The Tolkien Under Age Club

[Durelin]

I'm a bit of a 'collector,' perhaps? Actually a more apt name would be 'packrat.'

Btw...if anyone missed anything LotR merchandise wise, there's a chance that I have it, and don't really want it anymore...i.e., I'm trying to off stuff like...say...an embarrassing Legolas cardboard stand-up (still in package, though a little bent from being placed in a closet full of junk) from a kind but hapless uncle... *wink wink nudge nudge*

Anyway, I was thinking how I feel so incapable or unintelligent when I see these people who have read LotR at age 7 or 8, and have read it numerous times since then. I didn't read it until I was twelve, and I haven't read but pieces of it since! And yet I sit around on this forum and think I can talk about it and write about characters in ME! Am I really justified?

[ninja91]

Originally Posted by Durelin

Anyway, I was thinking how I feel so incapable or unintelligent when I see these people who have read LotR at age 7 or 8, and have read it numerous times since then. I didn't read it until I was twelve, and I haven't read but pieces of it since! And yet I sit around on this forum and think I can talk about it and write about characters in ME! Am I really justified?

Of course you are, Durelin. To tell the truth, I have never even read the Lord of the Rings or the Silmarillion all the way through, yet I know just enough to contribute here, thankfully...

[Durelin]

Hehe, why thank you! I must say I was proud of myself for reading through the entirety of "the Council of Elrond" the first time around. None of my friends managed that one...

[Firefoot]

Haha, mine neither.

Concerning justification: no, Durelin, of course you're not justified. No one could possibly be justified unless they had read the Hobbit before they could walk, have read LotR religiously at least once a year since then, and can quote HoME at the drop of the hat. You should probably own original 1950's copies of the books, as well.

*All this to say, of course we like having you around, Durelin.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Durelin

I also was an avid collector of the LotR "CCG" (which translates: "Collectible Card Game"). I had a humongous binder full of them, and other boxes as well...and I can't say I played the game more than three or four times! Now they sit and collect dust, and I look at them every once in a while, and think about how they just have to be worth something someday, and that ebay will still be around then...

The one based on the movies? I never played that one, but I used to collect Middle-Earth The Wizards -cards and playing mainly games made up by me and my little sis with them since my sister disliked the real game. (Even now she won't try a match against me... ) I remember my friends bought me the Galadriel card from a special shop as a birthday present and it was really cool back then...

[Durelin]

*All this to say, of course we like having you around, Durelin.

Hehe! Aw, you Downers are like a support group.


And yes, the card game based on the movies. I remember coming across the older game, but only online and never in stores...otherwise I would probably have some of those cards, too... Those had some interesting art, as I recall. And I can understand your sister's feelings about the game...I own several different card games, and I never play any of them. Though, now I couldn't tell you if that was because I didn't like the games or if I was just too lazy (or was spending too much time doing other things...like trying to be on the 'Downs on dial-up...).

[ninja91]

Speaking of cards, my group and I had just gotten back from Homecoming and the 10 of us walking back to his house when we saw this sale. So I told them I was going to check it out real quick (because you never know what you will find). Anyway, I found this plastic card-container. I opened it up, and, alas! Middle-Earth region geography cards!
From what I could see, there was just a deck of cards, each having a region from Middle Earth printed on them, such as Lorien, Emyn Muil, Plateau of Gorgoroth, Umbar, and the likes. And they werent the ones from the new editions of LOTR Risk, because I already own them. I asked how much they were going for, and the guy who was selling this stuff took one look at them and snatched them away. "Oh, these arent for sale, sorry". So I never saw them again, and I am wondering if they had special powers.
Anyone know of these? I doubt that they are that valuable from the looks of them...