| gandalf lusted after bugs [message #245955] |
Do, 06 April 2006 06:04 |
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he especially had a thing for moths, as everyone knows. once when he
was spurned in a particularly ignominious way by a moth named april, he
lamented: "april is the cruellest moth."
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| Re: gandalf lusted after bugs [message #245958 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 13:57 |
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Count Menelvagor wrote:
> he especially had a thing for moths, as everyone knows. once when he
> was spurned in a particularly ignominious way by a moth named april, he
> lamented: "april is the cruellest moth."
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We'll have to arrange a meeting between Tolkien & Eliot to have any
prior claims straightened out.
Pete H
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| Re: gandalf lusted after bugs [message #245979 ] |
Sa, 08 April 2006 23:51 |
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pmhilton wrote:
> Count Menelvagor wrote:
> > he especially had a thing for moths, as everyone knows. once when he
> > was spurned in a particularly ignominious way by a moth named april, he
> > lamented: "april is the cruellest moth."
> >
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> We'll have to arrange a meeting between Tolkien & Eliot to have any
> prior claims straightened out.
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> Pete H
I think it is quite clear that when Tolkien created Fatty Bolger, it
was a ripoff of Eliot's poem "The Hippopotamus".
=D6jevind
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| Re: gandalf lusted after bugs [message #246907 ] |
Mo, 10 April 2006 06:19 |
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=D6jevind L=E5ng wrote:
> pmhilton wrote:
> > Count Menelvagor wrote:
> > > he especially had a thing for moths, as everyone knows. once when he
> > > was spurned in a particularly ignominious way by a moth named april, =
he
> > > lamented: "april is the cruellest moth."
> > >
> >
> > We'll have to arrange a meeting between Tolkien & Eliot to have any
> > prior claims straightened out.
> >
> > Pete H
>
> I think it is quite clear that when Tolkien created Fatty Bolger, it
> was a ripoff of Eliot's poem "The Hippopotamus".
the uruks come, the uruks kill,
speaking of the silmaril.
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