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Survivor: Surviving the Minor Works
Welcome to the latest game of Survivor: Surviving the Minor Works.
52 contestants from 5 tribes vie for the title of Most Major Minor. Get out your minor works, boys and girls, because you'll need to re-read just to figure who some of these characters are. :D Rules for play are as follows: Each day vote for who you want to see expelled from the game. Votes will be tallied and the character with the most votes will die or be banished. If there are any ties, the characters tied for the most votes will bite the dust together. Each day will last 24 hours, starting and ending at Midnight CST (DST). Right now it is 9 PM CST (DST) Sunday April 9th so this first day will be slightly longer, ending at 12 AM Tuesday April 11th. Vote for who you want gone, thusly: + + Tom Bombadil Votes are retractable up to the deadline and should be done thusly: - - Tom Bombadil All votes will be counted, but please give reasons for your votes. Reasons need not be strictly Tolkien related, but reasons should have something to do with the stories, characters, or the game. The tribes and contestants are as follows: Farmer Giles of Ham Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) Gram, his dog The Giant from the Wild Hills King Augustus Bonifacious Chrysophylax Dives The Miller The Parson Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle Master Cook Rider Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie Nokes Smith of Wooton Major Nell Queen of Faerie Niggle Mr. Parish The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems) Tom Bombadil Goldberry Badger Old Man Willow The Barrow-wight Goodman Maggott Princess Mee Fíriel The Mewlips Troll Perry-the-Winkle Roverandom Roverandom The Wizard Artaxerxes The Little Boy Psamothos Psamathides Mew, the Seagull Man-in-the-Moon Moon-dog Great White Dragon Mer-dog Uin, the Whale Princess Pam The Sea-serpent Mr. Bliss Mr. Bliss Girabbit Mr. Binks Mr. Day Mrs. Knight Archie Teddy Bruno Fattie Dorkins Albert Dorkins Herbert Dorkins Egbert Dorkins Sergeant Boffin ~~~~~~~~~~ First day begins now. Have fun! |
Um *cough*, guys, these characters aren't that obscure. I know who they all are, after all. :p
If you want a nudge in the beginning direction, I should say I rather expect a fight over old Bombadillo, though I have no control over the matter and it's all up to you people to vote. :smokin: |
I know the minor works and their characters well, but I don't have the time to get involved in a game like this, especially not now before the Easter holiday weekend - sorry!
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Actually Esty with Survivor you can pop in and out of the game as time and inclination permit... so if you ever have a hankerin' to toss in your two cents don't hesitiate. :)
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How untoward! Championing the reign of the heir before the predecessor is dead and buried?
Do you honestly expect me to begin killing... er voting... off people here before Tar-Míriel... I mean, before I've officially counted the votes for my own game? Pffffle!!! ++ Sunny Sam What kind of a medieval name is that? I mean, "Sunny" sounds vaguely hippy, modernish... More the name of a cartoon character than a blacksmith. And Sam Gamgee already has dibs on the name "Sam". |
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+ + TOM BOMBADIL Those "hey dol merry dols" really begin to grate after a while. Rather like Elrond's "tra la la lallies". :rolleyes: |
Only Mr Bliss is entirely unknown to me; I've read Roverandom but completely forgotten the contents...
++PRINCESS PAM Clearly a case of that villainous Tolkien fellow plagiarising Sony's Mariocart, just like the time when he infamously stole the plot of EA Games: Lord of the Rings, and the occasion when he imported the Whomping Willow from Harry Potter. Honestly, the man should be arrested. Next he'll try ripping off Peter Jackson's Oscar winning masterpiece, The Return of King Kong or whatever. |
Well, since I can do this without committing myself for the whole game, I will cast a vote for
++The Mewlips just because they creep me out - and because their poem aggravates me, as it has no direct quotes that I can use for the "minor works" quotes and Palantír threads! Maybe I need to quote a few lines from the poem to prove my point: Quote:
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I need to get around to reading Roverandom, so um, raincheck on this game for a little bit....
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++Everyone other than Tom Bombadil.
Who the heck are they? Tom saved the hobbits twice. That's worth some merit. |
++The Giant from the Wild Hills
HE boasts about his exploits to the unknown lands but was driven off by a stout little farmer and his talking dog!!! And in order to save face, he claims that the farmer's blunderbuss was a large number of mosquitos!! He is a fool, he should go |
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Eeny Meeny Miney Mo...Who Will Be The First To Go?
