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mark12_30 · 09-26-2004, 09:19 PM

"Mewlips" is really rather a Hobbit poem. I love it, but it is awfully cute.

I have no problem whatsoever with having the source of that hobbit-legend spring to life-- or un-life-- in the swamp, but if we **call** them Mewlips, they become cute and comical and I'd rather dodge that.

We can always explain (after some good, slimy horror) that these creatures were the source of the Mewlips legend for the hobbits.

I'm leaning towards the Swamp-dead, as in the Dead Marshes (yes, yes, that is their name.) They can be as mewlipsy as we want-- but let's call them something else?

09-26-2004, 09:19 PM	#530
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	"Mewlips" is really rather a Hobbit poem. I love it, but it is awfully cute. I have no problem whatsoever with having the source of that hobbit-legend spring to life-- or un-life-- in the swamp, but if we call them Mewlips, they become cute and comical and I'd rather dodge that. We can always explain (after some good, slimy horror) that these creatures were the source of the Mewlips legend for the hobbits. I'm leaning towards the Swamp-dead, as in the Dead Marshes (yes, yes, that is their name.) They can be as mewlipsy as we want-- but let's call them something else? __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.