tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post5116340215006458111..comments2024-03-27T23:28:19.341-07:00Comments on Telecanter's Receding Rules: Welsh LovespoonsTelecanterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-65683389030362795542014-02-16T12:21:23.876-08:002014-02-16T12:21:23.876-08:00I remember reading a Hellboy Comic, the Troll Witc...I remember reading a Hellboy Comic, the Troll Witch, in which a Scandinavian faerie tale about a girl descending into trollheim, armed with a wooden spoon, to rescue her sister from the trolls. She gives the spoon in question to Hellboy, telling him to place it across the entrance to trollheim because the sound of their breaking bones held in the spoon will frighten the trolls and keep them from approaching it so in the morning they would be killed by the sun. <br />Ever since, I have referred to any large wooden spoon as a 'trollbeater'. My mom has one maybe 18 inches long and stoutly made, but if you go to a kitchen and restaurant supply store, you can get a proper cauldron stirrer, yes, 3 or 4 feet long. What was that other page saying about us all using the same memes or tropes? Yeah, I've been considering a spoon as a weapon for awhile too. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-49452655564963774802010-03-09T07:00:23.866-08:002010-03-09T07:00:23.866-08:00Thanks for commenting, I didn't think of extra...Thanks for commenting, I didn't think of extra-large spoons! I should have, vaguely remember a Andre Norton book for kids about silverware from a picnic set turning giant, Steel Magic or something.<br /><br />This is why a random table for item generation can be so useful, a result on "size" column could have spurred me to think big (or tiny) when my brain was thinking mundane spoon sizes.<br /><br />Interesting, because when I posted this, I was thinking this was another type of item difficult to randomly generate, but now, not so much:<br /><br />kitchen utensil, carved, for communication/commemorationTelecanterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-71881204447819172972010-03-09T01:00:30.417-08:002010-03-09T01:00:30.417-08:00That's 3 or 4 feet long...That's 3 or 4 <i>feet</i> long...Coopdevilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16219253658967958289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-45650497788378386482010-03-09T00:59:52.775-08:002010-03-09T00:59:52.775-08:00I've seen some very big, hefty lovespoons in W...I've seen some very big, hefty lovespoons in Wales carved from solid chunks of dark wood, perhaps 3 or 4 long. They always made me think of some female Dwarf somewhere defending hearth and home and Dwarf pups from marauding Goblins with a mighty two-handed swing of a rune-encrusted lovespoon. Quite possibly the weapon of choice of Dwarven domestic violence :)Coopdevilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16219253658967958289noreply@blogger.com