Is there honestly much left?

[Imladris]

And you still think we are approaching and end of days?

I never said that. I still think that there are excellent threads out there such as the Canonicity one, though I do think that it began to be splitting ends.

As long as there are human minds there will always be new opinions, new thoughts on subjects...I never denied that.

As for my analogy between the coke and Tolkien's sun, flat coke tastes good too. This forum isn't dying per se...

I guess my main thing is that it'd be kinda cool if the forum could expand and those were my reasons.

[HerenIstarion]

ah, probably, I see your point. For myself, sometimes I half wish I haven't yet read anything by Tolkien, so the whole thing would still lie before me. On the other hand, probably I would not get same effects if I were to read it as I am now. We wonders, yes, my precious, we wonders...

[Balin999]

I haven't read the arguments of the others, but for me discussing Tolkien has becoming quiet uninteresting, that's why I don' post that often lately. And since I'm here since more or less the beginning, I guess I have read and seen most of the subjects, though I didn't post on them.
I hope that the desire to think about tolkien will come back soon, since I re-read the LotR, Hobbit and Silmarillion.
We'll see.
But I guess in such a big forum, you can't avoid topics being covered twice by different people.
Allthough you can use the search function, there will always be different opinions nad different interpretations on similar topics.

[Liriodendron]

Well, things have been discussed so much, in the last five years, on many forums, that there now seems to be "answers" for everything. I feel like.... what's the point of spouting off my *light* veiw of something, when some "loremaster" type will come right in and tell me the thoroughly researched, actual factual answer to something. I'm not saying that as a put down, or in a combative way, it just sort of takes the fun out of shooting the bull!

[Imladris]

Originally Posted by Liriodendron

Well, things have been discussed so much, in the last five years, on many forums, that there now seems to be "answers" for everything. I feel like.... what's the point of spouting off my *light* veiw of something, when some "loremaster" type will come right in and tell me the thoroughly researched, actual factual answer to something. I'm not saying that as a put down, or in a combative way, it just sort of takes the fun out of shooting the bull!

That's another reason why I thought it would be rather fun for the BDs to expand because not everyone is a loremaster at everything.

[Balin999]

I don't think that you need to be a loremaster. Even someone "uneducated" in Tolkien can bring up interesting questions or aspects that have been left out by others. It would be boring if we only had overeducated know-it-alls, don't you think?

There are no stupid questions, just stupid answers.

[Saraphim]

My dad told me a story about a guy who wanted to close the patent office in like, 1902 or something because he said that everything that could be invented had been.

Now, this story is impossible to verify as being true, since I'm not sure where my dad got it from, but my piont is this: that things are still out there to be though of, as long as we've got weirdos with imaginations. And you'de be hard-pressed to find a place with more imaginative weirdos than the Downs.