Burglary, Pockets and the Hobbit - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Nar · 09-17-2002, 09:08 AM

Not at all, red! The trousers could be wrapped around the head in a sort of turban.

Mr Underhill, you have inexplicably missed the connection between Lobelia's umbrella and the smothering wings of the Balrog. It seems clear that those great shadowy bat-wings indicate the Balrog's inability to allow its surrogate charges, the mountain orcs, the freedom to grow, mature, roam, and achieve self-actualization through looting and pillage. Instead, the Balrog's young (relatively speaking) charges are enjoined to sterile, smothering old feuds. Beware the pocket unfolded, expanded into a hideous parody of shelter or (if the winds are right) uplift! Similarly, poor Lotho is drawn into his mother's quest for vengeance and conquest, dropped into this smothering umbrella like a Bag-End trinket! It was probably even a black umbrella.

The classic bat-brolly-ed smothering mother figure is of course that demonic nanny, Mary Poppins. Note how Balrog-like, she uses her dark umbrella to fly about in defiance of the natural laws of uplift and wing-to-bodyweight ratios!

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09-17-2002, 09:08 AM	#22
Nar Wight Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 228	Not at all, red! The trousers could be wrapped around the head in a sort of turban. Mr Underhill, you have inexplicably missed the connection between Lobelia's umbrella and the smothering wings of the Balrog. It seems clear that those great shadowy bat-wings indicate the Balrog's inability to allow its surrogate charges, the mountain orcs, the freedom to grow, mature, roam, and achieve self-actualization through looting and pillage. Instead, the Balrog's young (relatively speaking) charges are enjoined to sterile, smothering old feuds. Beware the pocket unfolded, expanded into a hideous parody of shelter or (if the winds are right) uplift! Similarly, poor Lotho is drawn into his mother's quest for vengeance and conquest, dropped into this smothering umbrella like a Bag-End trinket! It was probably even a black umbrella. The classic bat-brolly-ed smothering mother figure is of course that demonic nanny, Mary Poppins. Note how Balrog-like, she uses her dark umbrella to fly about in defiance of the natural laws of uplift and wing-to-bodyweight ratios!