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#1: Tonia Bergh (tonia) on Mar 16, 2019

Awesome, Kurt! It's a perfectly dreary day here - perfect for solving some puzzles!

Beautifully done. Just right for a lazy afternoon.

Very entertaining and nice!

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I can handle "thestral"...menstrual's not so neat though. Let's do minstrel instead. where's the pied piper of hamelin when you need him? If I'm not mistaken, JRR Tolkien did a short story variation once upon a time. Maybe my brain is mixed up, but I think he did a story somewhere along the lines of Farmer Giles of Hamm. I remember reading it as a kid. I think anyway...It's almost something that I don't wanna look up. idk, but I'm at that time. I used to remember everything, but I def notice that my long-term memory is going slow but sure. Things aren't as clear as they used to be, and I don't like it!

I did the Hardy Boys, even a lil Nancy Drew and others, but Tolkien was always my fav. I read the hobbit and the lord of the rings prob 20 times by the time I reached 15. the simarillion many times. Written via his boy Christopher, taken from his notes. It's a mix-match of stuff. From the beginning of creation to all the ages, and Sauron being a good guy to being a servant to an evil(Melkor)
, to Sauron being the evil. And a whole lot more. Just found out that there is a movie being made, and I'm not sure how they're gonna do that. The wizards or Ishtari are 3 lines in the whole book. Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast and all their endeavors in the history of the world are 3 lines. How could they possibly fit this into a 2 or even 3 hour movie? Man, I ramble a lot, huh?

My father read me The Hobbit when I was seven or eight, and I read The Lord of the Rings myself shortly thereafter. And many times since. I also read a lot of Hardy Boys as a child. In my teenage years I was a big science fiction fan. Stanislaw Lem, Ursula LeGuin, and Anne McCaffrey being the authors I read the most. Oh, and Ray Bradbury & Issac Asimov of course.

As much as I loved the Middle Earth books, I never got into the Silmarillion, though. Maybe I should try again as an adult.

Check out Terry Pratchett ;)

Very beautiful!

What a great picture, Kurt.

Joe, seems you and I must have visited the same library (I also could never get into the Silmarillion).

some of the simarillion weren't so neat. but it's a collection of thoughts and stories. not all my ideas were that neat. the guys son (Christopher, I think) published what he found in his dad's notebook after he died. like 20 yrs after JRR Tolkien died. some of it is cool if you suffer through the others. it tells how Sauron came about. and the history of the sword that killed the Nazgul lord. and only that sword could do it. "No man can kill me", and Elwyn said, "I am not a man". not only that. only that sword that was discovered could have done it. the stories interweave thmselves if you have the patience for it

sorry, I'm a nerd

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