The New York Times Is Very Sorry For Getting Bilbo’s Sword Wrong

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The New York Times Is Very Sorry For Getting Bilbo’s Sword Wrong

Max Read — If you were one of the many New York Times readers (understandably) frustrated with some of the inaccurate coverage in last week's sports section, fear not: The Times has apologized for writing that Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver was Bilbo's sword.

Orcrist, as everyone knows, was Thorin Oakenshield's sword. But it's not the Times' fault! It's the fault of Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey, who doesn't even know the origin of his bats' names. Still, we're glad we could settle this without the help of public editor Arthur Brisbane:

"An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in "The Hobbit"; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins's sword was called Sting.)"

For extra credit, note the typographical error in the print edition that was corrected for web! For extra-extra credit, note why "Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver" is not, technically, the name of Thorin Oakenshield's sword.

As ever, the paper of record.

Best comment left so far:

 

[Cassie]

The New York Times is good for starting fires!

 

[CaptainWacky]

I will literally never forgive them.

 

[Mentalist]

They will lie about anything! ALIEN DISCLOSURE NEXT.

 

[CaptainWacky]

For extra-extra credit, note why "Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver" is not, technically, the name of Thorin Oakenshield's sword.

Because the word "Orcrist" is Sindarin for "Goblin Cleaver" so if that was its name it would be "Goblin Cleaver The Goblin Cleaver."

 

[Robert "Monkey" Loggia]

Because the word "Orcrist" is Sindarin for "Goblin Cleaver" so if that was its name it would be "Goblin Cleaver The Goblin Cleaver."

You win. And are therefore a loser.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I like to think Wacky googled that.

P.S. You don't post often enough! MORE POSTING

 

[FBI parte due]

How could you not know that off-hand?

 

[CaptainWacky]

IF IT WAS A SPORTS FACT OR SOMETHING I'D BE THE BIG MAN ON CAMPUS.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

YOU'D BE BIG SWORD WACKY MCGEE!

 

[Dr Dave]

Does R.A. Dickey put hats on his bats to keep them warm?

 

[CaptainWacky]

Cunt him up.