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Assasin · 01-25-2005, 05:48 PM

Hey dudes, thought I'd start a new thread. Okay, I've got a new game, at least I hope it's new. I'm gonna write something that has to do with LotR, and someone else has to look at the last letter of the word/phrase and write a word that begins with it, you can't reuse any words. Sound fun? I'll do the first one: Gilgilad.

Shelob · 01-25-2005, 05:53 PM

Gilgalad-->Denethor

Lindolirian · 01-25-2005, 07:37 PM

Sounds like this thread. But, er... check out the last post.

**The Saucepan Man** · 01-25-2005, 08:27 PM

Well there have been threads like this before and, yes, they have been closed for not being sufficiently challenging.

But I don't see the problem in a little light relief if people want it, so I'll let it pass ...

Edit: I've (re-)closed that old thread. But along the lines of the game that was being played there, it might make this game a bit more interesting of each person was to say a little bit about the character, object, event etc that they name.

Assasin · 01-26-2005, 01:38 PM

Rohirrim.

**The Saucepan Man** · 01-26-2005, 06:05 PM

*Ahem!*

Quote:

Originally Posted by me

... it might make this game a bit more interesting of each person was to say a little bit about the character, object, event etc that they name.

Tuor of Gondolin · 01-26-2005, 06:20 PM

And perhaps the person starting a game could limit it in some way (1st, 2nd, 3rd age; or kelvar, or a particular race, or a location, etc.)?

Assasin · 01-27-2005, 04:01 PM

Oh, okie dokie. Rohirrim, the army of Rohan. It has to be a race.
Is that what you guys mean? And, S_M, I didn't know what you meant, so, yes you did type loud enough.

Tuor of Gondolin · 01-27-2005, 07:00 PM

Well, "It has to be a race" for Rohirrim I would take to mean answers
should be one of a group (of more then one) of sentient Middle-earth
races (and not individuals?). If so, then how about:

Men of the Three Houses

as a continuation?

That is:
Rohirrim
Men of the Three Houses

Assasin · 01-29-2005, 06:08 PM

Silmeril. A stone thing.

**The Saucepan Man** · 01-30-2005, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Assasin

It has to be a race.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Assasin

Silmeril. A stone thing.

Hmm, this doesn't seem to working does it?

But let's give the thread one more chance. The next word has to be a race or group of peoples, it has to start with 'L' and a reasonably detailed description (ie one or two sentences rather than one or two words) should be provided.

Any ideas as to when the theme should change? (If this thread ever makes it that far, that is).

Eruanna · 01-30-2005, 10:59 AM

I'll try this one

Laiquendi: Also known as the Green-elves of Ossiriand. Elves of the First Age, originally Nandor they came from the East and, led by Lenwë's son Denethor, they crossed the Misty Mountains. They finally settled between the Blue Mountains and the River Gelion in the Land of The Seven Rivers, also known as Ossiriand.

Shelob · 01-30-2005, 12:33 PM

I'm not responding because I can think of a race that begins with 'I' but more to respond to The Saucepan Man's question of

Quote:

Any ideas as to when the theme should change? (If this thread ever makes it that far, that is).

you could have it so that once no-one can think of another within the category (so once no-one can think of another race in this case) the theme gets changed. It's only a question of whether the new theme gets named by the last person to get an answer in the last theme or by the person who began the thread originally.

It's just an idea...but it might help to give some structure to this.

**The Saucepan Man** · 01-30-2005, 08:20 PM

Good idea Shelob (and welcome to the Downs, by the way

).

If no new answer has been given after ... say 5 days ... then the person who gave the last answer can start with a new subject.

I'm suggesting 5 days because it is well within the 10 days after which anyone can start with a new subject.

Let's go with that.

Sophia the Thunder Mistress · 01-31-2005, 06:07 AM

I'll offer this for the letter "I".

Ithryn Luin - the two Blue Wizards who were lost in the East long before the War of the Ring. Their names were Alatar and Pallando.

I was going to say Istari, but it just lands us back in the same position with "I", so hopefully since there were two Blue Wizards they can be a very small race unto themselves.

I rather like the idea of this thread, if it can get off the ground. It might develop into an interesting little game.

