Ode to the Despoilers of JRR Tolkien

[anwyn]

ROFL!

That was perfect!

'Even though she can fight like a lion
She trips over without even trying

Waiting for her great hero to come
Pick her up from her delicate bum'

So very true ;D

[aurora]

lol!! MASSIVE lol!! Did you write that? I cant believe how many names pop to mind reading that.

[atarielxaldarion]

They irritate me too -pats- LMBO

It's really funny!

[anwyn]

I don't understand why under weapons that "Daggers, bow and arrows and two long swords" has to always be such a standard answer! She is a master of the use of all of them I am sure.

Its also amusing that at Grandmas house that she was just handed weapons and instictively knew what to do with them, I had cool grandparents but I am quite sure they would never have handed me daggers and a long sword!

Your rhymes are wonderful, it would take me weeks to put that together, and all of what you have written is so true!

[anwyn]

I sometimes do for a moment wonder how these kids were raised, where there characters are constantly left by there parents, do they have abondomnent issues? At about that point I come to the conclusion that its more likely a convient device for them to say "My parents are dead, therefore I can do what I want and I fight to avenge them or whatever, want to be parents now?"

Its becoming a horribly annoying trend that they spawn kids almost immediately and then play them as painfully cute, and giggling ALL THE TIME. Kids, espically younger ones, are not always so happy or adorable. They get cranky and bratty and get into trouble far worse than running and hiding, or in the case of one character, eternally having children! What is she? a milk cow?

"********** giggled. "It sounds like fun, having a baby." She smiled. "I can't wait. It will be exciting." She said."

Ya, getting up at all hours of the night is totally awesome AND cool! All that is written is not related to Tolkien in the least, It could be any setting, lets say they were playing with Pirates of Carribean , automatically "Hi, I am a Elf" would turn to "Hi! I am a Pirate! arrrr!"

I wish they would get off the internet and actually pick up a book instead

[anwyn]

Thats what really gets me with this certain female character, she does not have the first idea about children, which is strange since she is one herself. Last night one of the Nurses where I work, her daughter is a few months pregnant and called abseloutely freaked becuase she thought she had lost the baby, she went to the Hospital and they did an ultra sound and everything is just fine, but it was understandably a huge scare, and that was just at very suspicion of such a thing. This girl looses a child, unborn as I see it, should not make a great deal of difference, its still a horrible loss like has been said, has a little cry over it and it is forgotten.

No! It does not work that way. I have noticed it seems to go with the babies father, If something happens with him...she conviently looses the baby and therein any ties to him are also, very conviently, severed. It really sickens me, that they take such things so lightly. Pregnancy is not "fun" Labor is not "fun" I can only say this from the vantage point of one that has never been through it, but has seen enough to feel confident to say that.
Though if you talk to my mom, that was the easy part! Every chance she gets she will remind of what a little horror of a child I was, raising a baby into a toddler is not "fun" either! So you can strike that right out as well.

Its becoming too much the pattern that they post a character sheet and the very next thing is they are looking for a mate, they don't develop the character first and all the other knows is a name, and that they are "looking for love" Its so incredibly forced, there is no reason for them to be together beyond the fact that they are both equally pathetic and desperate. Then when they do get together, there are no wrinkles or bumps to the relationship and things are eternally well...I would get so bored! There is no passion, no drama...nothing of intrest in the least. I have a pair of Canaries that have a far morer exciting relationship than most I read, and all they do is eat and sing and yes, at times...have small fight, which is more than be said of these lovey dovey couples.

I am always weary of my characters having a lasting relationship unless something intresting will happen of it or it will further the character, NEVER EVER for the sake of just having someone to post with and go on about how pretty the character is, which I suspect is the reason for most if not all on these kiddie sites seeking a partner.I have not been as careful in the past and have been burned by it. Would by far prefer to remain "single" and have that freedom than be trapped by a male character that will follow around like a lost puppy.

[anwyn]

If they want to date, they should go on a site like lavalife, which I have learned the hard way, has its own share of creeps and has successfully convinced me to remain single a great deal longer, hurrah!

I would also say, It would save them the effort of posting...but really, to look at there posts there is no effort there at all.

