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Old 07-19-2006, 11:30 AM   #1
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I gotta say, this forum is going really slow lately...does it go through periods of activity and no activity? I love the boards, don't get me wrong, but you have to admit they are quite slow right now...
I think it is partly the summer - I am not on holiday but the garden provides a lot of work at this time of the year and an attractive option for a Brit enjoying a precious hot summer ... if I had Wi-fi and could sit in the garden with a laptop adn a chilled drink that would be perfect. I have every intention of giving books some attention and have some thread ideas of my own but at the moment RPG, ME idol and the quiz room all have prior call on my time as well a backlog of interesting PM correspondence. It happened last year too I think so bear with us and it will come good I am sure
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Old 07-19-2006, 04:48 PM   #2
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Tolkien

Sounds good.

Hey, just out of curiousity, are most of you located in the UK? I've seen that mentioned in a lot of posts. I went to England in May this year and I loved it...such a beautiful country that I want to see more of. One day! While I was there (for only a short week) I caught the Tolkien Exhibit with the work of Ted Nasmith in Moreton-in-Marsh. Truly amazing. Anyway, just wondering about that.
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Old 07-19-2006, 05:31 PM   #3
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According to Aman's list I think that most people are from the USA actually.

But thank you for complimenting our little country
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Old 07-20-2006, 02:54 AM   #4
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It's summer for most of you but for us here in this little archipelago we're already a month into the school year. Not that it matters.

It really depends on the subforum. Mirth and the RPGs are particularly active now, from my perspective.
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Old 07-20-2006, 10:36 AM   #5
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Old 07-20-2006, 12:52 PM   #6
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For me, there hasn't seemed to be that much to post on lately. Maybe someone needs to start an argument. Or maybe I'm just not noticing the possibilities for ranting and raving.

Anyway, I'm horribly busy at work and don't get the time to post like I used to, and this is coupled with coming home and it being boiling hot so not really always wanting to sit on the computer (or rather crouch over it on a coffee table, thus getting a bad back), coupled with the need to spend time attending to my garden, and a humungous pile of reading matter to be got through, and just being plain fatigued all the time right now with the heat and the brain frying work I'm doing all day that is far too complex for someone with no short term memory and a very poor concentration span! Plus my head is full of mad stories right now...

You get the picture.

But as soon as I find that really juicy ruckus I'll be wading right in.
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Old 07-20-2006, 01:04 PM   #7
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Definitely slow. Perhaps what we need is another CbC thread - or even a 'Canonicity' That said, I'm not sure I'm up for a Silmarillion CbC at the moment.

Personally, I'm blank at the moment as far as thread ideas go. Of course, we've all read too much, haven't we? We can now answer any question about Tolkien's work & intentions straight off - someone will quote from the Letters, or HoM-e.

Don't you sometimes wish we could go back to when we just had LotR & TH & we could speculate on all kinds of possibilities & offer our own theories?

Of course, I recently started a thread on that ...
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Old 07-20-2006, 01:19 PM   #8
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I noticed the slowness as well.

I figured people were busy else where, or like me: Having some Ideas for threads, but to lazy to do anything about it.
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