… but there are many character names revealed in Decipher’s LotR Trading Card Game. Here’s a list frmo my own collection, which is incomplete. There is also another update coming… Realms of the Elf Lords, which may tell more!

Elves: Silinde of Mirkwood; Rumil, Elven Protector; Orophin, Lorien Bowman; and Uruviel, Maid of Lorien.

Dwarves: Gimli’s companions – Thrarin, Dwarven Smith; Farin, Dwarven Emissary; Grimir, Dwarven Elder; Fror, Gimli’s Kinsman; and Gloin, Friend of Thorin (and of course Gimli’s father but that is not what the card text reads).

Humans: Bill Ferney (at the Pony); Albert Dreary (PJ); three men at the Council – Erland, Advisor to Brand; Hugin, Emissary from Laketown; and Jarnsmid, Merchant from Dale.

And a hobbit: Filibert Bolger, Wily Rascal (at Bilbo’s party).

I don’t know how the Decipher folks came up with these character names, but I’ll drop them a line to see.

Spare a moment in your thoughts for Jeffrey Hawkes, hospitalised after a train/car accident. [More] Thanks to Lee for the link.

The British paper The Sun scored some great pictures from The Two Towers, including an amazing shot of Eowyn on the steps of Meduseld. [More] Thanks to Lee for the link.

Emails are streaming in and we’re getting closer to being able to reveal Figwit’s identity. But what do you make of this? [More]
[I love the TORN messageboard. And when we get a new server and a faster messageboard, more of you will enjoy it too I think.]

As the human race enters the 21st Century, we constantly strive towards the goal of equality for all, despite such factors as race, skin colour, religion, wealth or geographical location. However, these factors throughout the last two millenium have helped us shape the structure of society to the extent that we now think of and classify people in terms of lower, middle and upper class. This weekend, the Hall of Fire crew are discussing if and to what extent racial stereotypes and class structure existed in Tolkien’s Middle-earth. [More]