From jlunn@mbhs.edu Mon Feb 12 21:18:11 2001 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 00:03:06 -0500 (EST) From: Jason A. Lunn To: fogies@mbhs.edu Cc: Justin Osborn Subject: Re: Calling all (former) Sysops! Any idea who the `Elbereth' reference is to? It caught my I because it is a Tolkien name. It's actually my younger sister's first name (my own middle name is Aragorn for you LOTR buffs). Who does it refer to in this case? - Jason _ _ _ _ "That's the problem. He's a brilliant lunatic and you can't tell which way he'll jump -- like his game he's impossible to analyse -- you can't dissect him, predict him -- which of course means he's not a lunatic at all." -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzWb0d8AAAEEAKsZKAPbxEbj45UtyqlswBnk4kgWl1+o56BnW0IMn8SjBwxk O+vRQpUgmMSbf9i3k8fjYooFXGB3bIJGXmreIXD6Pb0RDx7FtMzm/hc6mR1sj7Sk R1e5WQA1ci3YlyUfjSojssWrX5N5v41q01PWNTNv8rUUKTy+20WMQGysAONZAAUR tBlKYXNvbiBBcmFnb3JuIFRvYmlhcyBMdW5utEhHYWxhY3R1cywgRWF0ZXIgb2Yg UGxhbmV0cywgRGVzdHJveWVyIG9mIFdvcmxkcyA8Z2FsYWN0dXNAd2VpcmRuZXNz LmNvbT4= =3BJD -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- From achurch@mbhs.edu Mon Feb 12 21:18:32 2001 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:56:17 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Church To: Jason A. Lunn Cc: fogies@mbhs.edu, Justin Osborn Subject: Re: Calling all (former) Sysops! > Any idea who the `Elbereth' reference is to? It caught my I because it is > a Tolkien name. It's actually my younger sister's first name (my own > middle name is Aragorn for you LOTR buffs). Who does it refer to in this > case? I'm not sure, but it could be a reference to NetHack, in which you can engrave "Elbereth" on the floor to keep monsters (hall-pass-checking teachers?) away. Interesting that this should come up just as I'm rereading LOTR... --Andrew Church achurch@achurch.org http://achurch.org/