++PRINCESS PAM
Princesses are all right in their own way, but in this case I'd much rather see her go then old Bombadil. *glares at Sauice* :p And besides that...bandwagoning is such fun! :D |
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Hey, it's better than 51 single posts.;) I personally don't think we should have a survivor so soon after a survivor just ended. just in case...++Sea-serpent. We already have a freaky water monster and it's the watcher. |
I must admit that I know remarkably few of these characters, having only read some of Roverandom and being familiar with the Tom Bombadil set of characters from LotR...
However, even though I don't mind Tom as much as I used to, I still can't sit by and watch him get anywhere close to the end... ++Hey derry dol's ++Tom Bombadil |
End of Day the First
The inaugural day of Minor Works Survivor began slowly, with the judges warily eyeing many of the unfamiliar contestants. Votes, when they came, were varied. At the end, two unlucky characters ended up tied:
Tom Bombadil: 2 votes Princess Pam: 2 votes Sunny Sam: 1 vote The Mewlips: 1 vote The Giant from the Wild Hills: 1 vote The Sea-serpent: 1 vote And so, Tom and Pam were literally trussed up together and heaved into the Sea. Tom gave a cry of "Hey derry dol!" with a mysterious wink and Pam, being the Princess of the Sea, simply smiled as she returned to her home with a mighty splash. Day the Second finds 50 remaining contestants: Farmer Giles of Ham Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) Gram, his dog The Giant from the Wild Hills King Augustus Bonifacious Chrysophylax Dives The Miller The Parson Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle Master Cook Rider Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie Nokes Smith of Wooton Major Nell Queen of Faerie Niggle Mr. Parish The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems) Goldberry Badger Old Man Willow The Barrow-wight Goodman Maggott Princess Mee Fíriel The Mewlips Troll Perry-the-Winkle Roverandom Roverandom The Wizard Artaxerxes The Little Boy Psamothos Psamathides Mew, the Seagull Man-in-the-Moon Moon-dog Great White Dragon Mer-dog Uin, the Whale The Sea-serpent Mr. Bliss Mr. Bliss Girabbit Mr. Binks Mr. Day Mrs. Knight Archie Teddy Bruno Fattie Dorkins Albert Dorkins Herbert Dorkins Egbert Dorkins Sergeant Boffin |
++Sea-serpent.
Stop eating the people on our beaches. Middle-Earth is losing economy. |
++MR BINKS
Along with the rest of his villainous crew, this shady character refuses to reveal his first name. He's obviously a Colombian coke dealer, a Mafioso or a CIA operative. See you, Giovanni! Not so blasted secretive now! |
I suggest we send
++Perry-the-Winkle away. He is definitely not thinking of the general welfare of the others, since he eats up all of the food and leaves none for his fellow villagers. |
+ + MR PARISH
Not only is he inconsiderate of Niggle during his lifetime, but he goes and plagues him in his afterlife too. ;) |
+ + PRINCESS MEE
Do we really need to reflect on this one? |
+ + Mer-dog
The S.P.O.C.S.T. (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Stone Trolls) sees this vote as a preemptive strike against future trolls being confused by terms such as "Burra-hobbits" which tend to confuse their not capacious intellects. P.S. Food for thought: for future Survivors, what about an all-girl Survivors, all-hobbit, and perhaps the most interesting (certainly the bloodiest) an all-orc Survivor? |
Following Esty's lead.
++Perry-the-Winkle
Yeah, what she says. :D (I'll be doing this until I've read some of the minor works.) |
End of Day the Second
The second round of voting found more wide-spread opinions on who should go, but only one contestant became the victim of collaberation.
Perry-the-Winkle: 2 votes The Sea-serpent: 1 vote Mr. Binks: 1 vote Mr. Parish: 1 vote Princess Mee: 1 vote Mer-dog: 1 vote And so, Perry-the-Winkle was butchered and his copious amounts of fat were made into butter and spread onto bread. Thus the Poems Tribe took yet another hit. Day the Third finds 49 remaining contestants: Farmer Giles of Ham Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) Gram, his dog The Giant from the Wild Hills King Augustus Bonifacious Chrysophylax Dives The Miller The Parson Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle Master Cook Rider Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie Nokes Smith of Wooton Major Nell Queen of Faerie Niggle Mr. Parish The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems) Goldberry Badger Old Man Willow The Barrow-wight Goodman Maggott Princess Mee Fíriel The Mewlips Troll Roverandom Roverandom The Wizard Artaxerxes The Little Boy Psamothos Psamathides Mew, the Seagull Man-in-the-Moon Moon-dog Great White Dragon Mer-dog Uin, the Whale The Sea-serpent Mr. Bliss Mr. Bliss Girabbit Mr. Binks Mr. Day Mrs. Knight Archie Teddy Bruno Fattie Dorkins Albert Dorkins Herbert Dorkins Egbert Dorkins Sergeant Boffin |
++Sea-serpent.
