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11-26-2002, 10:58 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: STILL a drought
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Bright star from above
Cry - A Elbereth Gilthoniel! Shadow, fear the light!
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I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
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11-27-2002, 08:02 AM
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Brightness of a Blade
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: wherever I may roam
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When the Ring - unmade,
Elves departed in the west, Truth became legend. The ringbearers too, To behold Arda unmarred, Left the land they'd saved
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11-27-2002, 08:24 AM
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Deadnight Chanter
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Horror of his mind
Twisting and breaking all of What his hand reaches Pride and self centering will Power gone beyond any heal All is to grasp and Make dependent and weaker Lo! Orks now are made
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Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time! |
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11-27-2002, 08:24 AM
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The Perilous Poet
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Heart of the matter
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A word is a wing,
Is a wing a word today? Tomorrow perhaps. Flattery from ye? Swift departing, fancy's flight Should not be other. Your Balrog tires so - But a darkening flight of Obsidian verse. Yet, for thee a ray Of pale sunshine through cloud pierce In hard times for thee; The bless'd are peaceful The unbless'd walk alone, here, In lonely grasses.
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11-27-2002, 08:28 AM
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Deadnight Chanter
Join Date: Sep 2000
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I breath when I drink
I drink when I breath Is it the same?
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11-27-2002, 10:12 AM
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The Melody of Misery
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: The Island of Conclusions (You get there by jumping!)...
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What's going on, Wights?
Same Barrow chatter today. The books, movies, games?! We talk of those books And well written books, they were. Causing quite a stir. We talk of movies Number two is soon to come Nearly three hours, wow! What is left is ours Those fun games called RPG's. Write your own stories. There's more to the 'downs! Those people who make it work. Administrators! Can't forget members. We all come from far and wide. The same interests. Thats the 'downs today. Have fun and enjoy your stay. Enjoy being dead. I know you're thinking My Haiku's are not proper. But I'm no poet. I'm just a downs member!!!
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...Come down now, they'll say. But everything looks perfect from far away - Come down now! But we'll stay. |
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11-27-2002, 10:28 AM
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Deadnight Chanter
Join Date: Sep 2000
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We read all haikus
And shout give us more! Cheese is free...
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11-27-2002, 10:32 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: STILL a drought
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Here are my efforts.
Judge them as you will; I try. More will soon appear... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Damp and dark. A glow Lighting the path? Heed not the Corpse-candles' way! Warriors and their foes, Long dead. Why do your faces Yet remain, haunting? [ November 27, 2002: Message edited by: Nuranar ]
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I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
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11-28-2002, 09:18 PM
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Ohio, United States
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*attempts*
Lothlorien- 'Within this forest, there dwells the elven rulers, The Lord and Lady. The Lord of the Wood, Who is known as Celeborn, Or The Silver Tree. Seek his elven wife, The Lady Galadriel, Keeper of the air. For she will show you, The Secret of the forest, Your fortune unveiled. Pour the clear water, Look into the fountain's pool, And what do you see? Do you see the past? Or do you see the present? What of... the future? (You can add this part if someone is talking to the Frodo Baggins) *lol* You see what she sees, The evil known as The Eye, Will it corrupt you? As the smallest hand, You hold the Key of Future, One Ring to rule all. You will take it back, or else Middle-Earth is doomed, You hold our future.' This is hardly done, For I will continue it, And get back to you. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] |
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11-29-2002, 08:30 AM
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Deadnight Chanter
Join Date: Sep 2000
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The thing that is gone
Is no more, for all it was, And future ahead Like a blue haze of unknown Less real is than what is gone Can’t set a tooth on Neither one of those teasing grapes Carpe diem, lady...
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Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time! |
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11-29-2002, 12:26 PM
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
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Gracious, talented
Susan, my thanks. But my last does not content me. Rather say Tolkien was no Baudelaire, his sense of Beauty, e'er True. Tolkien's Ru'n abstains to gaze upon evil here. Grey misjudges White. Bethberry [ February 21, 2003: Message edited by: Bethberry ]
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12-04-2002, 12:06 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: STILL a drought
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More attempts, 'tis true;
More ambitious than the last. What think ye, O wights? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Crumbled and decayed, Remnant of a kingdom gone- To you the king comes. No glitter, but gold. 'Neath your stony gaze he duels 'Gainst these, your ancient foes: Cold and dark are they. The past is dead, but not they, Servants of the Eye. They flee. Silent ones, Guard o'er your realm and keep it For your king's return.
