From: WindSparrow@webtv.net Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien,alt.fan.tolkien Subject: Top Ten Cool Things About Barrow Blades Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 07:40:30 -0700 (MST) Organization: WebTV Subscriber Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4770-3B978ADE-19@storefull-267.iap.bryant.webtv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.webtv.net Mime-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAsAhQrv11f27cQizxj67deEaV7+KUo8gIUaCfzGcbI5Vay9HboO0wmeCoopc4= Content-Disposition: Inline Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.32.206.55!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sjc1.nntp.concentric.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!webtv.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:50849 10. Use one to "fairly" share choklit with your "friends". 9. Cool runes engraved on the blade make them fashionable accessories while hanging in the 'hood. 8. Evil personages such as physical education teachers and bank tellers are terrified of them, and will not attempt to force you to do rope climbing or balance your checkbook. 7. Their compact size means they make great bookmarks for your Oxford English Dictionary. 6. No troublesome back-talk, like _some_ blades I could mention. 5. Hobbit lasses are really impressed by the size of your weapon. 4. The spells spice up the meat when carving a goose for a family dinner. 3. Shoe-laces all knotted up? No problem... 2. Some have a lesser-known magical property - automatically convincing judges about all those little "trick knife throwing accidents". And the number one cool thing about barrow blades is.... 1. They work great to skin those tasty balrog wings for your next football party. Thank you. Thank you. No applesauce, just throw tomatoes. ###### Message-ID: <3B97ABD5.CB958F61@ou.edu> From: Katherine Tredwell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien,alt.fan.tolkien Subject: Re: Top Ten Cool Things About Barrow Blades References: <4770-3B978ADE-19@storefull-267.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 13 Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 12:01:10 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.15.167.211 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ou.edu X-Trace: news.ou.edu 999795656 129.15.167.211 (Thu, 06 Sep 2001 12:00:56 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 12:00:56 CDT Organization: The University of Oklahoma Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!leto.ou.edu!news.ou.edu!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:50904 WindSparrow@webtv.net wrote: > 10. Use one to "fairly" share choklit with your "friends". > 9. Cool runes engraved on the blade make them fashionable accessories > while hanging in the 'hood. > 8. Evil personages such as physical education teachers and bank tellers > are terrified of them, and will not attempt to force you to do rope > climbing or balance your checkbook. [...&c...] Delightful! Wonderful way to start the day. Thanks. ###### From: Menelvagor@mailandnews.com (Count Menelvagor) Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien,alt.fan.tolkien Subject: Re: Top Ten Cool Things About Barrow Blades Date: 7 Sep 2001 12:16:12 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 38 Message-ID: <6bfb27a8.0109071116.153a139f@posting.google.com> References: <4770-3B978ADE-19@storefull-267.iap.bryant.webtv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.242.228.147 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 999890172 27057 127.0.0.1 (7 Sep 2001 19:16:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Sep 2001 19:16:12 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:51025 WindSparrow@webtv.net wrote in message news:<4770-3B978ADE-19@storefull-267.iap.bryant.webtv.net>... > 10. Use one to "fairly" share choklit with your "friends". TEUNC orthography continues its triumphant progress. > 9. Cool runes engraved on the blade make them fashionable accessories > while hanging in the 'hood. So I've foten found ... > 8. Evil personages such as physical education teachers and bank tellers > are terrified of them, and will not attempt to force you to do rope > climbing or balance your checkbook. Trask the bankers! BURN them! > 7. Their compact size means they make great bookmarks for your Oxford > English Dictionary. Handy for getting struff out of customer=prrof containers, too. > 6. No troublesome back-talk, like _some_ blades I could mention. Gurthang had, like, a serious 'tude. > 5. Hobbit lasses are really impressed by the size of your weapon. Hobbit-lasses area ll very well, for the cocasional roll in the hay; but I prefer species with a little more wogah, my elf. > 1. They work great to skin those tasty balrog wings for your next > football party. But this is cannibalism! What is with you eople? Sick, sick, sick! As though Rogs, dwagins, and other beasties hadn't been persecuted enough! Minnavilangár "He who fetters lightning," the Rog