Realms of Middle-earth Discussion Thread

[SomeRandomDude]

I think the drinking contest was hilarious. I just passed out. Kinda boring, I guess.

[AgentDrake]

Okay, so I stole half my deathmongering-emo-Theoden speech in that post from Old English poems. So sue me. The copyright on the originals expired centuries ago.

[SomeRandomDude]

Actually, they were just renewed by some ghost-like dude with a beard.

Um...doesn't sound Rohan-ish to me. Sounds more like...an overly eloquent Brit who's overdone eloquence.

[AgentDrake]

Nope. That's Rohirric. The Rohirrim are a quintessential Northern European civilization, based mostly on the Anglo-Saxons, with elements of the Norse.

That's all AS stuff there. AKA, out-and-out Rohirrim philosophy. Minus the references to Jesus, because those are sorta.... well.... incongruous with Middle Earth. Try reading some of the Rohirrim poetry in LotR just independently, and take a look at some of the themes there. In fact, the whole "Where now is the horse and the rider" is straight out of one of the poems that I used. As in, Tolkien translated part of it, and stuffed his translation into LotR.

Erm... Sorry. Just about went off on a complete tangent of interest to no-one but me.

[DáinIronfoot]

I thought it fit perfectly, myself.

It's fun being back into this, ain't it? I should have a small, new section up later tonight or sometime tomorrow. I'll get to the bigger section, transitioning us to the next site, once EL has gotten his piece in (if he wants to).

[AgentDrake]

Well, actually, I should add the caveat that the translation I got it from was by an Over-eloquent Brit

Yeah, It's good to be back.

[Elf_Lvr]

Okay, so I stole half my deathmongering-emo-Theoden speech in that post from Old English poems. So sue me. The copyright on the originals expired centuries ago.

What? Emo?

Oh, you weren't talking about me. Odd.

I wonder what I'll say in my piece. First new post in Realms. I'll have to do something special to antagonize Dain this time...

[SomeRandomDude]

Nobody noticed that I passed out.

[AgentDrake]

Oh, I noticed. I just didn't say nuthin'.

[Elf_Lvr]

I could set you on fire if you'd like.

[SomeRandomDude]

That'd be sweet.

[sickofpalantirs]

uh...dain?

[DáinIronfoot]

I know. I hate how I've negelected this.

I wanted to kick it off again at Halloween, but didn't have the time.

Then I wanted to do Thanksgiving, but little Elaina needed lots of attention then, so the time again eluded me.

My new goal is by Christmas, and I think I can meet that easily enough. Elaina is not as high maintenance now, work is traditionally slower this month than any other time during the year, and I also really, REALLY don't want this to just die. I know it's on life support, but I'm trying to bring in good doctors and...uh...yeah, I guess I took that illustration too far.

But I have NOT forgotten all about this. Just badly, embarrasingly neglected it. My sincerest apologies.

[sickofpalantirs]

yeah wayyyy too farr....

[DáinIronfoot]

Ah, ever my heart rises as we draw near the mountains. I mean, as we get Realms going again.

Hope I didn't throw everyone for TOO much of a loop with the Ents/Elves thing. Just seemed too good an opportunity to pass up as I studied the lands we'd be traveling and the timing of Tolkien's events.