Tolkien Events 2007

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by narfforc

£50 will do for the first nights quantity of Ork-brew, what worries me is where I will get enough to buy more boooooooks with, last year I spent £500 arggggghhhhhhh.

P.S Blood stained curtains, you lucky lucky b......, what I wouldnt give for some blood stained curtains....

I think they must have been left over from Maggie Thatcher's time there when she was doing her blood-letting experiments.

£500?! I didn't think you bought that many!

I was dismayed in that dealers' room because we already had everything and could only buy the things we didn't have - apart from the fancy schmancy editions o' course. But the collectables are quite overpriced there I reckon judging by davem's luck at getting right bargains lately - First edition set for less than the price of a brand new deluxe for example. Muahahaa....

[narfforc]

I am a lying son of an orc, it was at Aston that I spent £500, last Oxonmoot I only spent about £200. Did you see the copy of The Hobbit that was going for £30,000, it was the rare one with the cover that Tolkien hated, the one that made Bilbo look like Jeeves or Wooster?

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by narfforc

I am a lying son of an orc, it was at Aston that I spent £500, last Oxonmoot I only spent about £200. Did you see the copy of The Hobbit that was going for £30,000, it was the rare one with the cover that Tolkien hated, the one that made Bilbo look like Jeeves or Wooster?

No, they must have hidden that one away when they saw me coming round with me dirty mitts I was just taken with those India paper copies of HoME that I thought would go nicely with me matching copy of Rings, and then having a coronary at the prices. Did you see the outrageously priced Canadian box set? Battered more than a Harry Ramsden fish supper and retailing at £30!

I did however find some loose cheap retro Unwin paperbacks to make up some partial sets I've got around the house.

Did you get that... was it Wainwright?....one about Pagan and Anglo-saxon influences? There's a new Ronald Hutton out now (recently anyway) wth a chapter about Tolkien and Lewis that I have to buy too, specially after that ace lecture he did at Aston.

[Mithalwen]

I'm still not convinced I want to stay in hall...but I will probably stay Saturday night - especially if I drive up this time... hten I can go to Bicester village on Sunday morning

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I'm still not convinced I want to stay in hall...but I will probably stay Saturday night - especially if I drive up this time... hten I can go to Bicester village on Sunday morning

What about Enyalie? Honest - it's not mawkish (I thought it would be a bit) it's actually nice and everyone's relaxed and that - no weeping and whatnot. On the other hand if you stay you have to endure some cheesy bad singing on Saturday night

[Mithalwen]

I have been to the grave in private and feel no need to return en masse. It still feels intrusive.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

On the other hand if you stay you have to endure some cheesy bad singing on Saturday night

Anyone that cannot handle cheesy bad singing should probably stay away from me. . . at least when I am drinking.

[Mithalwen]

Oh dear ... I think I may come as a day-girl again...... the rehearsals were bad enough with whatsit wailing along to a Spanish guitar.....with few exceptions, I loathe guitars at the best of times ..and that was not the best of times. THe trouble is that vast numbers of people think they can play the guitar and very few actually can. It is a very instrument specific delusion... if you are a rubbish violinist like I am you keep it to the privacy of your own home.....