Welcome and Introductions (Newbies, Please)

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{{{Carly I trust you don't think much of 40 year old men grooming young women, but that it's perfectly okay for 54 year olds...? I'll just assume I'm right... or was that Banned Ally I'm thinking of? }}}

BANNED ALLY ?

Oh yes. I did it for 24 hours. (Only Ally seems to have noticed, mind! Or maybe it was noticed but no one cared! Or maybe it was noticed and now everyone in Forumshire is jumping at shadows... Cooool... ) She deserved it of course --- or at least I felt like doing it and did!

That's the trouble when hobbits like me are given awesome Moderator powers, leelee. Yep. People like me tend to misuse and abuse awesome powers.

Ally's due back soon enough though .... and yet maybe I'll ban her for another 24 hours... Who knows? Tyrants do have their whims you know...


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Tyrants do have their whims you know.- Orwell

Yes they do. But youre not bloody well one of them!

Hello folks,

I've just landed and I thought I'd make my introductions.

I've been a Tolkien aficionado for 35 years now; I first read his books at 15 and I've just hit my half century this year.

I was inspired to come here after enjoying PettyTyrant's fine lambasting of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on another forum, so you can see which side of the fence i come down on over that issue.

Mind you, I don't take any of it too seriously.;-)

Regards

Welcome to Forumshire Widfara!

Do make yourself at home and have a buckie or two and just dive on into threads- its the best way.

Hellu Widfara, I like your name, does it mean something?

Hello Norc,

Widfara is Old English for "far traveller".

Regards

Hi Widfara welcome, I go to that other site too, I am figgsbane.

Norc maybe I am wrong but wasnt Widfara a grey horse in LOTR? maybe I am mistaken.

Welcome to Forumshire, widfara! I'm glad to see that Petty didn't put you off coming here.

Mrs Figg - Widfara was one of the Riders of Rohan in ROTK, if I'm not mistaken.

ah yes, I seem to remember something a bit Rohan Ridery. cool name.

"...I live upon the open Wold in days of peace; Widfara is my name, and to me also the wind brings messages...."

"If you speak truly, Widfara, then may you live beyond this day in years of blessedness!" said Theoden.

I always wondered if he survived the Battle of the Pelennor Fields and did live in blessedness.

I like to think he did.

Regards

Got to love that about Tolkien, all those little things, little touches and you never know which ones will resonate with whom.

yeah, I i guessed it meant that, I asked to be sure. It kind of means the same in norwegian. Wid or vid meaning far or wide and fara being quite similar to å fære/fera/fere/ferde (dialects, yey) meaning travel. also it sounds like zu fahren (german) to travel.

actually, Aragorn's rangername, Strider, is (freely) translated to Vidvandre. Vid as in wide as mention and vandre means to wander.
also ranger is translated to ferdamann meaning again travel (and mann=man)

wow.. that turned out guite a bit... :/

I can't really remember a Widfara in LOTR, someone enlighten me, where was it?

He appears just at the end of The Ride of the Rohirrim chapter in The Return of the King, Norc.

That's really interesting about the language correlation.

We also have the word "wayfarer" in modern English meaning the same thing.

You sounded almost like a Lore Master there Norc!

{{Ive been wondering where Elthir has got to, maybe he has been absorbed by some cunning Fjordian magic!}}}

hey, well, I am a lore master, in my own things...
I'll look for widfara in ROTK ^^

also, one more funny thing.
Gamling from Rohan. It litterally means old man in norwegian and it is not nice to call anyone a "gamling" so everytime we see the movie we laugh a little.

Well he is an old man in fairness.

yeah, but it still isn't fair to be called gamling. it's like calling someone oldie or somehting.

presumably in the long past it wasnt offensive though was it? And just meant an old man.

is Elthir ffyordlandian too? he is very misterious.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:presumably in the long past it wasnt offensive though was it? And just meant an old man.

naah, maybe not, but no one wanrs to be callled gamling and u don't call anyone u respect gamling.

wouldn't surprise me if elthir was.

yes its probably like calling someone an old fart or old codger or something. not very polite.

What you talkin' about Willis?