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CuriousG
Half-elven
Jun 10 2010, 4:59pm
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Thanks for the civil disagreements!
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Just a thanks to everyone here that we can disagree without insults, profanities, or ALL CAPS SCREAMING.
I have tried out several Tolkien discussion groups since the Internet began (yes, that shows my age!). And most dissolved into shouting matches over various topics, especially when the topics involved religion or spirituality, which I know are sensitive but are also indisputably part of Tolkien's works. There was no real debate those other places, just polarized camps of yelling, so I would give up, wait a couple years, and try again somewhere else.
Hence my gratitude to you all for acting like civilized adults who can agree to disagree. I don't care if someone tells me I'm wrong; I learn something new when they do. Or if I don't accept what they say, I've still learned a new perspective.
This is a fun place to be.
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Curious
Half-elven
Jun 10 2010, 5:26pm
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They silently patrol for trolls. Thanks, admins!
And thank you for the positive feedback. We're glad to have you (although I guess I wasn't here when you appeared, so I'm also glad to be back).
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FarFromHome
Valinor
Jun 11 2010, 1:25am
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If we didn't have the admins "beating the bounds" for trolls, I suppose this place would have degenerated into the same kind of slobby environment that is so common on the web. Coincidentally, I've just read two articles, from very different sources, pointing out how even a bit of venom can poison the discussion for everyone. One's from Stephen Fry's blog: No Comment. The second is from the Globe and Mail newspaper in Canada: Maybe it's time to muzzle the trolls. They both make similar points - though Mr. Fry uses more vivid language (nothing serious, but for any sensitive readers, you've been warned!).
TORn has been aware of this problem from the start, and it's thanks to our great admins that this place remains a haven of civilization in an increasingly troll-ridden online world.
They went in, and Sam shut the door.
But even as he did so, he heard suddenly,
deep and unstilled,
the sigh and murmur of the Sea upon the shores of Middle-earth.
From the unpublished Epilogue to the Lord of the Rings
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Rosegarden1972
The Shire
Jun 11 2010, 7:35am
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This is why this site is the only site that I have recommended to my newly Tolkien addicted 12-year old niece.
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sador
Half-elven
Jun 11 2010, 11:54am
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Well, a lot depends on the members...
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When I joined TORn over two years ago, the leading voices in the RR were N.E. Brigand's and Curious', which is something to teach newbies both humility and manners. Small wonder that I am reasonably well-behaved.
But when you joined. the most active member around was, err, myself  - so you deserve full credit for being so respectful and civil!
More seriously, I share your feelings.
In fact, I am a member of another message board, which both has a range of topics more relevant to my daily life, and occasionally bears tangentially on my work; but in the last couple of months, in which RL is becoming more and more hectic - I dropped out of the other one, and while I have posted less on TORn than my wont, I still never quite left.
And more than anything else, it is the atmosphere of friendly and intelligent discussion which kept me around.
A fair warning: I am a nitpicker by taste, talents and profession.
"When Tolkien took me off on the big adventure I was enthralled. By the time he brought me back. I had returned home from Viet Nam and things had changed... at last things looked like they were going to change for the better. But my little town was gone. It was part of the world now."
- Kangi Ska.
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Lothlorian
Lorien
Jun 11 2010, 7:25pm
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I too appreciate the civility displated here
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I post regularly in another site which is far far less genteel. The tone here is quite different and posters here are very welcoming to newbies.
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