I'm trying to imagine a "cat colony"...

 

Numero uno

 

For Number one!  If not pleasing in your sight, you may choose another to delight.

 

 

 

This one is very happy with his Strawberry Jack Smash. Thankee, m'lady.

 

Numero uno

I would probably have no issues what so ever with any of Robert Jordan's characters if they weren't depicted as being so absurdly stupid/slow witted. They nearly always draw the wrong conclusions do the wrong thing and so on, its not just the slightly wrong headed and illogical ones either. Say there where 10 bad choices the tenth being the worst, then that's the one which..

 

I am currently re-reading The Path Of Daggers and tbh I doubt if I will be able to get thru it. I have barely made it 20 minutes into the first chapter about Perrin and here I am adding this reply..

I'm curious if you can give an example of someone making the worst of ten choices.

I did it a few years ago, and finished a novel because of it. It was a great experience.

It's less than 1700 words per day. I do that in e-mail and message boards without breaking a sweat.

I was annoyed with the Warg attack. It wasn't in the book, and I don't know what it added to the plot. Something attacks, no one is affected, except that Aragorn is MIA. Of course, we all know he'll be fine, so who cares?

The whole thing seems invented so that Liv Tyler can get five minutes of screen time, looking sad and weepy.

I'd be a Ranger, myself. A loner, outdoorsy, but handy in a fight.

Gah! Made me look...

"Fly!" was a common phrase for Gandalf. In the Flight to the Ford, Gandalf said:

 

‘Fly!’ he called. ‘Fly! The enemy is upon us!’

When confronted by a pack of wolves, he said:

 

‘Listen, Hound of Sauron!’ he cried. ‘Gandalf is here.
Fly, if you value your foul skin! I will shrivel you from tail to
snout, if you come within this ring.’

And when the Balrog was first revealed, but before he confronted it on the bridge, he said:

 

‘Fly! This is a foe beyond any of you. I must hold the narrow way. Fly!'  
 

Tolkien used 'fly' as a synonym for 'run quickly' elsewhere in his writings. For the link's theory to be accepted, we'd have to treat only the movies as canonical.

But it's an interesting theory, I must admit. Right up there with Jar-Jar Binks being an undercover Sith Lord.

I doubt anyone could have helped Gandalf. My recollection from the books is that he was on the ledge no more than a couple of seconds, and any rescuers would have had to dodge the arrows of the Orcs on the other side. Gandalf said, "Fly, you fools!" as a way of preventing anyone from being killed in a futile rescue attempt.

And I'm pretty sure that Gandalf did, in fact, die from his fall and subsequent ordeal.

I LOVED the Balrog scene. When I first saw it in the theater I shrank into my seat.

And every single time, when the Balrog is falling and Gandalf turns away, I think, "He's gonna make it. He's gonna make it!" And then, SNAP. He doesn't make it.

I am an Elf!

I am sophisticated and elegant.

I am wise for my immortal age, knowing when to fight and when to back down.

I will not engage in anything I don't have to, making sure I and my loved ones stay safe.

Keeping my honor high and my hygiene even higher.

Texas State Fair on Wednesday.

My wife and I will walk/jog a 5K run for charity on Saturday.

I'll be on jury duty starting on 10/16 for who knows how long.

The Battle at Dumai's Wells. No question.

Don't forget that in TSR Chapter 13, Mat recalls that he was also saved from a Myrddraal by Trollocs. It's hard to imagine that Lanfear would go to the trouble to save Mat.

White Tower, for the win.

White Tower

The ladies are more attractive here.

If you haven't already, you might want to read the last part of Chapter 6 in The Lord of Chaos.

Oh, just wait.

Thanks for the clarification, Jilo. That was a new word for me, too.

Hello, Jilo. Welcome to DM.

Do you mean the word, 'paraphrase'? As in, explaining something using different words? Can you give an example of what Loial does that impressed you, because I'm not clear on what you mean.

That's an interesting fact, WildTaltos.

Reminds me of the physicist Richard Feynman who humanely got rid of ants in his larder by ferrying them around on pieces of paper so as to lay down new pheromone trails. This way, he got the ants to follow a different route out of his house, and everybody won.

You can read about it here.

gadren grady is jur grady's son,not the other way round,post last battle he is about 5 years old.

Thanks. I got the father and son mixed up.

One of my favorite Youtube channels, PBS' It's Okay To Be Smart, has several videos on interesting insects.

gadren grady is probably gaidal cain reborn.

How would that work? In The Shadow Rising, Birgitte said she knows her time to be reborn is coming soon because she can no longer find Cain in Tel'aran'rhiod. Then in The Fires of Heaven he's reborn, whereas Gadren Grady is already a grown adult with a wife and son.