The Tolkien Under Age Club - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Firefoot · 10-28-2006, 12:20 PM

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I have horrible luck with dice

Me too! The best strategies in the world won't work for me because the dice don't. My brother, on the other hand, can be blind as a bat about what's going on on the other half of the board, but his dice are freaking amazing. Not fair, I tell you.

Durelin · 10-29-2006, 06:22 PM

Yes, and to think I've always wanted to for once actually play DnD... Perhaps it's good that I have not been able to yet. I get violent when I feel that luck is the only thing against me (it's rarely really about skill, right? right...

)... Though that might make things interesting. And if I'm RPing a 'Chaotic Evil Barbarian,' well then, I'd be quite in-character...

ninja91 · 10-30-2006, 06:31 AM

Yes, I used that ring and put it around a chain and... oh my god, I am such a nerd...

Durelin · 10-30-2006, 08:53 AM

I wore "the One Ring" around my neck for probably over a year, of and on. I kept using Rings that came on these bookmarks...but I kept losing them! What a great Ringbearer I make... Yes, let's just conveniently lose it somewhere. After all, that's how it disappeared for thousands of years anyway, being lost in a river... Behind my bed it might be even more difficult to find!

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...

And I can't say there's anything wrong with being a nerd. A merchandising nerd, though...well, I don't suggest it.

ninja91 · 10-30-2006, 11:12 AM

Oh, you are right, Durelin . If I wasnt a nerd, I would never have found LOTR...

But anyway, I never got into the CCG, be it the lack of money or the fascination with my GameCube...

Durelin · 10-30-2006, 01:29 PM

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 · 10-31-2006, 06:27 AM

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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...

10-29-2006, 06:22 PM	#2
Durelin Estelo dagnir, Melo ring Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,063	Yes, and to think I've always wanted to for once actually play DnD... Perhaps it's good that I have not been able to yet. I get violent when I feel that luck is the only thing against me (it's rarely really about skill, right? right... )... Though that might make things interesting. And if I'm RPing a 'Chaotic Evil Barbarian,' well then, I'd be quite in-character...

10-30-2006, 08:53 AM	#4
Durelin Estelo dagnir, Melo ring Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,063	I wore "the One Ring" around my neck for probably over a year, of and on. I kept using Rings that came on these bookmarks...but I kept losing them! What a great Ringbearer I make... Yes, let's just conveniently lose it somewhere. After all, that's how it disappeared for thousands of years anyway, being lost in a river... Behind my bed it might be even more difficult to find! 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... And I can't say there's anything wrong with being a nerd. A merchandising nerd, though...well, I don't suggest it.

10-30-2006, 01:29 PM	#6
Durelin Estelo dagnir, Melo ring Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,063	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?