You had better eat, I would not want you all to go hungry. Me and Daeron can always reheat whatever is left

Awesome, they had micowaves in middle earth! Its about time that happened! Sorry just heard "reheat" and thought "microwave" or a really amusing mental image of that idoit of a character holding his plate over the fire trying not burn his hands

[aurora]

its all the lovey dovey stuff I cant stand - I do prefer my characters to have long lasting relationships, whether its marriage or friendship (lol, usually friends 'with benefits') but an elf, who is a few hundred, if not thousand years old, is going to have the emotional maturity to spend the night with a 'friend' and get up in the morning and still be 'friends', not start wailling and crying because a week later he is batting his pretty eyelashes at another 'friend.' In marriages, I dont like when the moment they get together, the woman is pregnant, if they are both established characters, fine, you know them, and it can work, but if they are both brand new with nothing going for them except that they are about to have a baby, whats the point? The child is going to be less of a character then both the parents put together! And children that are perfect, elven children or not, annoy me. Ive worked with kids for years, and the nicest of the all can be complete gits at times, they know how to get what they want, they know when they are breaking the rules and they usually know how to get away with it, lol, it doesnt mean they are 'bad kids' but none of them are ever good all of the time, they are mischevious, and troublesome...and if you are going to play a child character... that is far much more fun... especially when you have a while forest to get into trouble in.

I remember my english teacher at school, he always had a got at me for my spelling, and fair do's, my spelling in school was TERRIBLE, I mean its not great now, but in school... anyway, he always used to tell me when I was writing that if I couldnt spell a word, to not worry about it and use it anyway, he wasnt bothered that it was spelt wrong, if it was a good word, lol, he was just pleased I used it, because so many people would use a much simpler or less discriptive word, because it was easier to spell.
But schools now spend so much time teaching crap that they dont concentrate on English maths and science any more, and I always i benefited much more from the core sublects like english, maths, science, RE, history, etc, then the rubbish they phase in these days. I didnt do art in school, because I was told, by my teachers, that there was 'no point' and to do soemthing 'that will be useful.' I ended up doing Business studies and didnt draw for 2 years - these days, teenagers are taught to be home makers and taught in school how to raise babies, all well and good if you intend to HAVE a baby at that age... which most do, but it seems to make it alright for people to be mothers at 14, 15 or 16, when they are kids themselves and really dont have a clue. The fact that they think its 'cool' is worrying. I would love to have children, I cant wait to, but im 21, and in NO hurry at all, my mother was having kids when she was 40 so I have no problem with that!

[aurora]

It would scare the hell out of me to have a teacher who was that strict about spelling, because mine always has been terrible.
I dont get why American words have to be different anyway, lol, I always use a British english spellchecker, but Ive had people trying to be cocky before, and 'correct' my spelling,
'you spelt armor wrong,
'No I didnt, I spell ARMOUR right!' I have no problem with Americans spelling it armor, I do have a problem when they tell me to do it!
Lisence, thats the other one. Ive been told Im spelling Licence wrong.

No, Americanised spelling my teacher went nuts on, bad spelling he seemed to cope with!

[aurora]

More so now than I was in school, but I’m really annoyed that we weren’t taught 'cookery,' I cant cook to save my life, and it really wont help, most students I know live off ready meals and take always, because the don’t know how to cook.
We did 'food technology,' I mean, what a complete waste of time, I've got a GCSE in being able to design packaging for a pasty, but I don’t know how to bloody make one from scratch, what the point in that?
I remember one lesson; we had to 'design a sandwich'

Your uncle sounds like a great resource to have, lol.... all my uncles are drunks.... my one uncle just bought a 2/4 length leather jacket and hat, now he walks around town looking like Van Hellsing and everyone is scared of him.

They seem to almost push people, especially girls at about GCSE who aren’t the brightest, usually, or don’t like school much, they always ended up in my school doing 'social studies' and 'health and social care'
great if you WANT to be a social worker, but I worked with kids, with children who aren’t well, children who cant toilet or feed themselves, I was always fine, and I didn’t touch 'health and social care' with a barge pole.
We have a ridiculously high pregnancy rate in my town, we actually have (officially) the highest teenage pregnancy in Europe, in one little (ok, big) town! And there are girls who are perfectly happy to have kids at that age, and don’t think anything of it.
I would be scared to death! Being in school, unmarried and expecting a baby!

