Yes, Gandalf most certainly takes a perverse pleasure in keeping the little
folk hanging on his every word! Perhaps he meets with such ill-favour
elsewhere that he likes making sure the Dwarves appreciate his wosdom to its
full worth!
And clotted cream is very delicious indeed. Don't know if I want to know
how they clot it but it tastes good. Grand for the arteries, too.
Why do you think Gandalf eats so much, though? Doesn't seem consistent
with LOTR Gandalf. Do you think he was just doing as all traveling men
do, and filling up while he could?
And yes, the image of Gandalf blowing smokerings through the roof of Beorn's
hut is indeed one I'm very fond of. In a way it's even more Gandalfian than
'You shall not pass!'--so much small pleasure balanced against the necessities
of occasional wisdom and self-sacrifice and power that came with the job
description!
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A pimply, long-wristed figure dressed in regulation Starfleet gear is standing before a scale model of the USS Enterprise, beaming happily. Smokering sits to one side on a replica of the captain’s chair, scowling and swigging miruvor from a skungy Deanna Troi drink bottle. The would-be Commander turns to her finally and expostulates:
Oh, come on! Doesn’t it make you proud to be a Trekkie?
SMOKERING: It’s ghuy’cha’ being a Trekkie! We’re the lowest of the low! The scum of the Hu’tegh message boards, the most geeky, pale-skinned, square-eyed, ticcing, line-quoting, instant-messaging geeks ever thrown out of a computer lab! Some people hate the Ringers, I don’t. They’re just bloodless pedantic loners. We on the other hand are SNUBBED by bloodless pedantic loners! We couldn’t even find a decent subculture to be snubbed BY! We are scoffed at by people who write letters in Elvish to that guy who plays Rohan! It’s a petaQ state of affairs and not all the conventions in the charted universe can make a Qa’Hom bit of difference!
