This thread Tommy

I do actually have one of the brown leather bound versions of the book with the symbol on the front, the problem is i dont have a flat bed scanner. I also have two bestiaries or how ever you spell it, but i never thought to look in there. thanks for that idea. my scanner is some stoopid high tech fax/printer/scanner machin-e and i cant very well stick a book in there. it would just be more convient to have a picture of the net instead of lugging my giant book there and asking the artist to scan it. i am going to have it a decent size, abour 3 inches. its going to be on my lower back, with a gradient, dark green to dark blue, i think im going to get 7 stars above it too. wow wee i just blabbed on about it, i will let you know how it comes out... i am going to get it in about 2 weeks. thanks for the ideas!!!!!

Tom,
thanks for the welcome!! yes i am really getting his initials on my back. the only sign i can find online of his initials that i could try and blow up is on this site:
http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/relipper/tolkien/rootpage.html
but then i tried to blow em up and it was all chunky and pixilated or how ever you spell it. (i am the worst speller in the world!) it is an awesome thing to get tatooed even if it wasn't his initials, but since they are his initials, it makes it all the more better for my tatoo! hey i have a question... have you heard of that movie ancanar? do you know a lot about the story line??

hiku,

If you are still lurking around. Did you get the tatoo? How does it look? I found some pics of his initials on my books. It is a really cool symbol. If you have not gotten the tat yet, you could always try to trace it out of your leather bound book and then have the artist blow it up to fit the area you want it on. There are some really talented tatoo artist out there that could do a great job for you.

I just found it, and had an idea, if hiku is still around i would love to know what happened.

hey guys!!

i am soooooooooo sorry that i havent written or replied back! i am an idiot, i couldnt find where the log in button was!! it was tricky! but i DID get it!! my boyfriend's cousin did it for me, he gave me a wonderful deal, only $75. and it looks fantastic!! it is tolkien's intials, about 3 in on my lower to middle back (so when i show people my tattoo i dont have to show em my ass crack. gross!) with the seven stars for the dwarven kings, that were on the gates of moria. the stars are black, and the intials are a gradient, from dark blue to green. it looks awesome, not to brag, but it is grrrrrrrrrreat! i love it, i am so glad i got this as my first tattoo! a lot of people dont know its his intials, they think its chinese. im like no way josie i would never ever chinese shizo, everyone gets that. so i will try and take a digital pic sometime when i get my hands on a camera so i can show you guys... tell me what you think!!

One question Hiku. Did haveing the tattoo done hurt? Only I'm thinking of haveing a tattoo done myself (when I get the money), probaly some runes...

[Edited on 12/10/2002 by Grondmaster]

Very unusual having Tolkiens initials on your back, but kinda cool though
I`m getting one myself, with my whole name tattooed around my anckle.. real name I mean..but I haven`t desided yet...I`ve got the money and all, but I don`t know if I can trust the sources I find on the net about fonts...Only man to be trusted is Helge Fauskanger..think he`s got the hang of it?

A nice tribute to Tolkien hiku747!

Remember though, folks... Tattoos (or the scars from having them removed) are for life. I once woke up after a drunken night out to find a really ugly homemade tattoo of a butterfly on my left leg. I can't remember putting it there, but it never flew away.

hey guys! sorry it takes me forever to reply!!

thanks raptor for the pic!! i saved it to my puter

yes halo, tattoos do hurt i wont lie to you, i love it when people are tough guys and say they never hurt, my arse they dont! they do atleast a wee bit anyways. its the weirdest senesation getting a tattoo, you'll have to get one to know what im talking about. i agree with v-man (sorry i dont remember/know how to spell yer whole name, hehe) it depends on where you get it to the level of pain, and it depends on yer tolerance of pain. i was uncomfortable getting, and getting it on my lower back was painful when he hit my spine. if you're a wuss like me have someone there to hold onto yer hand, hehe. i would definitely get one again, i actually plan on getting 5 more. i just need money and time. definitely get yer first one in a place you can easily cover up. im going to get a dragon, basically a picture of smaug on my back and have smaug written in tengwar, thats not coming till later on when i have lots of money to spend on tattoos. ive always wanted a dragon ever since i was little.

