They are old, they are really old...

[Kransha]

Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle

My guess is that Kransha is 38 (in Ent years).

So, that makes me 597.23, I suppose. Or is it 3. I'm bad with numbers, mind you.

Kransha can beat me in nothing -- I built a faster than light ship and flew it through a wormhole to emerge on the other side six years older -- I am now 100 too.

Beat you in nothing, eh? I'm still older than you by a few days. Take THAT, Birth Certificate Forging Agency (Sub-corporation of the Estonian Mafia Syndicate, a branch of the Unnoticed Eastern-European Nations Crime League).

In real life, I must admit that I believe the esteemed Prof. Hedgethistle Esq. has it over me in years. I will confess that I am but a year away from joining the Tolkien Coming of Age Club. I've been watching the thread chronically, just so I know what it's purpose is, other than proclaiming my senility. With the coming of September, I felt, as I usually do, smug, watching all the wee ones head off to their respective receptacles of education, but my working establishment has conscripted me once again. I'm back in business, and going strong, to prevent me from getting or feeling to old. I was able to enlist my oft mentioned younger brother in the business of Tolkien at an early age. I myself was not so lucky, which is why I have still not 'come of age.'

Was that rambling necessary? I think not. Need I go on? I think not. Old Age brings evils upon mankind, say I, one of them being Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Excuse me while I play Vivaldi's Concerto in A Minor to get my stiff fingers working again...Hey, that reminds me of a funny story! It was the summer of '08, just after the invention of the wheel....