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Date Posted: 19:23:49 08/11/00 Fri
Author: Mariah
Subject: Sauron
In reply to: Nobody 's message, "I hopI Re: On the Hobbit" on 15:37:57 08/11/00 Fri

Around 1973 I designed a Lord of the Rings game. It was played on a maze, and you played Lord Sauron's side completely different than the Hobbit's side was played. The strategies were completely different for each side, but the end concept was that the Hobbit's side destroy the ring in the volcano. Shelab was there waiting in her web, just before the last end squares before the volcano.

The interesting thing, is that I had given the game to my nephews over twenty years ago. I recently went back and saw all the nephews and we got to talking. One of them said a very interesting thing, a thing that I would have never expected unless he had told me...

He said, "We still don't know if it's possible for Sauron's side to win."

I had never even considered that I had made the game so that it was impossible for Sauron's side to win. We had played it dozens of times, and I had never noticed that it was impossible for Sauron to win.

It took me completely by surprise.

> > I wouldn't choose to be any of them, because they are
> > not real...I choose to be myself...and I am more then
> > happy with being myself.
> >
> > As for who do I relate to the most? That is hard.
> > eleements of may charcters...see, I know the history
> > of middle earth far beyond this trilogy, and the
> > hobbit as the average tolkien fan would, and some of
> > these characters are thousands of years old...Gandalf
> > is obviously the most essential and biding
> > cahracter...he is probably the most noble and valient
> > as well...if he alone was subtracted from the story,
> > the forces of evil would have won at the begging and
> > there would be no story...
> >
> If that is so then I would have though you would have
> said Gandolf for sure. I sure hope there is a happy
> ending and the forces of evil loose. If not then I
> never want to know the story.

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a note on the sealing of sauron's fate a year before the ring was even recovered!... -- steve, 23:00:21 08/11/00 Fri
- Gandalf -- Mariah, 07:11:37 08/12/00 Sat
  - Re: Gandalf -- steve, 14:12:36 08/12/00 Sat