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01-30-2009, 01:43 PM
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Newly Deceased
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Cumbria
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Hello :)
Hello all.
I've been a fan of Tolkien for a long time, and thought I knew a lot about Middle Earth until I started reading posts on here! |
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01-30-2009, 03:06 PM
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Doubting Dwimmerlaik
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Heaven's basement
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Welcome, Elanor Gardener, and well met. Enjoy your stay at the Downs!
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01-31-2009, 07:52 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
Posts: 8,093
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Welcome, Elanor, and enjoy your stay.
 And don't be intimidated by the several human Tolkien Encyclopedias, they tend to be quite nice.  And you can surely have worthy things to say even if you don't match their level of knowledge - there are people here living (err... being dead?  ) happily among us even though they haven't even read LotR...
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02-09-2009, 12:09 PM
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Newly Deceased
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Among the stars
Posts: 4
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Greetings Tolkien fans!
I stumbled upon this site a while back & was well-pleased with the intelligent conversation & number of active threads (in comparison to multitudes of other decrepit LOTR forums). Of course I promptly lost the link & the name, thankfully to find it again later. I must admit I am new to Tolkien (& largely to fantasy in general - I am more sci-fi inclined), even though I am well past my teenage years. When the movies were released I told myself I would read the books 1st, but alas, college is a difficult time for pleasure reading. So I watched The Fellowship of the Ring, thoroughly enjoying it. Somehow I managed to miss the subsequent films in the theater but caught them both together at home on DVD later. I vowed that I would read the books. Time passed, again, (though I found paperback copies of the Trilogy + Hobbit for $.25 each at a used bookstore) & I finally found myself ready to experience The War of The Ring as it was intended. Woe, thee Ring! How beautiful and terrible is thy orbit! The all-consuming fire scorches; Though I darenot relinquish the flame! I feel as though I was finally let in to a world for which I was destined, some 15 years late (my youth spent reading Grisham & Crichton seems wasted in comparison). Especially as our technology obsessed world wears very thin on me, Middle Earth resonated in my desire for a simpler world (but certainly no less dangerous). Having thought I knew the story from the film version, the books provided some delightful surprises. After falling unknowingly under the spell of a power far greater than I have encountered before, providence shined on me, allowing me to procure a beautiful 2nd edition hardcover of the works (my preciousss), as well as an illustrated Silmarillion (which I have yet to read as other books of immediate importance are occupying me). So, my hope is that this site will illuminate some of the shadows for me until Tolkien can do so himself.
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"Do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for it may chance that old wives kept in memory words of things that were once needful for the wise to know." Last edited by Tilion the Wayward; 02-09-2009 at 12:18 PM. |
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02-09-2009, 12:24 PM
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shadow of a doubt
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Back on the streets
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Welcome Tillion and hope you enjoy it here!
I very much envy you, not having read the Silmarillion yet, nor Unfinished Tales or The Children Of Hurin I supose. They are a marvel to discover, and will very much enrich your Middle Earth enjoyment.
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02-09-2009, 12:26 PM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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Welcome, Tilion! Seems that you have a rather "healthy" stance towards Tolkien's works, and let's hope indeed that this site will illuminate lots of the shadows for you - I personally believe it will, or at least give you sharper contures of them.
(And as for Crichton, well, it's not that wasted... )Well, may your death here be fruitful for both you and us... (Oh, just one thing, I only hope you are not our well-known, already existing 'Downer davem posting under a different username. Because, you see, this usage of "&"s was something I have always considered his signature move [although he is doing it in a much larger scale... sorry, davem ].)
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02-09-2009, 01:13 PM
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
Posts: 8,093
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Welcome, Tilion!
Enjoy being dead and rotten.
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Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris
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02-09-2009, 01:13 PM
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Newly Deceased
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Among the stars
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As far as your concern of my possible posing, I suppose only time will tell, although I don't know how much posting I will be doing since I have much to absorb before I can add much value to the community. Perhaps Davem is/was posing as me. And the use of the ampersand, tis merely a habit (nice attention to detail, however). Will it bother you or others here, since there are bound to be grammatists & lovers of fluid & properly written prose here? (not that there's anything wrong w/that) Oh, & thank you & Skip for the kind welcome. Since I have just become deceased, where is the store of treasure & weapons I can plunder? Currently my sword is broken & in need of reforging...
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"Do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for it may chance that old wives kept in memory words of things that were once needful for the wise to know." Last edited by Tilion the Wayward; 02-09-2009 at 01:16 PM. |
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02-09-2009, 01:41 PM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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What a disgrace to the written language! - But hey, really  As long as the text remains readable... We are here to discuss, the form is not that horribly important.)
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories |
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