Definitions by ANDY

Sommerlund 

Realm in northern Magnamund, in the Lone Wolf series. Inhabited by the Sommlending. Capital Holmgard; other major features include the Kai Monastery, the centrepiece of the Order of the Kai; Toran, home of the wizards of the Crystal Star; several other cities such as Tyso and Anskavern. It's a monarchy, apparently modelled on feudal Europe but with a noble king and a jedi-like order of protectors. Has the unfortunate privilege of being first in line whenever the darklords come over the mountains, cos the Darklands are just to the west. It sounds like the name might be old English for "land of the sun" but I might be wrong.

The King of Sommerlund asks you to go to Durenor and retrieve the Sommerswerd.

Sommerlund by Andy April 18, 2004

Ent 

Tree-creature in Lord of the Rings. Ents are tall, slow and patient creatures which live in the forest of Fangorn and exist to protect the trees from harm. Related to Entwife. Make for very cool special effects in films, especially when it comes to trashing Isengard.

That tree's got a face - it looks just like an ent.

You need the patience of an ent to put up with this degree course.

Tony Blair's revived the road building programme! I hope an ent squashes him.

Ent by Andy April 17, 2004

pudu

means the same as shit, except you can put it in a film and still get a "U" certificate (i.e. Star Wars Phantom Menace). In the ROTJ Jabba scene, it's translated as "fodder", but this doesn't explain why Sebulba sez it when he crashes his racing pod.

what a load of bantha pudu

you used to be a good smuggler, but now you're bantha pudu

everything Tony Blair says is complete pudu

pudu by Andy April 17, 2004

deterritorialisation 

process of undermining the repressive arrangement of flows of desire into fixed units centred around regimes of sameness and place. A necessary characteristic of lines of flight.

If you don't believe me, read some Deleuze.

deterritorialisation by Andy April 17, 2004

oom 

An old word which means your spectrum hobbit or lord of the rings adventure has fucking crashed again

You go east. You are in the dark stuffy passage. You can see Thorin. Thorin is carrying: the small curious key. The vicious goblin enters. Thorin strikes the vicious goblin. With one well-placed blow Thorin OOM

oom by Andy April 17, 2004

the Lacanian Real 

a nonexistent entity believed in by some psychoanalysts as an excuse for flagellating themselves, and/or by cultural critics as an explanation for anything they can't explain.

Because of the Lacanian Real, we're all a pile of shit.

The reason why the Walrus Man bleeds when he's hit with a lightsaber even when nobody else ever bleeds when hit with a lightsaber is because of the Lacanian Real.

the Lacanian Real by Andy April 17, 2004

frell 

swear-word invented for use in the Farscape series - usually as an adjective, "frelling".

I can't get the frelling spaceship to take off cos there's a frelling alien glued to the frelling ignition pipeline and because of this the frelling engine room is a total pile of frell.

frell by Andy April 17, 2004