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grammaboodawg
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Mar 19 2019, 7:33pm
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Heads Up, m'sibbies!
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We have a pretty historic party coming up, and you're participation is much welcome! Our 20th TORniversary is coming up real soon on April 26th... a very special Founders Day! It falls on a Friday... so Fiesta will be ROCKING! I wanted to give you lots of time to prepare, if you please, with a game or a mathom of any kind. And please reach out to any wayward sibbies you know of who would like to share in this Epic Anniversary! If you already know what you'd like to do, feel free to share it here. Similar games or activities are very welcome :D I'll be back with some more of the plans in a couple of weeks. Can you believe it!? TWENTY YEARS!!!
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squire
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Mar 20 2019, 11:55pm
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I would be glad to come up with a Special Quiz - this time, though, it will be multiple choice. Easier than the traditional open answer, or not? We'll see! How exciting to think that this place has been going since 1999. [Wait, are they going to be partying like it's 1999?] I think I found TORn in 2004, which seems like forever ago - but there was five years of history and chat and snark already at that point. Looking forward to this, thanks, gramma!
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'. Archive: All the TORn Reading Room Book Discussions (including the 1st BotR Discussion!) and Footerama: "Tolkien would have LOVED it!" Dr. Squire introduces the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: A Reader's Diary = Forum has no new posts. Forum needs no new posts.
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 21 2019, 2:30am
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Party like it's 1999, fersher!
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imho... we've been doing one big 20-year party :D My biggest challenge when I found TORn was figuring out which Board to post on with what! A Special Quiz sounds GREAT! Sometimes our ideas take on a life of their own. Let's see where this takes you... I know it'll be fabulous! THANKS!
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DanielLB
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Mar 21 2019, 10:27am
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20 years?! That will be party of special magnificence!
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I'm dry with ideas at the moment, but do let me know if there is anything I can help with.
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 21 2019, 1:20pm
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I'm so happy to see you! If you think of something you want to do later, just go ahead and post on the day or over the weekend. We'll probably stick to Main, Off Topic and Reading Room Boards THANKS!
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dormouse
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Mar 21 2019, 7:06pm
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I can't think of anything immediately but I'd love to help - to be involved in some way
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood and every spring there is a different green. . .
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N.E. Brigand
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Mar 21 2019, 9:16pm
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You were here about a month before me, so roughly November of that year.
Treachery, treachery I fear; treachery of that miserable creature. But so it must be. Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Discuss Tolkien's life and works in the Reading Room! +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= How to find old Reading Room discussions.
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 21 2019, 10:52pm
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I'm sure it will be brilliant! I'm still thinking about mine, too ;) THANKS!
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 23 2019, 12:33pm
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As much as you like! It wouldn't be a proper party without haikus, limericks, drabbles and anything else we can abuse... I mean... do :D THANKS!
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Aragorn the Elfstone
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Mar 24 2019, 2:19am
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I'm getting so old.... If I recall correctly, I stumbled onto TORn as a lurker in 2002 (I wouldn't join and post for the first time until 2009). Hard to believe the site only existed for 3 years prior. Even then, it felt like this place was absolutely central to Tolkien fandom. 20 years! *sigh* It's still the most pleasant place on the internet (in fact moreso now). I smile every time I log on.
"The danger with any movie that does as well as this one does is that the amount of money it's making and the number of awards that it's got becomes almost more important than the movie itself in people's minds. I look at that as, in a sense, being very much like the Ring, and its effect on people. You know, you can kind of forget what we were doing, if you get too wrapped up in that." - Viggo Mortensen
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 24 2019, 12:02pm
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But... we're not getting older!! Only that person in the mirror is :D I've been working on a timeline of TORn action over these 20 years, and geez... we've been busy! There's no place like home :D *high five*
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Greenwood Hobbit
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Mar 24 2019, 9:54pm
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I have saved, from the old boards, a great sequence of Middle Earth puns from 2002/3. Only snag is, they head off to the right of the page and then there are pages of just one letter per line! Argh. One day when I'm feeling verrry patient I might try to sort that out, because they are very funny and would be good to share; just reading the user names is a real trip down Memory Lane. I also have saved a load of haikus from people saluting the departure of the old boards. Suitable for the 20th anniversary, maybe?
