Another Même

Because obviously I'm unable to do anything else.

Stolen from kazaera.

1. Comment and I'll pick one of your LJ interests and draw you a picture.
2. You have no say in what I draw! Or in how much it will suck! Seriously.
3. Put this in your journal.

Um... no. (Nerd Alert)

Dear strange person starting unnecessary discussions,

No, really, I am quite sure that Sauron and Morgoth are NOT one and the same person.
Really!
No, not even different aspects of one and the same person.
If you are looking for aspects, feel free to interpret Morgoth as an aspect of Melkor, if you so desire.
No, really, I never interpreted Sauron as the same person as Melkor!
No, I don't know why you do, either.
Look, let's try a very simple philosophical game. It's called Aristotelean Syllogism.
Melkor/ Morgoth has (or had, anyway) the rank of Vala.
Sauron is a Maia.
Maia does not equal Vala, therefore Sauron does not equal Melkor/ Morgoth.
Amazing, huh?
No, in fact I don't care whether many myths have one recurring archetype occuring in different aspects. We are not talking about Morpheus and Daniel here, really.
And in fact, the girl who asked for helpful links for her term paper certainly did not want to know about your conspiracy theories concerning Melkor's aspects.
Really really.
I can't believe I'm even having this discussion at half past 11 at night.

Yours in confused annoyment,
Lyra.


In other news, -ndil means friend. -ndur means servant. A name ending in -ndil does probably not mean "servant of -". Because then the name would end in -ndur. Now my Quenya skills suck, but they suffice for this; but there may be people who don't know that, and they might just believe what you said in your encyclopedia.
You can skip this problem by chosing "devoted to" instead of "servant", because you can translate both -ndil AND -ndur as "devoted to". Ain't that cool.
By the way, Sauron doesn't mean "the cruel one". Yes, I know that the sources speak of "Sauron the Cruel". So what? Just because there are people named "Tom Miller", that doesn't mean that "Tom" means "Miller", now does it?
CHECK THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE. I don't care how Wolfgang Krege or Friedhelm Schneidewind translated it. Frankly, both are extremely unreliable.

Also, if you write Númenor fanfic, which is great because I love Númenor, please don't have Sauron accept the name "Sauron", or, worse, introducing himself as "Sauron". Sauron means "the Abhorred". Now I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to name myself "the Abhorred", really. Sauron has a bunch of different handy names - Annatar is one you really should know - and I think he would chose a name less negative than Sauron, if only to make people forget who he really is. I think I remember Zigûrun as a possible name. Or Artano. Zigûrun is probably best because it's actually Adûnaic and not Quenya, which should probably fit Númenorean tastes better at the time Sauron is there.

Yes, I'm an evil nitpicker. Deal with it.

Yes, I know that I have problems no one cares about.

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( Ähm... nein. (Nerd-Warnung) )

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