Every time I see her name I can't help but think, "Palin, daughter of Fundin."

[goreism]

That is all.

Comments

[yechezkiel]

what is that in reference to?

[fpb]

So there is someone who has not yet read the most widely read work of English literature in the twentieth century.

[yechezkiel]

I'm excessively literal, and it wasn't until your clue here that I realized I needed to switch a letter and daughter to son and mispronounce "Palin" to make it rhyme with "Balin".

[goreism]

I've been reading about her occasionally for a few months without knowing how her name was pronounced, so the visual similarities spring out at me a lot more than the auditory ones.

[fpb]

Did you never hear of the English writer Michael Palin before?

[yechezkiel]

Not to mention he was part of the Python troupe.

[liukaiqin]

Writer? I still think of him as the man who says "It's..."

Goreism - LOL.

[goreism]

What on earth, the lumberjack is writing travel books now?

[crispygecko]

Personally I think "Palin Majere, nephew of RAISTLIN MAJERE!"

[goreism]

Apparently the vague memories I had about the books with red/white/black wizards I read as a kid were about the Dragonlance series. Reminds me of the time I read Asimov's The Currents of Space and realized I had read it sometime in elementary school. Evidently I read a lot of bad SF/fantasy as a kid and blocked it out.

[yechezkiel]

This happened to me at the end of reading Heinlein's Revolt in 2100 last year.