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PsycWench's avatar

Judging from the special election in NY, I think that means that the Republican renaissance is largely imaginary.

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Bourgeois Nerd's avatar

Well, at least O'Donnell hasn't disgorged arachnid horrors from her hateful womb. Yet.

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Bourgeois Nerd's avatar

I think I'm the only person in the world who actually liked The Silmarillion more than LotR itself.

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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

She shall yet ensnare us in a web of disgust.

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Bourgeois Nerd's avatar

Oh great Eru in the Timeless Halls! Arwen barely HAD a character in the books; we don't know if she's meek or a shrew, really! And even then, the fact that she decides to forgo immortality for love, though schmoopy, indicates someone who knows her own mind and isn't just a dishrag.

And how does Eowyn's "true womahood" manifest itself? In dressing up as a man and going into battle and killing a Nazgul! Such dainty femininity!

Well, at least she didn't get into the only other female that really has a role: Shelob. But, then, she couldn't very well insult her mentor Sarah Palin like that, could she?

/end nerd rant

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Bourgeois Nerd's avatar

Can you believe I actually have never played any roleplaying game? But I do read the books, for enjoyment. I think that's a whole new dimension of nerdiness.

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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

And hobbits fucking (ie Bored of the Rings). By the way, win on the avatar.

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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

Man...I just hate when Shelob opens her stupid gob.

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fuflans's avatar

isn't cs lewis more her crowd's style?

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

I bet she's into hairy toes.

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

"Toes, I love hairy toes," she moaned, forcing him down on the silvered carpet. Her tiny pink toes caressed the luxuriant fur of his instep while Frito's nose sought out the warmth of her precious elf-navel.

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