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It will bring the two of you together. Your friendship will be restored. And the two of you will return the Telmarines to their former glory.
 
If memory serves, that was when the resident forum Telmarine was busy handing down death sentences, none of which were actually carried out.
 
Well, you made pretty frequent death threats. "We demolish dwarfs," etc. Although it's true that no proper court was ever convened to convict the dwarfs of dwarfishness and hand down a formal sentence.
 
Are Telmarines necessarily philistines? Some of them do seem to like the arts; I've heard that Miraz was a fan of that "This is not a pipe" painting.
 
Glenburne said:
Are Telmarines necessarily philistines? Some of them do seem to like the arts; I've heard that Miraz was a fan of that "This is not a pipe" painting.
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So was my ex, and I would opine that that does not preclude her from being a Philistine.

I'm a fan of the arts, personally. I've played piano for seventeen years, been involved in acting and improv comedy, and am fond of television as an art form. So definitely not very Philistinic.
 
*googles* Okay, so Philistines started out as just the enemies of the Israelites back in the Old Testament. But German students started using a form of it to refer to townspeople during town vs. gown disputes in Jena during the 1600s. And then Thomas Carlyle and Matthew Arnold popularized the word "philistine" in English to refer to an enemy of culture, since "Philistine" had been used as a humorous synonym for "enemy" in English already. So today, a Philistine is someone like Goliath, and a philistine is someone like a high schooler who doesn't see why he has to take literature classes.

Really, it's unfair to the Philistines.
 
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