Yet another letter surfaces.... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

davem · 10-30-2008, 12:27 PM

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publi...aleSectionNo=1

but I found this other Lot which seems quite interesting http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publi...leSectionNo=1#

Lush · 11-06-2008, 11:51 AM

Man, I wish I had some cash lying around. I would totally bid on things like that.

davem · 11-06-2008, 01:19 PM

The poster (2nd link) was the item the really touched a chord with me. Its a different, now almost 'alien' take on Middle-earth. I suppose that 'hippy-trippy' take died almost at exactly the time Tolkien himself did, & was finished off with the publication of works like UT & HoM-e. Now we're all Tolkien 'scholars' rather than Hobbits & Elves....Its very much a Roger Garland-ish Middle-earth & one that, strangely enough, as I get older I feel an increasing pull toward... http://www.imagenetion.net/matrix/tolkien41.htm

Lush · 11-08-2008, 03:01 AM

I'd always been there (lucky for me I never went to a PhD program as I had previously aspired, I understand now that it was never a place for me, parental disappointment be gosh-darned). And I think this is really touching.

I'd rather own something like it than all of the swanky platform-heeled boots in the world. I covet. *sigh*

It's lovely and I thank you for sharing.

Eönwë · 11-08-2008, 04:10 PM

Wow! Thanks for that last link Davem.

10-30-2008, 12:27 PM	#1
davem Illustrious Ulair Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties Posts: 4,240	Yet another letter surfaces.... http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publi...aleSectionNo=1 but I found this other Lot which seems quite interesting http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publi...leSectionNo=1# __________________ “Everything was an object. If you killed a dwarf you could use it as a weapon – it was no different to other large heavy objects."

11-06-2008, 11:51 AM	#2
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	Man, I wish I had some cash lying around. I would totally bid on things like that. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

11-06-2008, 01:19 PM	#3
davem Illustrious Ulair Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties Posts: 4,240	The poster (2nd link) was the item the really touched a chord with me. Its a different, now almost 'alien' take on Middle-earth. I suppose that 'hippy-trippy' take died almost at exactly the time Tolkien himself did, & was finished off with the publication of works like UT & HoM-e. Now we're all Tolkien 'scholars' rather than Hobbits & Elves....Its very much a Roger Garland-ish Middle-earth & one that, strangely enough, as I get older I feel an increasing pull toward... http://www.imagenetion.net/matrix/tolkien41.htm __________________ “Everything was an object. If you killed a dwarf you could use it as a weapon – it was no different to other large heavy objects."

11-08-2008, 03:01 AM	#4
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	I'd always been there (lucky for me I never went to a PhD program as I had previously aspired, I understand now that it was never a place for me, parental disappointment be gosh-darned). And I think this is really touching. I'd rather own something like it than all of the swanky platform-heeled boots in the world. I covet. sigh It's lovely and I thank you for sharing. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

11-08-2008, 04:10 PM	#5
Eönwë Flame Imperishable Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Right here Posts: 3,928	Wow! Thanks for that last link Davem. __________________ Welcome to the Barrow Do-owns Forum / Such a lovely place