Sophia

Firefoot · 01-31-2005, 06:10 AM

Naugrim - aka the Dwarves. Translated as "The Stunted People."

ohtatyaro · 01-31-2005, 06:51 AM

Moriquendi - Elves of the Darkness' or Dark Elves

But since it ends us with I again, (I'm sorry, could not think up anything without I on its end

), I suggest we can use the ending S of Common Speach translation)

Or, Besides answering, I propose a modification too - if the ending letter is the 'hard one' (say, i or q), let it be allowed to use the last letter of the translation, eh?

**The Saucepan Man** · 01-31-2005, 08:28 AM

Although the point of the game (as it has developed) is to try to gain control of the thread by setting a difficult end letter. In other words, the "winner" on any one theme is the person who provides an answer which cannot be followed. On that basis, I suggest that the actual end letter used in the answer given should be the one required to start the next word.

ohtatyaro · 01-31-2005, 08:39 AM

Does it mean that if in 5 days nobody comes up with I-race, I wil change the theme?

**The Saucepan Man** · 01-31-2005, 08:42 AM

Precisely.

Eruanna · 01-31-2005, 11:36 AM

How about Isengarders? The name given to Saruman's Uruk-Hai by the other orcs as they quarrelled about what they should do with Merry and Pippin.

piosenniel · 01-31-2005, 02:01 PM

The Elves sometimes used this term for the race of Men because they suffered from old age and death:

Sickly

ohtatyaro · 02-01-2005, 12:43 AM

Yrch - the name Lorthlorien elves had for orcs

Nilpaurion Felagund · 02-01-2005, 12:49 AM

Halethrim, the last of the Edain to cross the Blue Mountains.

ohtatyaro · 02-01-2005, 12:57 AM

Men

simply Men

. I mean, it's a race, isn't it? Mor than just men of three houses, but including those

piosenniel · 02-01-2005, 04:29 AM

Nameless Things

Quote:

Far, far below the deepest delvings of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

--Gandalf; TTT; The White Rider

Eruanna · 02-01-2005, 12:01 PM

Shepherds of the Trees, known to men as Ents and to the Elves as Onodrim. Ent the earthborn, old as mountains.

piosenniel · 02-01-2005, 12:30 PM

Stunted People

Elvish name for Dwarves - translation of Naugrim

Sophia the Thunder Mistress · 02-01-2005, 12:36 PM

Eldar- a group name for all the elves that began the great journey from Cuiviénen.

Is it worth mentioning that each answer shouldn't be used more than once within a theme?

Assasin · 02-01-2005, 04:24 PM

River Folk.
What Smeagol and Deagol were.

Sophia the Thunder Mistress · 02-01-2005, 08:56 PM

Kelvar one of the two basic types of being created at the beginning of Arda. Kelvar were animals, whereas their counterparts, the Olvar were plants.

ohtatyaro · 02-02-2005, 12:28 AM

Ring-wraiths. They are not technically the race, but they are not merely men either?

Celebuial · 02-02-2005, 03:32 AM

Southrons- They joined Sauron's armies in the War of the Ring. (They do not have Mumakil- I got that wrong. Mumakil come from harad. Sorry!)

ohtatyaro · 02-02-2005, 07:33 AM

Sindar the Grey-elves. The name was applied to all the Elves of Telerin origin whom the returning Noldor found in Beleriand, save for the Green-elves of Ossiriand. The Noldor may have devised this name because the first Elves of this origin whom they met with were in the north, under the grey skies and mists about Lake Mithrim; or perhaps because the Grey-elves were not of the Light nor yet of the Dark (Avari), but were Elves of the Twilight

Eruanna · 02-02-2005, 08:13 AM

Rangers of the North. Aragorn's people, the last remnants of the Dúnedain, those of the faithful who had escaped the drowning of Númenór.

ohtatyaro · 02-02-2005, 09:17 AM

We had men already, but I suppose if one can found another name for them, it is OK? I mean, we will run short of words if only one race would be acceptd.

So, it is Hildor 'The Followers', 'The Aftercomers', Elvish name for Men. For pbvious reasons

piosenniel · 02-02-2005, 12:39 PM

Rógin

Rohirric term for the Druedain, the Woses.

