How would they react?

Feraway Hawkbriar · 02-01-2002, 12:55 AM

How do you think the charecters of LotR would react to the modern world?

I personally think everyone would be scared S***-less then get all pissy at the elves for leaving middle-earth in the first place.

FrodoFriend · 02-01-2002, 02:03 AM

Yeah, they'd probably be terrified and confused. But that's why we're here! To give them places to stay and take care of them! Good care, very good . . .

Arathorn · 02-01-2002, 04:39 AM

I think they'll act like those people that went forward in time in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Things to do if you can bring them here:

the 4 hobbits: don't bring them to golf course. the owners have problems enough with rodent-sized holes. They'll need open space too and smoking areas.

Gandalf & Saruman: They'll be wide-eyed when they see my Athlon workstation with a 28.8 kbps (they'll still be impressed

) connection as well as cable TV.

Aragorn, Boromir, Legolas, Gimli: These guys will make you rich if you enter them in Survivor.

athelas · 02-01-2002, 05:58 AM

Depends on where they land in. If they landed in some huge city, hell, they'd be freaked and think Sauron or Sharkey was responsible for what they see. (Notice how Tolkien likes to portray the bad guys as those who have huge, menacing towers and machinery? The guy must have seriously hated the Industrial Revolution.)

And Gandalf would probably destroy my PC, calling it the work of Sauron. It'd take a miracle to make them like the modern world i guess. (Legolas and Gimli: What?? So little forests? No glittering caves? You call that a river? Farmer Maggot: What do you mean? You don't have a farm around here? No mushrooms? No taters?)

markedel · 02-01-2002, 10:44 AM

He he it would still pretty hilarious of this entire fellowship materialized in fron of a LOTR fan's house...he he imagine the chaos...imagine the mangled Sindarin...

Legolas · 02-01-2002, 02:41 PM

The worst thing would be talking. I guess not many people on Earth can speak Quenya. Sindarin or Westron normally to interact. About 500, I'd say. So, imagine how would this be.
BTW, if the Fellowship doesn't land near a LotR-fan house, they would be sent to mental-hospital in a few hours (anyone seen the film "Aliens" and "Aliens 2"?)

Feraway Hawkbriar · 02-01-2002, 02:58 PM

hrmm..true..very true.

heheh their reaction to todays music wouldbe interesting.

"smelly cat, oh smell-y cat"

All: wtf? o_O*

athelas · 02-01-2002, 03:15 PM

hehehe...

I can see it now....

( Fellowship appears in front of door)

Gandalf raps on the door with staff. The rest of the fellowship look around, bewildered.

I lazily get off couch and walk to the door in a sloppy manner.

Gandalf(in Westron): Good afternoon. May I know where this place is?

Me: huh? you seem familiar....You're Gandalf right?

Legolas(in Westron):What is she speaking?

Gimli(In Westron):I don't know. Sounds like the black speech.

Me: The rest of the fellowship's here too? Can I have a look at that ring of yours Frodo? (Reaches for chain hanging round his neck.)

Frodo(In Westron): Help! She's attacking me. She wants the Ring!

Aragorn, who is standing behind Frodo, draws his sword. The rest of the fellowship get out their weapons too. Sam brandishes his frying pans. Frodo draws sting. It is glowing.... (for some unknown reason)

Me: S***! (Gimli grips axe even tighter.)
Stares nervously around. (They don't understand me! Quick! Think of an elvish phrase!)

Me: Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo!

I get bewildered looks from all around.

Aragorn (in Westron): The orc just spoke Quenya!

Gimli:Sauron's orcs are getting smarter than those uruk-hai. Must be a new breed. Let's kill it all the same!

They charge at me.....

Me: AIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! HEEEEEELLLLLPPPPPP!!!!!! I...I...am no orc....yrrch.....WHATEVER YOU CALL THEM!!!!!!! CALL THE POLICE!!!

*Screams and trys to make it for the back door with arrows whistling above my head.*

Sigh...That was lame.

