eskhn
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Post by eskhn on Dec 25, 2013 0:38:50 GMT
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"Again"?
#shippersgonnaship
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Post by GK Sierra on Dec 25, 2013 2:00:39 GMT
GKC: If it fits, it ships. |
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Post by Daedalus on Dec 25, 2013 2:27:03 GMT
I really hope Doctor Disaster's simulator makes a reappearance before the comic is over. Peace on earth and goodwill towards men! ...except my accountant. I'm gonna mail that guy an entire sack of coal. Seconded. There will always be room for his wacky fun stuff. E:Tom is having a bad Christmas. I wish him well. What is happening with him? I have not heard. A very happy Christmas and beat wishes to him and all of you regardless. |
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Post by thshrkpnchr on Dec 25, 2013 3:40:28 GMT
Seconded. There will always be room for his wacky fun stuff. E:Tom is having a bad Christmas. I wish him well. What is happening with him? I have not heard. A very happy Christmas and beat wishes to him and all of you regardless. Check his twitter: I think it's something with his moving out. |
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Post by fuzzyone on Dec 25, 2013 8:19:51 GMT
... I think I need to reread Fellowship. This would explain a whole lot. |
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Post by zimmyzims on Dec 25, 2013 12:12:49 GMT
I really hope Doctor Disaster's simulator makes a reappearance before the comic is over. So, anyway, merry Christmas to everybody! Peace on earth and goodwill towards men! ...except my accountant. I'm gonna mail that guy an entire sack of coal. Depending on how he keeps his house warm, he might actually like that. But I'm going to mail you an entire sack of Gunner cookies for that comment. |
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Post by zimmyzims on Dec 25, 2013 12:27:48 GMT
I love this take on Tom Bombadil. I used to dislike Tom Bombadil. I did not hate him, as many do, not even dislike him as much as most readers I know do, but a lot. But this reading of him that I have never thought of even makes perfect sense, as there is yet another revenge of the trees that would be perfectly suiting to Tolkien's love of nature and that hint of associated misanthropy. I will always think of LOTR like this from now on, and that makes it a thousand times better book. Well, not thousand times, it already was a beautiful book with all its flaws and thousand times better would be a bit ridiculous. But a lot better. And I really think it is like that. It makes so perfect sense. That whole Bombadil-character never made any sense to me. That's why I never liked him. Not because he was jolly fat singer of cheesy poetry, well partly for that, but mostly because he just was so completely out of the order of the story. He didn't fit into it at all. And now he does. Thank the writer of that take on Tom Bombadil! |
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Post by sidhekin on Dec 25, 2013 21:19:23 GMT
I love this take on Tom Bombadil. It's a good take, except dead wrong as it goes: "And yet no hobbit has ever heard of him." Tolkien did not just hint of other Hobbits who ventured into the Old Forest; in the poem "Bombadil Goes Boating", we're told how "Woodman Tom with his billy-beard on" is named and asked to turn back at the border ("We don’t let Forest-folk nor bogies from the Barrows cross over Brandywine by cockle-boat nor ferry"), but still goes visiting Farmer Maggot: "Maggot’s sons bowed at door, his daughters did they curtsy. His wife brought tankards out for those that might be thirsty." Oh, and if we just consider what's in the LotR alone, it's said of Tom: "He made no secret that he owed his recent knowledge largely to Farmer Maggot, whom he seemed to regard as a person of more importance than they had imagined". |
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Post by zimmyzims on Dec 25, 2013 21:52:21 GMT
I love this take on Tom Bombadil. It's a good take, except dead wrong as it goes: "And yet no hobbit has ever heard of him." Tolkien did not just hint of other Hobbits who ventured into the Old Forest; in the poem "Bombadil Goes Boating", we're told how "Woodman Tom with his billy-beard on" is named and asked to turn back at the border ("We don’t let Forest-folk nor bogies from the Barrows cross over Brandywine by cockle-boat nor ferry"), but still goes visiting Farmer Maggot: "Maggot’s sons bowed at door, his daughters did they curtsy. His wife brought tankards out for those that might be thirsty." Oh, and if we just consider what's in the LotR alone, it's said of Tom: "He made no secret that he owed his recent knowledge largely to Farmer Maggot, whom he seemed to regard as a person of more importance than they had imagined". This was actually mentioned in that linked text, but he made a good argument that he probably lied. Read again. |
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Post by sidhekin on Dec 25, 2013 22:04:34 GMT
Ah right. Well, an argument, anyway. But that just covers the last paragraph. The Hobbit poems about old Tom still stand.
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Post by Per on Dec 25, 2013 22:28:05 GMT
Those poems were never recited nor sung by Hobbits; they are figments inserted by the power of the Bombadil into the extended universe to fool the unwary. The deception is carried on in the non-canonical Tolkien Gateway wiki, which relates that "the Buckland hobbits compose[d] poetry about Tom Bombadil" with no support in the canonical text.
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Post by warrl on Dec 25, 2013 22:49:18 GMT
... I think I need to reread Fellowship. This would explain a whole lot. You might also enjoy The Last Ringbearer. |
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Post by warrl on Dec 25, 2013 22:53:23 GMT
But this reading of him that I have never thought of even makes perfect sense, as there is yet another revenge of the trees You mean Durkon was right all along? |
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