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Good question. You can't really think of him as having an age. The numbers are meaningless.

Gingerlily - The other Stroopwafel Sister! wrote: "Good question. You can't really think of him as having an age. The numbers are meaningless."

he may technically be immortal, or at least as long lived as the elves

Well in one of Tolkien's letters he said that Gandalf is really an angel rather than a wizard. He was given human form to achieve a specific task in Middle Earth. Which would make him immortal.

I think that's hinted at in the Silmarillion
Probably somewhere in the creation bit

Most likely. I only read that once and it was a long time ago.

I did read it a second time twenty years later but I don't know whether I'll get round to reading it again

You need a lifestyle with less farming in it to read that many times.

First time I read it, I bought it from a bookshop in Kirkwall the week after it was first published, and read it as I travelled round Orkney and the north of Scotland by train and by foot. :-)

That sounds epic!! Although I do hope you weren't walking and reading simultaneously.

wasn't somebody killed by a train when reading the pickwick papers?

I never heard that... and a quick google doesn't show anything. But it is possible.

I did a quick google as well and found nothing :-(

I think it might be a fictional character, somebody's guardian

I am wondering what the gifting etiquette is in Port Naain after reading this article.

https://www.mimimatthews.com/2016/12/...

fascinating account.
I have told my female relatives that giving me socks, toiletries etc will lead to immediate disinheriting
Before Christmas the common question now is, "Jim have you bought the book I'm to give you yet?"
That being said they will often add to this, perhaps a nice bit of Stilton, or some rum truffles

Rum truffles will always be greeted with cries of delight from me :) Well, anything with rum in it....

https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/th...

Jim wrote: "https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/th......"

As long as they are 100% guaranteed to have no actual sprout in them whatsoever, I'll happily eat those.

I don't think the guarantee can be made

Jim wrote: "I don't think the guarantee can be made"

On a molecular level maybe not. But did the maker actually put any sprouts in it?

well they'd be a cheap filler :-)

So it boils down to how cheap they are.

About 92p a kilo at the moment I think :-)

(but now is peak price, can be down to 25p)

I meant how cheap the makers are.

Just found this nightmarish picture!!

at least they're not fighting back :-)

They do that in more subtle ways...

repeatedly

Breezy today, isn't it!

I just read the thread title and for a brief moment thought I'd written

Moistly introducing Tallis Steelyard

Has he been swimming? Or diving for treasure?

Gingerlily - The other Stroopwafel Sister! wrote: "Has he been swimming? Or diving for treasure?"

strangely enough there is a Benor tale out there 'swimming for profit and pleasure' which I'll have to do something with :-)

Oh yes, definitely time for more Benor. Tallis is a fine chap, but too much of him becomes wearing after a while...

I've two Port Naain Intelligencer tales 'spare'
One I've submitted to a magazine which carries long stories, on the grounds that I'd get as much from them as I get from publishing it, and it might introduce Benor to a lot larger audience

But yes, it's time for more Benor

I wish you a very Benor Christmas and a Tallis New Year!

thank 'ee kindly ma'am and the condiments of the seasoning to you as well ;-)

And a few bottles of good wine to all of you!

I committed my personal wild extravagance for Christmas, buying a bottle of Tia Maria and a bottle of Bailey's :-)

Mixing your drinks? You wild impetuous fool!

I know, life on the edge here

And a belated happy solstice from Tallis

https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com...

Its a tough life being a poet!

It doesn't get any easier I tell you

And wise men don't cross the Port Naain Young Ladies Terpsichorean Society

Something fishy about this...

there is indeed. Have to think about that one :-)

If you think too long it will stink!
Like Tescos rancid turkeys.

one should not cry 'Stinking fish'

unless one is Fulliautomatix

Is that an Asterix character?

yes :-)

the blacksmith who's always fighting with the fishmonger

I think its time to revisit Asterix!

it's always time to revisit Asterix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_AtA...