[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>The dwarf-tossing and 'it's still sharp' jokes really aggravate me.<BR><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Everyone ought to know by now what I thought and why I thought it, so I'm not going to waste all our time by repeating myself. I agree with you on most of your points, but I saw the "it's still sharp" comment as one of utter amazement that a sword should keep its edge for so many years; thus explaining to the especially dense that Narsil was something very special indeed. I don't think it was supposed to be funny.<P>For the benefit of those who still think it's worth debating what the <I>Daily Mirror</I> thinks of anything, if its front-page headline managed by some miracle to avoid sex, celebrities or immigrant bashing for long enough to say that the sky was above the ground I'd have to go outside and make sure. That newspaper has one of the worst records of inaccurate, frivolous and inflammatory reporting in the entire history of journalism, and anybody who has ever written so much as a sentence for it should be ashamed of themselves.<p>[ February 14, 2003: Message edited by: Squatter of Amon Rudh ]