The Tolkien Joke and Meme thread

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Ealdwyn]

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Ealdwyn]

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Footbridge at a state park in New Hampshire.

 

[Olorgando]

Footbridge at a state park in New Hampshire.

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Meaning it's OK to cross as long as no old men in pointy hats are loitering around? 🤪

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Olorgando]

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Your kid has a scruffy beard?!?

 

[Ealdwyn]

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Alcuin]

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Olorgando]

A news tidbit in our channel 1 TV's teletext. I'll take as an excuse for posting it here the fact that it has a touch of "Rangers" about it (and the other excuse should probably become obvious 😁 ).

Now this may all be old hat to @1stvermont , but it certainly qualifies as trivia east of the Atlantic.

The US state of Vermont today celebrates the anniversary of the Battle of Bennington in 1777 during the war for independence against Britain.
Ethan Allen's "Green Mountain Boys" defeated British troops in that battle.
The article goes on to note that Allen's troop took its name from a French term for the region that was to become the US state (not one of the original 13!)

verts monts.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[1stvermont]

A news tidbit in our channel 1 TV's teletext. I'll take as an excuse for posting it here the fact that it has a touch of "Rangers" about it (and the other excuse should probably become obvious 😁 ).

Now this may all be old hat to @1stvermont , but it certainly qualifies as trivia east of the Atlantic.

The US state of Vermont today celebrates the anniversary of the Battle of Bennington in 1777 during the war for independence against Britain.
Ethan Allen's "Green Mountain Boys" defeated British troops in that battle.
The article goes on to note that Allen's troop took its name from a French term for the region that was to become the US state (not one of the original 13!)

verts monts.

I am close by the reenactment, yet I have never been. Piss poor vermonter i am.

 

[Olorgando]

I am close by the reenactment, yet I have never been. Piss poor vermonter i am.

That far in the south-west of Vermont! IIRC, the closest town in Vermont to where I went to college in New Hampshire was White River Junction. Location of a Greyhound bus terminal - and a Burger King (they and McD were very much thinner on the ground back in the early 1970's!). And I also have some very dim memories of the Killington Ski Resort ...

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

S-eS the Victorian says:
"Let's watch our language, please, lest I faint dead away".