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Created by WeatherSig v1.10 . http://www.weathersig.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "k4zq" <k4zq@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 2:39 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Re: Re: Sam's cooking gear Chicken. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 11:23 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Re: Re: Sam's cooking gear > You know I saw a quote once that said if everything tastes like chicken, > what does chicken taste like? <grin> Take care. > -- > Julie Morales > Email & Windows/MSN Messenger: mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx > Skype: mercy0421 Please contact me if I may not recognize your contact > info > before adding me or I may not add you! > Currently in Winchester Regional, Virginia Clear, 78F°(26C°) Wind:Calm > Some people have a way with words, while others... erm... thingy. > Created by WeatherSig v1.10 . http://www.weathersig.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "k4zq" <k4zq@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 5:15 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Re: Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > They taste like chicken. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Evan Reese > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 2:39 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Re: Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > I've never tried them, but I would like to - fried or stewed. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: k4zq > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:20 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Re: Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > Amy, When I was about 14, my Uncle used to occasionally come up with a > brace of young conies which he'd fry up, and he and I would have an > enjoyable feast on fried Rabbit. > > Didn't see Pete, so guess he wasn't there. > > This list is weird! You have just run into a bunch of us who are > overly > picky, because we have nothing better, to do. so, Please, for Heaven's > sake, try not to get all up tight and offended. > > If you're at all interested in a GREAT audible read of the books, Check > out the edition from Recorded Books. They're available from places like > Buy.com for a nice price on either cassette or cd. > > Peace, > Ernie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Amy Goldring Tajalli > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:35 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Re: Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > Folks, > > I missed some mail not the pans or the conies. I did not say > fissures > or holes or whatever you wish because I prefer being exact which is why I > did not specify the place where the gear was left but I did remember the > conies and the pans. If you were to see my paperbacked copies of the > books, > and even my hardbacked copies, you would see annotations on almost every > pages representing only the recent readings of the quarted. I did not > think > I would have to give my credentials again but I have read the books every > year since 1969 and have not resisted writing new ideas or connections > that > come to mind. I have taught the books to college students in both lit. > and > writing courses as well as one group of post graduate students and faculty > and have examined it from many differents points of view.I did not want > to > specify one detail which I could not immediately recall but I did not want > to offer incorrect information. My books are available but not easily at > the moment and I just could not make them available without more work that > I > thought the discussion warranted with all of you Tolkienites able to do > the > research more readily than I. As for Sam's pans, until we sit down > together > and discuss the question with him I don't think there is much more to say > except that stewed conies, even if cooked by Sam, is not a taste I would > wish to acquire as I would have an image of Peter Cottontail in my mind's > eye and would choke on them. > > Enough said, I hope. > > Any > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: k4zq > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:40 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Re: Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > Geez Evan, > > I would NEVER become irritated, or say anything that would be > possibly offensive to anyone. > > I understand your "outrage" it was just that I thought Amy might > not > know the books all that well, and could stand some gentle guidance. > > In the name of darkness, Forgive. > > Peace, > Ernie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Evan Reese > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:11 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Re: Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > Well, she said that she did get references, but doesn't remember > "getting one with the exact quotation and the word 'fissures'". So I > asked > why the word "fissures" was necessary to convince her that he had used > pans? > Apparently, she had forgotten, or didn't know, about the stewed conies. > But > even if either one of those is true, the fact that I had said I had looked > it up, although not the sceen in ROTK she was obviously thinking of, and > said again that I had looked it up when responding to a message from you, > didn't seem to make an impression on her, my patience ran out. I was > getting the impression that my veracity was being questioned, and I get > prickly at that. > > As one of my math teachers liked to say, "Clear as mud?". > > I have been wrong more than once on this list, and have clearly > said so. But when I specifically say that I have investigated the matter > by > going to the source and checking, and I am still doubted, I think I have a > right to be at least a little irritated. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: k4zq > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 4:12 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Re: Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > Evan, > > Didn't quite get this one. > > Btw, ain't it fun to start a really interesting thread and see > where it goes? > > Peace, > Ernie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Evan Reese > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:18 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Re: Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > Sorry, Ernie, but if you know why references without the word > "fissures" are no good, could you clue me in, please? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: k4zq > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:07 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > Amy, > > Seems as though my friend Evan is short on patience. The > reference we were eluding to is from "The Two Towers" Book 4, chapter 4 > "Of > Herbs and Stewed Rabbits." > > Ernie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Amy Goldring Tajalli > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:00 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > Sorry I stepped on toes. The goblins must have gotten > into my mail and I missed that one. I did get references but I don't > remember getting one with the exact quotation and the word "fissures". I > would have remembered as I have an image in my mind of the cavity but not > one from the movie as I have deliberately tried to forget the movies and > gave away my copies. I have seen illustrations of the quartet of books > over > the years in the calendars as well as elsewhere and it may have been one > of > those which I remember but it gave no view of the bottom. Again, sorry I > missed your email. > > > ----Original Message ----- > From: Evan Reese > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:21 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > Maybe you should read your mail more carefully. If you > had, you would have noticed that I quoted Sam's references to pans from > The > Two Towers last week. I am a little miffed that you would imply that I > hadn't supplied facts to back up my assertion that he used pans. I even > said that I had looked it up. It is true that I didn't mention that the > quotes were from The Two Towers, but I would have thought that you would > have known that because the incident the quotes came from was mentioned in > the discussion. Perhaps you don't know the books very well. > > Finally some facts, indeed! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Amy Goldring Tajalli > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:16 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > Sanity and facts finally. Thanks. > > Amy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Estelnalissi > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:46 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > Dear Tolkien Booksharians, > > Sam would be touched that his beloved pans garnered > so much attention. This one's for you, Sam. > > "'And he (Stinker) isn't going to mess with my > pans!' With that he carried all the gear away to one of the many gaping > fissures that scored the land and threw them in. The clatter of his > precious > pans as they fell down in to the dark was like a death-knell to his > heart." > > BTW > Peter Jackson expressed remorse that he didn't make > more of this emotional moment in his ROTK film > > Always with love, > > Lissi > > "Maybe I should write a book called one hundred and > one ways to use a frying pan." > Sam Gamgee > in Tolkien fanfiction by Alatariel > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Amy Goldring Tajalli > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:51 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sam's cooking gear > > > I still must rely on memory as the books are not > readily available (I can check later if anyone wants me to) but I do > believe > that nowhere else in the trilogy are the pans specified except as "cooking > gear" which, as has been said, was left in the depression (aptly named I > think) as it was not said to be a hole or bottomless but it was never > detail > until the " stewed coneys" and, I think, an earlier reference to the lack > of > salt which Sam forgot. > > Amy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: k4zq > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 9:25 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sam's cooking > gear > > > Glad you corrected me, Evan. > > My skin ai'nt that thin. > > Ernie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Evan Reese > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 6:33 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sam's cooking > gear > > > You are forgiven, but it is a grave offense > to > get something like that wrong; so please watch it. <grin> > > Besides, maybe you are the one who should > forgive me. After having looked up the matter for someone else, and > having > said so, I may have been a bit terse. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: k4zq > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 9:49 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sam's cooking > gear > > > Evan, > > Meant to indicate that the memory was > foggy. > On further thought, believe sam did say something about Golum getting into > hot watter if he damaged one of "my pans." > > Forgive. > > Ernie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Evan Reese > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:24 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Sam's cooking > gear > > > He used pans to stew the rabits, as I have > already shown. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: k4zq > To: books ` list > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:41 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Sam's cooking > gear > > > Sam used a small pot to stew his rabbits, > but when he dumped his gear in Mordor, there were a couple of pans. 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