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Lyta_Underhill · 07-21-2003, 09:06 PM

My favorite example of the "You shall not pass!" mis-usage (if you can call it that) is a professor who tells his students that, if they cheat on the exam, they "shall not pass!"

Also, I don't know if I'm just stranger than your average reader of the Silmarillion, but I have this split personality reaction when Morgoth stomps Fingolfin--it is heroic, hopeless and Fingolfin gives him a scar to remember, but Morgoth steps on him as if he were a character in a Monty Python sketch! Anyone besides me find this funny? And I can't even begin to tell you how much Fëanor tickles my funnybone! He and Maedhros are probably my favorite characters in the Sil, but the Exploding Elf still makes me burst out with laughter sometimes! See, shortened quote from the Alternate Quenta Silmarillion, "Of Fëanor, the Exploding Elf." [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Cheers,
Lyta

P.S. Now that I've changed my sig, that aforementioned quote is now residing on the Quote Graveyard in the Barrowdowns Forum if you're interested! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[ July 25, 2003: Message edited by: Lyta_Underhill ]

07-21-2003, 09:06 PM	#11
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	My favorite example of the "You shall not pass!" mis-usage (if you can call it that) is a professor who tells his students that, if they cheat on the exam, they "shall not pass!" Also, I don't know if I'm just stranger than your average reader of the Silmarillion, but I have this split personality reaction when Morgoth stomps Fingolfin--it is heroic, hopeless and Fingolfin gives him a scar to remember, but Morgoth steps on him as if he were a character in a Monty Python sketch! Anyone besides me find this funny? And I can't even begin to tell you how much Fëanor tickles my funnybone! He and Maedhros are probably my favorite characters in the Sil, but the Exploding Elf still makes me burst out with laughter sometimes! See, shortened quote from the Alternate Quenta Silmarillion, "Of Fëanor, the Exploding Elf." [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Cheers, Lyta P.S. Now that I've changed my sig, that aforementioned quote is now residing on the Quote Graveyard in the Barrowdowns Forum if you're interested! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [ July 25, 2003: Message edited by: Lyta_Underhill ] __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”