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...and the Witchking as a twinkle in his father's eye.

Somtimes the "quiet times" are needed aswell!
Please Master barkeep I need some strong liquid to make it just a little bit more quiet!

Huh? What?? I'm awake, just lost in thought. Nob, don't forget to tape up the window and door trim--I'm sure Barli only wants paint on the walls!

Doing 'weird' is what I'm best at, Master Tree. It goes with the territory if you brew and drink environmentally damaging volumes of scrumpy. Besides, I like to stick Nob's head in a bucket every so often. It makes me feel that all is right with the world.

Cut-price scrumpy, Master Regalrick? I don't think so - since none of you pay me anyway, given half a chance, what would be the point? Except... Aha, yes, I see - that way I'd only lose half as much revenue! An excellent bit of lateral thinking - have a free drink on me - after all, everyone else does.

So am I now - what's a PM2? Or am I just being characteristically dumb?

I wish the new brand of beer will be released soon...

..But called something entirely innocent, such as Odin and the Seven Dwarves, presumably? (OK, PM = Phaeton Miniatures, I get it now. I did suggest that I was perhaps being dumb. I'm an innkeeper of very little brain, remember.)

well Gavin I had given away this information already... under cover... the vignette bears the name "Creator and Destroyer of Dwarves"... so we can assume it is what we think it is

Very cryptic. Readers' Digest has a page for people like you. Glad you like the fumes,  by the way. Shame about the colours, though. 'Dead Orc' is all that the local store had in sufficient quantity for a project the size of the Pony.

That's 'decreasing profit' from the Pony, Master Tree, 'decreasing' - not 'decleaning'. Thanks for taking care of the wargskin rugs, though - you're the only one in here that can put up with the bites.

On another issue entirely, what colour do any of my regulars think I should paint my Mithril Gollum figure? JRRT is very ambiguous on the subject, and seems to constantly fluctuate between dark/black and pale/white in his descriptions of Slinker/Stinker.

Rhuoommm ... for those Gollums I have painted so far I preferred the idea of giving him a dark appearance ... huommm ... the pale/white one you mentioned, Master Barliman, reminds me too much of the slimy-fishy appearance Gollum has in the movies .... rhuoommm ...
For that darkish colour of skin I used "Revell Colour Nr 78 matt" ('Panzergrau') as a first basic coating. [I don't know if that colour is available any more as the company went broke some years ago if I remember well]. ..... rhuoommm ... then you can highlight or downlight details and give them eyes some perfect expression using  a pure white ....
huoommmm ... I think Mistress Wendy, our slowest painter, is right ..... huom ... it depends a lot on the situation good old Gollum is in .... is he cheating with Kankra? ... is he trying to solve riddles in the dark? ... is he simply carrying a fish? .... rhuoommm ...
All in all you're right to put this question, Master Barliman. ... It's difficult to answer, though I tried to from my point of view ... hom ... I twice had a similar problem about how to paint Saruman's cloak according to Master Tolkien's desciptions .... huuuoommm ....

Rhuuoommm... On that other matter you're right, Master Barliman, as you're well known to have a close look at the language being used in the Pony ..... but "decleaning" simply means "to make it worse" by cleaning ... rhuoomm ... it depends ... rhuoomm ... I was using the word because of the connotation to the word 'decline' and finding an ambiguity to the the meaning of the word in the sentence I used .... rhuoomm ... I just wanted to tell you what I think about your decreasing profit because of that decleaning .... huoommm .... so to say ...

ah, you mean the:  I.I.D.G !
Well, that some issues will find such quick solutions really cheers me up.