The genius Emil Johansso at lotrproject.com has made an interactive Map of Middle-earth:

http://lotrproject.com/map/

Funnily enough, SV, that was what Alatar posted in Bag End that prompted the name-change for this thread! It really is very cool...

For those embarking on the road that goes ever on and on, how about these custom VANS from BBEE Shoes?



Just the thing for simply walking into Mordor!

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But shouldn't Mordor be on the "sinister" foot?

Lemme be the first this time then, Elentári.

As it happens, from Emil Johansson - who made the Middle-earth interactive Map last week:

"I was blown away by the response to my interactive map of Middle-earth last week. I immediately started working on one for Beleriand and here is the result.

Thank you to Shaun Gunner for his valuable advice and sharp eye when creating the map."

http://lotrproject.com/map/beleriand/#z ... rs=BTTTTTT

What a genius geek!

For some reason phpbb2 won't let me link directly to this type of url, so just go and click it:

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8138404352/hB9CD435C/

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Ooh - missed this while I was away - thanks SV!

BTW, did you also see the link to this?

The Periodic Table of Middle-earth

Apparently it's been around almost a year but I've not seen mention of it before - absolutely brilliant!

(I'm going to post a link in the Geek thread too!)

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Jude - ugghhh!!!

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There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
~Diana Cortes

I have seen it. It's brilliant as well. Though Tom Bombadil should be between the s-bock and p-block. Like Hydrogen, he belongs no where.

Thanks, SV, I enjoyed that!

Now for something..er... completely different...

Bag End Custom Engagement ring box by Paul Pape

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There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
~Diana Cortes

Wouldn't a Gollum's Cave engagement ring box be more appropriate?

Or! Or! Or! Or what girl wouldn't be thrilled to open a box and find a reconstruction of Gladden Fields and the shores of the Anduin, with the papier-maché corpses of Isildur and his followers, along with a couple of dead orcs, and a lovely ring in the water?

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Thanks, Jude. Now my keyboard is coffee-flavored.

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In gratitude forever … .

Oh well, if you're looking to increase the [strike]puke[/strike] geek factor, I'll raise you a pair of Lord of the rings wedding rings engraved in Elvish with “One ring to show our love, one ring to bind us, one ring to seal our love and forever entwine us.”





To complete the perfect LotR themed wedding how about either a Minas Tirith



or Aragorn & Arwen wedding cake?

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There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.
~Diana Cortes

That Minas Tirith cake might be more impressive if it wasn't just the RotK Weta bookend on top of a normal cake!

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

The rings themselves are pretty, but they'll forever have to explain to every Tolkien reader and film viewer that they do know what the real Ring's inscription says and no, theirs don't say that.

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

And "forever entwine us" sounds icky. Should have stuck with the original language on that one!

I never got why anyone would want to own a copy of the One Ring....particularly not as a symbol of their eternal love for someone!

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~Diana Cortes

Well, if you leave the meaning of the Ring (and what's written on it) aside, the script is quite beautiful.