It was a day

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

If one really had to choose between the Istari (with the proviso that the Blue wizards weren't intelligent, sensitive yet not wimpy, drop-dead gorgeous maiar of lurve ) ..it would probably have to be Gandalf... (Mithalwen)

They are. Manwë thought they'd need all the help they could get (them going to the East and all), so he gave them the special ability to look hot. Always helpful to have a flock of fangirls at your call in enemy territory.

But, as I said before, they were lost. Men and directions . . .

But I believe Saruman made the story up: He really pushed them in some random ditch. He wanted to be the hottest Istar in Middle-earth, so he got rid of the competition.

On the onset, that Saruman guy really has some issues.

Speculating on the fate of the Blue Wizards . . . looks like a good Mirth topic.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Nilpaurion Felagund

But, as I said before, they were lost. Men and directions . . .

[Speculating on the fate of the Blue Wizards . . . looks like a good Mirth topic.

Yeah they just won't ask the way............

[Lyta_Underhill]

Lyta (found her husband in a pub in Angmar...)

By the way, I forgot to mention that this pub only appears every hundred years or so, and if you're caught inside after hours, you disappear into the Land of Faerie...forever!

Well if HerenIstarion is to bestow a ring, let us hope it is from a reputable dealer and not some second-hand cast off found at the bottom of a swamp!

What if its provenance could be reliably traced back to the respectable Eregion House of Celebrimbor Jewelers Inc.? I bet it'd bring a good bit on Ebay! Maybe more than the cheese sandwich with the bite out...

( I have this idea that the Silmarils and Palantiri were the over designed result of Nerdanel asking Feanor to make her a night light and baby-monitor for the nursery...)

LOL! What does the fact that there are so many palantiri say about Fëanor's tendencies to be overly fond of surveillance, so to speak? I'll bet he created the Fëanorian alphabet so he could pass notes to Nerdanel in Elf Kindergarten, too!

Cheers!
Lyta

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lyta_Underhill

LOL! What does the fact that there are so many palantiri say about Fëanor's tendencies to be overly fond of surveillance, so to speak? I'll bet he created the Fëanorian alphabet so he could pass notes to Nerdanel in Elf Kindergarten, too!

Lyta

Well he did have 7 children ........ so that is the seven given to Elendil plus the master stone which was once Nerdanel's......

On one board I frequented someone said they planned on using a replica of the "one ring" as a wedding ring - now that to my mind is deeply sinister...

[Raefindel]

Congratulations, HI, on both counts.

Have you and your betrothed set a date yet?

[Hilde Bracegirdle]

On one board I frequented someone said they planned on using a replica of the "one ring" as a wedding ring - now that to my mind is deeply sinister...

Hmm...I wonder if they gave out a passel of them to others before hand. It also makes me wonder if the ring in question was for them or their intended. Either way would make me edgy. (Especially if the honeymoon was anywhere near a volcano.)

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Hilde Bracegirdle

Hmm...I wonder if they gave out a passel of them to others before hand. It also makes me wonder if the ring in question was for them or their intended. Either way would make me edgy. (Especially if the honeymoon was anywhere near a volcano.)

Like those old movies where the guy has married the girl for her money "but darling why have you brought me all the way up her to this lethal precipice" .... to be fair I think he thought of the one for himself and Nenya for his intended .... he also planned on calling a daughter Arwen which is probably taking the whole thing a bit far ...... (though I did suggest that friends might call their new born twin sons Elladan and Elrohir )..

[HerenIstarion]

he also planned on calling a daughter Arwen

Estel. Maybe