The Revenge of the Entish Bow - Discussion

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I’ve been enjoying rereading all your posts to finally write my comment – thanks for all the great writing! Besides the liberal use of alliteration, what strikes me most is that the character development is taking on depth. Like the Hobbits in the original LotR, they have grown, and it’s interesting to see them taking on life of their own, along with plot twists in unexpected directions.

Kuruharan, you certainly took the group in an unexpected direction with the River Pirate episode - nothing to forgive – it’s fun! After the sultry atmosphere of Topfloorien, some action was needed for a change of pace. And now you’ve turned up another piece of the Ent – along with some horrible yet highly amusing rhyming!

Mithadan, Gravlox has indeed become a fascinating character – what prowess with weapons, at least in his dreams! Awwww, poor Holdit – like his movie colleague, he turns up at the wrong battle, with fatal results. Strange, three Elves dead, and Gravlox didn’t even touch them? Is he turning into a good guy?? [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

Squatter, besides the Jabberwocky references, which I liked, it was interesting to find out more about Earnur’s history – the sad story of his lost Lúthien-esque love with the acerbic name makes us sympathize with his escapist habits. As to the spider, lucky thing that he met one of the females, huh?!

Birdie, where do you get those great critter ideas? Your posts are always a special treat! First the Kraken, then the faux-bears, with their talk of half-Beorns and born Beorns…

Rimbaud, I loved your nod to the Hobbit, with the story of the invention of Basketball! Halfie the heroic hairdresser has struck terror into our hearts with his pictures and links. As always, your puns are wonderful – “curl up and dye”!! Great names for the Elven languages too – Quixotic and Simian!

Diamond, I am consistently amazed at the lengthy poems you invent for Vogonwë – Fit the Third was as, um, interesting as always! I especially liked the reference to the ‘Walrus and the Carpenter’, with Kuruharan’s amendment, as taken from my old signature! The cousin with the royal welcome amused me – we are mixing scenes and characters from the books and movies with impunity, aren’t we?! LOL at the use of the Black Tongue during the capture of the Elven males.

Bethberry, nice to have you back as our next cameo character, O Lando L’oréal Bloom! The linguistic prowess of your posts, especially the amazing alliteration, was a knockout! I chuckled at the fangirls’ names and the ‘quality’ of their Elvish! And where on earth did you get the inspiration for that strange agent’s name, PeeJay13? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

B-W, we understand if you’ve not had the time to post – as far as we’re concerned, Orogarn Two is in the Forest somewhere, hunting fowls – we think. We hope to hear from him whenever you are able to write again.

To finish, here’s a list of a few of my favorite quotes:

*BOP* *SMACK* *SHOVE* *KICK* *TOSS* [shades of animated Batman!]

a blade that was the terror of three continents and thousands of temporary incontinents

mis-spelling his own stream of consciousness

the sky did things that no self-respecting atmosphere should even know about and the ground chose a bad moment to take up ballet

Windósil, the sword-that-was-on-sale

fondle folicles, brush bouffants, to pay the toupe

masculine martiality as a malevolent malpropism maliciously miring him in mores of mild moral malfeasance

pursuing the peatmossed pediments and purloining puffballs

primly plucking the plump produce from its voluminous vines

We know not now the like of our discussions of eld, the devastating wit, the pedantic jab, the po-faced oneupmanship, the arcane analysis, the sheer delight of sharing line upon line of the most obscure quotations from the ancient texts

sullying them with vain and empty ceremonies and forcing clerical witnesses upon their private rites

delicate hunting horn with the pink "Hello Kitty" motif

there were members of one or two different websites present, and they could not understand one another’s chatspeak

[ February 19, 2003: Message edited by: Estelyn Telcontar ]