Re: CHAT: JRRT

In a message dated 2004:03:08 03:33:35 PM, bpj@MELROCH.SE writes:

>At 20:28 7.3.2004, J Y S Czhang wrote:
>
>>    My personal pet theory (Down, boy! down...) is that Tolkien was
>>afflicted by OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder [and/or OCLD - >>Obsessive ConLang
Disorder]). And AFAIK he did not see himself as >>being just quite right (a
viewpoint which was also "religious"), but >>thought others were somehow more so.
>
>You might be on to something there.
    In fact I think most of us "hardcore" conlangers have some sorta mental
abberation of some sort or another - a la the rule of thumb that exceptional
talents come at a cost.

>   There is anecdotal information on
>him weeding his lawn with a pair of tweezers, nailscissors or some such
>minuscule tool.  Even if it was a small lawn...
    ::shapeshifts into Stitch Mode::

    ::imitates _partially_ takin' out a huge English garden and estate with
the judicious/audicious use of 50 caliber MiniGun strafing and a Hellfire
cluster-bomb::

    ::trucks in "appropriated" (stolen) stone garden, glo-in-the-dark
flowers, mutant plants and super-fungi::

    ::consults & compares with Surrealist Max Ernest's painting _Europe after
the rain_::

    MY IDEA OF TOTAL GARDENING!  ::BiG TooTHY GRiNNiE::

    ::tux tail in
                    bows::

    Encore o_0?


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