Lord of the Riffs
Posted by Kwip on September 16th, 2008 | 2 Comments 
As I stepped into Lord of the Rings Online, of course my first instinct was to choose a hobbit. I’m practically a hobbit as it is, though – hairy feet, rotund figure, numerous lunches? Pssh. I’m not taking after hobbits; hobbits take after me. Particularly when it comes to living in a hole…
Anyway, I thought I’d try a race I don’t have much experience with: humans. In the LotR universe, humans don’t get much respect. The only thing they get any respect for is their ability to hold a number of arrows. In their torso. I mean, sure, Legolas can put down Orcs by merely showing them an arrow because he’s so awesome, but Boromir took about twenty telephone-sized arrows to put him down. And although that gave him the Orcish name "Qrrrdlllputtgwarnaak" (loosely translated as, "That’s that sonofabitch pincushion who broke all my arrows"), you won’t see any mountain passes named after HIM.
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