wow...this forum is lonely now

ringbearer · 11-09-2015, 02:51 AM

used to have a lot of posters...where did everyone go?

The last sane person · 11-09-2015, 06:11 AM

Facebook, twitter, instagram, take your pick. That and most that were here for Tolkien stuff debated the life out of just about all the texts and topics.

***Rían*** · 11-10-2015, 01:59 AM

Most boards, from what I've heard, have their heyday and then just naturally peter out. This board had a glorious heyday, and I'll always remember it, and the many people I met, very fondly. JRRT's works changed my life, and it was an amazing experience to be able to share them with people from all over the world.

The last sane person · 11-10-2015, 05:50 AM

It was a damn good run, wasn't it?

***Alcuin*** · 11-10-2015, 03:42 PM

I’m not willing to give up yet. There’s more stuff under the rocks, there are big pictures we haven’t completed, and there are lots of new readers who might be interested.

Runs come in waves, like traffic on a road: sometimes it’s thin, sometimes it’s heavy.

Movie interest influences traffic, too. I understand that while box office receipts rose through the three Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films, it fell through the three Hobbit films. I think I count as a pretty die-hard Tolkien fan. I went to the theater to see the first LotR film, then watched the other two at home (while wincing). I kinda watched the first Hobbit film on Netflix, but really have no interest in the other two. I really think the further cinema wanders from the books, the less traction it gets. I think has a strong influence on Tolkien boards, too.

Nerwen · 11-11-2015, 06:29 PM

It would be nice to have some new posters, but I am having fun.

Susie

Attalus · 11-12-2015, 11:52 AM

Suze, you have fun no matter what you are doing, no?

***Rían*** · 11-15-2015, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The last sane person

It was a damn good run, wasn't it?

Sure was!!!

(and I still write in Tengwar

)

**Mari** · 11-14-2015, 05:38 AM

Same here. Busy with work and studies. Oh and a social life for as much as I have one

Nerwen · 11-14-2015, 12:41 PM

My social life is Attalus and that is plenty. I post from work as often as I have a lull, here and elsewhere

Susie

Last Child of Ungoliant · 11-16-2015, 12:44 PM

I just stumbled back, partly by accident and partly out of curiosity over whether the 'moot was still here! for my part I ended up with too much going on out in the real world (good and bad), although I definitely enjoyed the time that I was here

***Rían*** · 11-16-2015, 10:36 PM

Wow! LCOU, long time! I hope things are going well with you! Nice to see you

Nerwen · 11-17-2015, 03:46 PM

Welcome back, LCoU!

Midge · 11-19-2015, 11:38 PM

I'm not quite ready to give up on it either. Who else am I going to talk to about my LOTR-related things (to be fair, though, I haven't read the books in a while and I never really get into the deep conversations...)?

I definitely want to read more on the histories, though.

***Alcuin*** · 11-20-2015, 03:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Midge

I definitely want to read more on the histories, though.

Midge, if you read History of Middle-earth, you might want to start with the last volume, Peoples of Middle-earth, and work backwards. The further back you go, the further the immediacy of the stories you’re familiar with. I would suggest starting with Peoples of Middle-earth, then back one volume to War of the Jewels, then Morgoth’s Ring, and so on to the volumes covering Tolkien’s writing LotR, and finally the first five volumes covering the formation and early versions of the tales that became Silmarillion.

Nerwen · 11-23-2015, 10:01 PM

Atalus has all those, but I haven't been able to get very far into them. I do love Unfinished Tales and wish the Histories were more like them

Midge · 11-24-2015, 12:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alcuin

Midge, if you read History of Middle-earth, you might want to start with the last volume, Peoples of Middle-earth, and work backwards. The further back you go, the further the immediacy of the stories you’re familiar with. I would suggest starting with Peoples of Middle-earth, then back one volume to War of the Jewels, then Morgoth’s Ring, and so on to the volumes covering Tolkien’s writing LotR, and finally the first five volumes covering the formation and early versions of the tales that became Silmarillion.

That's actually really good to know. I used to be quite an avid reader (I'm trying to get back into the habit again, but when I was a girl, we didn't have smartphones... and I didn't have any children then either

) so I tend to read things in order and STRICTLY in order.

