It's one thing to like Tolkien books...

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but pretending to be in them seems kind of sad.

http://www.uruk-hai.info/form.html

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 5 February 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Now that's what I'm Tolkien about.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 5 February 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Jones, you've never heard of LARPers before?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 5 February 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

please explain about the larpers

― Mr Jonesy (mike), Sunday, 5 February 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

NERFSWORDS!

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 5 February 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

*sings buffy themetune*

disclaimer: don't assume poster ever not singing buffy themetune

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Except sometimes you hum it, or else purr it slightly under your breath.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.uruk-hai.info/tome/galleries/offthefield/1.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.uruk-hai.info/tome/galleries/octfest03/5.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.uruk-hai.info/tome/galleries/swar05/3.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I am a level 33 orc hunter.

― jeffrey (johnson), Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

it would be cool if they all actually killed each other in battle

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

I can't beleive anyone would participate in this embarrasing spectacle. Their outfits look like they were made for an elementary school play.

― Latham Green (mike), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

GIS "LARP armor" (there's a "gothic war skirt" too, but I don't understand that one) :

http://www.schmitthenner.com/images/SCH9137a.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

and just think, THEY make fun of the ren fair people too!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I can't beleive anyone would participate in this embarrasing spectacle.

I can, I've lived with some of them. This is why I never got involved, thank fuck.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

you know you wanted to. chicken.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, maybe if there was alot of beer drinking and revelry involved with this it would be a little more understandable - but they all seem very serious.

― Latham Green (mike), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

you know you wanted to. chicken.

There are more interesting ways to spread social diseases.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.uruk-hai.info/img/gauntlet.jpg

"Hey Kids, can I play too?"

― Latham Green (mike), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

That group photo of them on the link has got to be one of the goddamn funniest things I have seen in a while...keep the images a-comin'!

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

We are the personification of pure malice and carnage and orcs perfected. We are a thunderstorm of hatred, rumbling and churning in seemingly disorganized mayhem, only to strike with the fury and direction of a lightning bolt upon our foes.

Ah...no.

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, maybe if there was alot of beer drinking and revelry involved

Actually I think there usually is!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 February 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

i always thought this was the case, too.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 6 February 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

mead.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 6 February 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

You drunk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 February 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

If this keeps them from opening fire in their high schools/places of employment, I say go for it.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 6 February 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

look at the "ranks" section. in their profiles, some of them have their phone numbers listed. some of the orcs were kinda cute.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 6 February 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.uruk-hai.info/img/ranks/zahltan.jpg

"We are the embodiment of the orcish ideal. Some call us half-breeds, or bastard elves. We are neither. We are the personification of pure malice and carnage and orcs perfected. We are a thunderstorm of hatred, rumbling and churning in seemingly disorganized mayhem, only to strike with the fury and direction of a lightning bolt upon our foes."

nah

― mason storm (mason storm), Monday, 6 February 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

If this keeps them from opening fire in their high schools/places of employment, I say go for it.

B-b-but they are a thunderstorm of hatred, rumbling and churning in seemingly disorganized mayhem, only to strike with the fury and direction of a lightning bolt upon their foes!

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

Pffff, at my high school they'd just bring their stupid foam rubber artillery and open fire with it. Sure it's no Columbine, but it is really fucking annoying.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

Meaning I got bonked with a lot of foam rubber swords. The local chapter was called Dagorhir.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

the poor lads. DO they not own playstations?

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/jpgs/bknight1.jpg

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's only a flesh wound!

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

see THIS is the result when you tell geeks to "get out more"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

hee heeh - I just can't stop giggling at those photos. It seems like they are al l hobbits

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 26 February 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Hi all,
Occasionally I'll get on the net and google "Uruk-Hai" or something. I did that this evening and saw this. I chuckled.

If you must know, a lot of us are/were college students who participate in Belegarth, a full-contact combat simulation using foam weapons. The costuming can be from fantasy and history. We use foam weapons that are designed to be swung full force and not injure the target. The armor must be made of period materials so chainmail, leather and plate are used in the construction. While some armor may not be the most attractive, it gives you some protection.

When I say full-contact, I mean football/wrestling/martial arts full contact. Our events easily top 400 and are a lot of fun for both the jock and the nerd, The nightlife is lots of drinking and hanging out after a full day of fighting.

