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Legate of Amon Lanc · 11-21-2008, 10:36 AM

No, really not

Come on...

1. There was a person.
2. This person was vulnerable to a certain kind of disease.
3. This disease is a kind you won't usually find in a medic's handbook.
4. It caused this person, eventually, to move far from this person's home place.
5. That person did not die because of the disease, as far as we know.

Come on. That is quite a LOT of information. And, okay, I could add, for example:

6. We actually don't know anything about the person since it caught this disease.

skip spence · 11-21-2008, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

No, really not

Come on...

1. There was a person.
2. This person was vulnerable to a certain kind of disease.
3. This disease is a kind you won't usually find in a medic's handbook.
4. It caused this person, eventually, to move far from this person's home place.
5. That person did not die because of the disease, as far as we know.

Come on. That is quite a LOT of information. And, okay, I could add, for example:

6. We actually don't know anything about the person since it caught this disease.

The person was Legolas and the disease was sea-longing?

Legate of Amon Lanc · 11-21-2008, 12:21 PM

No, no, not really. The disease, if we were to take it literally, was not metaphorical.

Gollum the Great · 11-21-2008, 02:00 PM

Would it be Turin and the Evil Breath of Angband?

Legate of Amon Lanc · 11-21-2008, 02:17 PM

Nope, no way. Did you ever read he was vulnerable to it? I didn't.

Forget Angband at last. Forget ill winds. This disease did not spread by wind. It was not spread by, for example, blood contact as well. You won't get the disease if you were eating from the same plate as the person who has it. And so on.

You won't find it in a medical's handbook. Not even in a medical handbook of a medic who would work in M-E.

Gollum the Great · 11-21-2008, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Nope, no way. Did you ever read he was vulnerable to it? I didn't.

If I remember rightly, he got sick for awhile.

But is the real answer uhhhh, is the real answer ahhh, is the true answer....dang. I'd better delve into my deepest memories. I've only read a couple of ME books in the last two years at least and my powers of recall are rusty.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 11-21-2008, 03:08 PM

Keep trying then

The main point, though, resp. the only thing that is stated explicitely in the books is, that this person was vulnerable to the disease. There is not actually explicitely stated that this person actually caught this disease. (Although it of course is plain from the narration, but if we were really picky...)

11-21-2008, 10:36 AM	#1
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	No, really not Come on... 1. There was a person. 2. This person was vulnerable to a certain kind of disease. 3. This disease is a kind you won't usually find in a medic's handbook. 4. It caused this person, eventually, to move far from this person's home place. 5. That person did not die because of the disease, as far as we know. Come on. That is quite a LOT of information. And, okay, I could add, for example: 6. We actually don't know anything about the person since it caught this disease. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

11-21-2008, 12:21 PM	#3
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	No, no, not really. The disease, if we were to take it literally, was not metaphorical. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

11-21-2008, 02:00 PM	#4
Gollum the Great Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: The Pinnacle of my own might Posts: 386	Would it be Turin and the Evil Breath of Angband? __________________ 'It just shows you how true it is that one-half the world doesn't knows how the other three-quarters lives.' Bertie, The Code of the Woosters, by P. G. Wodewouse

11-21-2008, 02:17 PM	#5
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Nope, no way. Did you ever read he was vulnerable to it? I didn't. Forget Angband at last. Forget ill winds. This disease did not spread by wind. It was not spread by, for example, blood contact as well. You won't get the disease if you were eating from the same plate as the person who has it. And so on. You won't find it in a medical's handbook. Not even in a medical handbook of a medic who would work in M-E. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

11-21-2008, 03:08 PM	#7
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Keep trying then The main point, though, resp. the only thing that is stated explicitely in the books is, that this person was vulnerable to the disease. There is not actually explicitely stated that this person actually caught this disease. (Although it of course is plain from the narration, but if we were really picky...) __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories