the stay at rivendell

[afro-elf]

I think the party stayed between 2-3 months at rivendell.

i think gandalf said something to pippin about wasting time there.


if YOU were there, the lowly mortal that you are now, and you were going to be a member of the fellowship what would you do with the time there.


i'd train in arms with glorfindel ( he killed a balrog)

i'd ask for elven arms and armor

i'd gather all the healing herbs and knowledge they could put in my mortal brain. ( if they could teach me healing spell that would be even better)

would have studied and brought maps

would have had a standard role\players adventure pack i.e. (rope mr.samwise)

would have daily strategy meetings about what way to go, what to do, how to fight the various enemies of the Eye

and of course try to get an elven girlfriend

[Ñólendil]

I'd probably just put preparations off until the last moment, and than blow it by not having time to do anything.

My, my, you are an avid poster!

[afro-elf]

I teach english( i can't type that's why so many errors) in a small city in saudi arabia


and there ain't NOTHIN' to do but surf the net

[Ñólendil]

Is that so? How wonderful to have you here! You're a long way from California (that's my home)!

How quick I jump to conclusions. To be honest, I thought you were a young teenager, like so many other posters here (which of course is not a bad thing, I wouldn't say that in any case, but I myself am only fifteen).

Funny you should say (as you did on some other thread) that you would be a Bree-lander if you were in the Lord of the Rings. For long now I've thought that that people or related peoples ought to be represented visually by actors of Middle-Eastern descent. Or are you not a native of Arabia?

I know what you mean about the net. I spend too much time here myself. For all that I somehow find I'm not getting enough done. Oh well.

[afro-elf]

How quick I jump to conclusions. To be honest, I thought you were a young teenager, like so many other posters here (which of course is not a bad thing, I wouldn't say that in any case, but I myself am only fifteen).

well truly i thought you were older

also for my part this is a way for me to relax and get out of "teacher mode" and act like i would around my friends who are all young at heart

Or are you not a native of Arabia?

Nay young Inoldonil

I'm a native of a land that borders the horrid frost of the kingdom of angmar... bflo, ny



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[Renille]

I always think people on here are only about seventeen, but then I read somewhere that they're 30+. It never ceases to amaze me....then I start wondering how old people think I am...and then I get scared and stop thinking about that particular topic.

[ringbearer]

Come on, Renille! Go ahead and put your birthdate in your profile! No one here cares...we are all "young at heart"!

[afro-elf]

it just shows how a common interest can link people of all ages


any idea who the youngest and oldest are?

[Renille]

I'm really only fourteen!!!! I just meant I got scared 'cause I thought people would think I'm seven or something!!! (I promise, that IS my real age.)


I'm finding it really funny how I can fool people with my age, though. I told some kids at school today that I was 13, and they believed me. ( And I had told every one of them before how old I really was...)

[HOBBIT]

Afro-Elf - do you mean ages of people that post at this board? There is a topic (hmm or several now) about that in general messages or archived somewhere.... I am 13 now I think the old thread still says I'm 12... bah. Who are the youngest at the board? If you check the birthdays people put down, it looks like the youngest age here is 12.

[afro-elf]

I think its interesting, the age differences here.


I'm truly impressed with the "scholarship" of some of the "kids" here


I first got into the hobbit/lord of the rings when i was about eight. WAY back in the first age ( 1977)there was a rankin/bass animated tv special on hobbit . I believe three years later they did the return of the king. There was a really cool picture of the characters in a starlog magazine and it mentioned the books so i read them. ( same year as star wars and empire strikes back)

it is my interest in role\playing that has kept my interest in LOTR over the years. Bewteen Tolkien's elves and Marc C. Perry's elves
i keep coming back for more.

the more i read the books the more i appreciate their greatness.

So to the young bloods here's a Montreal Canadiens ( yes, that's the way they spell it in Monteal) quote that hangs in their locker room

"From our failing hands we pass the torch"

So keep the faith

[Finmandos12]

Tesseract12 is only 12 (hmmm, i wonder where that came from.) I thought you were a lot older Inodonil, I'm 14.

[Ñólendil]

Thank you! But how old did you think I was?

[afro-elf]

i wasn't gonna go through the entire list but i DID find a few people over 30 and one WELL over. WHEW. I was beginning to feel like legolas around the the other party members

[Renille]

Legolas was several hundred (maybe thousand, I forgot...) years older than anyone...except maybe Gandalf. I really HOPE no one has quite that much age difference here!

[Ñólendil]

Certainly younger than Gandalf! He had been around longer than the Universe.

[Selwythe]

I'm 14.

As to get back to the topic, since the days at Rivendell would be my last happy ones, I'll commit sins again and again. Nothing to lose. If Elrond thinks "send him away", doesn't matter since I am going away, very likely to death. If Elrond thinks "make him stay/banish him back home"...even better!

[Sindarin_1]

We've heard from the younger set, but not
so many of the folk with more miles on them
Therefore, I'll be brave and see if I set the
upper limit. I just turned 45, and I first read LotR
in 1965. Anybody older than that?

Galie

[ringbearer]

As I've stated in other threads...45 here also!!! First read LOTR in the early 70s.

[afro-elf]

I'm 32