One hates to niggle over characters nicknames but
the delay in voting out
+ + Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith
should come to an end. After all, just how many horses to be
shod can be on the island?

++ The Miller

Crabby old fellow; always argued against the Parson to boot (always liked the parson, I did .... now see who votes to get the parson gone....).

I am much impressed by Anquirel's anti-dog campaign, being a cat person myself, but I think I shall temporarily suspend that particular line of reasoning and go with one that has frustrated me no end in all my readings.

++ Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Honestly, I wish Tolkien had stuck with Old English and not got all messed up with Latin and impossible consonant clusters.

How infelicitous.

Anyone read old Geoff Chaucer? Then you'll know why

++THE MILLER

must go.

Ah yes, the gloomy fellow with the weird Latin name and the misleading pseudonym.

+ + Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith

Grouchy dispositions and unpronouncable names make for dull viewing.

I was going to vote for Sunny Sam, but then I saw this:
Yes, I have and I know what you're talking about.

++ THE MILLER

Mwahahaha... and so dies the last surviving member of the Dorkins family. Where's an evil smiley when I need one?

++Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)

For his anakronistic use of a blunderbuss. Off to Mordor with ye!

Edit - I would've voted for the Miller, lmp, to make good on my promise, but it seems that he'll be going anyways. Another day, then.

End of Day the Twenty-Second
 

It would seem that the twenty-second day was "Worldwide 'vote for a Farmer Giles character' Day" and at the end two of the Farmer's acquaintances got the boot:

Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith: 3 votes

The Miller: 3 votes

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) : 1 vote


And so, Sunny Sam and The Miller were also fed to the Dragon, who was by now getting quite fat.


Day the Twenty-Third finds 22 remaining contestants:


The Major Minor Works

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Parson
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

Oh dear.... I missed an entire day...

Alas- and alack!

Hmm... I do like that anti-Roverandom that was on the boil... and I am definitely a cat person as opposed to a dog person...

++ Roverandom

+ + Moon-dog

The loss of a minor character in the More Minor
Minor Works shouldn't be more then a minor minus.

++GRAM, Farmer Giles's DOG

There. Everything going swimmingly...

My goodness, why is everyone so doggone determined to get the dogs gone?! I guess it's time for me to step back into the action here and vote for some very mean flora to combat the fauna faction. (Though I must admit, Tuor's clever wordplay almost had me voting with him just because it's so cute.)

++Old Man Willow

Come on, if we get rid of him now, he'll be out of harm's way before more people come into these here woods!

I think it would be possible to argue that Master Cook was a dog. ;)

++ Master Cook Rider

++ Moon Dog

I find myself most moved by the most mannerfully mindful mishmash in Tuor's mullings.

For maximum dog-eviction

--GRAM, ++ROVERANDOM

Miles Gloriosus : Oh, her bridal bower becomes a burial bier of bitter bereavement!
Pseudolus : Very good! Can you say "Titus the tailor told ten tall tales to Titania the titmouse"?

(And watch for a cameo by the third Doctor Who- JP) (with perhaps
the best line of the movie/play). :D

Warning: Extremely weak name-based reasoning ahead
 

Although I am a dog person myself, I cannot resist the lure of voting for a title character ...

+ + ROVERANDUM

Rover and dumb? A dumb and insolvent car manufacturing company or a dumb dog? Either way, he should go.

Two O's in Roverandom. Hoowl!

And in light of the recent "this character is like me" voting schemes, I should note that good ol' little Rover was my result for the personality quiz. :rolleyes:

Bah! All this Latin is confusing me.

But, as you raised the point ...

- - ROVERANDUM

+ + ROVERANDOM

Random Rover? A Random Dog? etc etc

You mean we humble mortals have a measure of power to rebel against our almighty moddess? Well, all the more reason to vote for the little tyke then. :p ;)

Cat people, unite!

++ ROVERANDOM

And if you don't like that reason, I'll adopt a dislike of random roving argument.

++Moon-dog

He's an alien bent on invasion! All the evidence points to it!

1. He lives on the moon.

2. He says: "I was the first dog that was ever called Rover, thousands of years ago." Aliens are notoriously long-lived.

3. The spells the Man-in-the-Moon uses are not spells, but alien weapons described from the point-of-view of an earth dog.

