Uin, the Whale

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Egbert Dorkins

Says a lot about the way this show is going, doesn't it?

What we need is to provide a climax. A turning point. A shifting of the ways.

Come on, you know you want to...

++SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

He may be decent, but he doesn't really say much. He's a sort of half-stoned witness to proceedings...happily stumbling through fairy idylls, being altruistic, that sort of thing. Hardly makes brilliant viewing. Yet what a climax breaking his defenders would be!

+ + Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie

It's time for some more regicide.
Citizens! Comrades! To the barricades!
Avenge the misunderstood Master of Laketown!

Introducing some more variety... ;)

++ UIN
Really, this whale is too much trouble. Shouldn't be bringing folk to peek at Elvenhome. Especially not mischievous toy dogs.

And I think the whale is responsible for misspellings of my name. Now I know where the u-i-n instead of u-i-E-n comes from. :p :D

I never claimed such an accolade. I was merely railing against the popular candidate whom, as you say, many seem to have taken to their hearts for a variety of reasons. I can't for the life of me understand why. I find his story terribly dull.

Still, I will honour my pledge.

Now that bring back memories. Aye, I will join your cause.

+ + Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie

He's the real culprit, when it comes to Simth's airy-faeriness ...

Nay, nay, Anguirel!

'Tis far too soon! A climax comes near the end of a tale- not with 28 candidates to go! No, we need to BUILD to the climax, with a growing tension and struggle...

And what better way to do that than to preserve Smith's life?

Celuien has attacked one of my favourite candidates to evict this game... mainly because I actually am familiar, unlike the other Roverandom characters, with who he is. For this great whale is featured in the Book of Lost Tales, and I think that we really ought to send him back to the Legendarium where he belongs.

++ Uin

Alright, yeah, like, whateeever.

--SMITH OF LITTLE WHINGING, ++UIN THE MACKEREL

++Egbert Dorkins

C'mon, people, he's the one who should go. He just sits there all day, bemoaning the fates of his brothers and his own to come. It's time he was sent off like the rest of 'em.

Leaving aside the lamentable state of the anti-Smith lachrymosity, for my part, I have been pondering Tuor in Gondolin's argument yesterday concerning wizards. He alone has had the foresight to be foresightful and consider what a character might do rather than what a character has already done. Havoc indeed a meddling wizard might concoct. In short, a day late I concur, and go off to consider who might likely find himself in the belly of a whale.

++The Wizard Artaxerxes

End of Day the Ninteenth
 

Uin, the Whale: 3 votes

Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie: 2 votes

Egbert Dorkins: 1 vote

The Wizard Artaxerxes: 1 vote

And so, Uin was slaughtered for his blubber and was made into a great deal of whatever they use whale blubber for.


Day the Twentieth finds 27 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
The Barrow-wight
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Moon-dog
Mer-dog

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Egbert Dorkins

++ ALF

There are still too many kings on this show. Yes, even one king is too many. :p :D

The way I wrote his name should suffice for the rest of my reason. Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie, reminds me of this Alf. And I never liked that show. Greatly preferred watching the show with the Dalek-battling Time Lord in the long scarf. And that show is no longer broadcast here (haven't seen it in about 10 years), while the irritating furry creature now has its own talk show (seriously, it does).

Down with Alf.

++ The Parson

Because he makes me think of Parsley, and of "Person"- and so is either nondescript or a vegetable.

And because no one has voted for him yet. Can't allow ourselves to appear easily influenced, now can we?

Actually Ang voted for him once a few days ago. :D It's scary how I keep track of these things... :rolleyes:

Allow to clarify... today no one has voted for him... So I can't be said to be bandwaggoning, can I?

However, any and all are allowed to bandwaggon WITH me. Yes, I have a bit of a double-standard... ;)

Eviction by stealth...

++SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

Exactly why I can't bear to seem him go yet.

Why, I used to have a small Alf puppet that was incredibly soft when I was young...one of my favorite "stuffed animals."

I won't bandwagon to save him but please, please, leave him for awhile longer - just for oldtimes sake. :(

In honour of the Barrow Downs birthday tomorrow, let's make this choice a memorable one.

++ The Barrow wight

Aww. Well, just for oldtimes sake...

--ALF

++ The Barrow Wight

For the birthday celebration. ;)

(PS I expect Smith to be left alone for a little while now too. :p)

++ The Miller

He always was way to negative. And always disagreed with the Parson, a most sensible fellow.

++The Barrow-wight

As I've said before:

End of Day the Twentieth
 

The Barrow-wight: 3 votes

The Parson: 1 vote

Smith of Wootton Major: 1 vote

The Miller: 1 vote


And so, the Barrow-wight was... erm... how do you kill a wight? You don't. So they sang really annoying rhymes at him until he just left.


Day the Twenty-First finds 26 remaining contestants:


Farmer Giles of Ham

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle

Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems)

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel

Roverandom

Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Moon-dog
Mer-dog

Mr. Bliss

Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno
Egbert Dorkins

What, attempted murder of the Wight himself on the very day of the Barrow's anniversary? Fie upon you all! (Make up for this perfidious act by sending him a birthday card here.)

It's time to rid another member from the Farmer Giles group, and I am nothing if not consistent (well, at least sometimes.... :p )

++ The Miller

++ GRAM THE DOG

A one gram dog is completely useless on a farm. Absurd. ;)

PS Birthday greetings will arrive soon to make up for my helping evict the Barrow Wight yesterday.

+ + Mer-dog

Enough dogpaddling.
Some dog's got to go!

Doggone, I get to repeat myself.

++ Mer-dog

++ROVERANDOM

I'm a cat person...

+ + NIGGLE

I don't know. There's just something about him that niggles me.

:rolleyes:

I'll offer to help anyone get their votee removed from the game in return for a 'to be determined' return favor on another day.....

Any takers?

Here's one!

Help me get rid of Egbert Dorkins, and I'll help you out later.

++Egbert Dorkins

For generally not being of much use to his tribe. And also because his name is ridiculous, and the Mr. Bliss tribe's morale plummets when the other tribes use this fact to tease them. For the sake of the Mr. Bliss tribe's morale, vote Dorkins!

Fair enough. :)

-- The Miller

++ Egbert Dorkins

Whoever heard of being a relative of a door? or a dormouse?

I'm not so much against "Egbert", however, as it sounds worse to us moderns than it did to folk back in the good old. Still, a Dorkins is a Dorkins, and that's as bad as Dursley!

End of Day the Twenty-First
 

Mer-dog: 2 votes

Egbert Dorkins: 2 votes

Gram: 1 vote

Roverandom: 1 vote

Niggle: 1 vote


And so, as Alcarillo gave a whoop of joy, Egbert was made into an eg-salad sandwich and fed to the Dragon. Mer-dog was sent to swim with the fishes.


Day the Twenty-Second witnesses a shuffling of the tribes, and finds 24 remaining contestants:


The Major Minor Works

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Miller
The Parson
Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith
Master Cook Rider
Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie
Smith of Wootton Major
Nell
Queen of Faerie
Niggle

The More Minor Minor Works

Goldberry
Badger
Old Man Willow
Goodman Maggott
Fíriel
Roverandom
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Moon-dog
Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno