Author: Trignifty

TTT Movie Analysis Contributors noted by article In a powerful scene from Peter Jackson’s latest installment, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Saruman and Grima Wormtongue discuss the fate of Rohan. Mention is made of an army of over 10,000 and when Grima remarks that there is no such force, he is proven…

Grima knew that Saruman was going to go after Rohan. He had to have known. To keep himself aligned with Saruman he also had to think that he was going to win. Why would you want to be king of a kingdom that’s going to fall? Plus, *if* he was king and Saruman moved in…

An interview with PotBellyHairyFoot, the CoE Staff Member of the Month Interviewer: M How did you find COE? I believe I did a websearch and came up with one of the site lists. I then followed its links looking for sites to join. What exactly prompted you to join? The book and movie forums caught…

Big Pippin Parody of ‘Big Pimpin’ by Jay Z Contributed by: Shekespere Uhh, uh uh uh It’s Big Pippin, baby It’s Big Pippin, spendin’ Gold Feel me…uh-huh uhh, uh-huh Ge-ge-geyeah, geyeah Ge-ge-geyeah, geyeah You know I – follow Frodo to where he go Why? I can’t even reason! We went out our hood We was…

New Forum Focus – The Newbie Forum Contributed by: Trignifty As a community, we here at CoE try to create a pleasant atmosphere for all members. Part of this goal entails the acclimation of all of our newer members, lovingly nicknamed ‘Newbies’. In hopes of making it easier to adjust to the site, the Newbie…

Site Focus – The Games Section Contributed by: Trignifty The Games Forum is running strong and has become one of the most popular forums on the CoE board. However, the Games Section has gone through a lot of changes over the past few months. Some additions include Hangman, a Love Calculator, new sets of Concentration…

New Forum Focus: The Palantir Contributed by: k KeeperofVilya and I are moderators for the Palantir Forum, which is one of the newer forums here on COE. We deal with all films, books, music and other media that is not related to Tolkien and his works. We seem to have discussed just about everything in…

Interview with Rob Alexander for the Council of Elrond. Contributed by: k 1. Would you mind giving me some brief biographical information about yourself: date and place of birth, education and career, family etc? RA: Born in 1966 in a small township in southern Ontario, Canada (not a town so much as two farm roads…

The New Format for a CoE Favorite Contributed by: Happy Hobbit The Role Play Forum started way back in June 2002. At that point, only a few RP threads existed, most being in the Prancing Pony Forum. “The Green Dragon” and the “Quest to fight the Dragon at Erebor” were the two most prominent threads…

Parmadur’s Item of the Month Contributed by: Parmadur The History of the Lord of the Rings, Boxed Set: Every story has a beginning and The Lord of the Rings is no exception. Christopher Tolkien edits his father’s original drafts of this complex and beautiful trilogy, following Bingo Baggins (Frodo) on his quest through Middle-earth to…