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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Jul 20 2009, 7:10pm
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You mean things like "Freshrow Hashref"?
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I thought maybe that was my new nickname :-(
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
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Ataahua
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Jul 20 2009, 7:42pm
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and still getting them this morning.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded b*****d with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Alassea Elensar
Rivendell
Jul 20 2009, 7:45pm
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I thought the slow-down was just another AOL glitch (yes, I'm still with AOL  ). I'm so glad to find out that it's more than that, even if it is a royal pain in the .... neck. 
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Jazmine
Tol Eressea
Jul 20 2009, 7:45pm
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I just visited Feedback to report this
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It's happened twice to me in the past couple of days, and only with ToRN, everything else seems to be working just fine.
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dernwyn
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Jul 20 2009, 8:14pm
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Yes - a lot of "Can not connect to database". //
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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a.s.
Valinor
Jul 20 2009, 8:39pm
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fortunately there is apparently life after death in the internet realm.
Still using IE 7 on this old-about-to-die 2002 desktop, so I don't think it matters what browser.
a.s.
"an seileachan"
Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Immortal
Jul 20 2009, 8:45pm
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Ha! You have no chance to survive. //
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
leleni at hotmail dot com
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squire
Half-elven
Jul 20 2009, 8:58pm
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"Toro-kate atama madorimi adanune hai soma."
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The original Japanese translation of The Return of the King, first published in 1961, and in print thereafter, has influenced generations of young Japanese fantasy fans. In the chapter "The Black Gate Opens", the Mouth of Sauron dictates surrender terms to the ambassadors of the West:
"All lands east of Anduin shall be Sauron’s for ever, solely."
This is given in translation as:
"Toroka atamaki madore Anadune hai Soranei, kirime."
Which Tolkien, by the way, objected to. Japanese emphasizes formality and hierarchy, and the rough retranslation is:
"All your lands east of Anduin belong to Sauron, we must insist."
When Toaplan's writers wrote the Zero Wing video game, they inserted an inside joke, kind of a Japanese fantasy-geek reference that any reader of the Tolkien series got immediately:
"Toro-kate atama madorimi adanune hai soma."
This is, roughly:
"All your bases belong to us, now!"
Notice how they dropped the polite (and inappropriate, according to Tolkien) kirime, which is a forceful but still polite "please."
This, in a bad translation into English for the American release, became the infamous
"All your base are belong to us."
squire online:
RR Discussions: The Valaquenta, A Shortcut to Mushrooms, and Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
Lights! Action! Discuss on the Movie board!: 'A Journey in the Dark'. and 'Designing The Two Towers'.
Footeramas: The 3rd TORn Reading Room LotR Discussion; and "Tolkien would have LOVED it!"
squiretalk introduces the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: A Reader's Diary
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entmaiden
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Jul 20 2009, 9:17pm
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Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks? ' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
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dernwyn
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Jul 20 2009, 9:19pm
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Fascinating Tolkien connection!
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But now I have an image of the Mouth of Sauron sitting at a negotiation table with Gandalf and Aragorn, the three of them sipping tea and munching tea-cakes...
The cakes, of course, are a lie.
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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Donry
Tol Eressea
Jul 20 2009, 9:23pm
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on both a version on Firefox and IE.
What's the matter, James? No glib remark? No pithy comeback?"
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Altaira
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Jul 21 2009, 2:37am
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I got a 'fatal error' myself the other day.
I passed the word, and a link to this thread, on to Corvar. In a quirky kind of way, it's useful when multiple people report the same problem because then we know 1) it's not an isolated incident and, 2) the issue is probably on TORn's end as opposed to the user's end. Um, so to speak. 
Anyway, thanks to all of you. 
Koru: Maori symbol representing a fern frond as it opens. The koru reaches towards the light, striving for perfection, encouraging new, positive beginnings.
"Life can't be all work and no TORn" -- jflower
"I take a moment to fervently hope that the camaradarie and just plain old fun I found at TORn will never end" -- LOTR_nutcase
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Inferno
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Jul 21 2009, 4:35pm
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Often, it'll help us (or Corvar, when it's back-end stuff) track down a problem if we can see what you actually got. taking a screen-capture and including it either here or in a PM is going to be helpful.
