Hi all

[Bilbobaggins]

Big Tolkien fan and civil war fan. I have been on the forums reading a while but this is first post.

 

[jgoodguy]

Welcome

 

[rittmeister]

grüß gott

 

[Matt McKeon]

Welcome Bilbo, I'm looking forward to your posts.

 

[5fish]

Welcome, Bilbo...

Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins the true Hero's defeating Sauron. Bilbo just outsmarted a dragon and was invisible and wrote the tale... Maybe, its was Gullom for he fell into the fire, with the ring...

 

[diane]

Welcome, Bilbo! Good to see you.

 

[Bilbobaggins]

Thanks for the kind reception.

 

[Bilbobaggins]

Welcome, Bilbo...

Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins the true Hero's defeating Sauron. Bilbo just outsmarted a dragon and was invisible and wrote the tale... Maybe, its was Gullom for he fell into the fire, with the ring...

Sam is the hero, Tolkien said so himself. But Bilbo I think is my favorite hobbit. You?

 

[diane]

Favorite hobbit? Sam, for me. Frodo got a finger bit off because he messed with the ring - couldn't have finished the job without Sam. Always figured Gandalf didn't come so much for Frodo as for Sam.

 

[O' Be Joyful]

Thanks for the kind reception.

Sorry for my late welcome I am always tardy with my X-Mas cards.

 

[5fish]

Sam is the hero, Tolkien said so himself. But Bilbo I think is my favorite hobbit. You?

Bilbo was an odd hobbit... so was Gullom... to be so corrupted so easily by the ring... But the ring did select Gullom but it select Bilbo too... Bilbo had the ring for years and held back it's corrupting influence...

 

[Nitti]

Welcome to the nut house

 

[diane]

Bilbo was an odd hobbit... so was Gullom... to be so corrupted so easily by the ring... But the ring did select Gullom but it select Bilbo too... Bilbo had the ring for years and held back it's corrupting influence...

Frodo found out the same thing - just once was all it took. Sam, though, when he had it for a short time, never used it and couldn't get rid of it quick enough. Use it and next thing you know you're wearing black capes and riding around on dead horses working for somebody else!

 

[O' Be Joyful]

Welcome to the nut house

correction: "Welcome to The Land of Misfit Toys", nitti.

 

[Nitti]

correction: "Welcome to The Land of Misfit Toys", nitti.

EHHHHHH

 

[rittmeister]

correction: "Welcome to The Land of Misfit Toys", nitti.

two questions:

1. you consider yourself a toy?
2. who's toy?

 

[Bilbobaggins]

Bilbo was an odd hobbit... so was Gullom... to be so corrupted so easily by the ring... But the ring did select Gullom but it select Bilbo too... Bilbo had the ring for years and held back it's corrupting influence...

I love to see so many share my interest in both the civil war and Tolkien.

 

[Bilbobaggins]

Welcome to the nut house

I should be right at home then.

 

[rittmeister]

I love to see so many share my interest in both the civil war and Tolkien.

well, i for one have yet to it, but feel free to open whatever thread about jrr tolkien here. if there are sufficient threads about it i shall even set up a pertinent sub-forum

 

[Joshism]

Welcome, Bilbo.

Favorite hobbit? Sam, for me. Frodo got a finger bit off because he messed with the ring - couldn't have finished the job without Sam. Always figured Gandalf didn't come so much for Frodo as for Sam.

I'm a big fan of the Peter Jackson trilogy (except the ghost army deus ex machina). Yes, I have attended an all-day marathon of the extended editions.

The movies are better than the books. Tolkien was a great creator of fictional worlds, but not a great writer of fictional stories. If alive today he'd have a great career with Wizards of the Coast.

My pet peeve with LOTR is that Sauron deserved to win. Frodo failed. The day is only saved by Gollum's insanity. I found that really unsatisfying.