Yea Tommy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoooo hoooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Over 2000. Yippppeeeeeee

I thought PT was the biggest around

It is THE site!!!! The only really worth coming every day!!!

I agree! Maybe it`s just me, but this is the only serious Tolkien site, where I can meet ppl that actually cares about his lifework and his wonderful and genious mind...

My experience with other tolkien sites is that they are focusing on the movie FotR, and not at any of the other books that Tolkien wrote...
And it`s usually the actors they tell about, wich is great for them, but we don`t get to know the man behind the books...know what I mean?

Anyway, I think this site is great and I`m gonna spend a lot time in here and at the chat-channel..not too much though, I`ve got schoolwork and stuff to do...

Well...yup...

[Edited on 27/9/2002 by Valedhelgwath]

Maybe that was Site members Vs. Forum members? and now you only have site members.. no more designation between the two??????

I don't know the how-maniest member I was, but I joined loads of versions ago ( ). Maybe it would be handy to have a member list of the forum members seperated from the overall member list...

I was born a posting freak.

Silmarill, if you are truely a posting freak, then you are really restraining yourself. Only 24 post in 11 days? Tommy does that in an hour. and I do that in a day sometimes. There are times it takes longer. Don't make make a statement like that unless you are ready to back it up. lol But they have to all be on topic. lol

Planet-Tolkien is very old however over the years throughout our many upgrades we have deleted our member base so the one your currently seeing is only relative to our latest engine/design. As far as seperating our members to forum and site, this currently isn't possible and I have no plans to implement such a page, maybe in the near future.

Mellie, I was not referring to you specifically, she who I was referring to knows exactly who she is, and that I'm just trying to wind her up again. I've found that your long posts more than make up for any short and pointless posts that you may or may not have made. It's only occassionally that I get into a bit of a fluff after having to load every topic on a board to read the new postBody, only to find that they all only contain one smiley, or possibly a "Yes, very much so". Though I'm sure you feel the same when this happens.

Awww Plastic, you are so sweet to me.

Me again! Popping in when least expected. Cos if you expect the unexpected then it isn't unexpected, right? (think that was said somewhere in Discworld)

Anyway, yes I know you were probably talking about me Plastic, but don't think I care.

Only 24 posts in an hour? Who do you think I am? I have a lot to catch up with, now I can only be here in the weekends, so it's gonna be more today!

*sob* Nothing happened. And I broke 2000 posts. Thought at least something would happen. But I'm still a steward. (what the ? happened there? must check those user rank threads)

Anyway, what were you guys talking about again?

I don't know any site off the top of my head that's better than pt. And I did a bit of research, and guess what: PT is the best site around! (well, for me it is anyway)

"You're simply the best!
Better than all the rest!
Better than anyone!
Anyone I have ever met!
I'm stuck on your heart
I hang on every word you say
Tear us apart
Baby I would rather be dead."

To Taz, the Council and everyone around PT with a huge hug!

[Edited on 10/4/2003 by TomBombadillo]

Don't feel bad, I have no life either, it's sad but true....
I do like this site alot, and always I check in here once a day, even if I don't log in. I especially like the Forum, fun fun fun!

PT is a fabulous place

I wish I had the time to stop in more often...I miss you folks...

Why did not the eagles take the ring to mount doom as this would have made it easier for all concerned

Recluse,

Tolkien was writing an epic, and in an epic nothing is solved quickly or in a comic book fashion.  The hero in the epic story must somehow conquer against overwhelming odds and his triumph must have meaning for us or the telling is wasted. 

Within the tale itself, Tolkien gave us to understand that the eagles were good but were not overly friendly with other races.  They had little to do with anyone outside themselves unless they believed all Middle Earth threatened, or unless someone like Gandalf intervened.  Gwaihir saved Gandalf from Orthanc because he had been Gandalf's friend.  But the Eagle Lord would not do Gandalf's work for him, nor would he risk his people in battle unless it was the last chance of saving everything they held dear.  So in the Tale of the Ring, the eagles show up very seldom, and as a force only in the last battle before the Morannon.  Afterward, it is only at the request of Gandalf that they go to rescue Frodo and Sam.  Also consider that the Great Eagles were sacred to Manwe.  They were his eyes, so to speak, in Middle Earth.  But they would not interfere in the free choices of the other peoples any more than Manwe himself would.

So a shortcut ending with the eagles taking the Ring to Mount Doom was out of the question both because of what an epic is and because of how Tolkien had developed the eagles in the story.

Gandalf

Always knew the the old posts would come in handy.

This is from the Tolkien Trivia quiz