Nicholas Palazzo

Over what, in particular?

Mine, too. I was *not* prepared for a deep, existential discussion of death from an immortal point of view.

Between the whiplash of storyline choices and trying to work out the logistics of the Kinslaying event itself...

Do what you have to do!

Haha, but it's probably not a good idea to put this before work....

Shhhhh... I'm being a bad influence over here

Which one did you start with?

Oh.... I forgot something...

Yeah, I've been listening asynchronously for a long while. Listened in on the Boethius class last night.

Yeah, if anyone wants to give it a try, send me an email address and I'll get an invite to you.

I will endeavor to figure out how this works :P

Well, I already know your email, so you should already have an invite. :)

About that....

Yes. I dropped you an email. Are you trying to arrange a call?

It's not quite so late for me (starts at 1930 local), but literally only Mon or Tues at exactly that time would work in our schedule. My jaw dropped when I saw when it was to be.

The timing is perfect such that I can switch off the chat at the start of the field trip section and put my kid to bed while watching the field trip.

I felt like that when I started working in car sales and they said, "Ok, so is Friday a good day off for you?"

Nick tweeted

Is this where we're supposed to say 'pics or it didn't happen' to encourage you to screencap and post her retweet here in the casting forum?

I can vouch for Nick. I checked it. :)

It's good to have goals :)

What if, back in the day, Mairon gifted Ecthelion with the pointed helm that Ecthelion then uses to spear Gothmog in the Battle at the Fountain?

Mairon goes Sauron before the Awakening of the Elves; he is not in Valinor at the same time as the elves. And Sauron isn't going to know the location of Gondolin. So, the window for that idea is...Nevrast. Mairon could visit in disguise.

1. Wouldn't have a helmet made for use as a weapon.
2. Why would Mairon visit Nevrast?

Yup... that one. For some reason, I'd thought he went into more detail. Sad. I just explained the Sundering of the Elves to my wife and was looking for a more amusing version.

I don't have it on video, but my friends and I did a comedy panel of the Silmarillion that included a breakdown of the sundering of the elves. I could provide the script for that part....

Yeah, I was under the same impression Colbert had gone into more detail. Alas.

Good luck!