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CoE Admin of the Month: an interview with Frodos_Cat
1. So, you have been chosen by the wizards to answer their own particular brand of questions this month. Does this make you proud? Why do you think the wizards have chosen you? It makes me immensely proud! After all, these are highly respectable wizards. I suspect that they have chosen me because, although wizards…
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Top Ten Reasons to Attract you to Join Varda
10. Bunny Generators. Ever wondered of weird and crazy Varda bunnies? Well, they are all present here to accompany you while in the thread. This is one aspect of our craziness. Can you imagine? Having those bunnies around is fun to talk about. Actually, the bunnies are made by our voluminous minds, and we care…
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Vardian Blood
Reality has been abducted by our passion for stargazing. Here we stand to represent our Vardian blood and to promise patriotism. Our elements are never locked in a bottle of cyanide, but our daydreaming is proliferating. It is for us to speak of our passions, that we are upholding the civil rights of stargazing, the…
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Who Varda Is
Elbereth. Elentári. Gilthoniel. Tintallë. Lady of the Stars. Varda. With so many names, one must think that this lady was important, lofty, even exalted. Thinking that would be correct – but perhaps you don’t realize how correct. Varda is many things. She is the most beautiful of the Valier. Shining with the very light of…
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Top Ten Most Quiet Places in Arda ~ the humorous version
10. Dead Marshes. Peace means quiet, right? So how peaceful is it to be at the Dead Marshes, no hubbubs or anything. Don’t follow the lights or you will become one of the corpses, with a lot of shouting and crying for help from the lost people. 9. The Mines of Moria. Getting attacked by…
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Lúthien and Arwen: very different women who made the same choice
Two elf-women in Tolkien’s works gave up their immortality for love to a mortal man: Lúthien Tinúviel and Arwen Undómiel. They were related – Arwen was Lúthien’s great-great-granddaughter – and were said to have looked alike. The loyalty of both to their beloved was outstanding, and the marriage of both ultimately served a higher purpose.…
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Recipe Analysis: Starlight Bread (V)
Submitted by: Flower of Telperion Serves: Makes two loaves Prep Time: 2 hours 10 mins. Difficulty: Intermediate Description:Perfect after a long night of singing under the stars. Ingredients: .25 oz. active dry yeast 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup softened butter 1/3 cup white sugar 1/2 tsp. salt 2 eggs 3 1/2 cups flour Honey butter:…
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Artist Profile: Ted Nasmith
Ted Nasmith is arguably one of the best and most prominent Tolkien-inspired artists out there. The illustrator was born in Canada in the 1950s. While growing up, Nasmith and his family moved constantly all over the world (Europe, for example) but by his teenage years, they settled in Toronto, Canada. When the time came to…
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Everything I need to know I learned from The Lord of the Rings
All passages are direct quotes from the book, The Lord of the Rings, and are (hopefully) letter for letter, other than a few punctuation changes. While there are many other great lessons and quotes voiced in dialogue and conversation between characters, it would seem quite tacky to change so many of them to make sense…
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Gimli when you least expected
Ladies and Gentlemen, a Vardian is here to present a little essay dedicated to and about Gimli, our beloved and undying famous Dwarf. We all know that Gimli the Dwarf, member of the Fellowship of the Ring, brings humor to the Fellowship, and we could well include ourselves in the crowd. He is often rowdy,…
