Survivor: The Second Age

[Formendacil]

POSTSCRIPT:

In the case of a tie for 2nd and 3rd Place, I hereby, as my last act as Survivor Moderator, declare Celebrimbor son of Curufin as 2nd Place Champion, in light of Anguirel's post-deadline vote for him.

~Finis~

[The 1,000 Reader]

Okay...the person who didn't do a single thing and was pushed around throughout her lifetime won simply because of far-fetched what-ifs and because she was touching a building when she died.

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"What's wrong with you people?!"

[Diamond18]

Why is no one else celebrating??

*cavorts around tossing candy and confetti in the air*

Or bemoaning for that matter?

*hands out sackcloth and ashes*

(X-posted with 1,000 Reader.)

[The 1,000 Reader]

Get yer' bombs boys, we're sinkin' this queen with er' isle again.

[Firefoot]

I'll celebrate with you, Diamond!

To tell the truth, Tar-Miriel is one of the ones I was hoping might win. Even though she is so minor, she has always been one of my favorite minor characters. I had not ever realized before this just how little was explicitly written about her. Guess that shows you what a little imagination can do. Sometimes it is nice that Tolkien leaves us little holes to fill in.

[The 1,000 Reader]

"With our research over, George Bush is a better writer than Shakespeare because there is a 3% chance that he was abducted by aliens and injected with writing-enhancing formulas."

Seriously, people shouldn't win because of far-fetched dreams that aren't in tune with the story they came from. "She died in a tower" doesn't really mean anything. Any other character would have gone to the tower if they couldn't reach a boat.

(As a sidenote, you might want to find a new island for the next survivor. Heh heh. )

[Diamond18]

Nobody likes an aggressively sore loser. It's annoying.

Also, your analogy holds no water since Shakespeare and George Bush are real people and Tar-Miriel et al are (say it with me everyone) fictional.

fic·tion n.

1.a. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
1.b. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.

2. A lie.

3.a. A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
3.b. The category of literature comprising works of this kind, including novels and short stories.

Finally, saying that you're going to blow up the island because you didn't like the outcome of the game is childish. Or, to put it into another analogy, blowing up games you didn't win today leads to beating up grandmothers and stealing candy from children the next. It's a slippery slope.

[The 1,000 Reader]

Originally Posted by Diamond18

Nobody likes an aggressively sore loser. It's annoying.

Pardon me, but I just don't think that Tar-Mirel deserved to win when she didn't really do anything.

Originally Posted by Diamond18

Also, your analogy holds no water since Shakespeare and George Bush are real people and Tar-Miriel et al are (say it with me everyone) fictional.

What I'm saying is that someone who hasn't shown any proof of their skill and has only shown the lack of it should not be chosen over one who has shown proof of their skill.

Originally Posted by Diamond18

fic·tion n.

1.a. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
1.b. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.

2. A lie.

3.a. A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
3.b. The category of literature comprising works of this kind, including novels and short stories.

Yes, but even fiction needs order and something to rely upon. If we go outside of canon then we are not being true to the fiction, potentially unraveling it. We should remain true to origins, not the stuff of fan-fics.

Originally Posted by Diamond18

Finally, saying that you're going to blow up the island because you didn't like the outcome of the game is childish. Or, to put it into another analogy, blowing up games you didn't win today leads to beating up grandmothers and stealing candy from children the next. It's a slippery slope.

This is Middle-Earth Mirth. "Childish" things belong here if anywhere. Besides, how would you like it if you worked your tail off to get a job and the person who didn't do anything got it instead? Finally, I fail to see how a post in a mirthful corner of the internet will suddenly drive me to attack innocent citizens. That's like the "Eeee! videogames are evil!" arguement, except using tetris as an example. To add onto that, I typed in "orc-fashion." If I was serious, I wouldn't go to that length.

Tar-Mirel won, yes, that happened, but that doesn't mean I can't answer in a silly fashion, just like when I first used "orc-talk" here.

Seriously though, you should get off that island. A fearsome looking hermit known only as "Robinson Crusoe" is rumored to turn into a large worm and grab people from underground. Others say he is a psychic snapping turtle without skin.

Run for your lives. He has already ensalved the wildlife and is using them for food. If legend is true, then he is the fearsome "Euro pean" said to bring a great plague to all life, as his kind did to the "N D ans."