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Forum: The Books 03-13-2024, 04:37 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 200
Posted By Formendacil
I am sure my bookshelves groan at the thought!...

I am sure my bookshelves groan at the thought! Hopefully, there's a table of contents released at some point, because I'm curious what will end up in here (the titles of the unpublished poems,...
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 02-11-2024, 02:45 PM
Replies: 4,512
Views: 921,784
Posted By Formendacil
Thanks! I've now had more of them as a Downer...

Thanks! I've now had more of them as a Downer than I accumulated before I joined, so I'm starting to get close to my Númenórean age of majority. I feel quite old this year.
Forum: The Books 11-06-2023, 05:07 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 8,477
Posted By Formendacil
I appreciate the link, but apparently cannot bear...

I appreciate the link, but apparently cannot bear to read it in any detail! I want to go in--of all things--unspoiled. :smokin:
Forum: The Books 08-19-2023, 06:50 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,282
Posted By Formendacil
So, I really don't buy "Bilbo is an unreliable...

So, I really don't buy "Bilbo is an unreliable narrator," but I do like playing the devil's advocate, so let's see if we can make some plausible counter-arguments:



Ah, but it's the narrator...
Forum: The Movies 07-21-2023, 06:23 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 4,053
Posted By Formendacil
Forget those fairy-blooded Took miscreants who go...

Forget those fairy-blooded Took miscreants who go wandering off to Norbury and foreign parts! I want a full-blown intra-Shire drama (like Downton Abbey with lower ceilings and more eating)--give me a...
Forum: Novices and Newcomers 07-10-2023, 06:28 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 2,635
Posted By Formendacil
Like all good parties, it stopped being cool...

Like all good parties, it stopped being cool sometime shortly after I showed up (2005) and has been in steady decline ever since. ;)

The real "problem" was arguably the pipeline of new members:...
Forum: Novices and Newcomers 07-03-2023, 02:30 PM
Replies: 93
Views: 15,429
Posted By Formendacil
In terms of satisfyingly creepy evil, I'm going...

In terms of satisfyingly creepy evil, I'm going to have to go with the Barrow-wight (no, no, not the High Admin!).
Forum: Novices and Newcomers 06-19-2023, 04:48 PM
Replies: 4,191
Views: 1,000,236
Posted By Formendacil
We can at least claim to be a haunted ghost...

We can at least claim to be a haunted ghost town--the spirits are here, watching.

And, when The Rings of Power is airing, also judging.

Perhaps even welcoming, when given the occasion.
...
Forum: The Books 06-07-2023, 06:53 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 14,191
Posted By Formendacil
Unless these texts went to Marquette with the...

Unless these texts went to Marquette with the initial, which would give a somewhat earlier terminus ante quem, but your point is valid either way.

I think it's always dangerous to assume that...
Forum: The Books 06-04-2023, 04:43 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 8,477
Posted By Formendacil
I share Mithadan's scepticism about the real...

I share Mithadan's scepticism about the real value of the expansion--this is very late going in the publication of Tolkien's original works, and I fully expect that anything "new" is going to be on...
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 05-01-2023, 04:21 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,953
Posted By Formendacil
Shouldn't a mathom be something that's already...

Shouldn't a mathom be something that's already made the rounds of the village a couple times? At least it should be a post already posted!

:p

Nothing like a pedantic point to rouse a sleeping...
Forum: The Movies 02-27-2023, 06:45 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,952
Posted By Formendacil
I am not confident enough of my prognostications...

I am not confident enough of my prognostications to say how this will affect RoP (the answer could well be "not at all"), but I do know that I would like it to affect RoP.

Obviously, I would like...
Forum: The Movies 02-23-2023, 05:59 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,420
Posted By Formendacil
Taken in a vacuum, I'd dislike this news, but in...

Taken in a vacuum, I'd dislike this news, but in a world of RoP and the Hobbit movies and the coming Helm Hammerhand animé, I kind of like the idea of there being more and...
Forum: Novices and Newcomers 02-21-2023, 04:08 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 3,800
Posted By Formendacil
I don't think I've ever posted about how I came...

I don't think I've ever posted about how I came to be a member of the forum--if I have, it's long enough ago and on some thread obscure enough that I think I can retell it here.

My final year of...
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 02-11-2023, 07:09 PM
Replies: 4,512
Views: 921,784
Posted By Formendacil
My dear Bagginses and Boffinses! Er, I...

My dear Bagginses and Boffinses!

Er, I mean...

I'm not QUITE eleventy-one yet (though the pulled muscle in my back begs to differ!)

My dear Galadrielses and Mithadans!

Thank you.
Forum: Novices and Newcomers 02-07-2023, 06:28 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,522
Posted By Formendacil
All that Paraphrenalia

Today's news of a GORGEOUS (https://brickset.com/article/90738/10316-rivendell-officially-revealed!) LEGO set on the horizon has given me cause to meld my two favourite fan topics: Tolkien and...
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 01-06-2023, 05:53 PM
Replies: 844
Views: 232,402
Posted By Formendacil
Helped, perhaps, by Facebook memories in these...

Helped, perhaps, by Facebook memories in these latter years, the occasion of the great feast of the Epiphany never passes without me remembering my own, smaller, "epiphany," eighteen years ago today....
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 12-24-2022, 06:36 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,739
Posted By Formendacil
Annatar was a giver of gifts!

Annatar was a giver of gifts!
Forum: The Movies 12-16-2022, 05:28 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 2,427
Posted By Formendacil
A Historian's Take on a "Flat" RoP

Bret Devereux, a military historian with interests that have intersected with Middle-earth before (there's a thread on this forum SOMEWHERE about his several-post analysis of the Battles of Helm's...
Forum: The Movies 11-20-2022, 12:49 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 3,801
Posted By Formendacil
Setting aside high-level caveats such as "does...

Setting aside high-level caveats such as "does this show need to exist?" and "if it's not canon, don't bother," I think the biggest thing I want to see out of Season 2 is the avoidance of "the...
Forum: The Movies 11-04-2022, 04:07 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 7,094
Posted By Formendacil
I'm not quite old enough to say in "my" day--nor...

I'm not quite old enough to say in "my" day--nor am I American--but during my childhood in the 90s, I definitely remember my grandfather having a comb in his pocket at all times. And as someone with...
Forum: The Movies 10-26-2022, 02:37 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,982
Posted By Formendacil
Spoilers!!

There's a few different ways to do this, so I'm going to start with Boro's proposed categories:

Visuals/Special effects: A- Look, the show IS pretty.
Costumes/Make-up: B- I thought the costumers...
Forum: The Movies 10-19-2022, 03:40 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 4,357
Posted By Formendacil
A minor thought, occasioned by this thread...

A minor thought, occasioned by this thread (especially G55), is that Amazon kind of shot itself in the foot for having any FURTHER shows taken out of the Second Age: by condensing everything from the...
Forum: The Movies 10-18-2022, 05:32 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 4,357
Posted By Formendacil
Pipe This is a great topic--I don't think the slowness...

This is a great topic--I don't think the slowness of replies is indicative of anything other than that, because this is a HARD topic. It's easy to say "RoP did XX wrong"--and I think we all have some...
Forum: The Movies 10-15-2022, 04:59 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 6,719
Posted By Formendacil
Boro brings up an interesting topic: Jackson vs....

Boro brings up an interesting topic: Jackson vs. the Amazon team: who does it better?

Honestly, I think it's not a fair comparison, if you're comparing the LotR movies to RoP--RoP relies so much...
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