What do you assign to Mordor?

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

The book I was reading fell into a full bathtub yesterday.

A Feast For Crows was sacrificed in an offering to the Drowned God. But after the fan gave it the kiss of life it became kinda usable again, except that it feels weird. The pages don't feel like proper pages anymore.

Listen. Way back in 1985 I was reading the Humphrey Carpenter bio of Tolkien in bed while enjoying a nice glass of warm Ribena and I spilled it all over my book. I was pretty upset about the book being forever stained purple but I was more worried about my mum going up the wall at the fact I'd been lying around in bed and spilling blackcurrant all over the sheets. So think yourself lucky

Anyway, I came here to assign bus stop offenders. The ones who stand in front of you when you're waiting for the bus so your view is obscured and you miss the bus. And the ones who sit on the middle of the bus shelter seat so nobody else can sit down and they all have to huddle at the far end while madam luxuriates in having the whole bench to herself. And the ones who will not stand within ten feet of another person, so you get to a bus shelter that should cover fifteen people but one person needs so much personal space that everyone is rammed together in the three feet of space that Princess Touch Me Not allows them.

Of course, this would all be solved if I was not British and consumed with queue etiquette anxiety.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Did I mention that in the summer almost all cellars in Copenhagen got flooded, I still had a few boxes down there (stored item that I did not bring with me to England).

Obviously it was the heavy stuff that was left. . . Heavy = Book/and comic books.

I lost for at least £800 worth, including the Luis Bermejo comic-book version of The Fellowship. . .

I know this is old news, but all this talk of wet books reminded me of the terrible event.

[Pomegranate]

Ha, bath tubs and books remind me of the time, almost ten years ago, when I was a happy little child and had just gotten the hold of a book that would practically change my life (sounds pathetic, but in fact, scarily true), The Lord Of The Rings. My excited self didn't put it down for the week or two it took me to read it, and this did include a trip to a bath. So my dear, dear copy of the book is from midway down double the thickness it is from midway up :/

And I came back to campus less than a week ago, first fire alarm was already before the lectures started and the second was about two days ago. All these new exchange student kids who don't know how to cook.

That is, catered schools that send their students abroad to learn life, and bathtubs, to Mordor with them!

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Listen. Way back in 1985 I was reading the Humphrey Carpenter bio of Tolkien in bed while enjoying a nice glass of warm Ribena and I spilled it all over my book. I was pretty upset about the book being forever stained purple but I was more worried about my mum going up the wall at the fact I'd been lying around in bed and spilling blackcurrant all over the sheets. So think yourself lucky

My story is mild compared to yours.

And that reminds me of the copy of The Sil in my school library. It has a huge sticky brown stain on the back cover that seeped through the last pages. I don't know when or how it got there, but the possibilities are endless. Imagine the story that would make!

[Legolas]

School loan-related debt. Every penny of it.