Oooh! Here's my chance!

++ERENDIS

Get bandwagoning! :D

++Khamul, for not having humps.

Sensible lass.

++KHAMUL, THE, HO HO, THIS JOKE WILL NEVER DIE, CAMEL

I shall have terrible, bloody vengeance for the motiveless destruction that just occurred...

Statement: My word, you are a man of little variety.

Query: Doesn't this get boring?

Formendacil- by my count Gil-galad only received five votes.

Diamond18 voted for "Gild-galad". :p
Quite right! We should, for the sake of balance, put forward candidates from those two groups.

My two picks would be Ohtar and Oropher.

Apologies for missing the Khamul appeal earlier, Ang! Celeborn was safe, at least. Though I miss Gil-Galad already.

++KHAMUL THE CAMEL

Shameless self promotion
 

+ + CELEBORN

This is why.

He was an embarassment to the title of Elf Lord in the Third Age. I can't imagine that he was any better in the Second.

Khamul the Easterling..., Cirdan the shipwright...


++Anarion the smashed-in head

I am making it my mission to save at least one Nazgul. Therefore, I will agree with Saucepan and vote for ++Celeborn

++Celeborn

He's been sitting in the back of my mind for a while, now. He's just not that interesting of a guy - rather flat. I don't see any outstanding merits of his that would earn him the right to winning Survivor.

Galadriel sure didn't have the greatest of tastes.

+ + Ohtar
I already gave reasons the other day.

If it comes down to Khamul and Celeborn, I will vote to save Khamul. Celeborn isn't one of my favorites, and we need bad guys to keep things even.

Listen to me, little shrunken gold horse-head thingy
 

++Celeborn

Why? His name shares an uncanny resemblance to that most icky of vegetables, the dread celery stalk, as is well documented in Chapter the 64th of this most accurate and estimable historical tome.

I rest my case.

phantom, by supporting the attackers of Celeborn, even if obliquely, you become a pawn of none other than the Alliance of Ultra-Doom.

No longer shall the name of the phantom be loved, worshipped and feared!

Nay, little children shall giggle and point in the street-"There goes the thrall of Saucey..."

the phantom speaks the truth! *grasps at straws*

So why didn't you Celeborn-voters vote for him yesterDay? :(


Yeah, like he said.

++KHAMUL, Nazgul of the Desert

Not even the Witch-King was given his own name!

I'd rather evict him if he had humps.

Let me get this straight, you guys vote for Khamûl because when it's pronounced wrong, his name somewhat resembles the word camel. Well, that's just clever. I mean really, it must be the best reason I've ever heard.


Now, how did it go again? 'Don't hate the game, hate the player', or something like that. :p I'm sorry for your loss, but it's hardly Khamûl's fault that Gil-Galad got voted off yesterday. You Khamûl voters could have saved the Elf King by voting for Celeborn then. Like this:

++Celeborn


Lhuna, yesterday you said:

"I'll willingly detract my vote for Khamûl if you help me get rid of Celeborn"

Well, wouldn't this be a good chance to get rid of him?

Ah Kuruharan, since you and your faction cannot buy me you mock me with snide words. Such a childish strategy will do you no good. :p

Lhuna, listen not to the spawn.

Gil-Galad's fall was engineered by the supporters of Khamul. They must suffer as a result.

Besides, attacking Celeborn is an orthodox and boring to do.

You'll see the same tired arguments coming out.

"He doesn't do much." To which I say, he's too cool to lower himself by getting involved in the plot.

"He's not as pretty as his wife." And your point is? The Queen isn't as pretty as Rosamund Pike; does that mean we should execute her?

"He's a Sinda and we don't need them around." You are a follower of the phantom. Allow yourself to be convinced that pan-Noldorism is counterproductive.

"He's got a stupid Quenya name." He was given a stupid Quenya name at a time when Tolkien was committing such errors as to declare Galadriel morally unambiguous.

"I'm swayed by Saucie's sequence of pictures." Read it from Celeborn's point of view. A decent host suffering a rather trying marriage.


To all Elf-sympathisers-in the words of Russellus Croweus Maximus Australianus, "the only chance we have of getting out of this place alive is if we stay together."


To all individualists-voting Khamul is a rare opportunity to annoy Saucie and the phantom at the same time...

Yay! Perfect! Vote Khamul!

We have backup!

It is, as I have made clear on numerous occasions, no skin off my nose who goes. So to attempt to annoy me in this contest is a fruitless task.

I'm all for annoying the phantom and his Noldorian superiority complex, as and when the occasion presents itself, but today is not such a day.

And it has to be said that annoying you, Ang, is a most entertaining endeavour. :p :D

For some reason, Wolfman Sauce, I've never quite trusted your word on that. Oh! Do I hear the squeals of Pippin in my ears? How odd...

Besides, my contacts and researchers have it differently.

