| Re: COTW - Silmarillion Ch VII: Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor [message #192194] |
Fr, 30 Dezember 2005 16:17 |
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Stan Brown wrote:
> Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:55:55 -0800 from R. Dan Henry
> <danhenry [at] inreach.com>:
> > <snip>
> Finw=EB comes of rather badly in the whole story, as does Miriel his
> first wife. She feels "tired, soooo tired"(*) after birthing F=EBanor,
> so she lays herself down and leaves her body, refusing to return to
> it; thus she abandons both husband and son.
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> <snip>
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> (*) Later used by Mel Brooks for Lily von Shtupp's song in /Blazing
> Saddles/.
Awesome - a Mel Brooks/JRRT crossover thread should be started
immediately.
Hedley Lamarr also lifts chunks of Feanor's oratory in Tuna - "now go
do that voodoo that you do so well !!!" - when exhorting his villains
for the final attack.
Neil Anderson
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