celebrian, yeah i know tolkiens initials can seem a unusual, but hey unusual is fun! thanks for the compliment!! and anways, its not just my love for tolkien and his greatness, its about me. lotr is the shizo i grew up on and loved, and still love and always will love. its about me too!! yeah make sure you trust the person giving you a tattoo... it was my boyfriend's cousin and ive seen the work hes done before, its pretty nice.

halo, definitely get a tattoo, i think everyone should get one. well not really everyone, but most people. but get something that means somethign to you. v-man is right (and sorry if youre not a man), dont get stuff that you dont want. cuz it is very hard to get rid of. well tell me how is comes out, id love to know!!

I never could understand why people do not simply draw their tatoos on their skin with some permanent markers! Such works of art can be washed away and you can make a new one!...

See, they're writing songs about me now . Well, two out of three anyway... Never fancied having my tongue pierced. I did my nipple a couple of years ago and that was bad enough.

I would love to get a tat, but I am such a chicken s**t when it comes to needles. I really freak out and start hyperventilating and everything. My best friend Stace was going to pay for me to get one last summer, but I could not do it. She was so mad at me. These days I just go for the Henna tats. They don't hurt and do go away eventually. But I do love them, and think they are really sexy on guys. I guess I really do like the bad boy image.

I am glad that yours turned out well hiku. can't wait to see the pic.

and yes "V-man" is male, but we call him Val. It is much easier. lol




[Edited on 21/10/2002 by MelliotSandybanks]

Next time I see any, i will get you some henna Celebrain.

hiku, Celebrain is not in the states, and you can just call me Mellie. lol.

When I first found PT, I was not sure what to call people either. I just noticed what everyone called each other or asked. lol Some I am still not sure about. Sometimes I just cut and paste names. heheheehe. I cheat. lol

If that's what you call cheating, I do it all the time!

And yes it's a lot easier than spelling some people's names out right. I never learned how to spel Val's name correctly, therefore I just call him Val throughout. And Celeb or Mellie is a lot easier and sounds a lot friendlier than Celebrian or MelliotSandybanks, right?

After years of seeing Rolemaster character names shortened to their first three letters, and yes Val was one of them, I should have known better really. So a whole host of people are going to think this ShadowElfofPower is really just an old lady.

It's funny how a name begins to fit after a while though, and how once it does, you stop thinking about how it looks. To myself, I am now Val, so don't worry about it Celebrian.

Celeb, when I first got here, I didn't shorten anyone's name either. But I watched what other people called them and then did the same. I figured if they didn't yell or seem offended then I could do it to. lol

Since we're kinda sorta on the topic, I always wanted to ask you how to pronounce your nick Val.

I hear it in my head as V' LED hil GWOTH, with the accent on the Led and lightly on the Gwath. I dunno why...just rolls off the tongue that way.

[Edited on 11/3/2002 by ProgHead777]

I pronounce as if it broken down into into its derivatives..... Val (as in Valkary), edhel (as in .. eed..al), gwath (as in... gwaith)

Sometimes I pronounce the edhil shorter, as in... eD..hil. Either way, this is not the Sindarin way of pronouncing it. DH is pronounced TH in Sindarin, so edhel would be pronounced.... eTHel

Val eed al gwaith. I guess I can get used to that.

*waves back* Amari’ has something to do with the word m’ra= good. Ama means up, upwards. But ok, i can live with that.

And it seemed such a cool name once upon a time

Right, Tommie. As long as I'm using the dimunitive "ie" ending to denote the female gender for you, I had best use the "y" for the masculine ending for me.

Of course as the Bard wasn't want to say:

you know I only read part of this listing before I wrote this but There is something I must say. First, congragulations on choosing such a cool emblem to be permanently marked on your body. But, remember the important thing is th have JRR's ideas permanently embeded in your thoughts. This is a great story, the trilogy, but look deeper at the life lessons it teaches as well. Jrr built a world of morlity and evil. When you show someone your tatoo, make sure they they don't see just a cool form, but explain to them the deep desire JRR had make someting meaningful of his actions and creative desire.