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#2151 Thu, Jul2 2009 1:45pm
Re: The Taproom
Huoooommmm ... someone mentioned having a drink? ... hoomm ... yes, Master Estel, it's hot out there where I just came from ... rhuoommm ... much too hot ... hom ...
I saw good old Master Bombur racing with those others ... huommm ... winning he is ... huom ... so, as I mentioned before, there will be two versions of that Dwarf this year ... rhuoomm, I think
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#2152 Thu, Jul2 2009 3:45pm
- Gavin
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Re: The Taproom
Heh, I watched the Rankin-Bass Hobbit movie last night - with John Huston as Gandalf. Twas great fun, and Bombur was pretty durn fat. 
No Beorn, alas. And the wood elves looked very leprechaun-ish.
Rather liked Laketown and the men of Laketown's look. I might use the brownish colour scheme for any such project involving them.
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#2153 Thu, Jul2 2009 3:57pm
- Barliman
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Re: The Taproom
Well, I'm delighted to see that the Fat Dwarf has won the GF poll - and as I point out on the GF page, Master Tree, he is described as fat at his every earliest appearance in "The Hobbit" - indeed, as "immensely fat"!
I shall be interested to see how The Man interprets him - I certainly hope he'll be made to look far more clinically obese than Chris's rather slim Forlong...
"A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried."
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#2154 Thu, Jul2 2009 4:12pm
- erchamion
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Re: The Taproom
Barliman wrote:
Well, I'm delighted to see that the Fat Dwarf has won the GF poll - and as I point out on the GF page, Master Tree, he is described as fat at his every earliest appearance in "The Hobbit" - indeed, as "immensely fat"!
I shall be interested to see how The Man interprets him - I certainly hope he'll be made to look far more clinically obese than Chris's rather slim Forlong...
He seems to Volstagg, the Thor´s friend? 
¡Fuera, viejo Tumulario! ¡Desaparece a la luz! ¡Encógete como la niebla fría, llora como el viento en las tierra estériles, más allá de los montes! ¡No regreses aquí! ¡Deja vacío el túmulo! Perdido y olvidado, más sombrío que la sombra, quédate donde las puertas están cerradas para siempre, hasta los tiempos de un mundo mejor. Tom Bombadil LOTR1
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#2155 Thu, Jul2 2009 4:19pm
- Barliman
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Yes, those are the sort of proportions that a Bombur figure should demonstrate! I used to love reading the Thor comics when I was a lad. Do they still publish them? I haven't seen one for a while. Indeed, Thor must be just about the only comicbook super-hero that the movie industry hasn't pillaged (yet...) for the big screen.
"A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried."
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#2156 Thu, Jul2 2009 4:25pm
- erchamion
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Re: The Taproom
"yet" ..... but in a very short time ..... 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369/
And continues selling the comic-book .... 
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¡Fuera, viejo Tumulario! ¡Desaparece a la luz! ¡Encógete como la niebla fría, llora como el viento en las tierra estériles, más allá de los montes! ¡No regreses aquí! ¡Deja vacío el túmulo! Perdido y olvidado, más sombrío que la sombra, quédate donde las puertas están cerradas para siempre, hasta los tiempos de un mundo mejor. Tom Bombadil LOTR1
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#2157 Thu, Jul2 2009 4:31pm
- Barliman
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Hmmm, that should be very interesting. Brian Blessed will certainly make a great Odin, but I don't recognise the Thor actor's name (I'm not very "up" on modern actors).
"A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried."
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#2158 Thu, Jul2 2009 4:53pm
- Gavin
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And Kenneth Brannagh directing...and likely featuring a cameo by Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey Junior.
I also loved the old Thor comic, especially as imagined by Walt Simonson during the 1980s. Warren Ellis's 4 issue run about 8 years ago was also brilliant.
