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Heroic Speech
Posted by Tory, May 4, 2002 on 8:00 pm | In Amusements |There has been some talk at work about adopting the manner of epic hero-speak that Tolkien’s characters use. Relentlessly. In this vein I present what amounted to a brief IM session in the new vernacular. It began with some innocent mention of the B-52s, and advanced from there.
The other participant’s name has been changed to protect him from unsolicited missives, however epic.
| UnnamedHero: | It’s about a guy who’s lost his dog | |
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UnnamedHero: a little poodle UnnamedHero: dyed dark green ShandasRobots: Oh, I am slain! Tis neither so deep as a well nor wide as a church door, but tis enough, will serve ShandasRobots: Ah. UnnamedHero: speaking of poodles…. ShandasRobots: Right. ShandasRobots: Yes? UnnamedHero: …alas… ShandasRobots: Dead poodles aren’t much fun? UnnamedHero: My pack I left of countless mp3s in the castle at Gondor! UnnamedHero: I had a song about a poodle to share ShandasRobots: No! Alas. I had hoped for better, but feared for worse. ShandasRobots: A thousand curses upon this mortal vail! To set upon a traveller on the open road, and hold his MP3s in the deep places of the world. UnnamedHero: How un-heroic, we are come lacking wonderful sounds ShandasRobots: Perhaps Joan Osborne will allay our weary ears, or D Tenacious. ShandasRobots: But I cannot guess, and know not when. UnnamedHero: Tenacious son of Salacious? ShandasRobots: Pernicious D. ShandasRobots: Pugnacious D ShandasRobots: Voracious D UnnamedHero: Malicious you are ShandasRobots: Sagacious D ShandasRobots: Heh heh heh. Or, more heroically, but ho! my Hobitlyn! UnnamedHero: voracious UnnamedHero: nassty Bagginses UnnamedHero: !! ShandasRobots: Palacious D. UnnamedHero: falacious ShandasRobots: Oh, wait, no. Palacial. ShandasRobots: Heh heh. Nicely met. ShandasRobots: Well met, halfling! UnnamedHero: hey, if JRR can butcher a language why can’t we? ShandasRobots: Truly. Verb and noun were never sorer severed. ShandasRobots: And proper nouns in sequence never greater strung. UnnamedHero: I am Geoff, son of George from the Forgotten land of the North. Behold the fair country side from whence I came! ShandasRobots: So speaks Tory, child of the house of Hoke, from the Northern Falls of Neuse, El-Anor` Rig`bi, Star of the Eastern Morning, ShandasRobots: A lesser heir of greater sires am I, but know I well the tenets of epic speech! UnnamedHero: don’t like to support the whole patriarchal lineage thing but I couldn’t pass on the alliteration! ShandasRobots: I can stand it. ShandasRobots: Quest I will for the cookies of Shortino’s heir, long lost to all but memory in this eternal place. UnnamedHero: heroic worlds tumble from your mouth like the waters splashing down the rocks of the mighty Anduin ShandasRobots: I am grateful for your easing words, though I deserve them not. UnnamedHero: There are left few that remember the tidings brung by that fair lass in a previous age! ShandasRobots: Cookies beyond mortal imagination, cookies of time immemorial… UnnamedHero: Cookies fit to be nestled in the robes of Elrond himself ShandasRobots: Verily the maiden of the house of Shortino knows not even herself the glad wealth she brings to this cookieless wasteland. ShandasRobots: Bright as the star El-Andil, the Tagalong and Thin Mint! ShandasRobots: They will be a light to me in dark places, where no other light may visit. ShandasRobots: I fear not their nutritional information, the waybread of the Shortinos, the lembas fresh and fair for many moons. UnnamedHero: Cookies that have travelled through treacherous lands will be greeted with great cheers of joy at the gates of the city! ShandasRobots: We must take care with our rations so they may keep our weariness at bay in the darker days to come. ShandasRobots: There will be no sustenance to find in the hard earth near the rim of Doom. UnnamedHero: Alas! What of the elixir of white goodness with which we may wash morsels of cookie goodness down our wretched parched gullets? ShandasRobots: A striking question this! And one I have pondered myself, ere the dark draw too near around me. UnnamedHero: My mouth burns as though Smaug himself scourched my very epiglottis UnnamedHero: sp? ShandasRobots: This elixir, white as the Elf-Star, white as the robes of Galadriel, I shall bring the morrow, to ease how our throats are parched in this desolate place. ShandasRobots: But a mouthful will remedy our dry spirits. UnnamedHero: I wish nothing else but to depart these dark lands and soothe thy parched throats that are as the scorched earth of Mordor! ShandasRobots: Verily for the carb-heavy breakfast tomorrow such an elixir will be needed, and I shall bear it if no other take the burden from me. ShandasRobots: But a few cakes and muffins be consumed before the parching from which you suffer become contagion, holding all in its arid grasp. ShandasRobots: I look not for thanks or payment, but only to ease the suffering of my people in these perilous days. ShandasRobots: In it I shall crush the leaves of kingsfoil, and fill the air about with such a freshness and delicious, high-protein beverage. ShandasRobots: Thus shall be healed those brought down by the Black Breath. UnnamedHero: Yay, these are dark times indeed. I fear that the nebulous future holds hours of toil for such humble Hobbits as ourselves. ShandasRobots: We must make the most of these fleeting hours of light before the Shadow crosses the land, and that we shall, and are. UnnamedHero: We must meld with the hive-mind and spill forth that magic incantations that that we alone know to add to the ever expanding World Wide Web ShandasRobots: By my Raglan sleeve, we shall not suffer long in this manner! ShandasRobots: Indeed. ShandasRobots: By our hand it shall rightfully be grown. UnnamedHero: Alas, our suffering will end with the westering sun ShandasRobots: It is true. Let us work. Make haste and delay no more! UnnamedHero: No time to waste, white face will rise this eve ShandasRobots: We hatesss it! We hatess the white face! |
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| UnnamedHero: | Farewell old friend |

