The Real Risk Peregrin Took.

[Bonobo]

Discuss.

[LaurenG]

1. Well he risked too many lives, being such a curious fellow.

and he was quite brave to have approached Gandalf when he sleeps with his eyes open like he does.

[Bonobo]

2. And for what? A peek at the Palantir?

[LaurenG]

4. Yes thus exposing himself to Sauron

Too bad he had to learn the hard way and force Gandalf to take him all over Middle Earth to save him.

[DLnyc]

7. But didn't this help Frodo and Sam, by distracting the Eye to the West?

Without this, Cheney might have prevailed!

[Johnny__Motown]

17. and by seeing the tree, allowing Gandalf to figure out that Gondor would be attacked.

Or was it Iraq?

[Bonobo]

3. Jeez. I thought it was funny...

[LaurenG]

6. It was very clever

I guess you have to be a LOTR geek like me.

[theredpen]

5. You fool of a Took!

[Beregond2]

8. Took

Are you making a pun on "Took" and "took?" It doesn't work because they are pronounced differently.

Who's the bigger LOTR geek NOW? LOL.

[Bonobo]

9. You are a geek indeed. I have never seen the pronunciation of "Took" elucidated by JRR.

Are you sure?

I'm geek city man.

I mean, like I know who Beregond's Daddy was without even looking it up, y'all.

[Johnny__Motown]

12. how can you tell the pronunciation from reading a book? I just tend to try and recognize the names o...

most characters and don't even try to pronounce them. (mostly in Silmarillion and Lost Lore) Not that I have read them in the last two decades that is, I am old now

[Bonobo]

14. Tokien included his own appenidices of pronunciation of many names and words.

However, I do not believe that "Took" was one of the ones that he made clear.

So without some proof...

[meow mix]

19. i always thought it was Took because hobbits are mischevious and often Thiefs.

Took, as in Stolen

[Johnny__Motown]

22. As I recall that was mostly the Elvish words and names, I could go look but am to old and tired

[meow mix]

10. No one but Extremists like him. To much bad history, America is sick of Him. He is Unelectable

just sayin

[Bonobo]

11. Fuck off. If Frodo had one ounce of Pippin's COURAGE, he never would have lost his finger!

[Johnny__Motown]

13. he had to lose the finger, it was symbolic for losing a part of himself as he lost the ring

Fool Of A Took

[Bonobo]

15. I was taking the imic, rather than the etic approach. nt

[meow mix]

16. plus he had to match sauron who lost a finger..

[Johnny__Motown]

18. hehe... exactly

[Bonobo]

20. Ooooh, good point. I never got that!

[Leopolds Ghost]

21. Why didn't Frodo reject and denounce Gollum? Unacceptable. This will be an albatross around his neck

Until November.

[bhikkhu]

23. Frodo needs to deal with the Samwise issue - NOW

If this goes to the GE we are toast!!!!!

[Bonobo]

24. lol!