Hobbit Week - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

MCRmyGirl4eva · 09-20-2012, 02:17 PM

I wish I had hobbitlike clothes. Unfortynatly, I can't celebrate, though I do write my name in Quenya on all my class papers. Mrs Buckley, my Latin 2 teacher, already knows this and told one of my classmates (he was handing back the homework) "The one that's written in some alien tounge is S******'s."

Galadriel55 · 09-23-2012, 04:01 PM

Today Wellinghall Smial had a moot in to celebrate Hobbit week/day. We had some delicious hobbit food, read some Hobbit, talked some hobbit, Hobbit, and Hobbit movie, discussed PJ, CJRT, and The Professor, also said a lot of random stuff and had loads of laughs about how to "properly" pronouce names from the legendarium ("Is is Ooo-eeee-nen, Ooo-eee-nen, Winen, Uynen, what?..."). All in all, lots and lots of fun. Oh, and mathoms!

jallanite and myself represented the Toronto Downer community at the moot, and I think we might have convinced another Tolkien fan to join the Downs... We'll have half of Toronto on this site in another couple decades...

PS: we all agree passionately that the Arkenstone is NOT a silmaril!

Mithalwen · 09-24-2012, 01:17 PM

As reported in the I met a Barrow Downer thread, Lalaith and I met at the British Library for The Hobbit at 75 evening and enjoyed the various talks by Jane Johnson (AKA Jude Fisher) Adam Roberts who wrote the Soddit and Sellamillion, publisher David Brawn and of course Brian Sibley who read splendidly as well as having a great well of fascinating anecdotes, David Weeks also gave a very dramatic reading.

I was sorry not to get the chance to speak to him personally but he was being monopolised and I am not sure how coherent I would have been meeting someone whose work I have admired so much and for so long.

Mithalwen · 10-10-2012, 09:28 AM

Found this while sorting out the recycling.. missed it on the day!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...g-success.html

09-20-2012, 02:17 PM	#1
MCRmyGirl4eva Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: The Elvenking's Halls Posts: 425	I wish I had hobbitlike clothes. Unfortynatly, I can't celebrate, though I do write my name in Quenya on all my class papers. Mrs Buckley, my Latin 2 teacher, already knows this and told one of my classmates (he was handing back the homework) "The one that's written in some alien tounge is S******'s." __________________ "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit..." "'Well, I'm back.' said Sam."

09-23-2012, 04:01 PM	#2
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,496	Today Wellinghall Smial had a moot in to celebrate Hobbit week/day. We had some delicious hobbit food, read some Hobbit, talked some hobbit, Hobbit, and Hobbit movie, discussed PJ, CJRT, and The Professor, also said a lot of random stuff and had loads of laughs about how to "properly" pronouce names from the legendarium ("Is is Ooo-eeee-nen, Ooo-eee-nen, Winen, Uynen, what?..."). All in all, lots and lots of fun. Oh, and mathoms! jallanite and myself represented the Toronto Downer community at the moot, and I think we might have convinced another Tolkien fan to join the Downs... We'll have half of Toronto on this site in another couple decades... PS: we all agree passionately that the Arkenstone is NOT a silmaril! __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

09-24-2012, 01:17 PM	#3
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	As reported in the I met a Barrow Downer thread, Lalaith and I met at the British Library for The Hobbit at 75 evening and enjoyed the various talks by Jane Johnson (AKA Jude Fisher) Adam Roberts who wrote the Soddit and Sellamillion, publisher David Brawn and of course Brian Sibley who read splendidly as well as having a great well of fascinating anecdotes, David Weeks also gave a very dramatic reading. I was sorry not to get the chance to speak to him personally but he was being monopolised and I am not sure how coherent I would have been meeting someone whose work I have admired so much and for so long. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

10-10-2012, 09:28 AM	#4
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Tom Shippey Hobbit birthday article. Found this while sorting out the recycling.. missed it on the day!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...g-success.html __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace