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Öjevind Lång

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:55 pm
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....he would simply have landed outside Laketown, politely asked to see the
Master and studied his claws while he thoughtfully remarked to him: "You've
got a nice town here. It would be a pity if something happened to it."

Öjevind

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:50 pm
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"Öjevind Lång" <bredband.net.TakeThisOut@ojevind.lang> skrev i meddelelsen
news:616b8oF1ttedhU1@mid.individual.net...

> ...he would simply have landed outside Laketown, politely asked to see the
> Master and studied his claws while he thoughtfully remarked to him:
> "You've got a nice town here. It would be a pity if something happened to
> it."

"In a minute your signature will be on that paper or your ashes will be
blended with its."

Korpen.

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:22 am
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Raven kirjoitti:
> "Öjevind Lång" <bredband.net.RemoveThis@ojevind.lang> skrev i meddelelsen
> news:616b8oF1ttedhU1@mid.individual.net...
>
>> ...he would simply have landed outside Laketown, politely asked to see
>> the Master and studied his claws while he thoughtfully remarked to
>> him: "You've got a nice town here. It would be a pity if something
>> happened to it."
>
>
> "In a minute your signature will be on that paper or your ashes will
> be blended with its."

"Arson is such an ugly word" - but joking aside, we must not forget that
Smaug was a Communist dragon, whereas Mafiosi are liberitarians with a
slight socialist undercurrent, which fortunately they have mostly abandoned.

Morambar
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Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:33 am
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On Feb 10, 8:22 pm, Morambar <moram....RemoveThis@fats.teunc.org> wrote:
> Raven kirjoitti:
>
> > "Öjevind Lång" <bredband.....RemoveThis@ojevind.lang> skrev i meddelelsen
> >news:616b8oF1ttedhU1@mid.individual.net...
>
> >> ...he would simply have landed outside Laketown, politely asked to see
> >> the Master and studied his claws while he thoughtfully remarked to
> >> him: "You've got a nice town here. It would be a pity if something
> >> happened to it."
>
> >   "In a minute your signature will be on that paper or your ashes will
> > be blended with its."
>
> "Arson is such an ugly word" - but joking aside, we must not forget that
> Smaug was a Communist dragon, whereas Mafiosi are liberitarians with a
> slight socialist undercurrent, which fortunately they have mostly abandoned.

^M^

Master! Wasn't Tolkien a consigliere at one point? And I'm quite sure
I remember reading in the Sacred Texts that Rivendell was called Casa
Nostra. Am I making that up?
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