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As you can see Master protozeus ther is always a new experience to be experienced!
As I said before... Learning by doing!

I just noticed my own signature here.... I can't see any better situation than these days, that would prove this sentence I once said to a little hobbit... to be so true....

Welcome back Barley!  Apparently I'm your cook now.  Beware the spoon.

See:  http://mmp.faerylands.eu/viewtopic.php?id=200

Has everyone missed Theo's bit of news two pages ago or so?  He especially has every right to be upset.  I do hope it all turns out well.  Interesting times, these are.

Last edited by Wendy (Fri, May29 2009 1:55pm)

Our fury just proves our love for mithril - I hope all will turn out well. (And thank you both for saving my soul from Sauron's grasp, though it was quite an experience! )

It seems Lars Chris and Michael have decided to think over a more adequate solution... I'll wait until tuesday then but that's a good beginning I think....

now it seems we have been heard...

Well there has been a lot of shouting in here while I've been away! (And not much tidying up - Nob? You're fired.)

Having had an opportunity to plough through the last umpteen weeks' of comments, it looks to me as if not much else need be said on the pricing issue, but my own thoughts are:

1) It was foolish, if not naive, of Mithril to foist it upon their customers out of the blue, with no prior warning, whatever their financial situation; that's just very poor business practice.

2) If they are looking to improve the profitability of the Mithril range, then surely the prices of all the other figures should have gone up too? The fact that they haven't is even more strange to my thinking than the decision to massively increase the prices of the new range of figures. OK, perhaps I should just be grateful that the other figures didn't go up too, but would it not have made more sense to increase all Mithril prices by, say, 10 or 20 per cent, rather than impose the whole increase on the Helms Deep figures alone?

3) If the same 80 per cent or whatever increase is applied to the GF figures, then I shall have to let my membership lapse. I can't currently afford to buy even at the present prices because of the foul exchange rate at the moment - not least because, on top of everything else, I now have a new electronic computing device that has to be financed.

4) On the subject of the GF, I tend to agree with the more cautious approach advocated by Axel and Twrich, since it concerns me that the GF is perhaps being made a 'whipping boy' for a problem not of its making. Certainly the issue of disaffection with the M-range price-hike has been brought to Lars' attention, as it needed to be, but it seems more likely that this was achieved by Gildor's 'open letter' (and all strength to him for raising the matter) than by the partial boycott of this month's figure suggestions.

Anyway, it will be very interesting indeed to see what sort of compromise Lars comes up with on Tuesday...

On two other issues raised over the past few weeks: firstly, I have little doubt that some of you will already have received hints from The Man as to what the proposed fourth Helm's Deep set will contain. If you can't guess, think green. That's all I'm going to say.

And, on the subject of Half-orcs / Uruk-hai, I've been re-reading 'Peoples of Middle-earth' over the past few weeks, and it's worth pointing out that Christopher Tolkien observes that when the Uruk-hai first appeared out of Mordor in 2475, Sauron himself was actually still in Dol Guldur, so he can't have been responsible for their creation; consequently, he surmises, it was the Witchking who bred them rather than Sauron. It's an interesting little anomaly that I'd not picked up on before.

Now, let's get this place back in order and get back to business. Nob? Get that broom and start sweeping - ohhh, alright, you're hired again...

Huoommm ... that's good ... back to business and getting this place back in order ... rhuoomm ... ahem, before I start brushing them doormats again, Master Barliman, may I have a bowl of that clear-clean-honey-coloured-watery liquid, please? .... huooommm ... I can pay with a rumour, of course .... rhuoommm

Master Barliman that rumour is worth a lot of clear-clean-honey-coloured-watery liquid I bet!

Huoommm ... indeed it is, Master Caster .... rhuoommm ... indeed, I said .... huom ... but how do you know? ... huommm

Sometimes things just come to me you know....

Huoommm .. strange habits here in Bree, Master Barliman ... huoomm ... rhuoomm ... so, same procedure with any bowl I ask for? ... but, alas, what do you mean by colour of money? ... huom
... must have been a metaphor, methinks ... gruoommm ... meanwhile you could start filling that bowl, please, Master Barliman ..... huoomm ... I just want to see what I'll be paying for ... hom

OK, done - but drink it slowly, unless you have more than one rumour to offer.

Theobald wrote:

... rhuooomm ... I can only say that it's something "unexpected" ... huoomm ...

Did you find any lady Ent?

Welcome, Master Barliman. Now I hope to improve the "tapas" that come with drink ...