Sophia the Thunder Mistress · 02-02-2005, 03:16 PM

Nibin-noeg - the petty-dwarves, the last of whom lived at Bar-en-Nibin-noeg on Amon Rudh.

Eruanna · 02-02-2005, 03:28 PM

Gwaith-i-Mírdain ~ People of the Jewel-smiths. The name given to the fellowship of craftsmen in Eregion, the greatest of whom was Celebrimbor the maker of the Three Elven Rings.

piosenniel · 02-02-2005, 06:40 PM

Will Nazgûl work as a self-limited race?

01-25-2005, 05:48 PM	#1
Assasin Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In a desert. Posts: 142	Words!!!!!! Hey dudes, thought I'd start a new thread. Okay, I've got a new game, at least I hope it's new. I'm gonna write something that has to do with LotR, and someone else has to look at the last letter of the word/phrase and write a word that begins with it, you can't reuse any words. Sound fun? I'll do the first one: Gilgilad. __________________ Death is as light as a feather, duty is as heavy as a mountain.

01-25-2005, 05:53 PM	#2
Shelob Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: At the abysmal Abyss Mall. Posts: 276	Sounds like fun... Gilgalad-->Denethor __________________ A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name ~Evan Esar. Pan for Everyone!

01-25-2005, 07:37 PM	#3
Lindolirian World's Tallest Hobbit Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Where the view is long Posts: 2,117	Sounds like this thread. But, er... check out the last post. __________________ 'They say that the One will himself enter into Arda, and heal Men and all the Marring from the beginning to the end."

01-25-2005, 08:27 PM	#4
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Well there have been threads like this before and, yes, they have been closed for not being sufficiently challenging. But I don't see the problem in a little light relief if people want it, so I'll let it pass ... Edit: I've (re-)closed that old thread. But along the lines of the game that was being played there, it might make this game a bit more interesting of each person was to say a little bit about the character, object, event etc that they name. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

01-26-2005, 01:38 PM	#5
Assasin Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In a desert. Posts: 142	Rohirrim. __________________ Death is as light as a feather, duty is as heavy as a mountain.

01-26-2005, 06:20 PM	#7
Tuor of Gondolin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Pennsylvania, WtR, passed Sarn Gebir: Above the rapids (1239 miles) BtR, passed Black Rider Stopping Place (31 miles) Posts: 1,548	And perhaps the person starting a game could limit it in some way (1st, 2nd, 3rd age; or kelvar, or a particular race, or a location, etc.)? __________________ Aure Entuluva!

01-27-2005, 04:01 PM	#8
Assasin Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In a desert. Posts: 142	Oh, okie dokie. Rohirrim, the army of Rohan. It has to be a race. Is that what you guys mean? And, S_M, I didn't know what you meant, so, yes you did type loud enough. __________________ Death is as light as a feather, duty is as heavy as a mountain.

01-27-2005, 07:00 PM	#9
Tuor of Gondolin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Pennsylvania, WtR, passed Sarn Gebir: Above the rapids (1239 miles) BtR, passed Black Rider Stopping Place (31 miles) Posts: 1,548	Well, "It has to be a race" for Rohirrim I would take to mean answers should be one of a group (of more then one) of sentient Middle-earth races (and not individuals?). If so, then how about: Men of the Three Houses as a continuation? That is: Rohirrim Men of the Three Houses __________________ Aure Entuluva!

01-29-2005, 06:08 PM	#10
Assasin Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In a desert. Posts: 142	Silmeril. A stone thing. __________________ Death is as light as a feather, duty is as heavy as a mountain.

01-30-2005, 10:59 AM	#12
Eruanna Memento Mori Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past The Point Of No Return Posts: 1,117	I'll try this one Laiquendi: Also known as the Green-elves of Ossiriand. Elves of the First Age, originally Nandor they came from the East and, led by Lenwë's son Denethor, they crossed the Misty Mountains. They finally settled between the Blue Mountains and the River Gelion in the Land of The Seven Rivers, also known as Ossiriand. __________________ "Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."

