How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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Enzyme"i've never read it, or seen the film."
Well then. You're making your viewpoint pretty shaky in that case, aren't you?
I'm not particularly arsed about Tolkien, but just to put a different spin on things, you might not have known that he was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford (same college as me) and wrote some incredibly boring books on OE philology. A lot of the made-up languages, names and even the compositional style of LoTR are derived from Old English literature. So...with this in mind, might not the cultural overlords from the east relate to the Vikings?
(Actually, the most-commonly held view is that the rise of Mordor and its evil dictator represents the rise of Facism in Hitler's Germany...and IMO it makes a lot more sense to read it that way.)
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