Friday, 6 December 2013

Nerdlings in the IT department

I couldn't help but notice some of the things on the college systems are references to Tolkein's works (on a side note, my great grandmother lives next to his absolutely minted descendants in oxford) and some of them are rather obscure. I don't know much about IT, but I do know that something server-related is named 'GIMLI' and another is named 'Fimbrethil'. Ah, who doesn't remember Fimbrethil? A most memorable character indeed. I am sarcastic of course, as a google search revealed Fimbrethil to be... Treebeard's entwife. Remember the tree that Merry and Pippin climb in the second one that talks to them and helps spurn the ents into action? That was Treebeard. Fimbrethil is his wife. Huh.

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