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10-23-2008, 04:41 PM | #1 |
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Yay! Eärniel's playing! *dances around*
Sounds good to me! I like the choice of different art-forms. A big part of the idea for me is a search for beauty, and another thing I had pictured is that the refugees from Gondolin would miss their particular style of music. The Angband bit is certainly interesting! (as far as Aisle 13, I was just teasing You're quite right - it would be very interesting to have someone from that house be around )
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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 RÃan : 10-23-2008 at 05:50 PM. |
10-25-2008, 04:38 AM | #2 |
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I'm glad you approve! Now, the Journeys thread (I see a pattern in your thread names. ) is it the game thread, or just for a draft version of an opening post to be approved?
Hallindel and Halweg will start out from Mithlond as well. Do we have a more exact time-frame yet? I thought it might be interesting if Imladris is still somewhat under contruction when our characters arrive. If our characters can play some role in the planning or construction, that could provide for some interesting stories?
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Rameldir is the Sindarin version of his amilessë, btw. It was Rameldo in Quenya. His ataressë is Eruannon, but he doesn't use it. (And what little skills I have in Quenya, is mostly due to help from our fellow Mooter Aikanaro, who also helped me work out the maternal lineage of Rameldir.) Quote:
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Will do. I'm working on an introductory post for Hallindel en Halweg, it should be ready and posted before or in the weekend.
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I may not need more than one post where Rameldir thinks about things ... he'll just end up being confused and needing to think more about it anyway, even after that post, and only the arrival of the new people will give him some new input for his thoughts. Quote:
His father is some cousin some times removed to Glorfindel, so there's more family on that side. In the RPG Son of the Evening Star, Willow Oran and I discussed their family relationship and decided on a (non-canon) solution. We can use the same one here (I can look it up), or ignore the details of their exact relationship - as long as they are related and his father belongs to the House of the Golden Flower, that's what I see as important.
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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! |
10-24-2008, 07:32 PM | #7 |
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At first something about him just in Rivendell, maybe talking to someone else, creating a setting where it will be very appropriate that this group comes along to fit in with his musings ... is that what you mean? I'll start thinking about it.
Btw, what I don't get done by Monday might not get done all week. I'm going away (with my job) for a seminar of sorts, and I don't know how much time or even how much web access I'll have. I'll be back home on Friday night, though.
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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 Ã¥ â„¢ 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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11-03-2008, 10:15 AM | #9 |
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My first post in a new RPG always tends to be long - and in this one I hope that this should be appropriate It grew in the telling - I didn't know when I started writing it that it would end with Rameldir not knowing whether to stay or not ...
It can be a draft or the actual post. Rameldir needs to do some more musing on his own, but that will be for a later post. The story of how Rameldir and Tindacallë discovered Rivendell (together with Ainon, who already knew about it) is part of a different RPG at a different board. Tindacallë is someone else's character, so she won't appear here - Ainon is mine, so he can be used in our RPG.
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11-03-2008, 10:21 PM | #11 |
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Earniel - can you please change this thread title to Journeys - Discussion thread, or something like that? Looks like we're up and running. Am looking forward to a post from you
Varna - (is that what you like to be called, btw?) I can easily do a time jump to when my guys leave. Let me know how many posts you'd like to do before they arrive.
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11-09-2008, 01:31 AM | #12 |
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Eärniel - I consolidated my posts - could you please delete the now-empty #2 post? Thankee
Hmm, I see you used a brother and sister combo - I was thinking of resurrecting Alagos' sister (although with a new name), but I don't know if 2 bro-sis combos would be too much ... I'll have to think a bit more. I definitely want at least 1 female, though. Maybe I'll invent someone in Rivendell ... (ps - Varna, I keep forgetting to tell you - something that's handy for this type of RPG, where we write small story-sized posts, is to have several characters, so you can easily write your own post with dialogue and not worry about having to interface with a character not your own all the time. It's fun to interact with others, of course, but it's also handy to own two characters that you can make whole posts with without having to check your dialogue with someone. You might want to think up someone else from Rivendell to go with Rameldir to give you that luxury ) EDIT - hmm, just got an idea for a female character ...
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I've got Ainon - so I wonder, should I have him come along, just to be there for Rameldir, not wanting for himself to leave Rivendell at all? It might be fun with someone with the attitude 'this is all well and good, but aren't we going home soon' - at least in the beginning. He's a loyal soldier, one of Rameldir's best archers, and will also become something of a friend (perhaps because of this journey - I'm playing them going on an errand together in a Third Age RPG elsewhere). He would come out of loyalty, and also keep his mouth shut out of loyalty, and sometimes even speak his mind out of loyalty. If I continue to develop Ainon, I may end up having to give him a family history, too ... Let's see - where would he fit into my existing family tree? Perhaps on the Nando side of it - that would make him related to Rameldir's future daughter through her mother, but not make him family with Rameldir here and now. After all, he was only created for such purposes as you mention ... Ainon could provide some grounding for Rameldir, and contribute to Rameldir's final decision: To stay in Rivendell as well. Unfortunately this isn't an open-ended story for Rameldir, I already know what he's going to decide in the end, because that's where he lives later on. But it will be interesting to have this as the result of a process, to have him choose Rivendell in the end, not just be there - and to see how that process develops ... Perhaps Rameldir and Ainon even decide before the others arrive to set out on a similar journey, and that they then decide that there's no reason to leave Ainon behind just because Rameldir won't be travelling alone after all? I could have a smaller post where they talk about this, actually play out what I mentioned towards the end of my post. Yes, our characters have different reasons for going on this journey. I thought about making Rameldir more philosophical about the Elven realms of old, but decided to keep him just practical - to see whether there is somewhere he would feel at home. The philosophies would suit the discussions of how to build the new and permanent Rivendell, though. Elrond would love to have his home reminding people of something of the past greatness. There could surely be some input from the group.
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So he's been in Lindon for about a century, and he's with the force that is sent out under Elrond in 1695 (with Rameldir as Captain of the archers) to fight Sauron in Eregion - and with them when they retreat towards the north and get besieged in Rivendell. And has been with them these twenty years in case Sauron should attack again.
And now he has got the same offer as the others, to settle in Rivendell or to go back to Lindon. Or perhaps like Rameldir, even the option to establish something on his own - or would that be different when he's been sent by the Valar? All depending on the approval of the threadmaster, of course
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I think he'd be pretty certain about settling alongside Elrond.
Glorfindel's reasons for going along would be more to do with curiosity and maybe a little clausterphobia, a desire to see what he can before ending up stuck in another hidden valley for who knows how long.
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After he moved to Gondolin, he didn't have much chance to do any sightseeing in Beleriand - and you're right, now he's about to hide away again
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No, you're not that predictable - I just know you enjoy writing, and I was just hoping
Can't wait for your post!
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Yay! A Willow post!
I liked the hanging gardens visual, and I loved the idea of Glorfy being irked by prying and wanting his privacy! I better get on the ball and write my next post this week. Does anyone want to have any other characters in Mithlond, or should Eärniel and I just meet up and start?
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I'm planning a post with Rameldir and Ainon before you arrive from Mithlond - but I won't interfere with anyone who is still there
Willow, great post! I guess that Glorfindel and Rameldir have the same family relationship here as in Son of the Evening Star? Including Glorfindel feeling awkward towards the (older) Elf who he remembers as a little boy ... which might be about the same even if we stick to Tolkien's later concept that the rehoused Elves didn't become as little children.
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