The Answer to the "Pun Contest"

[dawn_felagund]

Well, I thank you all for your attention and attempts to finding the acknowledged awful pun in the last chapter of AMC. Since many of you are sitting on the edges of your seats--do not deny it! Carnistir sees you in his palantir! and tells me everything!--waiting for the answer, and since I have a winner, then I will not force you to wait for next week's chapter.

First off, congrats to levade, who emailed me with the correct passage!

And now, for the bad pun....

Turonén sees the shame in our faces and takes pity. "Ah, Tindanén," he says, "leave them be. They are still too young to fully comprehend the pleasures of the flesh, and I do not think that we should hasten that knowledge. Macalaurë, Vingarië," he adds, "forgive us?"

I hope that in the meager, mingled light, he cannot see by the flush in my cheeks that this summer—using thoughts of his sister as the catalyst—I had begun to grasp such pleasures.

I couldn't resist leaving that in. It was just too terrible to resist! I'll probably reword a bit for Draft Two. Probably. Unless I enjoy tormenting my Pit of Voles readers as much as I love tormenting you all!

On a completely unrelated note, I had a unexpected--but pleasantly--busy weekend, on top of recovering from a nasty cold (necessitating frequent naps and much laying-on-the-couch with the husband). So to those of you who I promised to read chapters, etc., it is coming! I actually did my Monday-morning work on Friday afternoon, so I should be able to catch up at work tomorrow.

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

I thought it was bad in the sense that I really wasn't trying to be naughty there. Not to evoke actual images of "grasping" certainly. ;)

I haven't decided if I'll leave it in. It's not much to change "grasp" to a more appropriate verb!