Hello ... New here!!!

Hello y'all. I'm new here, but I am discussion forum junkie. When I was a wee lad, about Hobbit sized, I can remember being taken to a Tolkien Convention on the back of my fave uncles Triumph chopper. My uncle always had a LOTR calendar (they still make those???) hanging on his wall. He also used to collect & paint Hobbit and Dwarf 'statuettes'. I can also remember his pit-bull named 'Frodo'.

Ahhh... If we could all have role models such as he...

Anyways.... I read the Hobbit & LOTR years ago, and recently stumbled across the Silmarillion at a discount bookstore so I grabbed it. I painstakingly read the work, sometimes rereading pages 2-3x's overs The Sil is not "easy-reading".... but my appetite was stimulated. I recently went to Mom's house and dug through the garage until I finally located my tattered copies of LOTR. I am now about 100 pages into the 'Fellowship', and I am rediscovering the joy(s) of Middle Earth.

BTW, my handle comes from the fact that I attended and graduated from University of California, Irvine (UCI Anteaters). As you may know, half of the residence halls are Tolkien-themed with most of the 'dorms' and facilities named after places, people, and things in Middle Earth. Actually, "Middle Earth" is the name of the community. My first dorm was "Aldor", the gym was called "Helm's Deep", and we ate at "Pippin Commons".

Cool, huh???


Regards,


E.J. Montelongo

Yes...very cool!!!! Welcome to Entmoot Anteater!!

Wow

Welcome to the board!

Hey, Bug Gulper, how ya doin'?

That is pretty cool about your campus. I wonder how hard it was to talk the administration into that? I'm also curious about the games you played against U. Cal, Santa Cruz. Weren't they the "Banana Slugs"?

Anyway, welcome to Entmoot. I've only been here a week or so myself and the folks are great. It is about the best Tolkien forum I've found.

LOL; kcbob!!!

The Slugs were not at the Div. I level in any of our sports I believe... UC-Irvine was (and is) the doormat of the Big West (lousy conference now that UNLV and others are gone) in Men's hoops, and was decent in D-I soccer, awesome at water polo (*yawn*). The Track & Field and baseball programs were killed while I was there also .

The Anteaters mascot was voted-in in the 60's by the students, and was inspired by the popularity of the "B.C." comic strip... "Zot!" is the UCI warcry. I guess simple good taste is what swayed the ADMIN to theme one of its residence communities after the works of Tolkien.

Thanks for the greetings everyone!!!


Later!!!

Welcome to Entmoot! What an awesome campus that must have been! Yes, they still make Tolkien calendars. Mine is hanging up right next to the computer right now.

The calendar Anteater's uncle had was probably a Brothers Hildebrand calendar. They were the best!!