The Hall of Fire

This sounds like a "must have" for my wish list. I own a copy of their J.R.R. Tolkien Artist & Illustrator and enjoy it immensely. What else is there? There are about 40 poems that we know of.... :drool: I would hate to find myself disliking Tolkien personally. That's an interesting no...

Tom, great to see you! How have you been? :wave: Since you asked, terrible. (At least physically.) But I'd rather not get into that. Thanks for asking, though. :) I wish this message board had a feature where you could click on someone's name and hear their voice. I recall Frelga having the most am...

Indeed, one can make an argument that scholarship , as opposed to research , cannot take place in a vacuum. Yeah, all that noise would make it hard to think. Besides, the suction would be something terrible! ;) I think I like Prim's definition: someone who has had significantly to others knowledge ...

Thanks for the warm welcome. It's good to be seen. :) So what I've gathered from your replies so far is that the term 'Tolkien Scholar' is far from being well-defined, if even in the most broadest terms. I'd be very interested in Voronwë's comments. I think most of us would consider him a scholar, c...

My question to all of you: What qualities do you feel that someone must possess to be considered by most reasonable people to be a Tolkien Scholar? Must they have had formal training, i.e., via university courses and/or an apprenticeship under a renowned authority of Tolkien's works? Could it be som...

Lo and behold the Rise of Isengard expansion is now available for pre-order at http://isengard.lotro.com/! The release date is September 27th. Highlights include a level cap increase from the current 65 to 75. New areas include Isengard, Dunland, and the Gap of Rohan (but not Rohan proper). There wi...

I created a tongue-in-cheek in-character travelogue for LOTRO's Forochel. Some of it is serious, but much of it is silly. You'll find it at http://my.lotro.com/user-247731/2010/07 ... -forochel/.

Greetings, gamers! Yes, I'm still regularly playing LOTRO. The big news today is that the European servers are being integrated with the North American servers so that regardless of where you live you can play on any of the servers. I play on Landroval, which is now designated as a Role-playing Enco...

The Professor!

except that PJ never pretended that his movies were anything other than revisionist. I don't mind if anyone makes a Stradivari copy - most violinmakers do. The problem is when one sticks an 'Antonius Stradivarius' label in it. In the Preface to his book Salo wrote with all due humility: This volume...

The problem is, it's very had to know if either are accurate. I pulled my copy off the shelf last evening just before going to bed. Mr. Salo's book appears to be a very scholarly work. He notes the sources for his findings and provides explanations for his methods. I found the introductory material...

What is the population like? It depends on what server you’re on and the time of day you play. Server populations also tend to peak when new content is added but settle down a few weeks later. I play on Landroval, one of the more populous North American servers and seldom have difficulty with overc...

******SPOILER WARNING***** ******SPOILER WARNING***** ******SPOILER WARNING***** ******SPOILER WARNING***** To entice you further, Erunáme, here are a few images I took of the Nimrodel area on the eves of Lothlórien during the Mines of Moria beta. (The NDA was lifted today so it's okay for me to di...

I pre-ordered a copy of Salo's book when it was first offered on Amazon.com, and I agree that it has a very attractive cover. :D Seriously, I'm not a linguist nor am I an expert in Tolkien's invented languages. I do, however, have some interest in them and have studied them casually for my own purpo...

This was an excellent, albeit brief, discussion. I'm sorry to have missed participating in it at the time that it was active. I, like Voronwë, am very grateful that Christopher Tolkien has seen fit to publish many of his father's writings posthumously. And not having everything tied up with a neat l...

From Tyrhael's link: This new collection is fully illustrated throughout by Oscar-winning artist, Alan Lee, who provides a wealth of pencil drawings to bring the stories to life as he did so memorably for The Hobbit and The Children of Húrin. Alan also provides an Afterword, in which he opens the do...

When I saw the thread title I thought perhaps folks were getting up and performing while the movie was playing ala Rocky Horror Picture Show.

"Let's do the Green Dragon again!"

We will be launching with an exclusive 500 copy set of a £60 deluxe edition of the new Tales from a Perilous Realm, signed by Alan Lee, which we will release further details about in the next week. Signed by Alan Lee, yes, but is it illustrated by Alan Lee? I've been at two booksignings by Mr. Lee-...

I just received my paperback copy of TCoH. I've had the deluxe hardback edition since it was released but have not gotten around to reading it since I do most of my reading during breaks at work, and am loathe to risk injury to my nice book. I shall get around to reading it soon, but I have a few ot...

Incidentally, what do you make of the new Runekeeper class? I can't say I'm too keen on a flashy magic user class in Middle Earth. I think the descriptions of read make it sound pretty interesting from a lore standpoint. (I'm fascinated with Certh and Tengwar.) However, the idea of an adventurer wh...