04-02-2008, 06:46 PM | #21 | |
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I DIDNT KNOW YOU CAME HERE TODAY!!! What a pleasant suprise! Hi dad, hahaha...this is weird..
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04-02-2008, 10:31 PM | #22 | |
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(ok, just kidding about the dog! ) My husband tolerates our LOTR, but is not a fan himself. But as he is great in so many other important areas, I forgive him for that
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! Last edited by Rían : 04-02-2008 at 10:33 PM. |
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04-02-2008, 11:15 PM | #23 | |
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Agreed. Oh well, that's life in the Age of Communications, I reckon. Of course, I'm happy to see you wherever we meet!
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04-04-2008, 03:12 AM | #24 | |
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To elaborate a bit on my story - I really didn't fall in love with Tolkien's works until I read The Silmarillion. I read LotR, and liked it well enough, but I wasn't caught up in the magic until I delved into The Silmarillion. That, and the HoME, especially Laws and Customs, Athrabeth Finrod an Andreth, and The Shibboleth of Fëanor. It was in these texts, and the expressions of Tolkien's essential theology and philosophy, that I found the true beauty of Tolkien's universe.
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04-05-2008, 10:34 PM | #25 |
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I was in love as soon as I read LotR, and I didn't finish Silmarillion until a couple years later, though it's my favourite now. I remember it well.... For about a week I did nothing but read LotR (and discover Entmoot!). I kept having to walk to the bookstore to buy the next part. I didn't stop until I was done, and then there was much 'mooting and running around in the woods pretending it was Middle Earth.
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04-07-2008, 04:46 PM | #26 |
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I'm still in that phase...
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04-07-2008, 04:51 PM | #27 |
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I envy you then. I'm supposed to be too old for that stuff now. It's getting harder to get away with, lol
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04-07-2008, 04:53 PM | #28 |
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Never too old!! Im almost sixteen! I love running around being in middle earth haha, most people dont know this
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04-07-2008, 04:55 PM | #29 |
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I was almost 16 back then too, now I'm over 20. A kid at heart though, certainly.
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04-07-2008, 04:59 PM | #30 |
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always a kid at heart. and of course, never to old to pretend you are a rider of rohan
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04-07-2008, 05:00 PM | #31 |
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Or a hobbit lass. Oh my, we are off topic somewhat.
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04-07-2008, 05:20 PM | #32 |
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Well, I'm almost thirty and I still like it. What is RP for, after all?
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04-07-2008, 05:20 PM | #33 |
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Never too old or too young... even the merry Elves were often thousands of years old. And some of us here are in their 40s.
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04-09-2008, 12:12 AM | #34 | |
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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04-09-2008, 04:34 AM | #35 |
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And I love everything about Fëanor! I think we've bumped some of the Athrabeth threads.
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04-13-2008, 10:55 AM | #36 |
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Greetings
I had a friend on the internet who told me how much he liked the movies. I was never into anything like that. I liked fantasy, but those movies never interested me. Then a girl at work told me she loved them. That caught my curiosity so I decided to buy them since I was a member of Columbia House and if I didn't like them, I could sell them. I watched them and found that I was very much interested.
It didn't take long to become obsessed and I would watch them every chance I got. Then I decided to buy the books because I'm an avid reader. I read The Hobbit and found it interesting. Then I read the LoTR trilogy and when I realized the changes that PJ had made, it angered me. I got to where I would rarely watch the movies at all. It took a while for me to get through the books because some parts just weren't interesting to me. I had put off reading The Silmarillion because it was hard to get into. Finally I forced myself to read it and lo and behold, a terrible addiction began. After I finished it, I read it again and highlighted important parts. Now I'm lost without it and I'm going to have to read it again. I just love those elves!
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04-13-2008, 03:25 PM | #37 |
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I loved The Hobbit as a child, tried to read LotR when I was about nine because I thought it might be similar and was amazed by it being such a long book. Unfortunately I didn't understand it enough for it to make much of an impression there.
Skip forward (quite a while ) to the movies, the first of which inspired me to try the book again. This time, I loved it. Then of course I got involved with Tolkien communities online and realized how much more there was to the world he was created. The Silmarillion remains my favorite book and it was reading that, I think, that really got me hooked.
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04-16-2008, 02:16 AM | #38 |
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I remember my father told me and my sister about the Hobbit when we were no older than 6-7 years old. I became so amazed at his short-version of how the hobbits rode on their ponies through the Middle Earth. And I remember he told us about the lord with the ring (Ofc i imagined at that time I can recall that the ring was a red ring, kinda diamondish and that Sauron was up in some mountain looking down on the world, which isn't that far off really) Ever since I've read LOTR both in norwegian and english, and I prefer the hobbit in norwegian and LOTR in english
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04-16-2008, 02:43 AM | #39 |
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Greetings, Coffeehouse!
Can't say I agree with you about the movies, but each to their own, I suppose. Have you read the Silmarillion as well? That was the book that got me loving Tolkien...
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04-16-2008, 03:06 AM | #40 |
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There are quite a few members who were introduced to Tolkiens works by their parents.
I wonder if my parents even know who Tolkien is...
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