Welcome and Introductions (Newbies, Please)

Welcome Monica I hope you enjoy yourself here and all^^

Pettytyrant101 wrote: This age lark is not on you know! But then I got to see saw Jaws in the cinema (it was rated x and we snuck in a side door just after it had started ) and Star Wars when it was still completely new and fresh looking and unprecedented (visually anyway).

I got to see Star Wars too.... well, episodes 1-3 which were bantha poodoo (some good snippets)!

That has just given me an idea for a new thread!

The only good Star Wars films has Han Solo in them.

Hi all, my name is Dave, I live in Michigan USA. I have been a silent stalker of some other tolkien related forums off and on for some years, and recently decided if I am going to hang around anyway I might as well have the ability to post once in a while. I first registered for the forum at the-hobbit-movie.com, and those folks referred me over to here.

I got into Tolkien as a kid, in the typical way, TH and LotR first, and then Silmarillion, UT and HoME, etc. later on. Have re-read all of that material many times. My favorites are the Quenta Silmarillion and Akallabeth. I also love the LotR books and like the movies. I don't know if you would call me a "purist," I find some movie changes to be trivial/acceptable poetic license. However, I simply can't understand WHAT PJ is thinking with some of the ridiculous things he does. Things like the "mountain of skulls" scene are just cheesy and make me cringe every time. Far worse are stupid plot-relevant changes like the treatment of Faramir in RotK, or Frodo blatantly showing the ring to a Nazgul in Osgiliath (east of the Anduin!) is absolutely apalling to me. Things like rabbits pulling sleds are hard on my blood pressure.

Apart from Tolkien, I read alot of literature as well as contemporary mainstream-type fiction. I am also outdoorsy, I spend alot of time fishing and boating. I also like chess, brewing and drinking, and listening to loud rock music. I am an engineer by trade, I currently work for a company that builds solar panels, and I live in a lake home with my significant other, Abigail who is a nurse.

I look forward to interacting with many of you!
Dave

Welcome to Forumshire Yooper.
You already know some of us, myself, RA and others from Bree (our name for the other forum) and I'm sure you'll soon meet the rest- although we have a few regular posters absent on holidays at the moment including our Admin Eldo I'm sure you'll find there's plenty here to browse and intresting folks to meet (wait till youve met the Banks clan! ). I hope you sick around.

You sound a decent fellow Dave, so welcome!

An engineer? Sounds respectable too.

You'll find three kinds (or tribes?) of hobbit here. The resectable, the unrespectable and the disrespectable, though more often than not the latter two traits can be found in the same hobbit.

If you require good advice, wholesome fun, and intelligent conversation, by all means make the acquaintance of we Bankses, that's only sense, and proper good sense at that.

{{{Oh yes, you must do your best to tolerate Mr Petty Tyrant --- he's a Scostshobbit - allowances must be made! }}}

Hi Yooper, cool avatar good to see you here. I am Julia from Bree.

just ignore Odo he's not really a respectable Ozhobbit, he's a bit like Littlefinger from Game of Thrones, got a lot of little fingers in lots of yucky pies, including my eel wrangling buisness, but thats a long story.

Hey you, welcome to forumshire!! ^^

Looking forward to talk about TH and LOTR with you. Hope your not too overwhelmed by us. If you like literature, you should check out the creative corner, the needle hole mysteries are very good and some other, that arm.. haddon hall was it? I haven't read all of them, but they are quite good

I'm Nora from Bree, although I haven't been back there in ages kind of moved here permanently
looking forward to seeing you hanging around

and yes, I like Sherlock, do you like sherlock? you better like Sherlock.

Welcome welcome! Everybody is crazy here but me.
I'm not from Bree, I am from Planet Tolkien (or the Dark Planet as it is called here). I came here to make sure these over grown children didn't run with scissors and such. Or was it to makes sure they DO run with scissors...

Odo, I'm an engineer, I don't think you've ever called ME respectable. It's cause I work for Cirdan, isn't it? Hobbits and boats...

Hello yooper,

New faces are always welcome. Looking forward to getting to know you.

Everybody is crazy here

Very true, only the best people are of course! Come and join in the madness!

Amarië wrote:Everybody is crazy here but me.

I've noticed. I feel pretty sane at the moment but we will see how I react to exposure to you folks over time...

odo banks wrote:You'll find three kinds (or tribes?) of hobbit here. The resectable, the unrespectable and the disrespectable

I may foray into unrespectability from time to time, but will hopefully avoid being disrespectful even on those occasions...

well I can't speak for the others but I am perfectly normal.

yooper wrote:

Amarië wrote:Everybody is crazy here but me.

I've noticed. I feel pretty sane at the moment but we will see how I react to exposure to you folks over time...

In some circles I'm actually quite normal and well liked. The circles are the ones I draw during recreation time in the psych ward



Hiya

Ally.
I think Forumshire must be inside one of those circles.

yooper wrote:
I am also outdoorsy, I spend alot of time fishing and boating. I also like chess, brewing and drinking, and listening to loud rock music.

Add a campfire to that list and we're two of a kind! Welcome, Dave, glad to have you on board

oh yeah, campfire belongs on the list! Often while drinking and listening to music

yooper wrote: Often while drinking and listening to music

There's nothing quite like it

...and dancing girls, Ringdrotten! Don't forget them! It's not camping without 'em, methinks.

you need marsmellows. and then you so much you feel sick.

was one of those circles Dantes by any chance?

I think Ally miht be sittin gin that one Mrs Figg!

If we are having a camping, buckie swilling, guitar playing, dancing girls session. Count me in!

I'll dance if you pay me, I know the ancient carrot fertility dance.

Welcome to Forumshire, yooper! I'm sorry I'm late in welcoming you, but as Petty mentioned I was out of town and am only now just catching up on the threads I missed. I too like listening to loud rock music (I have ZZ Top on right now, though I don't know if they're your kind of rock). It's great to have you on board and I hope you'll stick around.