Tolkien Events 2012 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-13-2013, 01:44 PM

How about using the notebooks for recording live Tolkien activities and collecting signatures of Downers and other Tolkienists? You can also ask artists to draw in them. I have a selfmade fabric journal (well, I'm actually on the second one because I go to a lot of German Society events in addition to the international ones) which serves that purpose for me.

Bêthberry · 01-13-2013, 02:02 PM

Mithalwen or Formendacil, could you provide a picture or a link so we can see what this lovely notebook is like?

Estelyn's suggestion is a lovely one, as her fabric books are full of souvenirs of wonderful moots--and she has some original artwork by very well known Tolkien illustrators as well!

Mithalwen · 01-13-2013, 02:17 PM

I am far too antisocial to need 192 pages for autographs and it ia a bit small for lecture notes at least for my spider fell in an inkwell and staggered across the page scrawl. I may have to have an adventure of my own. I Have pics will try to link

Estelyn Telcontar · 01-13-2013, 02:24 PM

Ooooh, a "There and Back Again" of your own - that sounds great!

Mithalwen · 01-13-2013, 02:27 PM

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/8...MP04X2X5D0J981

This is the one I have. The larger version would have served better for the kind of communal commonplace book.
There is ared foil dragon and the section ofvthe map covering the mountains and mirkwood inside the pocket is a map of the wild an d a thorin and co style return to ..otherwise a normal moleskine

Bêthberry · 01-13-2013, 07:11 PM

Still, it is lovely. The dragon is nicely done. I think it would do quite nicely to be your own RedBook for an adventure.

Or reviews of favourite restaurant feasts. You could begin by going back to Hobbits--or writing a review of our lunch there with Poison Ivy.

Mithalwen · 01-13-2013, 08:10 PM

Oh deari probably shouldn't have got it save it was so very lovely.I don't perhaps have the record keeping temperament. If something isn't memorable enough to remember why waste time writing it down? If it were indexed I might have used it for recipes as it is adventure seems the way forward. nothing for it, will just have to become a piratical maid of all work or similar...

Lalwendë · 01-14-2013, 06:05 AM

If I'd seen this I might not have got myself a Marvel Comics one. I wanted a nice notebook for work rather than use the standard 79p ones from Banner from the stationery drawer. I always keep my notebooks anyway, as I end up noting personal stuff and drawing in them when I'm having the pants bored off me in an irrelevant meeting. So using it for work is OK in my err....book.

Or use it to note down quotes you like. Lists of books you might want to read or places to visit. Recipes. Gardening notes. Family history notes. Daily weather and nature observations. Just to note stuff you find interesting.

I have a replica Red Book though that I've never used - it came with a box set of five action figures (Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry & Pippin) I got back in 2001. I thought I'd better not use it because it was part of the set.

Mithalwen · 01-14-2013, 09:00 AM

Stationery is one of my weaknesses so I do have notebooks for a lot of these thingsbut the family history appeals sincce it ia currently spread across teo general notebooka and it is a truly hobbity thing..cheera..

01-13-2013, 01:44 PM	#1
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	How about using the notebooks for recording live Tolkien activities and collecting signatures of Downers and other Tolkienists? You can also ask artists to draw in them. I have a selfmade fabric journal (well, I'm actually on the second one because I go to a lot of German Society events in addition to the international ones) which serves that purpose for me. __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

01-13-2013, 02:02 PM	#2
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	Mithalwen or Formendacil, could you provide a picture or a link so we can see what this lovely notebook is like? Estelyn's suggestion is a lovely one, as her fabric books are full of souvenirs of wonderful moots--and she has some original artwork by very well known Tolkien illustrators as well! __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

01-13-2013, 02:17 PM	#3
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	I am far too antisocial to need 192 pages for autographs and it ia a bit small for lecture notes at least for my spider fell in an inkwell and staggered across the page scrawl. I may have to have an adventure of my own. I Have pics will try to link __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

01-13-2013, 02:24 PM	#4
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Ooooh, a "There and Back Again" of your own - that sounds great! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

01-13-2013, 02:27 PM	#5
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/8...MP04X2X5D0J981 This is the one I have. The larger version would have served better for the kind of communal commonplace book. There is ared foil dragon and the section ofvthe map covering the mountains and mirkwood inside the pocket is a map of the wild an d a thorin and co style return to ..otherwise a normal moleskine __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

01-13-2013, 07:11 PM	#6
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	Still, it is lovely. The dragon is nicely done. I think it would do quite nicely to be your own RedBook for an adventure. Or reviews of favourite restaurant feasts. You could begin by going back to Hobbits--or writing a review of our lunch there with Poison Ivy. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

01-13-2013, 08:10 PM	#7
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Oh deari probably shouldn't have got it save it was so very lovely.I don't perhaps have the record keeping temperament. If something isn't memorable enough to remember why waste time writing it down? If it were indexed I might have used it for recipes as it is adventure seems the way forward. nothing for it, will just have to become a piratical maid of all work or similar... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

01-14-2013, 06:05 AM	#8
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	If I'd seen this I might not have got myself a Marvel Comics one. I wanted a nice notebook for work rather than use the standard 79p ones from Banner from the stationery drawer. I always keep my notebooks anyway, as I end up noting personal stuff and drawing in them when I'm having the pants bored off me in an irrelevant meeting. So using it for work is OK in my err....book. Or use it to note down quotes you like. Lists of books you might want to read or places to visit. Recipes. Gardening notes. Family history notes. Daily weather and nature observations. Just to note stuff you find interesting. I have a replica Red Book though that I've never used - it came with a box set of five action figures (Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry & Pippin) I got back in 2001. I thought I'd better not use it because it was part of the set. __________________ Gordon's alive!

01-14-2013, 09:00 AM	#9
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Stationery is one of my weaknesses so I do have notebooks for a lot of these thingsbut the family history appeals sincce it ia currently spread across teo general notebooka and it is a truly hobbity thing..cheera.. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace