Entry: The Thirty-Eighth-- Bearing the Rings, Pt. 2

[aleaders]

My mind’s eye is having problems.

No matter how hard I try to change my view, I continue to picture hobbits looking like those furry little critters from Mercer Mayer books.* I know this is vastly wrong. Hobbits have only hairy feet. Critters have hair covering their entire bodies. Hobbits deal with problems like The Great Darkness and the

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[fleurimperatrix]

legolas is pretty damned old. you don't get to be his age without baking a few cookies. and yeah, thank god Orlando Bloom looks so damn funny. mmmmm, funny.

and by "distinctive masculine characteristics," do you just mean penises (peni)?

i think otherwise you would be trying to impose gender stigmas on MIddle Earth that did not exist. Merry is a guy. Legolas is a guy. Eowyn is a guy. have you met the dwarf women yet?

[queyla]

Eowyn is so *not* a guy! In fact, it's a rather crucial plot point that she's not!

[fleurimperatrix]

ya don't say.

[aleaders]

Ewwww, no, could you please take your mind out of the gutter just for a little while? Forget I said anything about "distinctive masculine characteristics". Let's pretend I merely said "stereotypical male gender roles". Nothing at all to do with hobbit anatomy.

And I don't appreciate you trying to confuse me about Eowyn either. It's hard enough to keep track of all these many characters without your pesky meddling.

[fleurimperatrix]

just what, exactly, are you ewing? the concept of peni? what a terrible thought, that hobbits should have existent, functional plumbing. let us pretend they are mysteriously neuter, and not read too much into the symbolism of "mushrooms." (but really, i was dutifully pointing out as a feminist that the characters all defy traditional conceptions of gender roles, as evidenced by elves and eowyn.)

and my "pesky meddling" as you call it is merely an attempt to be helpful in your quest to follow the fellowship along on their quest.

[opposablethumb]

hush, you hobbit-porn monger.

[fleurimperatrix]

hairy feet. how can you resist.

[balletvamp]

here here to that. Eowyn is the baddest ass chica ever. And yes Yanni-chan, Legolas does equal yummy, I most certainly agree with that. I thought so even before I saw the movies back when I was 12 but then again I also thought I was Legolas sometimes when Id go around in a cloak and bow and arrow shooting things (usually daddy). Hmmm perhaps you may have a point with that twincest affinity....