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my doctor , who is a tolkien figurine collector&painter too (if you can believe that!)  showed me one of the last olog hai troll in resin from GW.... supposedly of high quality and better than metal... we both agreed that it was very poor... bad assembly, bent parts due to "plastic"  resin... and the whole thing for 25€ !!!!

definitly Mithril is a better "affair" than GW at the moment!!! even with their high price, HD2 is better quality and less expensive than GW!!

Barliman wrote:

"this" what......?

online lingo for agreeing completely with something someone wrote earlier.

Gildor Inglorion wrote:

my doctor , who is a tolkien figurine collector&painter too (if you can believe that!)  showed me one of the last olog hai troll in resin from GW

that's why i bought mine cast in metal -- some of the best troll sculpts around!

they have switched most of the more popular models to finecrap, you can only get the metal versions on ebay or from stores which have remaining stock, second hand is an option as well. games workshop sells resin exclusively of these updated models.

i've got all their trolls except the mines of moria troll, which is only included in the box and is cast in plastic, and the half-trolls.

these are or were all metal, originally:








this one is plastic and you can effectively make five different troll models out of it:

if you want I can teach you some of those odd online and MMO languages barliman being a hardcore practicioner myself even if I am french

though this vocabulary would not be fitting in such a board... and is more intended for live chat and "fighting strategies" or network behaviors.

(brb asap, afk, rofl, afaik, iirc, ld, gg, aoe, dot, dps, hps, buffwhore, fyi and sooo many others

Barliman wrote:

Take a look at the latest LOTR crud coming from the dread GW:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catal … GameStyle=

I'm not damning the quality of the modelling work, most of which is to a high standard no doubt, but the concepts themselves. I mean, where are their visualisers coming from with these ideas?

Sorry, but I have to leave now or I wont reach the lavatory before I throw up.....

I'm agree with you master Barliman... fine modeling figures but only impersonal copies of film characters.....

p.s. Have you managed to reach the lavatory or you have vomited in your wife's favorite carpet

Gildor Inglorion wrote:

my doctor , who is a tolkien figurine collector&painter too (if you can believe that!)  showed me one of the last olog hai troll in resin from GW.... supposedly of high quality and better than metal... we both agreed that it was very poor... bad assembly, bent parts due to "plastic"  resin... and the whole thing for 25€ !!!!

definitly Mithril is a better "affair" than GW at the moment!!! even with their high price, HD2 is better quality and less expensive than GW!!

Agree 100%

Gildor Inglorion wrote:

I just received today at last the first five HD2 figurines! I could not believe it, HD2 in my hands at last!

no Sauron yet though...
Well those figurines could be celtic warriors actually I'm certain you can boost up this army with the celtic warriors range from PA

I will add them to database soon

These are very good news... Now that minis are back on production on Mithril, I hope that  the some of us that are pending from MS532 get them soon (still not in stock, as still says in mithril webpage)

There's no such word as "dis" in the English language, so I'm afraid I don't know what you mean. And if you start excluding borrowed words like patois from English we'd soon end up with no language left!

Huuooommmm ... linguistic discussions in the "Pony" ... rhuoommm ... all I know is that "Dis" is a Mithril-figure .... huoomm ...

Huuuoooommmm ... I wasn't trying to interfere in  linguistic talk between wise men or even experts, Master Barliman .... rhuuooo mmm ... I simply tried to point out that "Dis" is a name in Dwarven language provided in the Mithril-range .... rhuom ... you might ask Master Thrain about this, then he'll tell you she's his daughter ... huomm ... Master Gildor, for example, would rather call her M161, I think ... huoomm ... and besides, Entish is much more difficult to cope with than English, I think ... huoomm ... though it doesn't change very much, but has to descibe each new word correctly ... which, sometimes, takes a lot of time ... rhuuohûomrh hoooooom huom oooooohmmm  ... hom! .. húuuoomm óm ûm huom

Barliman wrote:

cameosis wrote:

"dis" is a verb -> "to dis someone". colloquial english, but english nonetheless.

Au contraire, I'm afraid "dis" isn't in any English dictionary I've ever seen, and I have five by me - all the latest editions - even as I key this. As far as I'm concerned it's simply slang - calling it a colloquialism is a courtesy it doesn't merit.

Texting is already murdering the English language. If we're going to adopt every temporarily trendy new word invented by spotty teenagers then the language is doomed.

Which it probably is...

here you go:
http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&la … search=dis

best dictionary portal there is, to my mind (not only for english) -- they collaborate with dictionary publishing houses and companies which donate specialized dictionaries to the project.

without wanting to hijack the thread (i will leave it at this post in regard to the subject), let me add that slang is a very important area of any language, no less than formal language. great writers have used colloquial language and slang extensively in their work, and of all the dictionaries i own (and i own a lot), the slang ones are the most fun to read.

living languages change, evolve, transform -- it's inevitable. saying that "texting is murdering the language" is wrong as far as i am concerned -- and i'm not even a fan of cell phones, or better yet, own one.

it's just change through means that are accessible to most people ... were this not the case, people in britain would still use old english (perish the thought). successful words will become part of the language, others will fade back into oblivion.

the beauty of it is that we don't have to follow trends, but it doesn't mean that our choices are better than those other people prefer (although we like to tell ourselves that they are). for instance, everybody and their mother uses english loanwords in german, whenever possible, regardless if anybody really understands what is meant. i refuse to do so, and stick to german -- and i'm fine with that.

on another note the verb "dis" has been around for some 30 years, if not more ... i first heard it on hip hop records, but there may be older sources, so definitely not a fad: "the new york times" has been known to use it, too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/educa … rap-t.html

if you don't want a language to "succumb" to nasty trends, you'll have to turn to latin -- it's dead.

and yes, the ent has again proven that he has a keen eye and a swift mind: there is a mithril figure called dis!

Hmmmm. Debating the matter any further is clearly futile, Master Cameosis, since you're as dedicated to your viewpoint as I am to mine. In the meantime I think I'll continue to use the classic Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as I earn my crust every day editing books.

Happily, since English has thrived over the centuries, as you say, by being flexible, fleeting slang terms such as dis will eventually vanish. The sooner the better.

Even the online dictionary still fails to answer my original query regarding what "dis" actually means, and I note that it defines the word as American slang (hence the NY TImes being happy to use it), and therefore, of course, not actually English at all.

But to paraphrase a famous Elf, by trying to preserve formal English in the age of misspelt blogs I am, of course, no more than fighting a rearguard action in a long defeat.