Quick! Vote for the Moon-dog before he starts abducting poor little humans for his and his master's vile experiments! Save the planet earth from the alien menace!

We have the MIB to stop him. :cool:

++Roverandom.

Since I don't know who he is, my reasons have already been said by others.

End of Day the Twenty-Third
 

Every dog has its day, and it was "Get Rid of Those Doggone Dogs" day on the island. Still, at the end only one dog fell:

Roverandom: 5 votes

Moon-dog: 3 votes

Old Man Willow: 1 vote

Master Cook Rider: 1 vote

And so, Roverandom went home to live with the Little Boy and his family. What, you thought I was going to do something nasty to him? Dream on! :p


Day the Twenty-Fourth finds 21 remaining contestants:


The Major Minor Works

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Parson
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
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Moon-dog
Mr. Day
Archie
Teddy
Bruno

+ + Archie

Unfortunately, Tolkien never made it clear
whether he was named for Archie Bunker
or the comic strip Archie :confused:
In any case, to paraphrase Brian's grafitti on a wall
in Jerusalem:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes

Btw, that centurion would have made one great
motivational teacher! :eek:

Agreed. An Archie just doesn't belong in the Minor Works of Tolkien. What was he thinking?

++ Archie

I remain by my reasoning that flesh-eating flora should be destroyed posthaste and therefore again vote for

++Old Man Willow

Forward The Cause

++MOON-DOG

One down... two to go!

No, I don't hate dogs... I'm just not a dog person. I'm rather more sympathetic to Beruthiel than Celegorm- at least Beruthiel had good taste in pets, however crazy she may have been otherwise.

Besides, it's fun having an issue.

For purposes of realistic eviction, therefore:

++ Moon-dog

I must grant, though, that the Anti-Archie Campaign has points of merit, and has my hearty endorsement.

++ Old Man Willow

For swallowing fellow competitors & holding them in rivers. Really, you can't be much worse of a teammate then that! :eek:

As for evicting all the dogs, what's up with this!? These dogs have helped smell out what little there is to eat during this competition - what do you expect us to do when they're gone?

Well, the obvious answer is to eat the dogs.

Hot Dogs! :smokin:

But I want to leave the dogs alone today. And Tuor has made a convincing argument...

++ ARCHIE

We don't need any Archie Bunker imitators here. :mad:

++Moon-dog

Just in case the tribes start starving. ;)

It is indeed difficult these days to avoid any stigma of anti-animal bias. If we forego cats and dogs, we still have dragons and bears to deal with.

In short, I suggest we for the time placate these domesticated carnivore lovers and consider how felonious was the act in which Archie engaged. Imagine! A bear--not, not one, not two, but three bears--hijacking an automobile! Admittedly the driver was a short a cylinder or two, but who can trust a bear who takes over the road? Especially now that the end of hibernation season is upon us.

In short, I suggest we urgently run off the road:

++ Archie

And I know just the ladies we can call on to carry out our carnage:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64...ofatladies.jpg

PS. Old Man Willow is so misunderstood!

Yep, all less than five of them. :p


p.s. No time to get an exact count. :D

End of Day the Twenty-Fourth
 

A bear, not a dog, fell on day twenty-four:

Archie: 4 votes

Moon-dog: 3 votes

Old Man Willow: 2 votes

And so, Archie was shot and mounted above the fireplace.


Day the Twenty-Fifth finds 20 remaining contestants -- and among them are exactly 2 dogs:


The Major Minor Works

Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham)
Gram, his dog
Chrysophylax Dives
The Parson
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
The Wizard Artaxerxes
Moon-dog
Mr. Day
Teddy
Bruno

Well, Steven Colbert should certainly be happy with
the results of the latest eviction. :D

And with no bear to climb up it (although the dogs might
find it useful) perhaps it is time to remove the evil tree.

+ + Old Man Willow

*cough cough* Don't go forgetting about this amongst all the Wereduck excitement, now. ;)

On the off-chance that they do...

++murmursmithofwoottonmajormurmur

A nice inconspicuous vote...

Did you really think I wouldn't notice that, Ang? :D :p

++ Old Man Willow

Never liked him - a bully who doesn't pick on trees his own size. Picking on hobbits. Inexcusable.

Psst ...

+ + Smith of Wootton Major

I was not here.
You did not see me.