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dernwyn
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Mar 25 2019, 12:32am
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'Sibs were doing all sorts of tributes to the Old Boards. What a great idea, bringing back some of those! Hey, maybe you could start a new Middle-earth Puns thread?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 25 2019, 1:15am
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To have some of the old puns and stuff would be wonderful! Now... This sometimes works for me when I have old TORn post doing what you've described. Try changing the Page Layout orientation from Portrait to Landscape and make your font smaller. No promises... but it'll shift the indents enough to save some of it... I hope :) Maybe even change the margins so it scrunches the text in and hopefully changes the indents. Whatever you decide to do will be awesome! If you want to do 2 or more threads with different themes, that would be great, too :) Especially if its oldies/goodies retro stuff. Maybe something in different Boards? Thanks so much! :D
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Greenwood Hobbit
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Mar 25 2019, 10:50am
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Managed to tidy the pun page last night
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with a lot of cutting and pasting. Should be a good thing for the anniversary. Funnily enough, it was I who started the punning on the thread! The haikus will be good to post too.
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dernwyn
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Mar 26 2019, 4:53pm
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No, I can't believe it's been 20 years!
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I certainly don't feel that much older... I just came up with an idea for a fun post (unless someone beats me to it). It was inspired by a discussion over on the Amazon TV series board. I might also re-post one of Roheryn's logic puzzles from the Old Boards (I had printed out a few of those, and have been posting them on occasion).
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 27 2019, 10:15am
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Fun posts are MOST welcome! :D
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One can never have enough fun!!! *tossessessesss confetti* And puzzling logic by Roheryn's mind is sweeeeeet! Thank you! :D *high five*
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Aragorn the Elfstone
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Mar 28 2019, 6:28am
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I'm going to keep telling myself that....
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It is starting to get less humorous, though, seeing the things that are starting to celebrate their 20th+ anniversaries as each year passes by. My folks tell me it's going to get worse, of which I'm starting to understand with perfect clarity. I remember when the Star Wars Special Editions came out in 1997 for the 20th Anniversary of the original, and as far as I was concerned (at 13 years of age), those were "really old movies". Now here we are, 20 years after Episode I. In two years, it'll be twenty years since Fellowship - which I remember sitting in the theater watching like it was yesterday. I mean....good god.
"The danger with any movie that does as well as this one does is that the amount of money it's making and the number of awards that it's got becomes almost more important than the movie itself in people's minds. I look at that as, in a sense, being very much like the Ring, and its effect on people. You know, you can kind of forget what we were doing, if you get too wrapped up in that." - Viggo Mortensen
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 28 2019, 12:55pm
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*THWAK!* What was that? 20 years, dude! I saw Star Wars at the theatre 1977. The first time I went to a movie multiple times. It really does seem like yesterday! I tell my kids/g'kids that you know you're getting old when you refer to things in decades instead of years... which my 2 kids do ;) Bob Seger did a song in 1986 about it that still gives me goosebumps and makes me teary-eyed. Like a Rock. That's him in this 1994 video. So much expression and passion in his songs. He's a Michigan treasure born and raised and still lives here. Seger's such an icon of my senior year in high school, 20s, and following years of life... his voice, his solid rock n roll, his look and joy of youth & life... he captures what life in the 70s was for me (18yo-28 and beyond). I have to say, though... Tolkien was right when he revealed that a hobbit's adventures start when they turn 50. In 2002 I turned 50 just weeks after finding TORn. I stepped out of my door and into the Road... and my life hasn't been the same!! Since then, I have had the best years ever! It's true the body doesn't cooperate with the imagination and spirit that still thrives; but for me, the trade-off is worth it :)
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DanielLB
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Mar 28 2019, 7:50pm
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I might do something like the game I did for Christmas 2016. It might be fun to randomly delve into forum posts for the 20th.
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