Questions for the Lore Masters.

Just kidding before. This is awesome! This is my most important post since my last post before those posts that were really only kidding that this wasn't huge.

This is the Holy Grail of horse quotes, like finding Jason's Grey Fleece, like finding the Sapling in the Snow. This is like discovering shampoo and conditioner in the same bottle!

Well, it's like these things only because I hadn't found it earlier I guess. Unless I already posted this and forgot. But anyway, ladies and gentle farmers, I give you, with first some High Elvish to mark the event…

Yé! utúvienyes!

I have found…

… a brown pony in a later text! Even in a text that Tolkien once intended to be part of The Lord of the Rings...

'Mr. Meriadoc says he does not know how many horses were lost; but there are more than ever in Rohan now, because no one steals them any longer. The Riders also have many ponies, especially in Harrowdale: white, brown, and grey. Next year…'

JRRT, The Epilogue, version II

Let the festivities begin. Well except for me. All this excitement and especially false non-excitement has made me a bit sleepy. Plus the trip to Okinawa with Eldo and what with numbering all those potatoes that David sent me by express Dwarf carriage.

Wait a second, white brown and grey again in the same sentence… David?

Nope too late. ZZZZZ.

Dark brown or light brown?

The potatoes were a mix of light and dark browns.

Why did you wake me up for that? OK, some were slightly reddish too. I admit it.

Why did you wake me up for that?- Elthir

I was making chips.

Well then, that's ok.

Now I'm hungry and sleepy.

You should have said Elthir, before I ate them all...

OK now I'm...

more hungry,
slightly annoyed [at missing out on buckie-based chips I assume],
still sleepy,
somewhat puzzled in general,

and partly behorsed.

i was going to ask if the lore master was male of female when I discovered

This is like discovering shampoo and conditioner in the same bottle!

and it answered my question.

Norc wrote:i was going to ask if the lore master was male of female when I discovered

This is like discovering shampoo and conditioner in the same bottle!

and it answered my question.

Well, Jackson's Radagast could use a bottle or three, in my opinion.

Norc wrote:i was going to ask if the lore master was male of female when I discovered

This is like discovering shampoo and conditioner in the same bottle!

and it answered my question.

this is probably the funniest post any1 has posted

Elthir wrote:
This is the Holy Grail of horse quotes, like finding Jason's Grey Fleece, like finding the Sapling in the Snow. This is like discovering shampoo and conditioner in the same bottle!

I have found…
… a brown pony in a later text! Even in a text that Tolkien once intended to be part of The Lord of the Rings...

'Mr. Meriadoc says he does not know how many horses were lost; but there are more than ever in Rohan now, because no one steals them any longer. The Riders also have many ponies, especially in Harrowdale: white, brown, and grey. Next year…'
JRRT, The Epilogue, version II

Wait a second, white brown and grey again in the same sentence… David?

Wow!!!!!
....I'm stunned........
...this changes everything!....
....wait...is the room spinning?.....

[THUD]

*wakes up in my basement surrounded by dead hobos*
Who are they??? you scream
THESE ARE MY FRIENDS I whisper in a singsong ghost voice AND THIS IS A CRANBERRY DRESS FROM CHARLOTTE RUSSE

Cranberry coloured or made of cranberries? And more importantly what shade of cranberry?

Also Elthir- The Riders also have many ponies, especially in Harrowdale: white, brown, and grey.

This does not, definitvely in my view state that the horses were individually those colours- they could be patchwork from this sentence.

This does not, definitvely in my view state that the horses were individually those colours- they could be patchwork from this sentence.

If so the news would still be slightly more than astounding, as we would still have some brown colouring on a horse attested in a later source.

And as for that interpretation: it's possible I guess, but I would also recommend you check your recent buckie stock, as I think some Dwarf might have sprinkled a measure of funny mushroom dust in your latest brew.



And what about HT and 'white, grey, brown' for the same Horse? David?

hey Elthir you won an award you know? Loremaster of the year or something like that.

Really? But basically all I did was post about horse colours and Glorfindel all year

Thanks to anyone who voted for me (and I'm assuming this includes uncles and aunts and cousins to help put me over the top. And voters that I paid).

I am very happy. Now I can afford new buttons for my weskit! There is a cash prize with the honour, I assume.

And thanks for letting me know Mrs Figg!

Congratulations on a well-deserved win, Elthir! I'm not voting for you again until you post your analysis of 50 Shades of Grey, though.

Seriously though, congrats and thanks for your informative and entertaining posts here.

Thanks Eldo and same to you... also where are the awards posted?

I thought I had the right thread, but didn't see a final list. I'm sure it's right under my nose... so of course I need it pointed out.

You're very welcome. There are two threads this year, both in the Site Issues forum here. The results are here:

http://www.hobbitmovieforum.com/t544-the-2012-forumshire-awards-sponsored-by-notp-and-buckie

And your award in particular is here (comments and congratulations spill over to the next page too):

http://www.hobbitmovieforum.com/t544p75-the-2012-forumshire-awards-sponsored-by-notp-and-buckie#57944

You can join us for the Film Awards this afternoon/evening when they resume (7 PM GMT / 2 PM US Eastern). Petty had to take a break last night, presumably due to over-buckie-fication.

how old is Legolas, and what is "young" in elven terms?

Elthir - think you may have gotten votes thanks to some of the creative corner stories... you always seemed to out-lore Eldo!

Lancebloke wrote:Elthir - think you may have gotten votes thanks to some of the creative corner stories... you always seemed to out-lore Eldo!

I'm not sure if Elthir has read any of my stories that feature him, but know that I all my characters who are based on real people are written with affection. But yeah, story!Elthir seems to routinely get the better of story!Eldo, for some reason.