Category: Council Courier

Crocodile Tear or Compassion? Contributed by: Sepdet The only certainty is that it’s ambiguous. Gríma was advising Saruman to catch Théoden and prey on their women and children just a few hours before, but five seconds ago he was protesting that Helm’s Deep would never fall. Was that pragmatism or second thoughts? Is he awed…

Of the Nandor and the Laiquendi Middle Earth Article Contributed by: Ringhilwen During the Great March of the Eldar, when the elves traveled from Cuiviénen, where they had awoken, to Valinor, some of the Teleri, the elves in the host of Olwë and his brother Elwë, began to stray behind. Among these elves was Lenwë.…

The Ringbearer Parody of “Piano Man” by Billy Joel Contributed by: Ringhilwen It’s four o’clock in Imladris The council members all shuffle in There’s an Istarí sitting next to me Saying we have a battle to win He says “Frodo, can you do me a favor? I’m too old for this sort of thing But…

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…