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High ‘high elf’ stabs Portland woman’s car with sword
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ^ | Sunday, May 18, 2014, 6:05 PM | Nicole Hensley

Posted on 05/25/2014 5:14:04 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass

A Glendale, Ore., man decked out for battle and allegedly high on LSD thought he was fighting the evil ‘Morgoth,’ but really, he was stabbing a woman’s car in a Portland, Ore., intersection.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: deranged; morgoth; nyc; sword; tolkien; whereelse
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To: Lee N. Field; Dead Corpse; Darksheare

You could throw that in under “Germanic paganism,” or you could dump it in with “All that Greek stuff and whatall.” For my Pat, the Greek Geek, it’s interesting to look at the ways Tolkien’s Ainu and Valar and Maiar are similar to Greek gods/spirits, but different, and similar to Norse deities, but yet, and have connection with archangels, angels, and demons, but not exactly like ...

As a writer, though, Tolkien really throws himself into the Nordic milieu, and then he draws himself back ... Oh, wait a minute, I don’t really worship Odin, do I? What was I thinking?

I think it comes back to the existential doubt, Is God really on my side? What is He like? Can I get on His team? And then you throw in your poetry, and it gets complicated.


41 posted on 05/25/2014 7:58:38 PM PDT by Tax-chick (You say I'm insane ... I say you're afraid.)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
Guy musta been out of it to think he could stab Morgoth with a measly sword.

Fingolfin wounded him multiple times with his sword. Morgoth limped ever after.

Quite possibly this guy was under the impression he was Fingolfin going for a rematch.

42 posted on 05/25/2014 8:31:44 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Tax-chick; Lazamataz; All
"Confused yourself, didn’t you?
You left out, “All your base are belong to us!”
i thougt that was a given.

43 posted on 05/25/2014 8:34:19 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: Tax-chick

There are also some interesting parallels to CS Lewis’ Space Trilogy.

Lewis’ eldili have obviously parallels to the Valar/Maiar, including some of them turning to darkness and evil.


44 posted on 05/25/2014 8:37:59 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Lee N. Field; All
"I thought “too much Red Bull”.
My daughter, “bath salts”.
maybe both; washed down w/skittles and Arizona sweet tea while,
watching too much He-Man cartoons..when not on the 'puter.

45 posted on 05/25/2014 8:46:34 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: driftdiver

I think he was definitely an elf who was ‘high’, though not necessarily a high elf.

Dungeons & Dragons & Diethylamide (of the Lysergic acid kind). I guess ‘cid does that to you.


46 posted on 05/25/2014 9:09:36 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Reminds me of the movie, “Just Visiting”.


47 posted on 05/25/2014 9:16:57 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Up yours NSA !)
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To: skinkinthegrass

48 posted on 05/26/2014 5:21:39 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: GeronL

The cops just let him go. Maybe he will get sued.


49 posted on 05/26/2014 5:57:23 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: 2harddrive
The cops just let him go. Maybe he will get sued.

He might have skipped town. Under "Next of Kin" he left this business card:


50 posted on 05/26/2014 6:24:52 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: COBOL2Java

People going around dressed as fantasy roll-playing characters is t that uncommon in Seattle, but I always assumed any weapons they had were toys.


51 posted on 05/26/2014 12:05:06 PM PDT by crazycatlady
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To: Sherman Logan
LOL probably.

Stupid idiot. Fingolfin he is not.

52 posted on 05/26/2014 4:25:42 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: driftdiver

Thirty year old virgin ,definitely.


53 posted on 05/28/2014 8:46:36 AM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Where are we going from here? Oh yea, downhill...)
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