In a seance with Tolkien ... what would u ask?

Kwijibo · 03-13-2002, 03:00 PM

If you found yourself in a seance with Prof. T, what question would you ask him?

I'm sorry about this but, I'm gonna ask this before the rest of you guys get a chance:

DID THE BALROG HAVE WINGS???

Arathorn · 03-13-2002, 03:23 PM

Are you in heaven? In Aman? In Arda? In Ea? In someone's hard drive?

Kwijibo · 03-13-2002, 03:45 PM

Arathorn, that's a good one! How about,

How are you?

Elf Girl · 03-13-2002, 05:40 PM

I agree about the balrog, or maybe we could ask "Do elves have pointy ears?"

Strange-Looking Lurker · 03-13-2002, 06:30 PM

"Who is Tom?"

Rána Eressëa · 03-13-2002, 06:42 PM

Definitely "What specifically is Tom?"

Darth Tater · 03-13-2002, 08:41 PM

"Do you think Orlando Bloom is cute?" "How do you feel about Liv Tyler?" "Doncha wish some of your fans would just grow up and accept the movie as a seperate work of art that is brilliant in its own right?"

galadriel88 · 03-14-2002, 12:40 AM

Did you have a big imagination as a kid, or did it all suddenly happen as an adult?

Dwarven Sen · 03-14-2002, 05:24 AM

My family has had a miny civil war over the balrog wings it was hell my dad said yes my uncle said no but it is known that they couldnot fly i found an essay on the damn subject i say that they did so don't kill me already i would ask if he liked the film and about glorfindel

Ërendil · 03-15-2002, 05:23 PM

"How tall are the elves?"

Khadrane · 03-17-2002, 02:22 PM

Um... I'm not an administrator or anything, but wasn't there a thread just like this not very long ago???

ArwenEvenstar · 03-17-2002, 02:42 PM

how about...

what happens to ents when they die?

bropous · 03-18-2002, 11:57 AM

"What can we do on this side of 'the veil' to keep other people from contacting and bothering you so you can get some well-deserved rest and peace?

"Oh, before you go: Which of your writings would you place in the following source categories: Primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary?"

***Earniel*** · 03-18-2002, 02:41 PM

Not bad, bropous, that question would settle a lot of hot debates. He might even like the question.

Elvet · 03-18-2002, 09:41 PM

I would like to know if he envisioned any entwifes left in Middle-earth and where they settled.

Arathorn · 03-19-2002, 12:19 AM

I'd probably mistake him for my Dad and the medium would tell me: "Oops, wrong channel". And then, after realizing who he is, I'll probably say " Darned! Bring him back, bring him back!"

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-19-2002, 02:20 AM

That would indeed be disappointing, to miss him like that! Especially if you can't get him to come back. . .Kinda like my wish to land in ME somewhere, and my wish coming true, just to land on Mt. Doom with the destruction of the Ring, or smack in the middle of a battle field! Something like that. Anyway, I'm just rambling, it's what I do best. I don't really know what I would ask him!

***Earniel*** · 03-19-2002, 02:47 PM

Your post just sparked this vision, Eruviel! imagine: You finally get to go to ME, you land on your but on the ground. You stand up, wipe the dust from your clothes, take a deep breath of ME-air and be pleased with yourself for getting there. Then you notice you landed in the middle of The Battle of the Five armies, the orcs are deciding whether a) you are an elf and then to chop you to bits. b) you are an orc and should be given an wolf and a sword. c) you are just a stand-in-the-way and then to chop you to bits. d) they don't think and chop you to bits anyway. Then you either scream: No! On second thought let me stay where I was!! I don't even WANT to go to ME anymore. Or you wake up.. Hehe, how's that for rambling and weird mental brainpaths?

Nibs · 03-19-2002, 08:56 PM

Wow JRR Tolkien you're the greatest love your books love your work love you what's the deal with the Silmarillion and Histories of Middle Earth what's the canon did you and Chris hate each other did the balrogs have wigs or wings where are the entwives and does Frodo really live just kidding I know he lives and did I say I love your books 'cause I do I really really do

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Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-19-2002, 11:03 PM

Well, Earniel, I was thinking of something along those lines when I said "middle of a battlefield." It would be a great disappointment to be chopped to pieces in your first few seconds on ME!

