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Magpie
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Sep 13 2012, 12:29am
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World Hobbit Day at TORn's message boards - get your promo/celebration footer!
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Grammaboodawg is doing some informal organizing of a World Hobbit Day Celebration here at the message boards. She wrote: On September 22nd, there's going to be a very special birthday that's also an anniversary that's also a celebration all wrapped into one! It's Bilbo and Frodo's birthdays, it's also falling on Tolkien Week AND it's the 75th anniversary of The Hobbit publication! *whispers* It's actually the September 21st(1937;) but after 75 years, we'll hold off for a day ;)
I volunteered to do some promo/celebration footers for the event. Some of you might remember I did some for Tolkien Reading Day a few years back when we were had a "T is for Tolkien" theme. People volunteered to adopt a letter and write a short piece on some word/character/place/etc from Tolkien's writing starting with that letter. I created a series of footers from A to Z using the words people chose. You can see those footers here.
I decided to do something similar for World Hobbit Day. Being the 75th Anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit, I created 75 different footers. Each shows a book cover of The Hobbit. The covers range in publication date from 1942 to 2012 and in language editions from a wide range of languages.
A new feature in the offering of these footers is the element of surprise. I'm going to tell you how to get a footer but I'm not going to reveal -- or let you peruse ahead of time -- which footer has which book. You won't know, until you install it, which book cover you're getting. At the moment, the book covers are not identified although some of you here might recognize some.
The url path for footer #1 is as follows: http://www.amagpiesnest.com/a/torn/whd/footers/whd01.jpg
Each footer will have that same url path except for swapping out the 01 with any number up to and including 75. Some examples would be: http://www.amagpiesnest.com/a/torn/whd/footers/whd02.jpg
http://www.amagpiesnest.com/a/torn/whd/footers/whd03.jpg
http://www.amagpiesnest.com/a/torn/whd/footers/whd10.jpg
http://www.amagpiesnest.com/a/torn/whd/footers/whd75.jpg
NOTE: for the first nine footers you must put a zero in front of the number. 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09.
To instructions on how to use this code to put an image into your footer, see this page: http://www.amagpiesnest.com/...ters/footer_post.htm
You don't have to worry about size (I've taken care of that) and don't worry about it being on a 'site you own'. I'm giving you permission to use images on my site.
Jump down to "The Code" and use the url of the image you desire for the rest of the instructions.
PLEASE NOTE: Altaira has asked that we keep images in footers to no more than two at a time. If your footer already contains images and text, please take a moment to make sure it is laid out in a way that takes up as little vertical space as possible. If you have two images already, you may need to temporarily remove one while you're carrying the World Hobbit Day footer. I sometimes copy off the code in my standard footer and put it in a Notepad file so I can put some code in for a special celebration.
If you have questions or you need more instructions on how to make this work as a footer, please post them in feedback. If you are making a new thread in Feedback to ask a question about the World Hobbit Day footers, then put that in the header: Question about World Hobbit Day Footers. If there is a thread existing with a question already, feel free to post your question there. I'll try to help but there are lots of other people who can help as well.
If you have questions or comments about the actual content of the footers - or TORn's World Hobbit Day celebration - that can go here. :-)
I will make a reply to this post supplying some of the sites I used for reference.
Enjoy!
LOTR soundtrack website ~ magpie avatar gallery
TORn History Mathom-house ~ Torn Image Posting Guide
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dernwyn
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Sep 13 2012, 12:54am
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You found 75 different book-covers? You are amazing, Magpie! 
And to post one in one's footer, sight-unseen - how brave and daring can we be? 
Thank you so much, you have already made this a "party of special magnificence"! 
*goes off to think about which number to choose*
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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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grammaboodawg
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Sep 13 2012, 2:02am
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Wow!! You've really outdone yourself, Magpie!
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And that's saying a lot!!
How intriguing and perfect for this celebration :) An Unexpected Footer!
hmmmmmm.... okay... I have to narrow it down.
19 is how old I was when I found Tolkien.
51 is how old I was when I found TORn.
58 is how old I was when I went to New Zealand.
