Category: Council Courier

Varda is the Lady of the Stars, and here in the Realm of Varda, we enjoy many things, which include admiring the universe and sky above us. In Varda, we talk about the stars, though we do not just talk about them, we write fiction about stars as well. We Vardians have had poetry and…

Throughout the trilogy, many horses walk across the pages, developing their own character (Shadowfax), their own emotional weight (Bill the Pony) or their own active part in the story (Snowmane). Not so in the movie, of course, where a horse is just the Middle-earth substitute for a car. However, a couple of our four-legged friends…

Brego in the books was not a horse. Not Aragorn’s horse. Not Theódred’s horse. He would probably be quite insulted to be called a horse, in fact. Brego was the second of the Kings of Rohan, son of Eorl the Young, and father of Baldor, Aldor and Eofor – the ancestor of Éomund and Éomer.…

With the recent shutting down of Journals on this website, many members have been searching for other journaling alternatives on the web. As many users will relate, the CoE Journals were used by some as a way to chat, put their thoughts down and connect, while others used the journals as a mode for clubs…

There is a soft wind blowing through the open spaces of the enormous cave. Drops are falling from stalagmites into the dark water in an ongoing rhythm. A strange place for a meeting, you might think, no chairs, no tables, no microphones and no coffee. Yet this place is the only place that would be…

Long we drifted on dark and mighty seas lonely we swam through clear and cold water As soft shining pearls, their beauty still covered lost in the swirl and the vastness of the ocean But suddenly there was a hand that directed us a hand with incredible power and gentle love Ulmo took us in…

Hearken to me peoples of Arda. Sing me your lamentations. Sing to me of your pain and suffering. Call out to me Ea; land whose birth I saw. Bring me your troubles. Bring to me your aches and sorrows. I am Nienna the Weeper. My tears I shed for you Arda. I see your pain…

Elrond’s obsession with dresses, of course. Everybody always brings their best dresses to wear when they’re in company of the Lord of Imladris, but for some reason those always disappear. Some sweet little elf comes to wish you goodnight and then suggests very friendly and politely to wash that beautiful dress you wore during dinner.…

Perhaps one of the most heart-rending moments in the Trilogy is when Faramir leads the doomed cavalry charge from Minas Tirith to Osgiliath, so it was only fitting that the musical accompaniment be similar. The Steward of Gondor seems to fit the atmosphere in the movie at that time: sad, but somehow regal and almost…

When and why did you join CoE? I can’t remember exactly how I found the site, probably via Google or another website. I was looking for either the Very Secret Diaries or pictures of Legolas (blush). I looked at a lot of Lord of the Rings sites, but kept on coming back to CoE time…