[anwyn]

I took home EC in highschool, even won an award in it...and I *still* can't cook anything, LOL. I don't think that really says alot for my class if I was apperantly the best of them!

During the Summer I worked at a camp, and our charge Nurse not only had her degree in Nursing but English AND shes a University Teacher! (Of Nursing) to say she was "well educated" doesn't even begin to cover it, she was whip smart, in her 50's and the other 4 of us, the youngest being 21 and the Oldest 26, We had our "modern slang" as she called it, and it drove her crazy! If she heard us say "No worries/No problem" Instead of "Your welcome" or "Thats fine" she would come running out and lecture us! It was hilarious at first, becuase everyone else in the camp, the counsellors, fine whatever, but if she heard her Nurses talking in such an "uneducated way" we knew we were in for a lecture. Same for charting, she would read over what we had written on campers/staff that day and if was not up to par, or we had made a spelling mistake...she would make us do it all over again! Except...better!

But the world definately needs more educators like that, to have that edge to them and aren't afraid to push if they need too, becuase alot of people are not going to learn if they are constantly allowed to stay within there "comfort level" and not get pushed beyond that. I had a math teacher that taught by that example, I was terrified of him and he knew it, but I got the best grades in math ever that year.

I have a friend who has been teaching for only 2 years now, so she is really quite new, but already she is quite peeved that there are some kids in her class that she feels really need to be held back for another year becuase they are not par but she is not allowed becuase "It would hurt there self esteem" uh..what? No, when they get to highschool and are still writing at the level of a 6 year old THATS what is going to hurt their self esteeem! Sadly, that is the state of education, to keep pushing them through one year to the next until they get to highschool, realize they can abseloutely not handle it, and drop out before Grade 9 even finishes.

We had no teenage pregnancies in my highschool, I think its due to the fact, Miss. Prime, the head Girls gym teacher was faaaaaaaar more effective at her birth control teaching than she proably has ever realized, that one would only need to bring to mind the mental of image of her trying to wrestle a condom onto a bannana at the front of the class, complete with swearing and grunting aaaaaand that was enough to put most of us off ANYTHING for a couple of years, at least until graduation I guess. Becuase now I am starting to hear of more girls I graduated with being pregnant or having young children, but it has been 4 years also.

Personally, I cannot even stand the thought of having a child right now, there is too much I want to do! I plan on travelling before I even think about getting married, and the term "settling down" I find quite laughable. When I first started RP'ing LOTR one character had a kid and then conviently left it behind with a maid so that she could continue to adventure, but I don't see that as often, most girls characters seem perfectly content to do the cute housewife thing. Its abseloutely beyond me.

[aurora]

If I were an elf carrying a child, I imagine it would be a lot easier, and a lot mofr calm than a mortal woman, not having to worry about complications, not having morning sickness or cramps or cravings, lol, although it is fun to have a character with the odd mood swing. I dont mind at all having elven characters be with child because its a very natural thing and it seems like it would be a very natural and special thing for an elf, but when youre playing on an 'elven time line' you can have fun posting a child, for a week ro two, but anything after that the 'child' could have grown up, have his or her own stories, lol, or their own kingdom by then, it only gets really boring when the mother is pregnant for the full 9 months! (not realising it would be more like a year) and then the child is dependant on the parents for weeks or months afterwards before they grow up.

I would be really upset to think that I couldnt have children when I am older, but now - even though I do think I would be a good mother (or I hope) but I would be worried constantly about finances, about a home, since I dont have one of my own, im not in any sort of rock solid long term relationship, and I wouldnt like to be a single mother at all, I would MUCH MUCH MUCH rather wait until I have all that under my belt before I can be confident and happy about having children, why people whant their characters to do nothing but produce babies is... scary.

[anwyn]

I cannot stand the pregnant mothers that act as though they have discovered this great miracle of making babies, right! Becuase its not like it hasn't been done thousands upon millions of times before! Like the other day I was out with a friend, and we were in a lingerie store and I was going to try on bras, but I couldn't becuase the doorway to the change room was filled with a very pregnant woman and her belly, and while for the first couple of minutes I was content to be polite, okay, well that really faded after the first minute but I really was not about to say anything she had a single bra and kept going to the sales girl "I don't know if I like this, becuase it has underwire and I am pregnant, and I will be nursing, becuase I am having a baby soon" on and on like that until I just got fed up and left. Being pregnant does not also give you free leave to be ignorant as well.

