Lord of the Rings Guild

[The Wandering Wizard he/him]

22 minutes ago, Telrao said:

Hah

yup

I have a whole folder dedicated to LOTR memes. Here's a sample!

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The first one also relates to our previous conversation bwehehe

(Don't judge me please)

I love using the Gimli and Legolas end of Helm's Deep conversation for a meme template.

[Lord Gregorio he/him]

On 2/4/2023 at 11:15 PM, Telrao said:

Also, why the heck are the elves in the Harry Potter movies so weird? They go against every single stereotypical elf in existence. Why not call them gremlins? Wouldn't that make more sense???

I was confused about what you meant until I remembered Dobby. Ya. It's weird, kinda like it though.

[Telrao she/her]

3 hours ago, The Wandering Wizard said:

I love using the Gimli and Legolas end of Helm's Deep conversation for a meme template.

That one is hilarious.

[Cellit he/him]

[NikkiNogarde]

Alright, so I just discovered this thread and I have a large number of lotr memes on my phone to offload, so brace yourselves. Here's a few. Sorry if you've seen any of these before.

[DoomslugLuna]

I thought y'all would appreciate my latest embroidery project. It's not quite finished but soon it will be a patch. 

(P.S. Coolest thread ever!)   

[NikkiNogarde]

 

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[DoomslugLuna]

I finished the hobbit hole embroidery project! Do you think I could live with the Treebeard and the other Ents in this? I think it would be perfect.  

[The Sibling she/her]

On 7/25/2023 at 4:49 PM, DoomslugLuna said:

I finished the hobbit hole embroidery project!

Dang! That's so cool!  wish that I could embroider!

[Trutharchivist he/him]

breathes deeply

All right. This Saturday it'll be 50 years since Tolkien died. So, I wanted to use this occasion to make a proposal. Note, it's a highly theoreticall proposal, it'd probably have to get to a far larger audience of LotR fans to actually go somewhere, plus it's unlikely to be possible to do until twenty years from now. 

Great. With this disclaimer out of the way, here's my proposal: to make a real world version of the Red Book of Westmarch. Yes, I know Tolkien based the idea on the Red Book of Hergest (probably). I know there's the prop book from the film. There may even have been at some point someone crazy enough to try and make such a thing for himself. My idea is more ambitious - to possibly mass produce it.

The book will have to include all that is said to be in the Red Book, including the Hobbit, LotR with the appendices and possibly a few additions. Now, all that would be a tad impossible for one person to do. So, it'll require a publishing house agreeing to make such a leatherbound edition of LotR. It'd be better to wait twenty years for it, because otherwise it'll also require having the Tolkien Estate agree to that - which while it would be awesome, I doubt it'd happen (and yeah, I am saying that while making this ridiculous proposal, thank you for noticing!). And for that, a lot of money will be needed. Which is why I think it should be a kickstarter. Not the greatest idea, but there are a lot of LotR fans around the world. Perhaps even enough of them will be interested in such a thing (though quite possibly not). It will probably cost a lot for a copy, so maybe here can be some lower rewards. Since the current plan is not to go with the Tolkien Estate (after the copyrights are over) the possibilities for such rewards will be limited, but I'm sure it's possible to come up with something. There could also be stretch goals for other cool stuff, like different variations of the Red Book, and some other stuff.

Again, I'm fully aware it's impractical. I'll probably abandon it before twenty years will pass, but right now I really like the idea. So, what do you think? How crazy that is? (Also, no one pull the red eddition of LotR against me. I have it myself, and while I keep calling it the Red Book, it's not really it.)

[PianoSavant she/her]

I know this is like 2 months late and I haven't actually posted anything on this thread yet (I still can't believe I didn't know this existed *facepalms*) but that sounds so awesome! If you do eventually end up making it I will totally buy one!

[GjornHrathen she/her]

On 10/9/2023 at 6:06 PM, PianoSavant said:

I know this is like 2 months late and I haven't actually posted anything on this thread yet (I still can't believe I didn't know this existed *facepalms*) but that sounds so awesome! If you do eventually end up making it I will totally buy one!

ditto

 

[Trutharchivist he/him]

Well, that makes three people.

To be fair, it's probably not the right place to put it - by which I mean, I should find a place dedicated to LotR fans and ask people there. The thing is, this is just an idea right now - and it needs many, many people to come even close to being a reality, including a couple to actually take care of organising the material we want to publish, to find a good place to produce this edition, to figure out and produce other rewards...

I think my problem is that I actually try to think about it practically. And it's nice to know I'll have at least some passive supporters. But for this to become a reality, it's going to take more than that. I am a tad hesitant to ask for you to help, which is why I was very careful not to write "we" in my proposal - I need to know someone is interested enough to help before implying they're a part of it. Also, if you know Tolkien fans that you think might be interested - it'll be great if you can spread the word. About this completely theoretical and probably impractical idea.

Anyway, thank you.

[GjornHrathen she/her]

18 hours ago, Trutharchivist said:

Well, that makes three people.

To be fair, it's probably not the right place to put it - by which I mean, I should find a place dedicated to LotR fans and ask people there. The thing is, this is just an idea right now - and it needs many, many people to come even close to being a reality, including a couple to actually take care of organising the material we want to publish, to find a good place to produce this edition, to figure out and produce other rewards...

I think my problem is that I actually try to think about it practically. And it's nice to know I'll have at least some passive supporters. But for this to become a reality, it's going to take more than that. I am a tad hesitant to ask for you to help, which is why I was very careful not to write "we" in my proposal - I need to know someone is interested enough to help before implying they're a part of it. Also, if you know Tolkien fans that you think might be interested - it'll be great if you can spread the word. About this completely theoretical and probably impractical idea.

