Author: Nenyia

As a Realm, we have compiled a list of reasons when you should start noticing you belong in our Realm! (Or maybe we are just advertising, I really don’t know.) My personal favorite was, “You know you belong in the Realm of Aulë when you see a cave and start thinking, ‘Where’s my pickaxe?’” For…

How did you find CoE? I think through a search engine, once when I was looking for images of LOTR. What are your favourite areas of the site? I tend to visit mostly the gallery, wallpapers, news, fan art and forum. How often do you visit CoE? At least once a day usually! It always…

How did you find CoE? I did a Google search on LOTR and it was one of many sites that popped up. I pretty much checked most of them out but kept coming back to CoE. It was friendly and easy to move around in so I signed up and have been here ever since.…

How did you find CoE? Hmm I was frequenting another site and the folks there who were discussing the books, were so very unkind, so off I went in search of another, more friendly place, where good, intelligent, non-confrontational discussions could be had concerning the books. Then, as I looked around, I was completely sucked…

Born to Saradoc Brandybuck and Esmeralda Took in 2982 of the Third Age, he was an only child. Normally known as Merry, he was called ‘Master Holdwine’ in Rohan, and was later known as ‘The Magnificent’. He was part of the Fellowship of the Ring. At the breaking of the Fellowship, he and Peregrin were…

Meriadoc Brandybuck is a Hobbit. Enough said, really, according to Peter Jackson’s movies. Despite his importance, bravery, cool head and quick wit in Tolkien’s epic books, his on-screen character is somewhat reduced to [borrowing a line from Cassie Claire’s Very Secret Diaries] ‘indiscernible background hobbit’. Alongside Pippin, Merry stumbles from one adventure (stealing from Farmer…