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I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
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12-04-2002, 02:55 AM
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Brightness of a Blade
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: wherever I may roam
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Behold the bright stars
From the hand of Elbereth They light up the night. and because it's December, although it's not Tolkien-related, my very 1st haiku: Today is Christmas It is a beautiful day Outside is snowing. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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12-04-2002, 03:05 PM
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Spectre of Decay
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Bar-en-Danwedh
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Though you defy it
Fate is inexorable Your doom is in you [ December 14, 2002: Message edited by: Squatter of Amon Rudh ]
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Man kenuva métim' andúne? |
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12-09-2002, 03:50 AM
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Deadnight Chanter
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Gate Opener
Click of iron hinges, Well, I'm back...
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12-09-2002, 06:33 AM
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Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Australia... yes down-under *cringes*
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Let me try my hand at Haiku
Balrog, Durin's Bane A demon of the old world Fire, flame of Udun My god that was bad I must leave this to the pros Back to normal posts
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Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a Hard-boiled Egg! |
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12-11-2002, 07:38 AM
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Wight
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: finland
Posts: 126
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Time withers flowers
From my arms, my lovers eyes gaze beyond the waves |
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12-11-2002, 07:31 PM
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Animated Skeleton
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Inside the LOTR book
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Haikus are not hard
Just make shure to stop at the seventeenth sylab...
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12-11-2002, 08:26 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: finland
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Haikus are hard. Try in a foreign language, for one. In finnish, every word has twise as many syllables, And I know not how finnish OR english compare to japaneese in this regard.
Not to mention the 5-7-5 syllable stucture is only one of the 3 requirements. We all write "incorrect" haikus. True haiku is primarily a work of visual art. It is supposed to form a picture. It can have no soul searching, verbal tricks or philosophy. Also, it should ideally include all 4 seasons or otherwise encompass the passage of time. I'm really proud of the earlier one of mine. As attempts go, it's not bad. |
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12-13-2002, 08:00 AM
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Wight
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Michigan
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Deep piercing sorrow
Rage rends reason, Black hand burns Finwë! My father! Take rest Grey Pilgrim In golden wood remember Stand now White Rider
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12-13-2002, 09:42 AM
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Spectre of Decay
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Bar-en-Danwedh
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Fire shatters on waves
Far lies our final haven We scatter as ash [ December 14, 2002: Message edited by: Squatter of Amon Rudh ]
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Man kenuva métim' andúne? |
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12-13-2002, 12:19 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Michigan
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A pox on the rules
Write whatever comes to you Your Haiku is yours
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"Trust in the ball Jake.....and throw yourself." |
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12-18-2002, 09:31 AM
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The Perilous Poet
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Heart of the matter
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Clever little stars -
Yet behind peaceful faces Lies untapp'd sorrow.
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12-18-2002, 09:41 AM
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Visionary Spirit
Join Date: May 2002
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Lies untapp'd sorrow.
Truth, as fragrant athelas, Heals stars' clarity. |
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02-20-2003, 09:44 PM
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Spectre of Decay
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Bar-en-Danwedh
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I saw Tolkien's grave.
A profound experience: I wrote a haiku. Beren, Lúthien, Requiescant in pace We do not forget. [ February 21, 2003: Message edited by: Squatter of Amon Rudh ]
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Man kenuva métim' andúne? |
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02-22-2003, 08:22 AM
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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Winter's hopeless death
Bears him, Hope incarnated. Shall spring come again?
