Mid-Winter Festival Tree Building Contest!

***Tessar*** · 12-10-2010, 09:00 PM

Ho Ho Ho little Hobbits and Hobbitesses! Haaaaaappy Mid-Winter Festival To You!!

It seems old STRIDER is in need of a few trees to fill the palace in GONDOR! Apparently some naughty little elfling who shall remain unnamed but-is-really-sorry-it-happened-and-is-going-to-fix-it-he-just-needs-some-more-time.... may.... and I stress to you that this is a may.... have broken the WHITE TREE when he was trying to decorate it.

... so there's that.

Contest rules are simple!

Build a tree!

Example:

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Code:

This is what I did to make it center:
[--center]$
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Then remove the "--" before the 
word "center" and everything will pop to the middle.

The Administration and Moderator team will judge the tree fairly and in an unbiased manner, but cookies and small gifts of.... appreciation.... to the judges are certainly welcomed.

Later on, depending on what we decide, there may even be a prize for the winner.... depending on whether or not Tessar manages to get the WHITE TREE fixed in time, because if not.... >.>

hectorberlioz · 12-10-2010, 09:49 PM

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Hurray it worked!

inked · 12-11-2010, 01:02 AM

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Look very carefully between the brackets for the politically correct Mid-Winter Festival Tree Building tree. (It is actually an early winter festival since the season doesn't begin until the Solstice - see the Astronomy thread.)

PS Hektr du ist aliv! Merry Christmas!

EllethValatari · 12-11-2010, 01:10 AM

Ta da!

Merry Christmas!

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Grey_Wolf · 12-11-2010, 03:41 AM

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***Tessar*** · 12-11-2010, 04:28 AM

Awww, those are great, you guys.

A+ for everyone.

... except for Inked. D-.

No conceptual trees allowed!!

***Rían*** · 12-11-2010, 06:04 PM

I'll enter the contest with a Christmas tree seed, because I'm perpetually short of time

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Hopefully it will grow up soon and I'll decorate it

inked · 12-11-2010, 07:24 PM

Tessar! It is not a "conceptual tree"! If you look at it, you will see the tree between the brackets. It may help to have bifocals like myself, or it may not.
The tree is there. It is politically correct.

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***Varnafindë*** · 12-11-2010, 07:43 PM

I cannot see it either, inked. What's wrong with me?

inked · 12-12-2010, 02:36 PM

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You need bifocals.

Midge · 12-13-2010, 01:26 AM

Midge's Christmas Tree:

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Compare:

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NOTE: There is NO star on top of our tree, therefore I did not put one in my replica.

Oh, and also, my replica is a REAL tree, so it's weird shaped, just like the one in my home.

Grey_Wolf · 12-13-2010, 03:23 AM

Great work, Midge!

***Tessar*** · 12-15-2010, 05:30 PM

By the way, you are allowed to enter more than once. Contest ends on January 3rd... American time.

Grey_Wolf · 12-16-2010, 06:16 AM

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EllethValatari · 12-29-2010, 09:57 PM

*A selection from Father Christmas's (Tolkien's) 1938 letter to Priscilla and Chris.

Don't copy this idea!

(had to put in powerpoint and then upload as image to use font)

***Jonathan*** · 12-30-2010, 05:28 AM

A calligramme! I like it

Grey_Wolf · 12-30-2010, 06:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EllethValatari

*A selection from Father Christmas's (Tolkien's) 1938 letter to Priscilla and Chris.

Don't copy this idea!

(had to put in powerpoint and then upload as image to use font)

WONDERFUL WORK OF ART!

EllethValatari · 12-30-2010, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf

WONDERFUL WORK OF ART!

Thank you! I'm always inspired by T's poetry.

This time he inspired me to grow a tree!

Grey_Wolf · 12-31-2010, 04:01 AM

You are most welcome, buddy!

Indeed he did.

EllethValatari · 01-03-2011, 02:56 PM

Is this thread judged today?