Gavin
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#2159 Thu, Jul2 2009 5:02pm
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Hooommmmrhuoommm ... as for Bombur ... well vertically sized, as you put it once, Master Barliman, you might be right ... huoommm ... and Master Erchamion gave some evidence ... huoommm ... but about stumbling over some doormats ... then falling .... rhuoommm ... reminds me of certain things having to be done right now .... sorry .... I have too leeve ...
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#2160 Thu, Jul2 2009 6:02pm
- Barliman
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"Horizontally challenged", Master Tree, not "vertically sized"! You've been drinking too many bowls of, er, water. Again.
"A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried."
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#2161 Thu, Jul2 2009 6:53pm
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Huooommmm ... no,ney never, I'll do anymore ... playing the wild rover ... ya know ... ney never, no more ... rhuoommm ... besides, you were absolutely right about dimensions, Master Barliman .... and besides so far I did not receive any of that bowls being promised ... furthermore I don't wish to know what gives the essence of your liquid .... huoomm ... anyway ... rhuoommm ... have a nice evening with your regulars ... huoomm ... I have to go now because of some dwarven initiative ... rhuoommm ... no time to spend, no time to bend ... alas, who was it, telling me that ... rhuoommm ... I cannot recall .... huoommrhuom
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#2162 Thu, Jul2 2009 8:15pm
- ddaines
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Congrats then to 'Lardo' , a drink to celebrate, or two, and just to get in the party spirit some cakes and grub as well!
"I went to an ale-house I used to frequent, and I told Old Barli my money was spent, I asked hm for credit he answered me nay, for it's credit like yours I can get any day.....", I think that is where your chorus comes in Master Ent
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#2163 Thu, Jul2 2009 10:15pm
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Huoommm .... OH ney, never, will I play the wild rover ... NO NEVER NO more ...
rhuoommm ... thank you for taking part in that that good old song ... rhuommm ...
though I do remember another one starting with words like .... huoommm ... some Scottish melody, as "Should all ..." ..rhuoomm you know that 'Old Lang Syne' ...
Huoommm ... anyway ... let's have a toast I learned from our Irish friends:
... Huoommm .. ahem ...
May the face of every good news
And the back of every bad news
Be towards us ...
(Sorry, my Gaelic has become a bit disused ... so I used that English tongue ... rhuomm ...
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#2164 Thu, Jul2 2009 10:36pm
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Huoommm, no, nay,never ... rhuuommmtooommtidom ... I will play the wild rover, no, never, no more ... ahem ... and it's "No, ney never ..."
To be honest about this ... I dunno ...
Rhuoomm ... but in between I found a very nice translation of a Celtic toast:
May you have foot and raiment
a soft pillow for your head
May you be forty years in heaven
Before the devil knows you're dead!
Nice one, isnt it? rhuooommmm
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#2165 Thu, Jul2 2009 10:45pm
- Turambar
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Re: The Taproom
Yes it is, Master Theobald, it is.
Maybe the magic was the most powerful force in the world. But that was long ago.
The dragons are gone, the giants are dead and the children of the woods are forgotten.
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#2166 Fri, Jul3 2009 9:07am
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Huoooommmm ... methinks it's time that our barkeep might offer a bowl of some of that liquid for free ... rhuoomm ... wasn't it him (the barkeep, not the bowl) who suggested that fat Dwarf that won the race? ... huoomm ... huoommmm ... I'm just thinking about Master Barliman having to win that race himself ... hom ... he's not hasty, you know ... rhuoommm ... anyway ... congrats ...
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#2167 Fri, Jul3 2009 9:17am
- Barliman
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I keep on offering free bowls (tankards, mugs, or whatever receptacle tickles your particular fancy) to celebrate the rotund gentelman's victory, but there have been very few takers.
I notice that - as usual - there were a couple of votes placed well after the deadline, but since they were both for Bombur anyway that didn't make any difference to the end result.
"A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried."
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#2168 Fri, Jul3 2009 9:43am
- erchamion
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Re: The Taproom
Barliman wrote:
I notice that - as usual - there were a couple of votes placed well after the deadline, but since they were both for Bombur anyway that didn't make any difference to the end result.
I think that the votes "off limits" in most cases correspond to the Man and Michael. While some months have been "cast" votes from other members .....
¡Fuera, viejo Tumulario! ¡Desaparece a la luz! ¡Encógete como la niebla fría, llora como el viento en las tierra estériles, más allá de los montes! ¡No regreses aquí! ¡Deja vacío el túmulo! Perdido y olvidado, más sombrío que la sombra, quédate donde las puertas están cerradas para siempre, hasta los tiempos de un mundo mejor. Tom Bombadil LOTR1
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#2169 Fri, Jul3 2009 9:47am
- Barliman
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Why do you think that? Do Michael and The Man actually vote?
"A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried."
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#2170 Fri, Jul3 2009 9:56am
- erchamion
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Well, I don´t know, it has also been coincidence, but a few months, just as Michael closes the vote appears a vote more. Anyway, they are also members of the GF, isn´t it? 
¡Fuera, viejo Tumulario! ¡Desaparece a la luz! ¡Encógete como la niebla fría, llora como el viento en las tierra estériles, más allá de los montes! ¡No regreses aquí! ¡Deja vacío el túmulo! Perdido y olvidado, más sombrío que la sombra, quédate donde las puertas están cerradas para siempre, hasta los tiempos de un mundo mejor. Tom Bombadil LOTR1
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#2171 Fri, Jul3 2009 10:08am
- Barliman
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True enough.
"A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried."
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#2172 Fri, Jul3 2009 11:54pm
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Rhuuooommm ... may I have a bowl of liquid, please ... Master Barliman ... rhuoommm ... I came a long way ... huoomm hasty I was indeed ... I met them Bifor, Bofur and Bombur ... rhuomm ... lately ... rhuomm ... all I can tell is that they're well .... huomm ... and a lot of homour is being taken care of ... rhuomhuommhom
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#2173 Sat, Jul4 2009 5:14am
- Barliman
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I shall be very interested to meet them in due time. How are their friends?
"A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried."
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#2174 Sat, Jul4 2009 10:46am
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Huoommm ... yes, in due time you said and were right ... rhuoommm ... well about them friends I don't know exactly ... rhuoomm huomm ... the last thing I remember before I left was that Master Thorin was smoking a pipe together with some grey-haired pipe-smoker ... huoomm ... but, alas, I told you that I was hasting here ... that's why I didn't have a close look around there ... rhuoommm ... ahem, as for that bowl I dared to ask for ... ahem ... sorry ... rhuoomm ... me throat has become dry hasting all that long way to here ... huoommm
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#2175 Sun, Jul5 2009 11:34pm
- Gavin
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And now I randomly announce the completion of part one of my Battle of Mirkwood project. I've just completed painting the final 13 orcs for the 40-some-odd Dol Guldur Orc warparty. That means I have about 60 or 70 orcs to assail my Woodmen warband. The last 13 orcs were Prince August orcs. I am using them as placeholders until we see more Isengard orcs, at which point I'll retire the PA ones and give the Isengarders the Dol Guldur shields.
Next up (when I get back to it, that is) Celeborn's household - a band of unarmoured Lorien elves. These will face a warband of Hithaeglir orcs.
Then, or maybe at the same time, Thranduil's army - a heavily armoured Sindarin infantry force supported by a force of thirty or so Wood Elves supported by Heladil's Uialacu (a nine man band of elf scouts who guard the frontiers of the Elven King's realm).
After that - Beornings, more heroes, more orcs and sometime next year, an army of Dale.
Tired thinking about it.
But first, I want to finish up this highly annoying Rohan battle company consisting of rather too many GW plastics. Then some Rangers of the North from the same company. I might just paint the Hithaeglir orcs for one or other of them to fight while I'm at it.
Gavin
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