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curiouswombatFirstly a cat update. Shake is a little stronger and the vet is pleased with his progress. However his lifespan may be seriously curtailed if he continues to consider my handbag as a suitable alternative to outdoors or a litter tray... Fortunately I noticed in time!
Now some silliness - S2C has been deep in a place where Éomer is to be coronated, Eldarion is known as dead, and poor Merry suffers a setback as he recoups from the Black Breath. Yes - he is perusing the summaries in the Lord of the Rings section of Fanfic.net.
We have just been considering which is the most expendable letter in the word Legolas. The letter most likely to be missed out in a summary is the 'o'.
We feel there should, perhaps, be a whole genre devoted to 'Leglas' the elf - whose brother or sister is doubtless called 'Wide-eyed'. If the doyens of the new genre can spell that, of course.
However all these oddities pale into insignificance beside the one he has mentioned on his own journal...
I am copying his entry here for my LotR friends who aren't also his LJ friends.
Alyssa jumped up wide awake her dagger, which she had placed under her pillow, drawn when she heard it; The Screeching whale of the Nazgul...
This is, presumably, from the version of Lord of the Rings where the Council of Elrond decides that the Fellowship shall include Legolas, representing the Elves, Gimli son of Glóin, representing the Dwarves, and Queequeg, representing the Harpooners.
Call me Ishmael Baggins...
It is worth also going over to his journal for some of the comments.
Now some silliness - S2C has been deep in a place where Éomer is to be coronated, Eldarion is known as dead, and poor Merry suffers a setback as he recoups from the Black Breath. Yes - he is perusing the summaries in the Lord of the Rings section of Fanfic.net.
We have just been considering which is the most expendable letter in the word Legolas. The letter most likely to be missed out in a summary is the 'o'.
We feel there should, perhaps, be a whole genre devoted to 'Leglas' the elf - whose brother or sister is doubtless called 'Wide-eyed'. If the doyens of the new genre can spell that, of course.
However all these oddities pale into insignificance beside the one he has mentioned on his own journal...
I am copying his entry here for my LotR friends who aren't also his LJ friends.
Alyssa jumped up wide awake her dagger, which she had placed under her pillow, drawn when she heard it; The Screeching whale of the Nazgul...
This is, presumably, from the version of Lord of the Rings where the Council of Elrond decides that the Fellowship shall include Legolas, representing the Elves, Gimli son of Glóin, representing the Dwarves, and Queequeg, representing the Harpooners.
Call me Ishmael Baggins...
It is worth also going over to his journal for some of the comments.
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Date: 05/10/2011 12:35 pm (UTC)Also, I'm glad to hear Shaka's doing better. Well, except for his choice of bathroom.
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Date: 05/10/2011 05:35 pm (UTC)We are now awaiting it with bated breath.
I think Shaka may now realise that being ill does not give one permission to pee on my handbag...
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Date: 05/10/2011 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 05/10/2011 08:03 pm (UTC)It's one of those things I have looked up to check in the past - and it comes from the same verb as 'abated' (as explained here (http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm), or here in the Oxford English dictionary (http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bated)) meaning reduced, lowered in force - so bated breath is to breath very shallowly, or to hold the breath - whereas baited breath would mean using it to catch something I guess!
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Date: 05/10/2011 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 05/10/2011 08:24 pm (UTC)Sharktopus v Nazgul Whale would certainly have me glued to the screen!
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Date: 05/10/2011 08:22 pm (UTC)Sorry my brain was in the wrong mode - I'd just been beta-ing!
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Date: 05/10/2011 08:25 pm (UTC)