Anyway, some of you might find this interesting so check out Belegarth.com and see if there is a group near you.

― V'Hil, Sunday, 23 April 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

Check us out www.belegarth.com Make fun but at least give it a shot. It's lots of fun for both the geek and the jock due to the fnatasy and full-contact aspects of it.

All the armor is made of period materials i.e. iron/steel and leather and the weapons are foam so they don't maim the person hit.

Anyway, check it out!!

― V-Hil, Sunday, 23 April 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Do your get-togethers ever get crashed by Trekkies pretending they've traveled back in time?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 April 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

But is it period-foam?

― Øystein (Øystein), Sunday, 23 April 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Fantasy-foam.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 24 April 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

"period-foam" "Fantasy-foam"

― Dan (Ew) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 April 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I'm wasting my time...

― V-Hil, Monday, 24 April 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

Probably.

― Zora (Zora), Monday, 24 April 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

my google image search "chubby chicks in chainmail" will have to wait til i get home. i am INSPIRED though.

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Monday, 24 April 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Dorcs.

― Nemo (JND), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Haha did we finally break a spammer? WTF w/"I'm wasting my time," u got paid no? STFU

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

KRAUTLARPERS:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u44In32tV1s&search=larp

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I was only trying to educate.
Thanks for your time.

― V-hil, Monday, 24 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

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Treebeard and the other Ents have decided to not have any involvement in the war, deciding rather to "weather such things as they have always done". Despite this, Pippin manages to cleverly take Treebeard to the section of Fangorn Saruman has recently decimated near Isengard. Treebeard is filled with rage at Saruman's betrayal and commands all the other Ents to seek vengeance.

yeah the oldest wisest creatures on the planet don't know what is happening in their own back yard and have to be tricked by a couple of wideboy hobbits.

GOD.

― e.g. delegates at a set age (ledge), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:00 (fifteen years ago)

house of lords innit

― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:01 (fifteen years ago)

I pretend to understand the Hard Fantasy genre and the culture behind it but I really don't. I still see a bunch of dorks pretending they're elves and trolls.

― That's not a "laugh track", it's an audience and you're in it. (MintIce), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:02 (fifteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/brian-sewell-500x347.jpg

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:04 (fifteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday

― kamerad, Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:14 (fifteen years ago)

have often wondered if the number of participants in Bloomsday is greater than the number of peeps who have read Ulysses thru

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:15 (fifteen years ago)

4real

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

tolkien isn't fit to shine the shoes of anyone on this year's man booker longlist.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:23 (fifteen years ago)

But the Booker's always shite!

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)

ZACKLY. wait, i'm not sure if that's my point or if i'm being the guardianista strawman. definitely one of them, though.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)

The Tolk has these really weird variations in tone, and it doesn't read as simply appropriate to the geography of the story. Like okay maybe he wants the Shire stuff to read like cutesy shit but it just comes across as more child-oriented writing that he beefs up once he gets his war on. And Frodo's little Sauron mind-trip when he has the ring on just before the Fellowship splits up is v. weird: "Verily I come unto you" or whatever just clonks with its out of place Biblical allusion. Maybe it was a sly dig at Lewis.

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:28 (fifteen years ago)

he's a patchy writer and too mired in technicalities for me to enjoy now the way I did when I was 13, for sure. I kind of feel like Lewis bested him, for me anyway, in the end, by being a better writer, with a more human touch; his books have more emotional weight to them. LotR is kind of like "lots of shit happens and here's some battle details also some language and midgets'. still, you know, like the most important thing to me ever for a year or two as a kid.

― akm, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

those thomas covenant books were terrible.

― akm, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

man, fuck cs lewis now and forever.

tolkien's responsible for a lot of garbage, but http://www.omnivoracious.com/2009/06/there-and-back-again-five-reasons-tolkien-rocks.html#more

― It's Ong Like Donkey Kong (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:01 (fifteen years ago)

Couldn't get through a single Thomas Covenant, despite my best friend in school stanning for them.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:03 (fifteen years ago)

The bit I read seemed boring and miserable.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:04 (fifteen years ago)

The Thomas Covanent books taught me (along with Stephen King's Gerald's Game) that it was okay to not finish a book/series.

― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:05 (fifteen years ago)

Eddings did that for me. Stanned by the same friend as well.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:07 (fifteen years ago)

lol see, I finished both the Belgariad and the Mallore0n, even though it was basically the same book written 10 times

in that vein, Goodkind is much, much better (although still not great; really in the world of pulpy modern epic fantasy no one is going to beat Jordan, Sanderson or Martin)

― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:13 (fifteen years ago)

double lol at accidental googleproofing

― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:13 (fifteen years ago)

The bit I read seemed boring and miserable.

This is how grown-up books are supposed to be, innit.

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:22 (fifteen years ago)

well... no

not if you actually like reading, anyway

― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:23 (fifteen years ago)

nah some ppl prefer WHINGING amirite

― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:44 (fifteen years ago)

also joking

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

i myself can always be taken completely at face value on ilx, OTOH

― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:06 (fifteen years ago)

really in the world of pulpy modern epic fantasy no one is going to beat Jordan, Sanderson or Martin

Haven't read any of those except the first few WoTs so can't compare, but I think my favourite in this ilk is Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:06 (fifteen years ago)

they're good, but not sprawling enough to compare with the really messy stuff like jordan

― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

ha I actually was going to list Williams but tbh Outland is much stronger than his true epic fantasy stuff

― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:11 (fifteen years ago)

i was going to type something else here and then i thought "you know what, i'm really not going to argue about the ents on the internet."

― omar little, Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:15 (fifteen years ago)

100 Things to Do Before You Die

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:17 (fifteen years ago)

It is ent-irely beside the point. xp

― THX THO... (Nicole), Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:18 (fifteen years ago)

no omar... please, share with us!!!!

― Princess TamTam, Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:20 (fifteen years ago)

i will only say that clearly the ents were not tricked by the hobbits but merely were unaware as to the extent of saruman's destructiveness

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2889/emotcolbert.gif

― omar little, Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:23 (fifteen years ago)

But would you argue about ints on the enternet?

― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:26 (fifteen years ago)

lol excellent usage of the colbert emote my man

― Princess TamTam, Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:36 (fifteen years ago)

tolkien is only good at nature writing, and he's rather boring at that.

― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:30 (fifteen years ago)

Epic tales of staunch heroes defeating evil against impossible odds will always play well among those who have not yet drunk deep at the well of irony. They satisfy a need.

― Aimless, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)

drink deep with me friend, here, at the well of irony

― omar little, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)

nay, good sir, for I have heard evil things of this well and of those who quaff it

― Aimless, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

you can only quaff that which you can lift t your lips iirc

― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:20 (fifteen years ago)

An ex gf of my ex got her ears elfed. If thats the word for it.

― Frank Lloyd Webber (Trayce), Friday, 3 December 2010 02:10 (fifteen years ago)

Mayhaps you would be better pleased had I said "quaff of it", but the difference between is but a quibble, of no account for serious men such as we.

― Aimless, Friday, 3 December 2010 02:23 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2368/1503283853_5956a199de.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 December 2010 02:24 (fifteen years ago)

An ex gf of my ex got her ears elfed. If thats the word for it.

It is now!

― one-time Perrier winner Frank Woodley plays a loveable dad (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 3 December 2010 02:27 (fifteen years ago)

Ear elfing is probably the one cosmetic surgery I would consider besides getting porcelain veneers (SP?) for my teeth, in the fantasy alternate world where I am idle rich.

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Friday, 3 December 2010 03:12 (fifteen years ago)

The LOTR MMORPG is really fun. And free to play these days as well!

― the structuralist constructions of (Viceroy), Friday, 3 December 2010 03:54 (fifteen years ago)

^ wish i cld like this post

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 3 December 2010 03:59 (fifteen years ago)

i use dosbox only to play this game, which i first played around age 9 or 10.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/dungeon-hack/screenshots

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/8069-dungeon-hack-dos-screenshot-casting-a-fireball-the-spell-list.gif
http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/8064-dungeon-hack-dos-screenshot-the-hall-of-fame-keeps-track-of.gif

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 3 December 2010 04:02 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/8071-dungeon-hack-dos-screenshot-the-element-lord-the-hardest-of.gif

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 3 December 2010 04:02 (fifteen years ago)

Dudes, it's one thing to like Tolkien books...

― Nmutua Canamla (Schlafsack), Friday, 3 December 2010 04:03 (fifteen years ago)

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