Laurelyn · 02-01-2002, 03:45 PM

lol, athelas.

markedel · 02-01-2002, 04:43 PM

Actually it be damn funny because the only names we know (unless you're really well read in the subject) are Boromir, Aragorn and Legolas. Gimli and the Hobbit names are translations. However if one knew a little Quenya you could function well and to make a really could impression you could bow at Aragorn's feet and say hail the king or some such.

Kwijibo · 02-01-2002, 06:52 PM

Oh come on! i don't think the Company would b that aggresive (

), except mayb Gimli. Aragorn and Gandalf would try to think of a rational explanation. The Hobbits would b looking around, confused. Boromir would b defending the Hobbits and Legolas would be trying 2 control Gimli.

Me: WOW!! The Company really does live!

The Company: HUH?!?!?!?!?!?
______________________
'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future'
Galadriel, Lady of the Woods.

Legolas_BowKing · 02-01-2002, 08:24 PM

Gandalf would be ruler of the world in a week.

FrodoFriend · 02-02-2002, 02:09 AM

I don't know, without Mount Doom the Ring couldn't be destroyed, so it'd eventually take Frodo over and then HE'D become ruler of the world.

Wayfarer · 02-02-2002, 03:14 PM

Just dump it into a nuclear reactor.

Kwijibo · 02-02-2002, 04:33 PM

Yeah, but then the Nuclear Reactor would get corrupted by the Ring and that would take over the world

. I can c it now! HAHA, we'd all be glowing green within a week!

afro-elf · 02-02-2002, 04:39 PM

I hope that they wouldn't killed me outright for being a Swerting, Haradrim or a Southron.

If I survived long enough to get MELLON out of my mouth. I'd show them the Books then turn on the Palantir ( PC) and then go to the Online Sindarin dictionary then hit all the Tolkien site.

Then I'd ask all the important questions starting off with did Balrogs have wings.

Kwijibo · 02-02-2002, 05:43 PM

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Originally posted by afro-elf
did Balrogs have wings.

No. Didn't. I don't think.

Legolas · 02-03-2002, 04:33 AM

If I would meet the fellowship, my first job would be to announce this to all you guys in the moot

The second thing - I'd mail to H.K. Fauskanger (the famous ardalambion author), cause he's probably the best Quenya speaker in this Earth...

Arathorn · 02-03-2002, 04:52 AM

Ok Ok I won't ask them for any reactions until I've brought them to see the movie. I'd like to know their critique about what happened and how they were portrayed.

To remove the any language impediments, they'll be required to wear Federation communicator pins.

Laurelyn · 02-06-2002, 10:45 PM

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Originally posted by Arathorn
To remove the any language impediments, they'll be required to wear Federation communicator pins.

Federation communicator pins????

If the fellowship arrived at my door, I would be very well motivated to learn Quenya . . .
But then again, I'd probably butcher it. Maybe that's not such a good idea.

Me: *says something that's supposed to be Quenya but is really just turning out to be gobbledgook*
Legolas: *in quenya* What's she saying?
Gandalf: I have no idea . . . Step back, Frodo, she could be evil!
Me: *desperately* Mellon!
Gimli: Friend? *raises eybrow*
Boromir: Who are you?
Me: *tries to say "I don't understand you!"*
Aragorn: She isn't of the race of Men, or of Elves, or of Hobbits . . . What is she, and where's she from?
Me: *not understanding a word*
Me: *muttering* Damn Internet Quenya courses . . . I wish my Computer had let me onto the Ardalambion . . .
Merry and Pippin: Does she have any food?
Sam: Oh, be quiet.
Frodo: *Steps forward.*
Me: *astonished* Errr . . . Maura?

And so on . . . the fellowship showing up anywhere near me would be a disatster.

02-01-2002, 12:55 AM	#1
Feraway Hawkbriar Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: California Posts: 348	How would they react? How do you think the charecters of LotR would react to the modern world? I personally think everyone would be scared S***-less then get all pissy at the elves for leaving middle-earth in the first place. __________________ "The barks goes ever on and on out from the dog where they began. He's out there crapping on my lawn. Till I hit him with my van."

