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From: ojevind.lang@bredband.net
"Sean_Q_" skrev i meddelandet
news:h7rsf8$uvg$1@aioe.org...
> In "Re: 20 Questions - Öjevind", Öjevind Lång wrote:
>
> > OK. :-) Just keep in mind that (as I learned) even something that seems
> > very easy to the OP can turn out to be quite difficult to the others.
>
> Well for one thing you said:
>
> > The tree could be found growing in a forest or alone.
>
> The Old Party Tree grew alone, in a field (ie, not in a forest).
> However its species is unknown so how could you possibly have known
> that other members of the same species can also be found in a forest?
>
> Then did the Spirit of Yavanna, Patron Maia of the Olvar come to me
> in a dream vision. In the guise of an Entwife she appeared, like unto
> a walking elm tree pacing towards me seven yards at a stride.
>
> I was petrified. This went so much against the grain.
>
> However, her bark was worse than her bight, and she spoke to calm me,
> saying thusly: "Fear not, for I have come to bestow great wisdom upon
> thee concerning Öjevind's Tree.
>
> "Know then, oh Adan of Narrow Vision, that when he said it could be
> found in a forest or alone, he spake sooth. Verily indeed, for
> a Party Tree can be found most anywhere where people party, including
> but not limited to a forest, plain, prairie, savanna, steppe, veldt,
> grassland, pampas, wold, meadow, plateau, Barrow Down, moor, desert,
> chaparral, outback, badland, sahel, tundra... well, thee gets
> the picture."
>
> I really felt like a sap. Everything was now so clearcut. Beholding
> the Mote in Öjevind's eye I had considered not the beam in my own.
>
> Then as suddenly as she had appeared, Yavannah vanished in a whirlwind
> of swirling elm leaves, leaving only a sprinkling of sawdust on the
> North Moor of the Shire where she had stood.
:-D You know, for some reason I completely missed this post when it was
first made.
Öjevind
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