Anyway, thank you.

yeah. I am not in a position to actually contribute imagination, but if you set up a kickstarter or something I will give $

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

Made this and thought I'd share it

Spoiler

 

[Miiiiaaaaaa_D She/her]

On 10/4/2019 at 7:07 AM, King Aragorn of Gondor said:

Hi, and welcome!  Legolas is amazing, but Aragorn.

Whaaattttt? I love Legolas, he’s SOOOOOOOOOOOOO handsome!

[Mags she/they]

Wait . . . . can we bring this thread back or should we start a new one . . .

because I would love an active Tolkien thread on the Shard 

[KnightSkye Reforged They/Them]

On 8/31/2023 at 1:19 PM, Trutharchivist said:

breathes deeply

All right. This Saturday it'll be 50 years since Tolkien died. So, I wanted to use this occasion to make a proposal. Note, it's a highly theoreticall proposal, it'd probably have to get to a far larger audience of LotR fans to actually go somewhere, plus it's unlikely to be possible to do until twenty years from now. 

Great. With this disclaimer out of the way, here's my proposal: to make a real world version of the Red Book of Westmarch. Yes, I know Tolkien based the idea on the Red Book of Hergest (probably). I know there's the prop book from the film. There may even have been at some point someone crazy enough to try and make such a thing for himself. My idea is more ambitious - to possibly mass produce it.

The book will have to include all that is said to be in the Red Book, including the Hobbit, LotR with the appendices and possibly a few additions. Now, all that would be a tad impossible for one person to do. So, it'll require a publishing house agreeing to make such a leatherbound edition of LotR. It'd be better to wait twenty years for it, because otherwise it'll also require having the Tolkien Estate agree to that - which while it would be awesome, I doubt it'd happen (and yeah, I am saying that while making this ridiculous proposal, thank you for noticing!). And for that, a lot of money will be needed. Which is why I think it should be a kickstarter. Not the greatest idea, but there are a lot of LotR fans around the world. Perhaps even enough of them will be interested in such a thing (though quite possibly not). It will probably cost a lot for a copy, so maybe here can be some lower rewards. Since the current plan is not to go with the Tolkien Estate (after the copyrights are over) the possibilities for such rewards will be limited, but I'm sure it's possible to come up with something. There could also be stretch goals for other cool stuff, like different variations of the Red Book, and some other stuff.

Again, I'm fully aware it's impractical. I'll probably abandon it before twenty years will pass, but right now I really like the idea. So, what do you think? How crazy that is? (Also, no one pull the red eddition of LotR against me. I have it myself, and while I keep calling it the Red Book, it's not really it.)

I love this idea, and am willing to help.

[Annatar he/him]

OHHHHH heck yeah man. I would love to help! just let me know what I can do.

[Trutharchivist he/him]

Huh. So we're five people now.

Honestly, there's still some time until this becomes relevant in any way, and I myself don't really know how to go about doing this, but it's great to hear that it interests people!

I'd consider starting a PM or something, but I'm not sure I have much to say currently.

[Keke They/he]

On 10/25/2023 at 12:19 PM, Trutharchivist said:

Well, that makes three people.

To be fair, it's probably not the right place to put it - by which I mean, I should find a place dedicated to LotR fans and ask people there. The thing is, this is just an idea right now - and it needs many, many people to come even close to being a reality, including a couple to actually take care of organising the material we want to publish, to find a good place to produce this edition, to figure out and produce other rewards...

I think my problem is that I actually try to think about it practically. And it's nice to know I'll have at least some passive supporters. But for this to become a reality, it's going to take more than that. I am a tad hesitant to ask for you to help, which is why I was very careful not to write "we" in my proposal - I need to know someone is interested enough to help before implying they're a part of it. Also, if you know Tolkien fans that you think might be interested - it'll be great if you can spread the word. About this completely theoretical and probably impractical idea.

Anyway, thank you.

 

5 hours ago, Trutharchivist said:

Huh. So we're five people now.

Honestly, there's still some time until this becomes relevant in any way, and I myself don't really know how to go about doing this, but it's great to hear that it interests people!

I'd consider starting a PM or something, but I'm not sure I have much to say currently.

EH i want to say i would help but tbh i didnt understand tha. Can you dumb it down a bit?

[Annatar he/him]

11 hours ago, Trutharchivist said:

Huh. So we're five people now.

Honestly, there's still some time until this becomes relevant in any way, and I myself don't really know how to go about doing this, but it's great to hear that it interests people!

I'd consider starting a PM or something, but I'm not sure I have much to say currently.

There are a bunch of people I'm in contact with that might be interested in something like this. I'll ask them about it.

[KnightSkye Reforged They/Them]

8 hours ago, Thee insane said:

 

EH i want to say i would help but tbh i didnt understand tha. Can you dumb it down a bit?

So basically, the Red Book is the book written by Bilbo that contains the entire legendarium of middle earth. It is what is translated into the hobbit, lotr, ect. according to the in-world reason for the existence of the books.

[Keke They/he]

2 minutes ago, KnightSkye said:

So basically, the Red Book is the book written by Bilbo that contains the entire legendarium of middle earth. It is what is translated into the hobbit, lotr, ect. according to the in-world reason for the existence of the books.

And what does that connect to what the idea for his death anniversary is?

[KnightSkye Reforged They/Them]

Just now, Thee insane said:

And what does that connect to what the idea for his death anniversary is?

For the death aniversery, he wanted to propose the extremely difficult idea of attempting to not only make the Red Book, but mass produce it. The deathiversay was simply an excuse to mount this grand expodition.