02-01-2002, 02:03 AM	#2
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	Yeah, they'd probably be terrified and confused. But that's why we're here! To give them places to stay and take care of them! Good care, very good . . . __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

02-01-2002, 04:39 AM	#3
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	I think they'll act like those people that went forward in time in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Things to do if you can bring them here: the 4 hobbits: don't bring them to golf course. the owners have problems enough with rodent-sized holes. They'll need open space too and smoking areas. Gandalf & Saruman: They'll be wide-eyed when they see my Athlon workstation with a 28.8 kbps (they'll still be impressed ) connection as well as cable TV. Aragorn, Boromir, Legolas, Gimli: These guys will make you rich if you enter them in Survivor. __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

02-01-2002, 05:58 AM	#4
athelas Enting Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The Twilight Meres Posts: 87	Depends on where they land in. If they landed in some huge city, hell, they'd be freaked and think Sauron or Sharkey was responsible for what they see. (Notice how Tolkien likes to portray the bad guys as those who have huge, menacing towers and machinery? The guy must have seriously hated the Industrial Revolution.) And Gandalf would probably destroy my PC, calling it the work of Sauron. It'd take a miracle to make them like the modern world i guess. (Legolas and Gimli: What?? So little forests? No glittering caves? You call that a river? Farmer Maggot: What do you mean? You don't have a farm around here? No mushrooms? No taters?) __________________ Farewell sweet earth and nortern sky, for ever blest,since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lùthien Tinùviel more fair than mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled unmade into old abyss, yet were its making good, for this-- the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea-- that Lùthien for a time should be. "I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."-Frodo FRODO LIVES!!! (erm...Sam does too, right?)

02-01-2002, 10:44 AM	#5
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	He he it would still pretty hilarious of this entire fellowship materialized in fron of a LOTR fan's house...he he imagine the chaos...imagine the mangled Sindarin... __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

02-01-2002, 02:41 PM	#6
Legolas Elven Warrior Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Vilnius, Lithuania Posts: 171	The worst thing would be talking. I guess not many people on Earth can speak Quenya. Sindarin or Westron normally to interact. About 500, I'd say. So, imagine how would this be. BTW, if the Fellowship doesn't land near a LotR-fan house, they would be sent to mental-hospital in a few hours (anyone seen the film "Aliens" and "Aliens 2"?) __________________ Legolas - a stupid stubborn elf

02-01-2002, 02:58 PM	#7
Feraway Hawkbriar Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: California Posts: 348	hrmm..true..very true. heheh their reaction to todays music wouldbe interesting. "smelly cat, oh smell-y cat" All: wtf? o_O* __________________ "The barks goes ever on and on out from the dog where they began. He's out there crapping on my lawn. Till I hit him with my van."

02-01-2002, 03:15 PM	#8
athelas Enting Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The Twilight Meres Posts: 87	hehehe... I can see it now.... ( Fellowship appears in front of door) Gandalf raps on the door with staff. The rest of the fellowship look around, bewildered. I lazily get off couch and walk to the door in a sloppy manner. Gandalf(in Westron): Good afternoon. May I know where this place is? Me: huh? you seem familiar....You're Gandalf right? Legolas(in Westron):What is she speaking? Gimli(In Westron):I don't know. Sounds like the black speech. Me: The rest of the fellowship's here too? Can I have a look at that ring of yours Frodo? (Reaches for chain hanging round his neck.) Frodo(In Westron): Help! She's attacking me. She wants the Ring! Aragorn, who is standing behind Frodo, draws his sword. The rest of the fellowship get out their weapons too. Sam brandishes his frying pans. Frodo draws sting. It is glowing.... (for some unknown reason) Me: S**! (Gimli grips axe even tighter.) Stares nervously around. (They don't understand me! Quick! Think of an elvish phrase!) Me: Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo! I get bewildered looks from all around. Aragorn (in Westron): The orc just spoke Quenya! Gimli:Sauron's orcs are getting smarter than those uruk-hai. Must be a new breed. Let's kill it all the same! They charge at me..... Me: AIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! HEEEEEELLLLLPPPPPP!!!!!! I...I...am no orc....yrrch.....WHATEVER YOU CALL THEM!!!!!!! CALL THE POLICE!!! Screams and trys to make it for the back door with arrows whistling above my head.* Sigh...That was lame. __________________ Farewell sweet earth and nortern sky, for ever blest,since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lùthien Tinùviel more fair than mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled unmade into old abyss, yet were its making good, for this-- the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea-- that Lùthien for a time should be. "I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."-Frodo FRODO LIVES!!! (erm...Sam does too, right?)

