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Re: Gandalf & Durandal
Posted By: William SpencerDate: 5/21/01 8:19 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Gandalf & Durandal (Anarchie)

: The two blades were Orcrist, "Goblin-cleaver" and Glamdring,
: "Foe Hammer". Unless of course that was some other book I
: read....

Aka "Beater" and "Biter", to the Orcs. Yeah, that's them - I couldn't remember the translations, and couldn't be bothered to look it up. (Shame on me.)

I believe Gandalf's is Glamdring (Foe Hammer, of course), and Thorin was buried with Orcrist.

Hm, Saruman. Forgot about him. If we're carrying this to a logical extreme, he might match up better with Tycho. Saruman's power was that of persuasion and use of twisted machinery (stolen from Sauron), and Tycho must've been a good salesmen to get the Pfhor to hire him ("Machinated Mercenary", remember?) instead of assimilating him. And Tycho did deal with weird tech to some extent - his ship was S'pht-proof, among other things. It's not a perfect analogue, of course, and perhaps getting a bit too conjectural.

Our Marine is more like a Michael Moorcock character than a hobbit, though.

Shadowfax instead of Boomer? Perhaps not - isn't Rozinante the name of a horse?

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Gandalf & DurandalWilliam Spencer 5/20/01 6:54 a.m.
     Yeah but....Grasshopper 5/20/01 9:35 a.m.
           No, more like...EUPFHORIC BOB 5/20/01 12:44 p.m.
     Re: Gandalf & DurandalAnarchie 5/21/01 12:37 p.m.
           Re: Gandalf & DurandalWilliam Spencer 5/21/01 8:19 p.m.
                 Re: Gandalf & DurandalEUPFHORIC BOB ->Andre Kopp 5/22/01 1:14 p.m.
                       Sauron = Wchtnghter (How is it spelt?)Smeeisqualityfootrot 5/22/01 1:25 p.m.
                             Re: Sauron = Wchtnghter (How is it spelt?)EUPFHORIC BOB 5/23/01 9:26 a.m.
                                   Re: Sauron = Wchtnghter (How is it spelt?)Smeeisqualityfootrot 5/23/01 2:27 p.m.
                                         Re: Sauron = Wchtnghter (How is it spelt?)EUPFHORIC BOB -> Andre Kopp 5/24/01 8:45 a.m.
                 Re: Gandalf & DurandalBogeyman 5/29/01 5:41 a.m.
                       Re: Gandalf & DurandalTiff 5/29/01 2:39 p.m.
                             Re: Gandalf & DurandalBogeyman 5/29/01 9:55 p.m.



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