Scarburg Meadhall Discussion Thread

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

That's right out of LoR - when Sam is caught by Gandalf eavesdropping, and Sam says, "Please don't turn me into anything unnatural!" ...

Ah, you're right... so it's the prof's problem then.

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Ah, you're right... so it's the prof's problem then.

Well know... don't be so hasty to give in there, Master Nogrod. For a philosopher, you're most un-Entishly hasty to give up a point. One could argue, after all, that the Shire and Rohan have very different ways of looking at the world, and while Sam might use the word "unnatural" in such a sense, there's no reason to assume the same of Stigend.

Of course, since I can't help arguing both sides of the issue, it seems to me only fair to support Elempi, and point out that by having Stigend use it, from a reader's perspective the parallel to Sam and Gandalf is made immediately more apparent (and, indeed, when this topic came up here, my first thought was of Sam).