Death! Death! Death!

[fajrdrako]

I got this quiz from kikibug13, To which race of Middle Earth do you belong? I didn't quite get the result I expected. I was angling for Gondorian. This would be second best - and they quote my favourite passage of Tolkieneque Anglo-Saxon poetry.

To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?

Rohirrim
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This gets me thinking of The Wanderer, which is my favourite bit of Anglo-Saxon poetry, and the only one I have memorized in the original (in part) from an old Caedmon record that was in the public library when I was a teen:

Hwær cwom mearg? Hwær cwom mago?
Hwær cwom maþþumgyfa?
Hwær cwom symbla gesetu?

I had a translation that rendered this as¹:

Where is the horse now? Where the hero?
Where the treasure-giving prince?
...How that time has all passed away,
grown dark beneath night's helmet,
as though it never were.

- which I like a little better than the subsequent translations I have found, though I suppose it's a little looser than most. This source by Truesdell gives it as:

Where went the steed?
Where went the rider?
Where went the giver of treasure?...

I love it: the whole romance of the Anglo-Saxon world, where princes gave rings to warrior-heroes.

Yeah, I guess the Rohirrim might be the right place for me. Even if I was sort of dreaming of a Gondorian library of leather-bound books, with Romanesque arches overlooking a splendid vista...

¹ I wish I knew the translator's name, or could find that one again. I don't remember the rest of it.

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[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

You know, that poem keeps popping up all over my f-list. Mostly to do with Jack...

And apparently, I am an Ent, which amuses me greatly :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

that poem keeps popping up all over my f-list. Mostly to do with Jack...


Well, all good things should be in reference to Jack, one way or another. Seems right to me!

An Ent - ! Woo, you must be long-winded. But the longevity is nice.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I think most of you already know I'm long winded :) Never use one word where three will do just as well. Preferably long ones.

I'm not sure I've ever been described as cautious before...I think I must have ticked the wrong boxes!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Never use one word where three will do just as well.

Good things come in threes. Now, I never thought of you as verbose... or concise either. You use just the right number of words. Enough to reach the end of the sentence.

As for cautious... hmm. I think that would make me feel challenged to write something totally outrageous, just to prove I wasn't.

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

I'm a hobbit. Yeek.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with being a Hobbit, of course, but... Do you smoke? Do you dance? Do you write comic songs? Do you have hairy feet?

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

Used to smoke. Only dance on my bicycle. I can SING comic songs, and tootle an accompaniment to others on my ocarinas, but I'm no lyricist.

Hairy feet? Nawp. Bikie's feet, long and narrow and mostly hairfree. Might make a Fallowhide out of me.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I suspect you are a Took. You know, just different enough to be suspicious and given to unexpected and outrageous behaviour.

Not surprised at this…

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?

Elvish
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Re: Not surprised at this…

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

H, so very elegant!

Re: Not surprised at this…

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I think it was the love of poetry and the sense of superiority that clinched it.
I have the ears, anyway, naturally. (They're a slightly odd shape at the top. Ever so slightly… angular.)

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Numenorean. Is that even good or bad? Other than being, apparently, common.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Nothing common about being Numenorean! It's wonderful! Aragorn, best hero ever, was of Numenorean descent, which is why he lived so long. (Sort of like being an Immortal, but he didn't need to be beheaded to die in the end.) I'd like to be Numenorean. I aspires to Numenoreanism but got rerouted to the horsey folk.

Mind you, the Numenoreans did get drowned in a great flood for their sins, most of them, but that's a detail...

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

I happen to like sins. So it all works out in the end.

And I meant common because it's the highest %.

Hmm, I don't have a "sin" icon. Bad me. I'll use a blasphemy one instead. Although it's just a brb macro icon.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I think I got Numenorean last time I did this or a similar quiz. Fun, anyway!

[kimsrants.livejournal.com]

Numenorean first time, Elvish the second. i seem to be in a bit of a conflict.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ah, but Numenoreans and Elves go together well. Weren't Isildur and Elrond best buds back in the Great Alliance? And then all the line down to Aragorn and Elrond? No problem there. Cozy.

[ceruleancat.livejournal.com]

I LOVE my result!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Wise and cautious - woo!

Nice picture, too.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?

Numenorean
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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oooh, beautiful!

The phrase "and one white tree" almost makes me want to cry. Yeah, I get sentimental over Tolkien.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Who doesn't?

I didn't know I was tragic.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

I too wound up as 'Numenorean', same as monsieureden.

I suppose I could have wound up as "Entish" ... it would have made me a different ent-ity. :-)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with being Numenorean - Numenorean is good.

I wonder what other categories were possible? I don't see a place to click on a list. Maybe Gondorian wasn't an option. We have Hobbits and Rohirrim and Numenoreans and Ents and Elves... Mayar, maybe? Orcs? I'd hope for Dragons, but it looks as if all the choices are humanoid... and maybe just as well, who'd want to come out in the racial category of Shelob and Ungoliant? (I think the race is Giant Yucky Spider but Tolkien may have had a more elegant name for them.)

[filkferengi]

There is a "see all results" button at the end of the quiz.

I got "hobbit"--no big surprise there. I suspect my spouse of being a Vulcan/Hobbit cross.