Comments on: Good Got Lucky

By: Earline Blalock

Earline Blalock — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:56:41 +0000

Tip and Nola were my in-laws. Stanford was my husband. I have lost track of some of the cousins. Fred and Molly had 3 children, Ray and Ethel, Bub and Dorthy had 4, Dewey and Rachel had 2, and Stan and I had 2
If you are interested..
I enjoyed reading your orb and getting to know a little about Ray and Ethel’s grand child. I’m sure they would be proud of you..

By: Paul Conatzer

Paul Conatzer — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:16:45 +0000

Lora-Lee, how are you….I was wondering about you the other day….So, I googled you and bingo…
My email is pfbcon@yahoo.com

By: Randi

Randi — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:36:31 +0000

Elrond was probably afraid of being corrupted by the One Ring…that’s why he didn’t even want to touch it. None of the elves wanted to touch it, really–to me, it sounds like they were super vulnerable to the power of the one ring. And Galadriel had a tough time resisting it even without touching it. That’s my two cents anyhow.

(I am such a geek….)

As for the ring being destroyed by greed and happenstance, maybe JRRT was making a point on how good really doesn’t need to destroy evil: it will destroy itself just fine.

Me? I would just have had one of those eagles fly me over Mt. Doom…and voila! No more ring.

By: Orb

Orb — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:08:54 +0000

My version of the stories would have been much shorter. Elrond would have done what he should have done when he had the chance, and the ring would have been destroyed then and there and never left that cave again.

And it follows that all the hassle the heroes have to go through is entirely Elrond’s fault. He also totally failed to do the right thing and kill Isildur when he saw he had no intention of giving up the ring. Should have killed him on the spot and tossed that ring right into Mount Doom (and everyone would have lived happily ever after), but noooo .. Elrond didn’t do that!

But then it wouldn’t be much of a story if it had gone the way I wanted it to, now would it? :lol:

By: Ekim

Ekim — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:00:46 +0000

There were other ways out, but JRRT wanted to justify having Gollum along.

Frodo was always going to fail, that’s why Sam was there. If Gollum hadn’t done what he did then it would have fallen to Sam to go through a lot of angsting before stabbing the invisible Frodo through the chest and rolling his corpse into the cracks of doom. Which would probably have been more awesome but less popular.