Tolkien Moments

[Server Room Gremlin]

In the Melbourne Cup this year, the horse 'Middle Earth' came in third place.

The Melbourne Cup is a horse race held in Melbourne (Australia) on the first Tuesday in November. It has been held every year since 1861.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Last night (at 1:50 here) Robert Plant and Stephen Colbert bonded over Tolkien:

 

[Elthir]

Hey I've been to the Bird and Baby. . . and last year I saw the original sign (or at least an earlier one, I can't recall at the moment) for the Eagle and Child too

but you don't see me going on
'bout all this on television - you
see me going on 'bout it - here!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

you
see me going on 'bout it - here!

Or maybe . . . here?

 

[Elthir]

That. was. awesome!

🐾
🐾

 

[Elthir]

Incidentally Mr. Koalbear
did I hear 1936 in there?

assuming he reads this thread

 

[Radaghast]

Screenshot (taken from TheSimpsons subreddit) from The Simpsons, episode "This Little Wiggy".

 

[Radaghast]

That. was. awesome!

🐾
🐾

Don't you mean... pawesome? I thought it cat-astrophic myself 😸

 

[Elthir]

Don't you mean... pawesome? I thought it cat-astrophic myself 😸

Excellent! LOL!

And it was almost pawesome! I thought Galadmeow could have been a bit more golden, but so much of it was. . . well you guessed it already I'm sure. . . nearly purrrfect!

🐾

 

[Beleg_Cúthalion]

Me and some friends went to a bookstore today, and I managed to find were the Tolkien books were. Turns out, there was an entire section! My friends had to drag me out of there. I wanted to buy every book. I also found an LOTR chess set there too, so it was a good day for me.

 

[Radaghast]

 

[Beleg_Cúthalion]

Went to my local good will today, and found this. If only they had had the rest of the series.

 

[Starbrow]

 

[Ent]

Ent's "Tolkien Moment" each day, all day, in his Olympia, WA work office.
Sketches drawn for his book work, dressed in somewhat appropriate attire.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Jeopardy! just uploaded a compilation of their Tolkien clues:

 

[Deimos]

Jeopardy! just uploaded a compilation of their Tolkien clues:

Some of those questions are very poorly phrased and so some of the answers are marginally correct, at best.
Then, most of us here could give the moderator (or writers) a lesson on how to query about JRRT and his works.
And finally (and most important) most of us here could ... (wait for it) .... run rings around those contestants! 😁
Which I think says quite a lot about the members here 🙂

 

[Radaghast]

 

[Beleg_Cúthalion]

About a week ago I went to a small store that sold art supplies and souvenirs, and I found some nice LOTR merchandise. I went to buy it, and it turned out the owner was a huge Lord of the Rings fan, so we ended up nerding out about the Silmarillion and other works of Tolkien. I managed to get some nice sketching supplies too, so I ended up having a pretty good day overall.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Nazgul enters the Olympics:

Yes -- that's his name. Apparently, he's from a nearby B&B.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]