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 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:47 pm Post subject: Something to Ponder: Eol's Meteor |
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Ok, we kow that Eol made at least 2 swords from meteoric iron, no biggie.
But where did the meteor come from if Varda made the stars?
Think about what the presence of a metoer implies... No big deal in our day of Newtonian Physics. But In the First Age, ME was flat and the Sun and Moon were the offspring of two trees...
I don't know if the Prof intended this little fact to be a chink in the Creation Myth he devised or if it was an oversight, but there are other references to a world that turned, one being "The stars wheeling overhead" while Elwe and Melian were mooning over each other.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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I adore your cranky mind, Inglor!  Keep spinning!
Poor Prof! If he ever imagined his works would be in for such minute examination I doubt he'd ever have published.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Meteor came from little-known alien planet Prof knew about from secret leaked documents. The Valar, of course, knew all about it but were keeping the elves in the dark. Eol was just a lone G-man in a good suit looking to uncover The Truth. Aredhel was petite dyed-red-headed forensic pathologist sceptic.
Oh no, a crossover!
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Or a drabble challenge! Take a vignette from tolkien and write it in a modern style, e.g. Micky Spillane film noire gangster. Could work ... might not ... 
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Viv wrote: | Meteor came from little-known alien planet Prof knew about from secret leaked documents. The Valar, of course, knew all about it but were keeping the elves in the dark. Eol was just a lone G-man in a good suit looking to uncover The Truth. Aredhel was petite dyed-red-headed forensic pathologist sceptic.
Oh no, a crossover!
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It came from a galaxy far, far away....
Sorry. Going away now. 
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She swept into his office like bad news.
"I don't take hard-luck cases anymore, Toots," he said, not bothering to take his feet off the desk or the stogie from his mouth. "Go find yourself some other sap."
A single tear glistened near her right eye, and she parted ruby lips.
"Oh, but Feanor," Ungolient snuffled.
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Or a drabble challenge! Take a vignette from tolkien and write it in a modern style, e.g. Micky Spillane film noire gangster. Could work ... might not ... |
I was going to do the Council of Elrond in the style of a Roddy Doyle novel, but then I figured I'd best not use that sort of language in front of the kiddies.
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I did not mean to be nitpicking, I am just wondering if Eol's meteor is one of those eastereggs He left us.
Oh and as to crossovers:
The House of Finarfin as told by Tom Clancy. Some young Telerin mariner accidentally tips his Noldor cousin into the drink, starting a chain reaction where Finrod ends up saving Ingwe from a Noldor/Teler plot to overthorw him. Includes the various minutae (sp?) of Noldorin masonry
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Personally I'd love to see the story of Queen Beruthiel told in the style of Raymond Chandler.
But I don't know why.
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| Viv wrote: | She swept into his office like bad news.
"I don't take hard-luck cases anymore, Toots," he said, not bothering to take his feet off the desk or the stogie from his mouth. "Go find yourself some other sap."
A single tear glistened near her right eye, and she parted ruby lips.
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Clever girl!!
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