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Forlong was hewn down by axes, and since the only axe-armed bad guys mentioned in LOTR are "easterlings with axes" sent into action by Gothmog after the demise of the Witchking (the bearded men "of a new sort ... out of some savage land in the wide East") it cannot be doubted that these are the men who slew Forlong.

Well, it looks like Mithril is picking up production a bit. It sure would be nice to get the backlog down to only a few months!

Well I must say I am quite upset about this eldacar / Castamir... I saw the pics almost one year ago and it was still in creation. I told him it would definitly gain emphasis with a "common" base instead of having them separate on "basic" base.... indeed there are those who make dioramas who will adapt, but Mithril has made such great vignettes in the past, it is a pity this one is not a vignette too

You know what my view of this travesty is, without me needing to state it again; but for the record, I agree with all that you say.

Sounds like a good idea.

Hi guys I wasn't here for a while... so I'll pay one round for everyone who come today in the inn..... and about Arwen in hunting... :-/ weird indeed.....

well I definitly need some fresh drink again... I'm going crazy with all those accusations from Luthien4tinuvielle and quendil on official board,  I must say that someone grieves me.... not upset, not disapoint, not anger.... but grieves...

Maybe I am no more in phase with mithril "active" GF members, maybe it's me who got it all wrong. I know Thingol, Barliman, you agree with me, but months after months, years after years, we have seen a lot of new faces joining the Gold Fellowship. Most of those people are not MMP related in any way, and are not what I'd call a community, they are, well, they are the "new generation", and this generation may want something else , something new, something different out of mithril, which is not what we, from "the old school", want

i'm too old fashioned I suppose, time to give up.....

even MMP seems to die , stats are not good, and maybe it's also my fault here, lack of presence, or my behavior when I am present, make it so that people don't want to come back... I suppose I can understand them.... my bad mood can make me quite "pissy" at times...

I think I'll take a real break for some time... don't worry, the website won't come down well not until december renewal at least and certainly even after

thanks for your word (and drink ) master innkeeper,

well nevertheless... I'll take a real break . I'll be away from home next week, which means away from computer and internet... and I hope... I'll try to paint a bit (first time in a year I'll use a brush...)  but with my twins now totally on their legs running everywhere in the countryside, I fear I'll be too busy being after them to paint ...

huooommm ... taking a good break from time to time together with a real drink is what extends one's lifetime most ... HOM ...
that's why I'm still around here for some time ... huoommm ....
Master Gildor, I just can confirm what Master Barliman told you ... huoomm ... I hope you find the right point of a brush to use it again ... hom? ... anyway ...  cheers .... ??? .... hooomrhûom ... I shouldn't forget to thank Master Thingol for the free drinks yesterday ... huooom

well I was not yet on "holiday" master Archer, thus it was hard to make a real break, wasn't it.... now it's sure, I'll be away for some time I hope it will be for the best

I took some quiet time this morning to read both MMP & GF discussions.
Master Gildor, about MMP, you know I come here as often I could, being also very busy: No brush handling for 18 monthes now..

You also maybe right about old school fans & new fans, you may be not. In the end, it's life, and as several here wrote, sharing a drink & having good time is the good way it should cary on.

Master Thingol, thanks for the drink.

Cheers !

Huoommm ... so by now it seems everybody here is taking a rest or some holiday at will ... rhuoom ... or is this silence just been caused by the lack and backlog of that tiny-metal-miniature-things we once used to discuss about here ... grûomm ... alright, that is to me ... huoomm ... I still need some time here to clean the rest of those old bar-tabs from their shards and scribbles on them, so they can be used again for new ... huomm ... cleaning the teeth and paws of the doormats, you know ... huom ... there still seems to be a lot to be done by that Company that might "keep its customers satisfied" meseems ... huom

Yeah, there are two challenges here.

One is Mithril/PA's weird passivity. Other minis companies go and do things like kickstarters, make alliances, get their name out. Mithril assumes it can coast. So participation will always be skewed. You're going to have dwindling numbers of keen participants and new infusions of overly enthusiastic sorts which will seem out of place.

The other one is that a lot more people have been exposed to Middle-earth through the films; way more than have ever read the books. Mithril itself is not even a "pure" range - it has its roots in RPGs, after all. There can be room for a  more D+D ish - or even Hobbit movie style - interpretation. (Actually the film is more Warhammer :p) Arwen hunting I could go either way on. I'd prefer it was totally-not-Luthien hunting. Luthien is Tolkien's action hero elf lady. Done right, she could even be proxied in as a certain invented female Elf character of Mirkwood.

To me the big Mithril strength is tone. Tolkien favoured this idea of willowy, otherworldly figures and Mithril catches that so well. There are weaknesses. The Man does like his gothic plate on occasion and his Hobbits are a bit too little. The range itself has never quite figured out what it was. The ambiguity gave it a great deal of scope, but its often frustrating to collect. "This diorama needs...oh hell" or "I need all the figures for this MERP module...oh hell" or "I could make a warband of Beornings but..."

Also, where's me bleedin' Easterlings!

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