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@ "Now, therefore, things shall be openly spoken that have been hidden from all but a few until this day."
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Also, when navigating to another page and back(with the back and forward buttons), this comment text shouldn't disappear.
...why shouldn't the comment textarea clear? are you going to make the same comment more than once?
Anyway, better leave some cookies for the rest of you guys.
Except I haven't checked with the book yet, but the movie only has one hobbit by Gandalf. (The three hidden hobbits are Sam, Merry, and Pippin, with Sam separate. Bilbo could be the second overt hobbit, but I don't see him in this scene.) In fact, come to look more closely, this varies from the movie in several ways, but perhaps the movie just got it wrong.
PS: Firefox's spell checker knows hobbit but not hobbits. And it knows Bilbo and Pippin but not Frodo or Baggins. What's up with that?
mijae earns three cookies for spotting Frodo, Merry and Pippin. Hint: Gandalf is nothing like the Wizard of Yendor (if anybody is, it'd be Saruman). He may be semi-divine, but in Nethack terms he's just "a wizard".
So I guess the hobbits in the circle must be Bilbo and Frodo, while Sam, Merry, and Pippin are hiding. The two dwarves, which we know can't be distinguished, are Gimli and Glóin. Although you didn't give mijae a cookie for Legolas, he is a Sindarin gray-elf (despite living with Sylvan woodland elves). Possibly you made Legolas blue on the grounds that he is heir to the throne of Mirkwood, so one level below an elvenking; you might even have made him purple. However, I'd be more inclined to make Elrond the purple elvenking (even though he did not have that title), on the grounds that he carries Vilya.
Although I don't have the book to check (if even this is mentioned), I expect that the hobbits would stand next to Gandalf. That makes him the white wizard (although not yet the White Wizard) standing next to them.
I was actually assuming Gandalf was the gray @. But if he's just "a wizard", then he'd probably be the white @ standing next to the two hobbits, making the other two white @s Boromir and Aragorn respectively. (Aragorn was at the council, right?)
Legolas has to be in there somewhere, but I don't know if he's the blue @, the gray @, or one of the green @s.
Was Arwen at the council?
Anther: Ah, but which is Aragorn, and which Boromir? :)
However, I'm not at all sure I'd try to draw too many parallels between Nethack elves and Tolkien elves. Besides any question of alignment and general conduct (I've watched an Elf-Lord mow down one of his companions with arrows trying to shoot me), I'd be surprised to find so many Elf-Lords and Elvenkings wandering about the depths of some random dungeon, let alone allow themselves to be summoned by the like of nalfeshnee.
Lastly, the One Ring isn't a unique item or at least an artifact? Come on!
As far as the Ring: again, I'm using the closest equivalent Nethack symbol. There is no unique ring in the game, so it doesn't appear as one in the comic.
And I suppose by "bearers of the Three" I meant "the two Elven bearers of the Three". I know what Gandalf has got in his pocketses.
I hereby donate one cookie to Wikipedia, and one to Wikihack, for supporting me in my research.
I'm also guessing at this point that Legolas is the green @ between megaman here and Galdor. The other green @s are just residents of Rivendell, right?