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Noneoftheabove
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Feb 18 2007, 8:27pm
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Until I start handing out Rings...
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I wonder what the avatars are saying about the person they're attached to? There's nothing to worry about!
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Silent_Watcher
The Shire
Feb 18 2007, 9:52pm
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This place doesn't look familiar but
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I am glad to be with you
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Clue
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Feb 19 2007, 1:58am
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I'm feeling sad for a different reason.
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And that is that I wish I was joining this forum for the reason I originally joined TORn in December 2001: having just had one of the most enthralling movie-experiences of my life, and wanting to share the excitement with other LOTR enthusiasts. I'll never forget the screen fading to black with Frodo and Sam walking towards Mordor, and thinking "I have to wait another year to see the next installment!"
But that's the kind of thing to savor. And, though I'll withold judgement on The Hobbit film, I don't have the same anticipation for that movie as I did during that magical time we were waiting with baited breath for the next LOTR film.
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Sandicomm
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Feb 19 2007, 2:22am
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Re: [Clue] I'm feeling sad for a different reason.
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I see you're using that handy-dandy Treize avatar. :) Mmm, Treize.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Feb 19 2007, 2:55am
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I look back on the old board and it looks kind of bleak and lonely. I'm sure in a few weeks this will feel like a place we've always been, but transitions can be hard.
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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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N.E. Brigand
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Feb 19 2007, 5:30am
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As you hadn't posted lately in the RR, you weren't on my list of the absent (though you'd joined the new boards before I compiled it anyway) but I should have remembered you, lately having re-read the poem you posted to last April's "Homeward Bound" discussion here.
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 Tolkien Illustrated! Jan. 29-May 20: Visit the Reading Room to discuss art by John Howe, Alan Lee, Ted Nasmith and others, including Tolkien himself.
Feb. 12-18: Tim & Greg Hildebrandt.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Feb 19 2007, 1:10pm
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*in my best 'Life of Brian' voice* I don't. (nt)
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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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Annael
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Feb 19 2007, 4:16pm
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It was so easy to see all the current threads in the old format, and also to reply to a specific one without necessarily reading the entire thread. (Sometimes I just read the ones that had been modded up!)
I'm not sure I have enough time to keep up with stuff in this format.
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Aerlinn
Lorien
Feb 19 2007, 4:39pm
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I? Good to see you here.
Now all the rest of us are the clueless i's.
 | TheOneRing.net – where everybody knows your name!
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Feb 19 2007, 5:55pm
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In threaded mode, the new posts are either in bold, or have New beside them, depending on whether you're looking at the whole board or just one thread. It's not that hard to see whether you've opened a post or not. I'm getting used to this new format, thought I'm having dreams about it at night, so my brain must be processing it.
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Chance Meeting at Rivendell: a Tolkien Fanfic
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leleni at hotmail dot com
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Clue
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Feb 19 2007, 7:45pm
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Yes, that's what they used to call me.
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That was my name. Now, just plain Clue.
Thanks for the welcome, Aerlinn!
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Annael
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Feb 19 2007, 8:32pm
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I have figured out how to display posts in a kind of "outline" format. But I wish that when you view all the posts opened at once, ones replying to others would display under them and indented (like they do in Network54) instead of farther down depending on when they were made. Makes it easier to make sense of the conversation.
I won't give up, but I'll probably be selective about which threads I open - could mean I miss out on a lot, but I don't have time to open them all.
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grammaboodawg
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Feb 20 2007, 3:35am
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It's great to see you! I was hoping you'd find your way back :) I hope the world has been treating you right.
You got me going with the reflection of the heady days when the films were on the big screen and we were fresh-captured by them.
I'm so glad you're here :)
 
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
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SandWitch King
Rohan
Feb 20 2007, 6:18am
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Well, that is cuse I was teasing! /nt
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Once upon a time I was MrCere. I still am but this name is for posting and being part of the community while that one is for official business. 8-)
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Clue
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Feb 20 2007, 6:08pm
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Life has been treating me okay. Great to see you as well!
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Aerin
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Feb 21 2007, 12:08am
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greendragon
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Feb 21 2007, 12:10am
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yes - every time I go back to look at the old boards... (you're not the only one!)
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I too revisit the old boards just because I like the way they look... it feels like home. And yeah, I feel sad too that we've all moved house and the old house is sad and lonely now...
BUT we are all here together and we will soon settle in! One thing which is comforting me right now - I've just realised that an hour has passed when I meant to pop in here for five minutes! So clearly, this new board is as addictive as the old - which reassures me that we'll soon all feel perfectly happy here, if we don't already. 
I'm just worried that there are so MANY threads now - with main and OT - that I might miss 'chats' of which I want to be a part!
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grammaboodawg
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Feb 21 2007, 3:20pm
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JUST KIDDING! I couldn't fight it any longer ;)
Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
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FingonOfPittsburgh
Lorien
Feb 21 2007, 3:31pm
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JUST KIDDING! I couldn't fight it any longer ;)
Eeeeeewwwwwww 
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, which every man's heart desires.
--J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter #43, to his son Michael
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greendragon
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Feb 21 2007, 4:43pm
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I must try the 'watching threads' function. Only downside is, I may end up spending even more of my work day here! Note to self - MUST get some work done sometime today... 
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Advising Elf
Rohan
Feb 21 2007, 4:52pm
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Of course, that doesn't mean you're not weird. After all, *I'm* agreeing with you. ;o)
Our imaginations have made a real place out of TORn, just like they have of Middle Earth when we read LOTR. There's nothing wrong with that.
I'm not used to these new boards yet, but I haven't had much time until today to visit. It almost feels like going into a party that will have people that you know, but in a stranger's house.
"I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone." - Mark Twain
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Patty
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Feb 21 2007, 9:32pm
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Our imaginations have made a real place out of TORn, just like they have of Middle Earth when we read LOTR. There's nothing wrong with that.
Couldn't have said it better. I laugh at folks here at TORn just like I would if they were standing in the room with me. Imagination is a wonderful thing.
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Timbo_mbadil
Rivendell
Feb 22 2007, 8:49pm
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And yes, I'm sad, for a number of reasons. But hey, this is TOR.n! No matter what it looks or feels like, this will always be where I come home to.
Well, I should come up with something clever, shouldn't I?
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