It would make sense though, to start with things that I would have more interest in and work backwards, instead of starting at the beginning hoping to eventually arrive at the parts I would be interested in.

ringbearer · 10-15-2016, 10:35 PM

We should select a date range, so some Well Met Friends can get together! This was my first Internet Forum and almost feel ashamed that "we drifted apart". I did not have thousands of posts like some, but still remember when "the Fair Folk" still dwelt here!

***Valandil*** · 10-15-2016, 11:46 PM

Great idea! November?

Amael · 04-24-2017, 05:03 PM

I don't do much online at all these days. I worked on writing an Elder Scrolls fan RPG very off-and-on for about five years, and ultimately we just all kinda lost interest. The Hobbit movies kinda sapped some of the interest I had for the Tolkien universe, so I've been reading through various Tolkien material, such as The History of Middle Earth. That kinda piqued my interest again. I just, you know, have to keep away from the Hobbit movies. Don't get me wrong, there are some decent qualities to those movies, although I'm trying to think of some at the moment and uhhh ... I'm drawing a blank here. Oh yes, the soundtrack! Yes, the soundtrack! Gotta love that soundtracks they had for those films! Billy Boyd's singing was a really nice touch to the soundtrack.

But yeah, other than that, 'Ingwe' and I will probably be moving pretty soon. We have been doing well where we are, but have realized that we've become too 'comfortable' where we are, and too 'comfortable' is almost always followed up with stagnation. So it's basically gotten to that level. We both work in IT, and we're looking to new horizons, such as working as field geologists or something, mainly looking into volcanology. We have degrees for it, it's just that we will have to take some additional courses to be able to actually specialize in that area. However many courses we'll have to take doesn't matter. It'll be fun! More fun than all that which has become routine, which is to say, everything.

11-09-2015, 02:51 AM	#1
ringbearer Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: St. Louis, Mo. USA Posts: 561	wow...this forum is lonely now used to have a lot of posters...where did everyone go? __________________ Ringbearer Hide Witch, hide! The Good Folks come to burn thee! Their keen enjoyment hid behind A Gothic mask of duty!

11-09-2015, 06:11 AM	#2
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Facebook, twitter, instagram, take your pick. That and most that were here for Tolkien stuff debated the life out of just about all the texts and topics. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

11-10-2015, 01:59 AM	#3
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Most boards, from what I've heard, have their heyday and then just naturally peter out. This board had a glorious heyday, and I'll always remember it, and the many people I met, very fondly. JRRT's works changed my life, and it was an amazing experience to be able to share them with people from all over the world. __________________ . 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!

11-10-2015, 05:50 AM	#4
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	It was a damn good run, wasn't it? __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

11-11-2015, 06:29 PM	#6
Nerwen Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2015 Location: A nice studio in the Pelóri Posts: 164	It would be nice to have some new posters, but I am having fun. Susie __________________ “Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.” - JRRT. "On Faerie-Stories"

11-10-2015, 03:42 PM	#5
*Alcuin* Salt Miner Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: gone to Far Harad Posts: 987	I’m not willing to give up yet. There’s more stuff under the rocks, there are big pictures we haven’t completed, and there are lots of new readers who might be interested. Runs come in waves, like traffic on a road: sometimes it’s thin, sometimes it’s heavy. Movie interest influences traffic, too. I understand that while box office receipts rose through the three Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films, it fell through the three Hobbit films. I think I count as a pretty die-hard Tolkien fan. I went to the theater to see the first LotR film, then watched the other two at home (while wincing). I kinda watched the first Hobbit film on Netflix, but really have no interest in the other two. I really think the further cinema wanders from the books, the less traction it gets. I think has a strong influence on Tolkien boards, too.

11-12-2015, 11:52 AM	#7
Attalus Swan-Knight of Dol Amroth Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: On the Bay of Belfalas Posts: 1,125	Suze, you have fun no matter what you are doing, no? __________________ "What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions are not beyond conjecture." - Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial.

