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Arwen's daughter
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Mar 17 2011, 7:52pm
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Have I thanked the admins lately for being awesome?
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Because, well, you guys are. I've seen some pretty crummy admins over the years. Everything from non-existent moderation to moderators who delete anything that might possibly maybe sorta cause drama to moderators who dive right into the trolling and encourage it.
If I haven't mentioned it lately, in the words of Goldilocks: you guys are just right.
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Gimli'sBox
Gondor
Mar 17 2011, 7:55pm
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing the evidently prefer.
"A common and boring artifact, unlike myself." -Solembum
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Darkstone
Immortal
Mar 17 2011, 7:58pm
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This is the best moderated forum on the entire net.
It's so civil, and polite, and free of obscenity.
Definitely unique.
I love you guys!
(I'm serious.)
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Three meals for the Elven-kings high on the sky flet,
Three for the Dwarf-lords meat ripe off the bone,
Three for Mortal Men doomed to diet,
Seven for the Halflings of Hobbiton,
In the Land of the Shire where the taters fry.
Seven meals to rule them all,
Seven meals to find them,
Seven meals to bring them all
And at the Party bind them
In the Land of the Shire where the taters fry.
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Wraith Buster
Gondor
Mar 17 2011, 8:25pm
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You guys are great.
Pedich Edhellen? Lau? Hria cuilë.
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Lily Fairbairn
Half-elven
Mar 17 2011, 8:31pm
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For jobs exceedingly well done -- and done with a sense of humor. Praise the admins with great praise!
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Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?
A man may do both. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!
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Kyriel
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Mar 17 2011, 8:32pm
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I promise you, none of the admins ever get tired of compliments. It's nice to know we're appreciated. 
Those left standing will make millions writing books on the way it should have been. --Incubus
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Arandiel
Grey Havens
Mar 17 2011, 10:37pm
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Wherever you go, there you are.
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squire
Half-elven
Mar 18 2011, 12:52am
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I'm thinking of the first couple of years after the LotR movies came out. That was when the admins earned their "pay" on the Movie board... feuds, epithets, CAPITAL LETTERS, whining about censorship, banned members, secessionist boards. Whoa.
Even the Feedback threads went on for a week sometimes. Pure entertainment.
Not that a similar time isn't approaching, I guess.
Yes, thanks admins. Every time I go elsewhere on the web and read the discussion boards, I flee back here. This place is truly unique.
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 (and NOW the 4th too!) 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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dernwyn
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Mar 18 2011, 2:13am
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...that's too lovely to eat! Besides, you know what they say, you can't have your book and eat it, too!
Thanks, Ethel! 
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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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dernwyn
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Mar 18 2011, 2:22am
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We're just "doing our job", y'know...
But thank you, AD!
(And as a newbie Admin, can I add that the other Admins are also my heroes? I've never seen a finer "fire brigade"! )
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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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Patty
Immortal
Mar 18 2011, 2:37am
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+ 1.
Permanent address: Into the West
Must. Have. The Precious! Give us the LotR EE Blu-ray Ultimate Box Set!
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Inferno
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Mar 18 2011, 2:46am
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It's nice to hear every once and a while. And really, it's the only pay we get, but it makes it worth it. =)
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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Altaira
Superuser
Mar 18 2011, 2:48am
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You guys are great too. It's a pleasure and and honor.
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"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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SirDennisC
Half-elven
Mar 18 2011, 3:46am
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There are none better, anywhere on the Interwebs.
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This place would not be nearly so great without each and every one of them.
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weaver
Half-elven
Mar 18 2011, 3:49am
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They are not only helpful -- they all have a sense of humor!
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I really admire the way you admins can get the class to settle down when things get a bit crazy! I wish I could hire you to moderate all of my Real Life Meetings. Do you consult?
Weaver
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entmaiden
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Mar 18 2011, 3:51am
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As a newbie, I am even more in awe of the job the veteran admins do. I have outstanding role models and I learn from them every day.
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Ataahua
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Mar 18 2011, 4:19am
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I don't know whether to groan or applaud.
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Well done squire, well done.
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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sador
Half-elven
Mar 18 2011, 5:52am
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"Let me think!" - Aragorn.
The weekly discussion of The Lord of the Rings is back! Please join us in the Reading Room for Book III.
"A bit of pipeweed and some food is sufficient to make them think better of Saruman? Are hobbits more forgiving than other races by nature?"
- Isis.
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Earl
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Mar 18 2011, 5:55am
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And thank YOU all for being such an awesome group of fans!
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I echo the sentiments of dernwyn and entmaiden. As a new admin, I too am in much awe of the veteran admins and the fairness, knowledge, and passion they have for moderating these boards.
Of course, the REAL fun is participating in the discussions on here
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Mar 18 2011, 7:22am
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I certainly agree with all the sentiments! The great job you all do makes it such a pleasure to be on these boards!
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Kimi
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Mar 18 2011, 7:44am
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That's why we do it, you know. :-)
Thanks, everyone.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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Eledhwen
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Mar 18 2011, 7:49am
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It's all worth it for such a great bunch of people.
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Silverlode
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Mar 18 2011, 8:58am
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We beat the bounds, but it's all the delightful people here who make this community what it is.
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"Of all faces those of our familiares are the ones both most difficult to play fantastic tricks with, and most difficult really to see with fresh attention. They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter, or their colour, or their shape, and we laid hands on them, and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else [make something new], may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. The gems all turn into flowers or flames, and you will be warned that all you had (or knew) was dangerous and potent, not really effectively chained, free and wild; no more yours than they were you." -On Fairy Stories
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