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...' |
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02-22-2003, 07:03 PM
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
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Dance
If the stars embrace their untapp'd sorrow, dare grief, they would become wise. Homage Authenticity clambers in the chill midnight, spiked fence overcome, embracing dust and memory beyond time's grief: Imperishable. Bethberry [ February 22, 2003: Message edited by: Bethberry ]
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I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away. |
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02-23-2003, 03:52 PM
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Cornus Caliga
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Five-hundred-twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes from here
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I am in grade nine;
I have not written haikus since three years ago Alas! what follows may be truly laughable and yet I will write: On a loved one's grave Green'ry is shadowed by white Symbelmÿne fair. Dark the world becomes The voices of the Ainur Draw her now closer Land of bliss and peace Valinor the fair calls her She is passing now. The greatest of kings bent to the will of Sauron Accursed Nazgul. Choc'late in Arda? Nay, there was no such thing, yet Lembas was better [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] {By the way, poets, your wing'd words are well-written I applaud your works)
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02-28-2003, 03:12 PM
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
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Provocation of Another Sort
A one-line lament reminds the son of his fate: A mother's lesson.
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03-01-2003, 11:18 AM
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
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A sweet confection
is no truffling matter, Ithaeliel. *bows* Your efforts deserve Applause and commendation. Tolkien, well-ser'ved. piosenniel, Rereading kindles mem'ry. My thanks and high praise.
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06-07-2003, 07:39 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: In a box at the end of Harrison Ford's street, with a pair of binoculars
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Drums, drums in the deep
Pippin, that fool of a Took! Should have thrown in him. Look, how a tree there Grows among the rock and snow Hope has now come here. My book is yellow It has an Eye on the front It's looking at me -------------------- Please excuse my bad Grammar, I am so sorry- It is kinda late. Lindril (taking a writer's craft course and this is what I come up with) Arvilya
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Neo, watch out! Trinity's going to steal your pants! Pants thief! Pants thief! |
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06-08-2003, 05:19 AM
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Shadowed Prince
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Thulcandra
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Gwaihir flying high
King of all the eagles Majestic and proud. |
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03-14-2009, 05:36 PM
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Flame Imperishable
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Right here
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This thread seems quite good
Or was when people posted Can we do better? I will now try one Just to see what I can do Within haiku rules: Frodo walks at night With the ring around his neck Silent in the dark He goes to Mordor The darkest land of shadow Left in the third age But with him comes help Trusty gardener at his side To help on his way To fight the dark foes The orcs and the cave spider Far from the green Shire Armed with their weapons Sting and the light of a star Through darkness they go To finish the quest To destroy Sauron's One Ring There and back again Continuing this Is a very easy thing Once you understand.
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03-14-2009, 05:55 PM
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Flame of the Ainulindalë
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Wearing rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves in a field behaving as the wind behaves
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We should refresh this one but I have to admit that it might be too hard for us non-native speakers... I looked up the thread and not all seemed to be 5-7-5. With my understanding of word-divisions in English it probably is my problem but that really is a problem (as at least in Finnish the syllabification works in a bit different way).
But if you would be lenient with us non-natives we could try it as well. It looks like fun anyway.
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03-14-2009, 06:43 PM
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Flame Imperishable
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Right here
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bombur is correct
Our haikus are not perfect But we can do our best Five, seven and five Are the syllables to use If no-one objects Yes it is quite hard But we should give it a go See how it turns out You must try at least Even if it may be wrong But at least it's fun.
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03-20-2009, 10:59 PM
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Playful Ghoul
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Eagle flying high,
High above the mountains old; "brrrr" he says, "it's cold!"
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03-21-2009, 04:34 PM
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Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits
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Iarwain Ben-adar is Stuck in the Sixties
Old Tom Bombadil Dresses like a go-go girl -- His boots are so mod!
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03-25-2009, 08:13 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Southeast Pennsylvania
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Bilbo talks with Smaug.
The Spanish Inquisition! Quite unexpected! 
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03-26-2009, 01:24 PM
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Flame Imperishable
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Good! I see this thread
Is moving forwards quickly More than expected The Witch-King walking Slowly up and down Angmar Trips over a stone "Aargh!" cries the dark one Screaming, arms flailing about "There's a Barrow-Wight!"
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Location: Southeast Pennsylvania
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Quote:
"Hey, I get no respect. You know what I mean? Take Sauron...Please!"
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