Category: Council Courier

-an interview with Aowyn How did you find CoE? I was doing a search for FoTR pictures and ran across CoE’s gallery. The site looked more relaxed than a lot of LoTR fan sites I had visited, so I signed up. What are your duties here at CoE? Adding pictures to and generally caring for…

-an interview with Keterai How did you find CoE? Well, I had been looking for another place to “hang out” online for a while. So I started putting things from Lord of the Rings into google (oddly enough: “Council of Elrond” wasn’t one of them). I think at the time I was on an Elvish…

-an interview with BingoTook How did you find CoE? I joined Council of Elrond on October 12, 2003, after the incessant badgerings of fellow Tolkien-philes michey04 and InweSilimaure that I do so. What are your favourite areas of the site? I’ve been seen around the RPG forums adding comic relief, and on the book discussion…

-Name? My name is Matt in real life, but CoE is my escape from real life so you may call me GaG. -Favourite character in LOTR? My favorite character would definitely be Gimli, I can’t see why so many people dislike him. Yeah, the girls don’t like him because of the fangirl type, but a…

One section of this wonderful site that you may not know about is the Council of Elrond store. It is one of the best ways you can support the site because some of the money you use goes toward CoE, and your item that you buy can spread the word about the Council of Elrond…

Sitting by your computer, reading this, you are probably thinking: “Middle-Earth Card?” But we can take your simple-minded self and open it to a world of possibility. Consider the following: Elvish Bow: 200 gold pieces Elvish knives: 100 gold pieces Shampoo: 20 gold pieces Perfect hair after beating an army of orcs: Priceless Silk dress:…

Almost everyone that we know has seen Return of the King, which is in my opinion the best out of the three Lord of the Rings movies. One thing that we don’t see much is what else goes into this world, is there some higher being out there? Of course, the answer is yes, the…

Gil-galad has a small cameo in the Prologue of ‘Fellowship of the Ring’: during the battle of the Last Alliance, on the slopes of Mount Doom, we can see a glimpse of him stabbing an Orc with his spear. If you blink, he’s gone! His part was only included to please the book fans, and…

Surprisingly enough, not much is known about the life of Gil-galad. Even his parentage is somewhat uncertain (though it is now generally considered that his father was Orodreth, not Fingon as it states in ‘The Silmarillion’). His name meant ‘star of radiance’, and he was also known as Ereinion, the ‘descendant of kings’. Gil-galad was…

The June edition of The Council Courier is now out for your enjoyment. If you did not receive it in your e-mail, you may view it here. The featured realm for the June newsletter is none other than the Realm of Yavanna Kementári!