11-14-2015, 05:38 AM	#9
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Same here. Busy with work and studies. Oh and a social life for as much as I have one __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

11-14-2015, 12:41 PM	#10
Nerwen Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2015 Location: A nice studio in the Pelóri Posts: 164	My social life is Attalus and that is plenty. I post from work as often as I have a lull, here and elsewhere Susie __________________ “Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.” - JRRT. "On Faerie-Stories"

11-16-2015, 12:44 PM	#11
Last Child of Ungoliant The Intermittent One Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: here and there Posts: 4,671	I just stumbled back, partly by accident and partly out of curiosity over whether the 'moot was still here! for my part I ended up with too much going on out in the real world (good and bad), although I definitely enjoyed the time that I was here

11-16-2015, 10:36 PM	#12
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Wow! LCOU, long time! I hope things are going well with you! Nice to see you __________________ . 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!

11-17-2015, 03:46 PM	#13
Nerwen Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2015 Location: A nice studio in the Pelóri Posts: 164	Welcome back, LCoU! __________________ “Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.” - JRRT. "On Faerie-Stories"

11-19-2015, 11:38 PM	#14
Midge Faithful Gardener Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I walk here and there, they say... Posts: 3,603	I'm not quite ready to give up on it either. Who else am I going to talk to about my LOTR-related things (to be fair, though, I haven't read the books in a while and I never really get into the deep conversations...)? I definitely want to read more on the histories, though. __________________ In God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11 "Starbuck, what do you hear?" "Nothin' but the rain, sir!" "Then grab your gun and bring in the cat." Make sure to check out the C.S. Lewis forum. Game threads, movie and book discussions and more!

11-23-2015, 10:01 PM	#16
Nerwen Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2015 Location: A nice studio in the Pelóri Posts: 164	Atalus has all those, but I haven't been able to get very far into them. I do love Unfinished Tales and wish the Histories were more like them __________________ “Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.” - JRRT. "On Faerie-Stories"

10-15-2016, 10:35 PM	#18
ringbearer Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: St. Louis, Mo. USA Posts: 561	We should select a date range, so some Well Met Friends can get together! This was my first Internet Forum and almost feel ashamed that "we drifted apart". I did not have thousands of posts like some, but still remember when "the Fair Folk" still dwelt here! __________________ Ringbearer Hide Witch, hide! The Good Folks come to burn thee! Their keen enjoyment hid behind A Gothic mask of duty!

10-15-2016, 11:46 PM	#19
*Valandil* High King at Annuminas Administrator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Wyoming - USA Posts: 10,752	Great idea! November? __________________ My Fanfic: Letters of Firiel Tales of Nolduryon Visitors Come to Court Ñ á ë ?* ó ú é ä ï ö Ö ñ É Þ ð ß ® ™ [Xurl=Xhttp://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=ABCXYZ#postABCXYZ]text[/Xurl] Splitting Threads is SUCH Hard Work!!

04-24-2017, 05:03 PM	#20
Amael Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Somewhere Between Here and There Posts: 237	I don't do much online at all these days. I worked on writing an Elder Scrolls fan RPG very off-and-on for about five years, and ultimately we just all kinda lost interest. The Hobbit movies kinda sapped some of the interest I had for the Tolkien universe, so I've been reading through various Tolkien material, such as The History of Middle Earth. That kinda piqued my interest again. I just, you know, have to keep away from the Hobbit movies. Don't get me wrong, there are some decent qualities to those movies, although I'm trying to think of some at the moment and uhhh ... I'm drawing a blank here. Oh yes, the soundtrack! Yes, the soundtrack! Gotta love that soundtracks they had for those films! Billy Boyd's singing was a really nice touch to the soundtrack. But yeah, other than that, 'Ingwe' and I will probably be moving pretty soon. We have been doing well where we are, but have realized that we've become too 'comfortable' where we are, and too 'comfortable' is almost always followed up with stagnation. So it's basically gotten to that level. We both work in IT, and we're looking to new horizons, such as working as field geologists or something, mainly looking into volcanology. We have degrees for it, it's just that we will have to take some additional courses to be able to actually specialize in that area. However many courses we'll have to take doesn't matter. It'll be fun! More fun than all that which has become routine, which is to say, everything.

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