I have a couple of friends that are really looking forward to having kids after marriage...and I dont get it, they don't even live with there fiances yet and having kids is another huge step. Make sure you can handle living with the guy first!

I work with one Nurse, she is older and she had 3 children of her own off of two husbands, and one of her daughters had children with a man...two of which are VERY autistic in there tendencies, and he left her with these 3 babies for a woman who would give him "normal children" As Mary so truely pointed out "Like any children from him would be normal!" Thats another thing, you can't assume that your kids are going to be healthy in all ways, I worked disabled children during the summer ranging from slightly handicapped to quite severe, I loved it, they were great kids, but it was very hardwork since they could not do any of there own care and some could not feed themselves, only 10 days not a lifetime like there parents are committed too. I had an aunt who was severely mentally handicapped due to a high forcep birth, and she passed away at 50 but her parents were very ederly at this point, and her father passed away the next year. I believe 110% that if it was not for the fashion of her birth, she would have been born and grown in the same way as any other child,

My brother required emergency surgery pretty much the moment he was born to save his life becuase his kidneys were not working, and even still he spent the first 6 months of his life at the hospital, I lost a friend at the age of 18 to cancer, still a child in my mind since she was my brothers age. I feel very strongly when people seem to think that having kids will be filled with only happiness and good times, they can be, but not always.

Alot of people tend to think "Having kids will be great! and easy!" but I do tend to think in becuase all of I have seen, more "Yes, but there are also so many things that can go wrong"

[anwyn]

I do worry too much, and I realize that I do. Particuarly lately I have been having anxiety attacks over fairly little things but once they have started, its hard to get out of them again. Like last night there was a message from the director of nursing where I work, I don't have a supervisor per say where I work, *I'm* the boss/supervisor on the floor, but as far as my superiors go he is the closest saying he wants to talk to me about something, no idea what. Its proably nothing, it could even be something good...but my mind has already supplied a list of reasons why its most likely a VERY bad thing. I don't have any respect for the man, firstly becuase he has never given me reason to respect him becuase we have met like 3rd times, one of those times being the time he hired me, and secondly I get the impression he doesn't listen to a thing I am telling him anyways, so in turn I don't really feel like listening he has to tell me.

I know that nothing right now is lingering, that I am planning on quitting given a moments chance (or if I REALLY loose my temper) but its so hard to belive it sometimes.

Its not that I have a problem with authority, only with those who call themselves authority, and in my opinion have done abseloutely nothing to deserve it. Really really hoping I can maintain some professionlism and not freak out and embarass myself

I also spend some of my time "away" becuase...I need too, I need to imagine myself doing something more exciting then the endless "Mrs.so and so is constipated" or "Mr...Unbuckled himself and tried to walk, and fell. his hip might be broken" (Usually it is) Its so utterly depressing and unsatisfying, its not difficult really, its just busy and I spend so much of my time running back and fourth to each side of the floor that there is never any "thanks" just more trouble to sort out, go home, come back and do it all over again.Then I make myself really upset when I feel I haven't done something as well as I could have, that I said or did the wrong thing and that throws me again and its just a downhill plunge from there.

Its hard to detach myself, or allow myself to get distracted becuase the other day I was seething over a hairdresser having the nerve come to my floor, and tell me how to do my job, and I was thinking how great it would be to write up a professional complaint against her...and I gave the wrong pills to the wrong person, and much paper work ensued.

Then I feel bad becuase I come home and don't want to be around anyone, even my family, its not personal just that I need "alone" time to get myself in order again. I would feel terrible if I had kids and I came home and had to brush them off, alot of the people I work have young kids if not grandkids and I know its a great joy in there lives, but I right now I want to keep going with my education, travel if not move to another country all together to work for a year, and having a child would be like an instant wings clipping.

For me, any future guy worth a moment of my time would have to have a far greater attraction then "Your a guy, and I am a girl....lets hook up" like so many kids on these sites, they just.don't.get.it.