12-10-2010, 09:00 PM	#1
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Mid-Winter Festival Tree Building Contest! Ho Ho Ho little Hobbits and Hobbitesses! Haaaaaappy Mid-Winter Festival To You!! It seems old STRIDER is in need of a few trees to fill the palace in GONDOR! Apparently some naughty little elfling who shall remain unnamed but-is-really-sorry-it-happened-and-is-going-to-fix-it-he-just-needs-some-more-time.... may.... and I stress to you that this is a may.... have broken the WHITE TREE when he was trying to decorate it. ... so there's that. Contest rules are simple! Build a tree! Example: $ ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ Code: This is what I did to make it center: [--center]$ ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ [--/center] Then remove the "--" before the word "center" and everything will pop to the middle. The Administration and Moderator team will judge the tree fairly and in an unbiased manner, but cookies and small gifts of.... appreciation.... to the judges are certainly welcomed. Later on, depending on what we decide, there may even be a prize for the winner.... depending on whether or not Tessar manages to get the WHITE TREE fixed in time, because if not.... >.>

12-10-2010, 09:49 PM	#2
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	* ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ************* == == == ==== Hurray it worked! __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide Last edited by hectorberlioz : 12-10-2010 at 09:50 PM.

12-11-2010, 01:02 AM	#3
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	[ ] Look very carefully between the brackets for the politically correct Mid-Winter Festival Tree Building tree. (It is actually an early winter festival since the season doesn't begin until the Solstice - see the Astronomy thread.) PS Hektr du ist aliv! Merry Christmas! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 Last edited by inked : 12-11-2010 at 01:04 AM. Reason: adjuoostmunts und PS

12-11-2010, 01:10 AM	#4
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	Ta da! Merry Christmas! * ^^ ~~~ ^^^^ ~~~~~ ^^^^^^ ~~~~~~~ ^^^^^^^^ ~~~~~~~~~ ^^^^^^^^^^ ~~~~~~~~~~~ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ** ( ** ) __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

12-11-2010, 03:41 AM	#5
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	(o) X X XX XXX X@XX XXXXX XX @XX XXXX XXX@X XXXXXX XXX X@XX XXXXX XXXX@X XXXXXXX XX XX Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 12-11-2010 at 03:57 AM.

12-11-2010, 04:28 AM	#6
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Awww, those are great, you guys. A+ for everyone. ... except for Inked. D-. No conceptual trees allowed!!

12-11-2010, 06:04 PM	#7
*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	I'll enter the contest with a Christmas tree seed, because I'm perpetually short of time . Hopefully it will grow up soon and I'll decorate it __________________ . 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!

12-11-2010, 07:24 PM	#8
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Tessar! It is not a "conceptual tree"! If you look at it, you will see the tree between the brackets. It may help to have bifocals like myself, or it may not. The tree is there. It is politically correct. [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 Last edited by inked : 12-11-2010 at 07:28 PM. Reason: goin' green and plantin' a forest

12-11-2010, 07:43 PM	#9
*Varnafindë* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	I cannot see it either, inked. What's wrong with me? __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

12-12-2010, 02:36 PM	#10
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	. [. .] . -----.----- ....[. .]..... -----.----- You need bifocals. __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 Last edited by inked : 12-12-2010 at 02:42 PM. Reason: unsuccessful

12-13-2010, 03:23 AM	#12
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Great work, Midge!

12-15-2010, 05:30 PM	#13
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	By the way, you are allowed to enter more than once. Contest ends on January 3rd... American time.

12-16-2010, 06:16 AM	#14
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	* ** * * * *¤ ***** ¤* o** *¤ o***** o* ¤** o* Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 12-16-2010 at 06:21 AM.

12-29-2010, 09:57 PM	#15
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	Elleth's 2nd contest entry *A selection from Father Christmas's (Tolkien's) 1938 letter to Priscilla and Chris. Don't copy this idea! (had to put in powerpoint and then upload as image to use font) __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

12-30-2010, 05:28 AM	#16
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	A calligramme! I like it __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

12-31-2010, 04:01 AM	#19
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	You are most welcome, buddy! Indeed he did.

01-03-2011, 02:56 PM	#20
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	Is this thread judged today? __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

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