Tolkien and the colours

[djheydt]

Hey, how often do you get a wedding cake you can ride? Show some love!

Oh, heavens. There's a website showing lots of pictures of really terrible cakes, falling under the categories of

(a) ordinary cake, done by the bakery, which got the inscription Horribly Wrong.

(b) an ambitious cake, probably done by loving-hands-at-home, that comes out looking like ... well, the Anniversary Horse.

Unfortunately I seldom look at it and I disremember its name.

However, I can post this, a wedding cake made carefully according to the Lore of another mythos....

http://homepages.tesco.net/~janefisk.../discworld.htm

[Arbalister]

I had a really long winded answer to the question of the use of colours, but when I went looking for specific references...I found this site, complete with references to source material... So, I'll just shut up and present it as is. :-)

[droid]

Back in the day, brighter colors required rare and expensive dyes. If you saw someone riding into battle wearing bright, clean, bold colors, that tells you you're facing someone with lots of money.

They probably have better weapons and armor than you. They probably eat well and are in good health. They probably dont have to work all day, and have more time to devote to martial training. They're probably going to kill your ###, so you'd better go find someone that looks a little scrubbier.

[Radhruin_EU]

Anything that's purple or turquoise tends to be a bit, err, 'vibrant', that's for sure.

[Marguerita]

I had a really long winded answer to the question of the use of colours, but when I went looking for specific references...I found this site, complete with references to source material... So, I'll just shut up and present it as is. :-)

WOW i had found some but not as complete as that

Thank you

Now i have my answer ... no white-bright gold-flashy blue to represent one house

[tumeric]

Unfortunately I seldom look at it and I disremember its name.

Maybe this?

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

--Tumeric