LOTR Survivor

[Lalaith]

a good reason he should stay over one of the other three?

Oh yes. I'm just chilling it in the fridge as I write. You know, the dish best eaten cold and all that.

[Anguirel]

You have the right of it, m'lady.

Saucie, if this is an anticlimactic finish, know that you, weeding out anyone interesting but your candidate, have caused it.

But I would contend that Gimli, Lord of Aglarond, deserves victory now; and that the comeuppance of the Pan Man is long, long overdue.

[The Saucepan Man]

Goodness me! Calm down everyone! It's only a game (show).

Originally Posted by Folwren

So don't flatter yourself.

Er, I was rather under the impression that it was you who was attributing your vote to your (seemingly endless) quest to avenge yourself on me.

Originally Posted by Folwren

Ennoblement of the humble?

WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU THINK SAM WAS THERE FOR?!

Yeah, but Sam got kicked off early in the show. (He got voted off by a majority, might I add, not just one (my) vote. Sheesh! I am really being given far to much credit for the way the voting has gone than I deserve here.) That being the case, of the remaining contestants, Pippin best represents the theme in my opinion.

Originally Posted by Folwren

Yes! Okay, so I do bear a grudge! Pippin's going down, if only for your sake!

Am I to feel flattered? Or am I flattering myself again?

Originally Posted by Lalaith

You know, the dish best eaten cold and all that.

I am sorry that you still hold Galadriel's eviction against me, Lal (even though mine was, again, only one vote amongst many). But I don't go in for positive discrimination. All these arguments about keeping so-and-so because they are the only female left leave me cold. If I don't like a contestant, I'll vote for them whatever their gender.

Originally Posted by Anguirel

But I would contend that Gimli, Lord of Aglarond, deserves victory now; and that the comeuppance of the Pan Man is long, long overdue.

I might point out that (unlike some that I could mention) I have never voted for a contestant purely to spite a fellow viewer. I have voted for those who I felt deserved to go and to try to protect my favoured contestant. If I have upset people by doing so (and clearly I have), well tough. That's the way these things go.

Assuming that Pip goes today (which looks likely), I really have no preference for who wins the thing. Whoever wins out of the three, I would not feel unduly upset, but neither would I feel overly enthusiastic. As I said, just as in "real" Reality Shows, we end up with a compromise candidate. And that, my dear Ang, is most certainly not solely down to me, but to everyone who has participated in the voting.

[Anguirel]

I'm not voting Pippin purely to spite you, Saucie...alright, maybe largely, but not purely.

There is the fact that he's an irritating hairy little waistcoated pocket-watch wearing credit-stealing whining scion of the decadent and debauched Thaindom. Down with him and his ilk!

[Lalaith]

mine was, again, only one vote amongst many

Of course, Saucie my dear. And you are by no means the only victim on my list.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Anguirel

There is the fact that he's an irritating hairy little waistcoated pocket-watch wearing credit-stealing whining scion of the decadent and debauched Thaindom. Down with him and his ilk!

Scandalous! I would never stoop so low as to misrepresent the facts like that.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Lalaith

Of course, Saucie my dear. And you are by no means the only victim on my list.

Well, once Pip's gone, I am not sure that there is much material left with which to wreak your vengeance. I don't think that anyone is particularly enthusiastic, one way or the other, about the remaining candidates.

[Lalaith]

I don't think that anyone is particularly enthusiastic, one way or the other, about the remaining candidates

Oh I don't know. I believe that TGWBS is quite fond of a certain dwarf...and there might be other preferences emerging that will be monitored with interest...

(Sorry Ang, you've been a brick throughout, as the Famous Five would say, and I'd like to support your candidate. But right now, I'd rather just be mindlessly spiteful. "Cold are the counsels of women".)

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Well, once Pip's gone, I am not sure that there is much material left with which to wreak your vengeance. I don't think that anyone is particularly enthusiastic, one way or the other, about the remaining candidates.

You underestimate the power of the Mirth Forum...

Some of us, not caught up entirely in the vengeance element of repaying the evictions of our favourite characters (heck, I EVICTED my favourite characters), are busy fulfilling the mandate of the forum, and working at killing off characters with as much Mirth as may be...

And to Folwren & Co.:

'Tis most shameful of you to direct all your anger at Master Saucepan Man, but the fact of the matter is that he is only ONE of those who have been consistently voting off your favourites. He only has ONE vote after all. And while I might have been a willing member of the Anti-Celeborn League, the fact is that I have been eagerly voting off ANY member of the island who is the current favourite (Faramir, Eowyn, Glorfindel, Galadriel...)

And since, in the last week or so, that has been most of the candidates that the Anti-Saucie League has been pushing to keep, that's where I have been voting...

However, since Master Saucepan Man seems to be the only one left with a favourite, it's time for me to turn my bandwaggon around, and point it at Pippin.

Peregrin Took, as we all know, is among the most flippant of hobbits. The case against his lack of seriousness is so concisely put by Gandalf that all I can do is restate it: "Pippin is an incredible Fool of a Took".

In additional to his Foolishness of being a Took, Pippin is also well-known for his weed habit as well as his fungus habit. Merry, the other remaining hobbit, has it as well, but not so bad. One will note that Merry is able to part with his remaining stash of weed when he sees an old man in need of comforting, even though it is rudely received, and he won't see any more until Bree.

So off with the Habit! I mean the Hobbit!!

++Pippin