01-30-2005, 08:20 PM	#14
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Good idea Shelob (and welcome to the Downs, by the way ). If no new answer has been given after ... say 5 days ... then the person who gave the last answer can start with a new subject. I'm suggesting 5 days because it is well within the 10 days after which anyone can start with a new subject. Let's go with that. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

01-31-2005, 06:07 AM	#15
Sophia the Thunder Mistress Scent of Simbelmynë Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Aboard Highwind, bound for Traverse Town Posts: 1,780	Not quite sure whether it quite qualifies as a race, but... I'll offer this for the letter "I". Ithryn Luin - the two Blue Wizards who were lost in the East long before the War of the Ring. Their names were Alatar and Pallando. I was going to say Istari, but it just lands us back in the same position with "I", so hopefully since there were two Blue Wizards they can be a very small race unto themselves. I rather like the idea of this thread, if it can get off the ground. It might develop into an interesting little game. Sophia __________________ The seasons fall like silver swords, the years rush ever onward; and soon I sail, to leave this world, these lands where I have wander'd. O Elbereth! O Queen who dwells beyond the Western Seas, spare me yet a little time 'ere white ships come for me!

01-31-2005, 06:10 AM	#16
Firefoot Illusionary Holbytla Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 7,547	Naugrim - aka the Dwarves. Translated as "The Stunted People."

01-31-2005, 06:51 AM	#17
ohtatyaro Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: here, there, everywhere... Posts: 121	Moriquendi - Elves of the Darkness' or Dark Elves But since it ends us with I again, (I'm sorry, could not think up anything without I on its end ), I suggest we can use the ending S of Common Speach translation) Or, Besides answering, I propose a modification too - if the ending letter is the 'hard one' (say, i or q), let it be allowed to use the last letter of the translation, eh? __________________ Reading this sig costs three Galleons, nine Sickles, and a Knut. Pay up!

01-31-2005, 08:28 AM	#18
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Although the point of the game (as it has developed) is to try to gain control of the thread by setting a difficult end letter. In other words, the "winner" on any one theme is the person who provides an answer which cannot be followed. On that basis, I suggest that the actual end letter used in the answer given should be the one required to start the next word. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

01-31-2005, 08:39 AM	#19
ohtatyaro Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: here, there, everywhere... Posts: 121	Does it mean that if in 5 days nobody comes up with I-race, I wil change the theme? __________________ Reading this sig costs three Galleons, nine Sickles, and a Knut. Pay up!

01-31-2005, 08:42 AM	#20
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Precisely. __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

01-31-2005, 11:36 AM	#21
Eruanna Memento Mori Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past The Point Of No Return Posts: 1,117	How about Isengarders? The name given to Saruman's Uruk-Hai by the other orcs as they quarrelled about what they should do with Merry and Pippin. __________________ "Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."

01-31-2005, 02:01 PM	#22
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	The Elves sometimes used this term for the race of Men because they suffered from old age and death: Sickly __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

02-01-2005, 12:43 AM	#23
ohtatyaro Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: here, there, everywhere... Posts: 121	Y Yrch - the name Lorthlorien elves had for orcs __________________ Reading this sig costs three Galleons, nine Sickles, and a Knut. Pay up!

02-01-2005, 12:49 AM	#24
Nilpaurion Felagund Scion of The Faithful Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The brink, where hope and despair are akin. [The Philippines] Posts: 5,312	H Halethrim, the last of the Edain to cross the Blue Mountains. __________________ フェンリス鴨 (Fenrisu Kamo) The plot, cut, defeated. I intend to copy this sig forever - so far so good...

02-01-2005, 12:57 AM	#25
ohtatyaro Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: here, there, everywhere... Posts: 121	Men simply Men . I mean, it's a race, isn't it? Mor than just men of three houses, but including those __________________ Reading this sig costs three Galleons, nine Sickles, and a Knut. Pay up!

02-01-2005, 12:01 PM	#27
Eruanna Memento Mori Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past The Point Of No Return Posts: 1,117	Shepherds of the Trees, known to men as Ents and to the Elves as Onodrim. Ent the earthborn, old as mountains. __________________ "Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."

