been lazy and not blogging (for like a whole year now, but who's counting?). set up a blog here at townhall a week or so ago, not long after the migration, so might as well finally get started with a fun post, and take care of introductions later. Also been a bit lazy in keeping track of even some of my favorite blogs, so I blame any inappositeness on faulty memory and a lack of sleep :)

Hugh has issued the Blogger Middle Earth Challenge, so here's my list (excluding Hugh himself, per his rules, who would have been a candidate for Gandalf, Elrond, or Bilbo), being mostly satisfied with some juggling of spots:

Frodo: Michael Yon? (being stumped, I'll follow sheepdog; seems a pretty good fit)

Sam: Captain Ed (faithful and true)

Merry: Powerline (fought the Nazgul Danrather)

Pippin: Fraters (though they already know it comes in pints)

Aragorn: Mark Steyn (having ranged in the North, he comes home to be king columnist of the world?)

Legolas: Lileks (prose as sharp and true as an elvish arrow; there's spinoff potential for a "Two J's" sitcom starring Frank J. and J. Lileks; Lileks and Legolas both start with the letter "L")

Gimli: Frank J. (wants to battle-axe the moon, has proof Elrond's unnatural lonevity is due to his daily puppy smoothies, punches liberals in their dumb orc-y faces)

Boromir: Andrew Sullivan (upset he can't have a ring, he goes crazy and turns on the party...can he yet be redeemed?)

Gandalf: Victor Davis Hanson? (again, I am stumped, but since everybody else is doing it, and it seems a good fit...)

Elrond: Instapundit

Arwen: Mary Katharine Ham? Betsy Newmark?

Galadriel: The Anchoress (wisdom and grace; sorry A, but you can't be Arwen because Bryn's not a blogger to be your Aragorn ;))

Bilbo: Roger L. Simon?

Eomer: Darth Misha

Eowyn: Beth at MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Theoden: Prof. Bainbridge? (ditch Wormtongue, Professor!)

Faramir: Lorie Byrd (sorry 'bout the sex change!)

Denethor: PoliPundit

Wormtongue: don't spend time in the fever swamp, so I can't rightly say

Saruman: see above (maybe any Dem that blogs at Kos, though?)

Gollum:  Kos (never a better unintentional ally was had than Markos Smeagolitas, who takes the Dems down to the Pit of Doom, over and over again)