You woke Ulmo up and now he's cranky. Thanks for sending a hurricane to Middle-Earth. |
++Fattie Dorkins
Poor guy, his name is Fattie Dorkins. Imagine how the schoolkids must tease him! He must be traumatized, having the silliest name on the island. I can just imagine the Latin and Greek named characters picking on him. So he doesn't get too depressed, I'm voting him off the island and back to civilization where he can change his name to something more dignified. |
Alcarillo has unwittingly revealed a shocking
bit of bigotry by JRRT, to wit, his anti-large people agenda. (Fattie Dorkins, Fatty Lumpkin, Fatty Bolger- the noblest hobbit of them all). But then again they are his works, so: + + Fattie Dorkins And let's hope there's no elf singing of Fat people got no right to live. |
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+ + MR PARISH ... again. I never liked the chap. He treated Niggle abysmally. |
He usurped the throne, he was nothing more than the pawn of a dragon!! Why do we need him?
++Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo |
1,000 Readers can't be wrong, can they? At any rate, the argument for the
++Sea-serpent is convincing, and I don't like deep water anyway and certainly not storms at sea - except when they're patchwork patterns! (Storm at Sea patchwork pattern) |
++King Augustus Bonifacius
He's greedy and lazy. Can someone explain why we're keeping him around? |
You know, Tuor in Gondolin, I think we're onto something. Just look at the descrimination against Bombur in the Hobbit. When at Beorn's house, Gandalf instructs the dwarves to enter by twos. Listen to what he says to Bombur:
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End of Day the Third
The third round ended late because the moddess forgot all about it, but even this was not enough to save two minor characters:
Fattie Dorkins: 2 votes The Sea-serpent: 2 votes Mr. Parish: 1 vote Farmer Giles: 1 vote King Augustus: 1 vote And so, with cries of, "Tolkien was against fat people, and if it's good enough for Tolkien, it's good enough for us!" the judges fed Fattie Dorkins to The Sea-serpent. Then they slaughtered the Sea-serpent and made it into chic purses, boots, belts, watch straps, and hat bands. Day the Fourth finds 47 remaining contestants: Farmer Giles of Ham Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) Gram, his dog The Giant from the Wild Hills King Augustus Bonifacious Chrysophylax Dives The Miller The Parson Sunny Sam (Fabricius Cunctator) The Blacksmith Smith of Wooton Major/Leaf By Niggle Master Cook Rider Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie Nokes Smith of Wooton Major Nell Queen of Faerie Niggle Mr. Parish The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Poems) Goldberry Badger Old Man Willow The Barrow-wight Goodman Maggott Princess Mee Fíriel The Mewlips Troll Roverandom Roverandom The Wizard Artaxerxes The Little Boy Psamothos Psamathides Mew, the Seagull Man-in-the-Moon Moon-dog Great White Dragon Mer-dog Uin, the Whale Mr. Bliss Mr. Bliss Girabbit Mr. Binks Mr. Day Mrs. Knight Archie Teddy Bruno Albert Dorkins Herbert Dorkins Egbert Dorkins Sergeant Boffin |
++ Mr. Binks
As was brought up before it's very suspicious that he refuses to reveal his first name. And we all know what a disaster the last "Binks*" was. :eek: *If you're not thinking Star Wars, you should be... |
+ + The Wizard Artaxerxes
The guy's too much into "tough love" with a thing against toy dogs. |
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++ Mr. (Jar Jar) Binks |
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At last. The end of the line for the Godfather, and I'm not talking about Berlusconi, ho ho.
++SIGNOR BINKS, CAPO DEI CAPI |
If we're going for a character from the story of Mr. Bliss, I think we should get rid of
++Sergeant Boffin - after all, when he was called upon to act, he was not needed at all. So why should we need him now?! |
++Psamathos Psamathides
For sending Rover to the moon without an explanation or much of a reason. And besides, he just sleeps in the sand all day and doesn't help the other survivors with their island duties at all. |
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