Re: 3Rd Annual Forumshire Awards Discussion Thread

[Norc]

it's not to annoy them. I do mean those things. really, i just chose to ignore it and live happily ever after.

[Pettytyrant101]

Well if you are posting your genuine thoughts (or some of them at least!) then thats fair enough.

[Norc]

yeah, who would have thought.. here it seems like I am loving PJ and TORN i am so radical it burns.. but in reality, it is the same opinions.

[Pettytyrant101]

Obviously you need to ditch this modern fad for seeing things in shades of grey and get yourself a crabbit black and white viewpoint.

[Norc]

naaaah

[Pettytyrant101]

With age will come crabbit.

[Mrs Figg]

and peeing a bit when you laugh.

((((not that it happens to me of course)))))))

[Elthir]

Obviously you need to ditch this modern fad for seeing things in shades of grey...

But so many horses might go unseen!

[Eldorion]

look, my first reply
http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/gforum.cgi?post=553057;#553057

Your first post seems quite reasonable. I was expecting something a bit more provocative from your, Norc. It does say something that you're a purist by TORn standards though. Though, when your posting next to people who think they're so clever for coming up with an "out-liar" pun, well....

[Norc]

nono.. don't want to provoke the orcses.. noo..

[Norc]

omg.. look at the replies

The Free People don't really consider the Orcs to be anything other than living pincushions...also, the Orc in question was about to kill a debilitated Thorin, if one remembers.

I get what you're saying about Bilbo all of a sudden being an action hero, through. Frodo refuses to use a sword and never fought in the books as well...the difference between writing for an audience in the mid 20th century, and making a movie for an audience in the early 21st century.

And the Orc in question which Bilbo slew was obviously fake, and awfully goofy looking. Looked like a CGI turtle.

...your problem is that the film is different to the book?

well... yeah !


also, they seem to think I said it was the worst movie of the year, which I didn't..they only focused on the first sentence..

I agree with the article. Maybe TH wasn't the worst of 2012 movies, but it clearly was the most dissapointing.

[RA]

You surprise me, Norc.
But this won't end well.

"...your problem is that the film is different to the book?"
Not surprised to see that straw man argument springing up. Did they talk about the "Spirit of Tolkien" or whatever nonsense they fall back on?

[halfwise]

look, my first reply
http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/gforum.cgi?post=553057;#553057

Funny, you told US you liked the Hobbit. But that was just to rile us up, wasn't it?

[Ally]

The Free People don't really consider the Orcs to be anything other than living pincushions...also, the Orc in question was about to kill a debilitated Thorin, if one remembers.

I get what you're saying about Bilbo all of a sudden being an action hero, through. Frodo refuses to use a sword and never fought in the books as well...the difference between writing for an audience in the mid 20th century, and making a movie for an audience in the early 21st century.

And the Orc in question which Bilbo slew was obviously fake, and awfully goofy looking. Looked like a CGI turtle.

Because this justifies the change away from Bilbo using his wits, circumstance and a bit of luck to gain the respect of the dwarfs (all of them- not just Throin) to taking down an Orc to save Thorin to completely change his opinion of Bilbo.

[Pettytyrant101]

You keep this up Ally I may be forced to reevaulate your status as an unashamed PJ liberal. Who'd have thought it.

[halfwise]

Norc - I am going to sue you. I feel there wasn't sufficient warning on your spoiler and I spent the last few hours blinded from scratch wounds.

Luckily my nails have been recently cut and the scars are not too deep!

Norc, dear, I so do seriously love you. You look like such a harmless young imp....

imp?

Yep, I think that's the single word that best describes you. We've got impish ol..*cough*...mature hobbits here, but nothing quite matches the entertainment value of a young imp.

[Norc]

but what the bloody hell is an imp? I've only heard it in Game of Thrones (ploughing through the first season today) but I still have no clue what it means.

[Mrs Figg]

an imp is like a fairy, but much naughtier. Imps are mischievous fairies.

[Mrs Figg]

'' We've got impish ol..*cough*...mature hobbits here,'' Halfwise.

watchit buster.


((( )))

[Norc]

oh.. I used google translate and it told me "djevelunge" devil kid.

[Amarië]

Main Entry: imp  [imp]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mischievous child, small person
Synonyms: brat, demon, devil, deviling, devilkin, elf, fiend, gamin, gnome, gremlin, hellion, minx, pixie, puck, rascal, rogue, scamp, sprite, troll, tyke, urchin, villain

www.thesaurus.com (I use that site a lot.)

[Eldorion]

Sounds pretty accurate to me. Adorable imp might be even better.

[Norc]

Synonyms: brat, demon, devil, deviling, devilkin, elf, fiend, gamin, gnome, gremlin, hellion, minx, pixie, puck, rascal, rogue, scamp, sprite, troll, tyke, urchin, villain

wow..

[halfwise]

Of all those words I think 'scamp' comes closest. And then Norc will just have to look that up. Yep, 'adorable' can slip in there.

But 'devil child' works too.

[Norc]

so.. in northern norwayan it would be fitting to translate "you imp" into "dæven tyjke di førrbanja tangsprell"?