02-01-2005, 12:30 PM	#28
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Stunted People Elvish name for Dwarves - translation of Naugrim

02-01-2005, 12:36 PM	#29
Sophia the Thunder Mistress Scent of Simbelmynë Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Aboard Highwind, bound for Traverse Town Posts: 1,780	Eldar- a group name for all the elves that began the great journey from Cuiviénen. Is it worth mentioning that each answer shouldn't be used more than once within a theme? __________________ The seasons fall like silver swords, the years rush ever onward; and soon I sail, to leave this world, these lands where I have wander'd. O Elbereth! O Queen who dwells beyond the Western Seas, spare me yet a little time 'ere white ships come for me! Last edited by Sophia the Thunder Mistress; 02-01-2005 at 12:37 PM. Reason: tags

02-01-2005, 04:24 PM	#30
Assasin Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In a desert. Posts: 142	River Folk. What Smeagol and Deagol were. __________________ Death is as light as a feather, duty is as heavy as a mountain.

02-01-2005, 08:56 PM	#31
Sophia the Thunder Mistress Scent of Simbelmynë Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Aboard Highwind, bound for Traverse Town Posts: 1,780	Kelvar one of the two basic types of being created at the beginning of Arda. Kelvar were animals, whereas their counterparts, the Olvar were plants. __________________ The seasons fall like silver swords, the years rush ever onward; and soon I sail, to leave this world, these lands where I have wander'd. O Elbereth! O Queen who dwells beyond the Western Seas, spare me yet a little time 'ere white ships come for me!

02-02-2005, 12:28 AM	#32
ohtatyaro Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: here, there, everywhere... Posts: 121	Ring-wraiths. They are not technically the race, but they are not merely men either? __________________ Reading this sig costs three Galleons, nine Sickles, and a Knut. Pay up!

02-02-2005, 03:32 AM	#33
Celebuial Wight Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cardiff during term time/Leicester in the holl's Posts: 129	Southrons- They joined Sauron's armies in the War of the Ring. (They do not have Mumakil- I got that wrong. Mumakil come from harad. Sorry!) __________________ Ú cilith ‘war. Ú men ‘war. Boe min mebi. Boe min bango. Last edited by Celebuial; 02-03-2005 at 07:31 AM. Reason: I'm stupid!

02-02-2005, 07:33 AM	#34
ohtatyaro Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: here, there, everywhere... Posts: 121	retyping from the Sil :) Sindar the Grey-elves. The name was applied to all the Elves of Telerin origin whom the returning Noldor found in Beleriand, save for the Green-elves of Ossiriand. The Noldor may have devised this name because the first Elves of this origin whom they met with were in the north, under the grey skies and mists about Lake Mithrim; or perhaps because the Grey-elves were not of the Light nor yet of the Dark (Avari), but were Elves of the Twilight __________________ Reading this sig costs three Galleons, nine Sickles, and a Knut. Pay up!

02-02-2005, 08:13 AM	#35
Eruanna Memento Mori Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past The Point Of No Return Posts: 1,117	Rangers of the North. Aragorn's people, the last remnants of the Dúnedain, those of the faithful who had escaped the drowning of Númenór. __________________ "Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."

02-02-2005, 09:17 AM	#36
ohtatyaro Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: here, there, everywhere... Posts: 121	Men again We had men already, but I suppose if one can found another name for them, it is OK? I mean, we will run short of words if only one race would be acceptd. So, it is Hildor 'The Followers', 'The Aftercomers', Elvish name for Men. For pbvious reasons __________________ Reading this sig costs three Galleons, nine Sickles, and a Knut. Pay up!

02-02-2005, 12:39 PM	#37
piosenniel Desultory Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat..... Posts: 7,779	Rógin Rohirric term for the Druedain, the Woses. __________________ Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.

02-02-2005, 03:16 PM	#38
Sophia the Thunder Mistress Scent of Simbelmynë Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Aboard Highwind, bound for Traverse Town Posts: 1,780	Nibin-noeg - the petty-dwarves, the last of whom lived at Bar-en-Nibin-noeg on Amon Rudh. __________________ The seasons fall like silver swords, the years rush ever onward; and soon I sail, to leave this world, these lands where I have wander'd. O Elbereth! O Queen who dwells beyond the Western Seas, spare me yet a little time 'ere white ships come for me!

02-02-2005, 03:28 PM	#39
Eruanna Memento Mori Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Past The Point Of No Return Posts: 1,117	Gwaith-i-Mírdain ~ People of the Jewel-smiths. The name given to the fellowship of craftsmen in Eregion, the greatest of whom was Celebrimbor the maker of the Three Elven Rings. __________________ "Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."