02-01-2002, 03:45 PM	#9
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	lol, athelas. __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

02-01-2002, 04:43 PM	#10
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	Actually it be damn funny because the only names we know (unless you're really well read in the subject) are Boromir, Aragorn and Legolas. Gimli and the Hobbit names are translations. However if one knew a little Quenya you could function well and to make a really could impression you could bow at Aragorn's feet and say hail the king or some such. __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

02-01-2002, 06:52 PM	#11
Kwijibo Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlorien (actually Wales, but let's not talk about that) Posts: 117	Oh come on! i don't think the Company would b that aggresive ( ), except mayb Gimli. Aragorn and Gandalf would try to think of a rational explanation. The Hobbits would b looking around, confused. Boromir would b defending the Hobbits and Legolas would be trying 2 control Gimli. Me: WOW!! The Company really does live! The Company: HUH?!?!?!?!?!? ______________________ 'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future' Galadriel, Lady of the Woods.

02-01-2002, 08:24 PM	#12
Legolas_BowKing Banned Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 115	Gandalf would be ruler of the world in a week.

02-02-2002, 02:09 AM	#13
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	I don't know, without Mount Doom the Ring couldn't be destroyed, so it'd eventually take Frodo over and then HE'D become ruler of the world. __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

02-02-2002, 03:14 PM	#14
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Just dump it into a nuclear reactor. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

02-02-2002, 04:33 PM	#15
Kwijibo Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlorien (actually Wales, but let's not talk about that) Posts: 117	Yeah, but then the Nuclear Reactor would get corrupted by the Ring and that would take over the world . I can c it now! HAHA, we'd all be glowing green within a week! __________________ 'So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you can decide is what to do with the time that is given to you,' - Gandalf the Grey 'I left my body to science, but I'm afraid they've turned it down' - In memory of Graham Chapman 'Rubin sits like Buddah in a 10 foot cell, An innocent man in a living hell,' - From 'Hurricane' by Bob Dylan, the only innocent Hurricane protest song, written stressing the innocence of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a black, middle-weight boxer imprisoned for 19 for a triple murder which he did not commit.

02-02-2002, 04:39 PM	#16
afro-elf Hoplite Nomad Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3,931	I hope that they wouldn't killed me outright for being a Swerting, Haradrim or a Southron. If I survived long enough to get MELLON out of my mouth. I'd show them the Books then turn on the Palantir ( PC) and then go to the Online Sindarin dictionary then hit all the Tolkien site. Then I'd ask all the important questions starting off with did Balrogs have wings. __________________ About Eowyn, Does anyone know what her alias Dernhelm means? She was kown as dernhelm because of her exclaimation when she realized that the rider's headgear was heavy and obscured her sight. 'Dern Helm" Culled from Entmoot From Kirinski 57 and Wayfarer. Last edited by afro-elf : 02-02-2002 at 04:41 PM.

02-03-2002, 04:33 AM	#18
Legolas Elven Warrior Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Vilnius, Lithuania Posts: 171	If I would meet the fellowship, my first job would be to announce this to all you guys in the moot The second thing - I'd mail to H.K. Fauskanger (the famous ardalambion author), cause he's probably the best Quenya speaker in this Earth... __________________ Legolas - a stupid stubborn elf

02-03-2002, 04:52 AM	#19
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	Ok Ok I won't ask them for any reactions until I've brought them to see the movie. I'd like to know their critique about what happened and how they were portrayed. To remove the any language impediments, they'll be required to wear Federation communicator pins. __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures... Last edited by Arathorn : 02-03-2002 at 07:38 AM.