[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Re: Re: Sam's cooking gear

  • From: "k4zq" <k4zq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:20:26 -0400

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.  One of them 
may have been a frying pan, but right now, can't remember.

                                Ernie


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