Otherwise it can be a case of taking your car to the mechanic and saying "well, it works fine now, but it was making this rrrrRRrRRrrRR noise earlier that it doesn't usually make. What is that?" ;)
Inferno.
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Good night, tOR.Nados. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely delete you in the morning.
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Elcenia
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a.s.
Valinor
Jul 21 2009, 5:36pm
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so:how does one take a screenshot?
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I'm sure this was covered in computer 101. Unfortunately, I audited that class.
Say I wanted to save a screenshot and send it to Torn, how would I do that on a PC with an American keyboard?
a.s.
"an seileachan"
Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
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squire
Half-elven
Jul 21 2009, 7:49pm
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To send a screen shot.
- Get the monitor to show exactly the screen you want. Scroll, etc. to get it right.
- Holding down the Control key (Ctrl button, lower left on keyboard), hit the "Print Screen" button (keyboard upper right). This "copies" an image file of your monitor to the Clipboard.
- Open WORD or similar program.
- Hit Paste. The image file should appear in the middle of the page. See below for what it should look like.
- Save the document as a .doc file (not a .docx if you have WORD 07), named something meaningful like "ScreenshotOfBigScaryHorribleProblemImHavingOnTORn.doc"
- Go to the Private Messages section of the TORn boards.
- Start a new Message. Use the Browse button at the bottom left to find the file you just saved in your hard drive directories. Hit Attach. Now the file is attached to your PM, just like an email.
- Send the PM to someone important, like Altaira, with a cover message like "Here is a screen shot of the big scary horrible problem I'm having on TORn. Thanks."
- Retire to a comfy couch in a dark quiet room and apply cold compresses as necessary.
Here is what a typical screen shot looks like:
(This has been reduced from 1072 to 600 pixels, but pasting it into a WORD document will do something similar to make it fit onto a page)
squire online:
RR Discussions: The Valaquenta, A Shortcut to Mushrooms, and Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
Lights! Action! Discuss on the Movie board!: 'A Journey in the Dark'. and 'Designing The Two Towers'.
Footeramas: The 3rd TORn Reading Room LotR Discussion; and "Tolkien would have LOVED it!"
squiretalk introduces the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: A Reader's Diary
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GaladrielTX
Tol Eressea
Jul 22 2009, 12:42pm
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here's the text of the error I'm getting, using IE 7:
“A fatal error has occurred:
Can't call method "fetchrow_hashref" on an undefined value at /www01/newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/admin/GForum/Post/View.pm line 308.
Please enable debugging in setup for more details.”
*shakes fist* Hey, I’ll call the method whatever the heck I want. If I want to call the method “fetchrow_hashref” that’s my own d*mn business.
;o)
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The TORNsib formerly known as Galadriel.
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Altaira
Superuser
Jul 23 2009, 2:15am
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I passed that on to Corvar. Inferno is right, it does help. 
Koru: Maori symbol representing a fern frond as it opens. The koru reaches towards the light, striving for perfection, encouraging new, positive beginnings.
"Life can't be all work and no TORn" -- jflower
"I take a moment to fervently hope that the camaradarie and just plain old fun I found at TORn will never end" -- LOTR_nutcase
TORn Calendar
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a.s.
Valinor
Jul 23 2009, 10:53pm
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you know EVERYTHING!!!
a.s.
"an seileachan"
Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
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Altaira
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Jul 24 2009, 1:33am
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Corvar let me know he did some tweaking, so hopefully it's history.
If not, definitely post about it here, and thanks again everyone.
Koru: Maori symbol representing a fern frond as it opens. The koru reaches towards the light, striving for perfection, encouraging new, positive beginnings.
"Life can't be all work and no TORn" -- jflower
"I take a moment to fervently hope that the camaradarie and just plain old fun I found at TORn will never end" -- LOTR_nutcase
TORn Calendar
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TolkienJackson
Bree
Jul 29 2009, 11:53am
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Not only on TORN am I getting them...
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...But also on the sister site KongisKing.net(KIKN).
They've gone down a bit for me though, now...thankfully.
King Kong and Tolkien - My, PJ has good taste!
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