As you can see, by decision isn't about how many g'kiddies I have or how many dwarves there are... it's all about ME! *fluffs hair*
I'll choose #19. That's when all of this started for me. I can't WAIT to see which it is! 75 Hobbit covers... WOW!
Thank you for this, Magpie. So incredibly unique and personal while being so much fun! Truly a great tribute for a very special day :)
*warm hug*
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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Earl
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Sep 13 2012, 10:47am
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Whoa! This is freaking awesome B-)
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You actually dedicated your time to make 75 different footers!! 
*projects Gandalf voice* Magpies really are amazing creatures
The Plan 9 Interview... in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the release of The Fellowship of the Ring.
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DanielLB
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Sep 13 2012, 1:23pm
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I chose #2, as my birthday is 02/02. Seemed appropriate.
Edit: And I love it! Thanks Magpie. 
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Nightingale
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Sep 13 2012, 1:59pm
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What a great idea.
I went for number 22.
Edit: Now that's interesting. That looks like Russian on the bottom line. A different alphabet anyway.
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me" - C. S. Lewis
"That line between the earth and sky came beckoning to me..." - Laurie's Song
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Sep 13 2012, 2:54pm
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You are the perfect person to have compiled these! A small part of me can't help but think that you've had these images all along in one of your "collections", just waiting for an opportunity to use them like this. 
Now, if I've done the code right, there should be #45 in my footer. 
(This post was edited by Alassëa Eruvande on Sep 13 2012, 2:57pm)
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Alassëa Eruvande
Valinor
Sep 13 2012, 2:58pm
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Obviously, I got the code wrong. I forgot to take out the zero of "01".
Trying again...
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Lily Fairbairn
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Sep 13 2012, 3:14pm
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But then, we know that everything Magpie does is well done. In a rare medium, even 
I chose footer 13, since today is the 13th and is my son's birthday. Yes, he was born on Friday the 13th. Unfortunately, I won't be here on the 22nd, since I have to attend an f/sf convention in Dallas. Ah well. I hope they've put me on The Hobbit panel, as I asked.
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elevorn
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Sep 13 2012, 4:12pm
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I chose 27 for my sons birthday
"clever hobbits to climb so high!"
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Delrond
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Sep 13 2012, 4:20pm
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The instructions were very helpful. #43 for me.
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grammaboodawg
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Sep 13 2012, 4:56pm
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Oh cripes, this is great! :D *points down at new footer*
I think I'll rotate my number choices just for fun!
THANK YOU!
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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SirDennisC
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Sep 13 2012, 5:12pm
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It really was hard to choose!
Thank you so much Magpie!
(I like how the one below creates the optical illusion of the image being askew in the footer.)
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Ardamírë
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Sep 13 2012, 5:37pm
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#71 and it looks brilliant
"...and his first memory of Middle-earth was the green stone above her breast, as she sang above his cradle while Gondolin was still in flower."
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Lily Fairbairn
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Sep 13 2012, 5:38pm
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The design has a Rennie Macintosh quality to it, but the letters are Cyrillic.
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silneldor
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Sep 13 2012, 8:22pm
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and i an not surprized that you had a surprize because you are full of 'em ....surprizes for us all, when we are in need of surprizes...Sorta like a Mrs Gandalf, if you get my meaning.
''Sam put his ragged orc-cloak under his master's head, and covered them both with the grey robe of Lorien; and as he did so his thoughts went out to that fair land, and to the Elves, and he hoped that the cloth woven by their hands might have some virtue to keep them hidden beyond all hope in this wilderness of fear...But their luck held, and for the rest of that day they met no living or moving thing; and when night fell they vanished into the darkess of Mordor.'' - - -rotk, chapter III
Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are one in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
May the grace of Manwë let us soar with eagle's wings!
In the air, among the clouds in the sky
Here is where the birds of Manwe fly
Looking at the land, and the water that flows
The true beauty of earth shows
With the stars of Varda lighting my way
In all the realms this is where I stay
In the realm of Manwë Súlimo
"The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't" - Richard Bach
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