I still don't know what I would ask Tolkien. . .

03-13-2002, 03:00 PM	#1
Kwijibo Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlorien (actually Wales, but let's not talk about that) Posts: 117	In a seance with Tolkien ... what would u ask? If you found yourself in a seance with Prof. T, what question would you ask him? I'm sorry about this but, I'm gonna ask this before the rest of you guys get a chance: DID THE BALROG HAVE WINGS??? __________________ '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.

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Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	Are you in heaven? In Aman? In Arda? In Ea? In someone's hard drive? __________________ 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...

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Kwijibo Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlorien (actually Wales, but let's not talk about that) Posts: 117	Arathorn, that's a good one! How about, How are you? __________________ '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.

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Elf Girl Lurker Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlórien Posts: 3,419	I agree about the balrog, or maybe we could ask "Do elves have pointy ears?" __________________ There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium...

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Rána Eressëa The Rogue Elf Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,722	Definitely "What specifically is Tom?"

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ArwenEvenstar Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: and why do YOU want to know? Posts: 685	how about... what happens to ents when they die? __________________ The only thing active about me is my imagination!

03-18-2002, 11:57 AM	#13
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	"What can we do on this side of 'the veil' to keep other people from contacting and bothering you so you can get some well-deserved rest and peace? "Oh, before you go: Which of your writings would you place in the following source categories: Primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary?" __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

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*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Not bad, bropous, that question would settle a lot of hot debates. He might even like the question. __________________ We are not things.

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Elvet Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Orillia, Ontario Posts: 221	I would like to know if he envisioned any entwifes left in Middle-earth and where they settled. __________________ "But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	I'd probably mistake him for my Dad and the medium would tell me: "Oops, wrong channel". And then, after realizing who he is, I'll probably say " Darned! Bring him back, bring him back!" __________________ 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...

03-19-2002, 02:20 AM	#17
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	That would indeed be disappointing, to miss him like that! Especially if you can't get him to come back. . .Kinda like my wish to land in ME somewhere, and my wish coming true, just to land on Mt. Doom with the destruction of the Ring, or smack in the middle of a battle field! Something like that. Anyway, I'm just rambling, it's what I do best. I don't really know what I would ask him! __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

03-19-2002, 02:47 PM	#18
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Your post just sparked this vision, Eruviel! imagine: You finally get to go to ME, you land on your but on the ground. You stand up, wipe the dust from your clothes, take a deep breath of ME-air and be pleased with yourself for getting there. Then you notice you landed in the middle of The Battle of the Five armies, the orcs are deciding whether a) you are an elf and then to chop you to bits. b) you are an orc and should be given an wolf and a sword. c) you are just a stand-in-the-way and then to chop you to bits. d) they don't think and chop you to bits anyway. Then you either scream: No! On second thought let me stay where I was!! I don't even WANT to go to ME anymore. Or you wake up.. Hehe, how's that for rambling and weird mental brainpaths? __________________ We are not things.

03-19-2002, 08:56 PM	#19
Nibs Head Hollara Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 751	Wow JRR Tolkien you're the greatest love your books love your work love you what's the deal with the Silmarillion and Histories of Middle Earth what's the canon did you and Chris hate each other did the balrogs have wigs or wings where are the entwives and does Frodo really live just kidding I know he lives and did I say I love your books 'cause I do I really really do Easy-to-read stream of consciousness format; displayed in Nibs-vision. __________________ "People used to ring up and say 'Don't quit your day job' or 'sell your synth', but the joke's on them: we were fired and the synth is broken!" -John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants Ever heard of Mormons? I'm one. Click here to know more about us.

03-19-2002, 11:03 PM	#20
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Well, Earniel, I was thinking of something along those lines when I said "middle of a battlefield." It would be a great disappointment to be chopped to pieces in your first few seconds on ME! I still don't know what I would ask Tolkien. . . __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

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