Now I'm happy to admit when I'm annoyed. Some people in this world have a sense of justice.

The vote has sung the so-called Alliance's tune long enough!

I don't see Pippin's name on the roster. Nor indeed that of any Hobbit.

Then your intelligence is either faulty or it has been "sexed up" to make it more palatable to you. Unfortunately, both rather common shortcomings in intelligence these days. ;)

What?? An unforgivable oversight.

Right.

I declare:

Sauron Baggins

The Witchroarer

and Khamwise "The Camel" Gamgee all demonically cunningly disguised Hobbits of the Shire.

Stop them, Downers, ere they consume Middle-earth! Also, Saucey will burst into tears when we evict them! Guaranteed!

Anguirel, you try to be original and an individual so hard that you don't leave yourself much scope. If your vote depends on the amount of people who will get annoyed, it's hardly very independent.


Ouch! I was just asking her a question.


Your bright logics dazzle me, my good sir. :p

Isn't it obvious that if one doesn't want Khamûl to go, he or she votes for someone else. Usually the vote goes to a candidate who already has votes and thus makes the saving of, in this case, Khamûl possible.

It could have been Celeborn...

Well, unless you haven't noticed, that's scarcely a very tempting prospect to me either...

You lot can be sanctimonious about annoying people, because you're fighting the easy battle...

Well, Ang, if it'll make you happy I'll vote for Khamul and force a tie for now. Since neither is a character that I think deserves to win, I wouldn't be terribly disappointed to see them both gone.

But Kuru and Lalaith haven't voted yet, and we know who they will vote for, so I don't really see the point.

Unless you can talk a few others into it like Eomer and Gil, my vote for Khamul wouldn't matter in the least.

You do yourself an injustice, phantom! Everyone will surely flock to follow your vote! Please leap to my side.

Besides, though Lalaith won't break the Alliance, I think she might just abstain in this situation.

I assure you that the newly dubbed hobbit is beloved of your foes. Strike Khamul!

All right. Since I don't care too much, I suppose it would make sense for me to lend my vote to someone who does care.

To force a tie....
- - Ohtar
+ + Khamul

Eomer and Gil- it's a guarantee at this point that your candidates aren't going to be killed. If it's all the same to you, see if you can keep Khamul even with Celeborn if Celeborn pulls ahead, if for no other reason than Sauce so obviously wants Celeborn to get more votes than Khamul.

The Diamond-encrusted one speaks sense...and she has the good taste to cite a work of literature that I participated in.

++ Celeborn

Ang, have you ever read The Art of War? There are a few good points therein you could profit by...particularly at the end of the first chapter relating to estimates and calculations.

You smug Machiavelli/Sun Tzuist, spouting your strategems. I defy you and your cohorts. I trust in passion and taste. And the (admittedly suppressed at present) propensity of truehearted voters to support the underdog.

I'm sorry Ang.
The Alliance needs me.
++CELEBORN.
Good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing you to your rest.

I told you those two would vote for Celeborn, Ang.

Unless you can convince others within the next few hours, Celeborn is toast.

The Alliance! What is the Alliance?

A dagger of the mind, a false creation...

Wait! Lalaith's vote does not count.

It is not reasoned.

Can you give any reason, lady, any reason for voting Celeborn but that you are swung by your masters?

Only...two...more...votes...

Well, his absence might give poor lovelorn Celebrimbor a look-in....
There's a nice romantic, swashbuckling, quixotic reason for you.

You shouldn't have said anything about it, waited until voting was over, and then told Formy.

So, do you think you can round up any votes, Ang?

I don't sink that low.

And I can do "any", but "enough" is proving difficult. Where is the League that was monopolising, to paraphrase Theoden?

Clearly, I am a moral vacuum
 

:rolleyes: but nevertheless in possession of passion and taste.

++ Khamul the Easterling

He is somewhat insubstantial - can't tell if he is Bactrian or a dromedary. But it might explain this nazgul's strange relationship to water.


And Celeborn is the silverhaired, prettyboy trophy husband of the Age.

There. Even if I am defeated, it's something that Mith is cut down at my side.

Allow me to fly a banner of blue and silver, just waiting for it to be trampled upon...

I always felt sorry for Celeborn. He was a great man in his own right, but so eclipsed by his wife, who felt free to run rough-shod over him whenever she pleased. Vote Khamul and support helpless, henpecked, husbands!

EDIT: Like mine ;)

Celeborn is awesome. He stormed Mirkwood and drove out the baddies, he's supposedly the wisest guy around in the 3rd Age... I like him and don't want to see him go.

Khamul, on the other hand, is merely a cronie. Sure, he's got his own name, but he's a minion. No will of his own. No point in keeping him around.

++Khamul

To counter The Saucepan Man's obvious anti-elf attitude, I vote for
+ + Khamul