Tolkien 14
Poe 13

When did Lance Corporal Fagnaur U.S.M.C. become obi-jew's little bitch-boy?

Tolkien

Poe.

Tolkien 15
Poe 14

COSTA RICA

Wrong thread.

t0lkien is my fav =]

Tolkien 16
Poe 14

It isn't official yet, but probably gonna be Tolkien unless Poe pulls a Raven out of his hat.

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

Yes, Tolkien 17 Poe 14.

But can you quote the inscription in Black Speech?

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul

I think we have a winner.

All hail the modern era's greatest Beowulf scholar.

Er...Klaeber?

J.R.R. Tolkien...the One Writer to Rule Them All...

According to WebDip, lol.

Fucking awful

I'm sure AT&T would have won had it been nominated, for its brilliant epic - the yellowpages.

^Not long enough. It would have needed to be a real full-length saga. Also, the names simply aren't Elvish enough.

And there is a lack of Dwarvish songs.

The yellow pages isn't an epic - perhaps an epic catalogue, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_catalogue

Also, if they ever put out a version of the yellow pages written in heroic couplets, I may actually start using a phone book again.

I understand being upset that your preferred author lost, but why is it that all of the people voting for Tolkien are acknowledging that Poe is also good and all the people voting for Poe are just bitching about Tolkien? Why did nobody complain as much when Tolkien beat better authors in previous rounds?

Stating the obvious, I think this whole vote is more a reflection of our demographic than it is about the writers...

I disagree. This was a favorite author tournament and The Lord of the Rings has consistently been at the top of UK favorite book surveys throughout my lifetime. The demographic of this site has little to do with it.

These are the same lists that claim Ulysses was the greatest book of the 20th century.

No, putin, those are usually surveys of scholars, whereas I believe Octavious is referring to popular surveys. It will be a long time yet till Ulysses tops a popular survey.

1. I DO think Ulysses was one of if not the greatest book of the 20th century...

I'd say I think 1984 was the most important/far-reaching work, given how Orwellian, Big Brother, Room 101 and all the concepts of that book are so pertinent today and have entered into the common public consciousness--even if people don't know who wrote "To be or not to be," or who says it, they know the line and know it's dramatically staging a critical choice, same with Big Brother, even if they don't know the book, they KNOW what that a Big brother State means by now--but...

You hate Orwell. ...Don't know if you hate Joyce, Putin, but you don't seem to like Ulysses...

So, oh well. How WILL I get along knowing you hate those two geniuses?

Well, this was a fun tournament, anyway...sometime I'll have to try and rank them 1-64 based on point totals and how far they advanced.

So, are we doing movies or music next?

2. Lists are overrated.

3. So's irony. :p

You can do music if you want obi, but I'm totally uninterested in that.

I'll start planning out the movies one, but I don't think I'll start it for awhile.

Give it a break for the summer. Look for something in the fall.

Good point.