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*groan*

Welcome back Original Aragorn. Too bad TLA died on us!

And I sincerely apologise for the poor standards of humour here

*glowers around the Pony, muttering darkly*

As for the other topic that popped up, I'll say this: the Helm's Deep M series may be expensive and, indeed, overpriced. They are, however, nice looking figures. Compare and contrast to the GW command sets, which are overpriced and ugly. Also sort of half assed.

Oh and I put my MW dwarves up on Ebay and they were purchased 8 hours later. I feel like I should have charged more, but that's silly. I only would have charged more had the buyer been He Who Shall Not Be Named.

:p

Gavin

Good on you Gavin!
You are right with the Helm's Deep series. They might be expensive, but compared to a lot of other things they are suddenly not expensive at all and a lot nicer looking then the GW crapp anyday!

Indeed.

I only buy GW movie based stuff, and preferably in metal. I try to avoid purchasing figures by that certain sculptor. However, I recently bought some of their wood elves for something (I was horribly and compulsively inspired by an article on HDR Tabletop!), and only serious conversions will save them from the curse of vile ugliness.

The recent War of the Ring releases haven't been half bad - either they've been movie figure releases or they put some effort into them. But the new Mordor releases are pretty silly - including the odd conversion based "Black Guard" guys. I am all for reusing elements of older figures, but the Black Guard seem to use elements from their Isengard range (as well as being crude and ugly looking). The result is...entirely suboptimal.

Might pick up the "Easterling" and Harad command set sometime in the new year on Ebay. If they are suitably cheap. The rest...well, the rest are easy to ignore.

Huoommmm ... rhuoomm ... so it's us, Master Protozeus, and the Man in the Dark, sitting at this table together for the first time ... rhuoommm ... see, that once again there's some noise in the tabroom caused by people quarreling about them GW stuff ... rhuoommm ... I do not understand all that and it has become a bit noisy ... let's stay here a while in the dark next to that ranger ...

Huoommm ... have you seen that Fram and the rare Lady sold on Ebay some minutes ago ... rhuoomm ... that's what I would like to call weird, Master Protozeus ...

Obviously a hussy.

Well, as far as I am concerned I have to say, that I am deeply interested in a further christmas riddle, Master Tree ! Very deeply! I remember I have missed a price very shortly, didn´t I ?!
Actually for that reason you mentioned above I am thinking about starting similar myself  . . .
But I think you are more professional concerning Tolkien knowledge as I am.
That would be better for everyone.

Master Ent, the riddles are great, even if I don't partisipate because of having a lack of knowlge regarding Master Tolkien. But there is always something new to learn. I always say, a day you haven't learned something new is a lost day!
I love the minis, but that's more or less it.
Bring it on Master Ent, I do my best to take part in it! If I win and the price are the dwarfes, I know someone who would love to take them of my hands....

What is Tolkien's world without riddles?

Huoommmm ... let me think a moment .... rhuoommm ... so there're six being(s) interested so far ... huomm ... some others have not read this ... rhuoommm ... hom ... so, twelve or thirteen altogether ... hom ... that's nice company .... huommm
Right, Master Gildor, I very much appreciate your criticism as I also was aware of that problem and tried to cope with it last year ... huoomm ... more or less successfully ....
huoommm ... but, as I said before, I don't dare to have all this discussed in The Pony's tabroom ... rhuoommm ... Master Barliman might be annoyed about all this fuss about riddles ... rhuoommm ... last year I ended up here as a Christmas tree, if you remember ... a hard time that was, believe me ....
Rhuoommmhoommmm ... hom ... er, to cut it short, I tell you that the Christmas riddle again will be placed in The Mathom House of Michel Delving ... I'll try to find another room for that ... rhuoommm ... ahhh, sorry ... forgot to thank you fellers for supporting a crazy idea ... though still there's no idea what it will be about ... rhuoommm ... there's time - I'll haste over to that House of Delving's Michael ... or was it Michel Diving? ... anyway ... some spidery webs have to be gotten rid of ... rhuoommm ... language, where's language? ....

Theobald wrote:

Huoommmm ... let me think a moment .... rhuoommm ... so there're six being(s) interested so far ... huomm ... some others have not read this ... rhuoommm ... hom ... so, twelve or thirteen altogether ... hom ... that's nice company .... huommm
Right, Master Gildor, I very much appreciate your criticism as I also was aware of that problem and tried to cope with it last year ... huoomm ... more or less successfully ....
huoommm ... but, as I said before, I don't dare to have all this discussed in The Pony's tabroom ... rhuoommm ... Master Barliman might be annoyed about all this fuss about riddles ... rhuoommm ... last year I ended up here as a Christmas tree, if you remember ... a hard time that was, believe me ....
Rhuoommmhoommmm ... hom ... er, to cut it short, I tell you that the Christmas riddle again will be placed in The Mathom House of Michel Delving ... I'll try to find another room for that ... rhuoommm ... ahhh, sorry ... forgot to thank you fellers for supporting a crazy idea ... though still there's no idea what it will be about ... rhuoommm ... there's time - I'll haste over to that House of Delving's Michael ... or was it Michel Diving? ... anyway ... some spidery webs have to be gotten rid of ... rhuoommm ... language, where's language? ....

Well I don't mind being counted in to make up the numbers (but nothing so vulgar as One Gross as did a certain Mr Baggins if you please), but with small hope of winning

I hope that's because they're too busy drinking. Or maybe they're massaging their brains ready for the riddle-game?