Today in Middle-earth, January 15
- The Bridge of Khazad-dûm, and the fall of Gandalf (1419)
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The Company reaches Nimrodel late at night (1419)
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Category: Fans
The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on December 25th:
- The Fellowship of the Ring leaves Rivendell at dusk (1418 )
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Fili gets VIP tickets to see Aragorn as the lead in the Nutcracker in ice and Kili wants to bring the stars some gifts. Not knowing if that’s appropriate or not, Fili has an excellent idea! Recipe below.
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Bilbo’s Bar Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup of unsalted butter
1 cup of brown sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla
2 cups of flour
6 oz of chocolate morsels
1 cup of chopped walnuts or pecans
Instructions:
Thoroughly cream butter, sugar, and vanilla. Add flour, mix well. Stir in chocolate and nuts. Press into an ungreased pan (13×9). Bake 350 F (0r 358 F) for 20-25 minutes or until brown. While warm, cut into bars or squares. Cool before removing from pan.
Staff from TheOneRing.net will be presenting panels, in-person, at two separate conventions in Southern California over the next week and a half.
First up is San Diego Comic-con’s Special Edition event this coming weekend. Our panel will be on Friday night, November 26 at 7 pm, and will be in room 7AB. If you have ever wanted to go to SDCC, but have been unable to get tickets, they are still available for this event. It’s a great way to get your feet wet, as it were, and buying a pass to the Special Edition will allow you to be on the Past Attendee list when the 2023 SDCC goes on sale. To check out our listing in the schedule, click here.
Our second stop on this whirlwind tour of SoCal conventions will be the Los Angeles Comiccon the following weekend, on Saturday morning, December 4 at 11 am, and will be in room 410. Both panels will be very similar, unless any new announcements about the Amazon LOTR drop between this weekend and the next. Feel free to visit us at both, but at least this way fans in both LA and San Diego have options to hang with the wonderful Fellowship that makes up Tolkien fandom.
Welcome to The Great Hall of Poets, our regular monthly feature showcasing the talent of Middle-earth fans. Each month we will feature a small selection of the poems submitted, but we hope you will read all of the poems that we have received here in our Great Hall of Poets.
So come and join us by the hearth, and enjoy!
If you have a Tolkien/Middle-earth inspired poem you’d like to share, then send it to poetry@theonering.net One poem per person may be submitted each month. Please make sure to proofread your work before sending it in. TheOneRing.net is not responsible for poems posting with spelling or grammatical errors.
Art of Fate
by: Milan
How can so much darkness exist, while there is light? How can the Black Eye of Mordor stare, while hobbit children skip through the grass? Do all the troubles wash away down the River Anduin, great and wide, mysteriously, Or do they pop up like hobbit children in a game of hide and seek, ready to come out for Elevenses? How does life move on, to the beauty of the Lorien, To come into the songs of old, To relinquish the art of fate, To come back stronger than you came, What will the minstrels sing? What will they say in their songs when you’re gone, When you look into Galadriel’s Mirror, what will you see? A sad reflection of yourself, of everything you are, The destruction of your home, a black eye of fowl menace, Who are you? Can you face yourself for me? Weren’t we all just hobbits, letting our days unwind, in a safe haven for a time, When the Carrion fowl take your body, What will you think? Will you watch from your ship at sea, Or paddle forward, to find what awaits you in lands of bliss, What will be your regrets, your wishes, your lies to yourself? -Milan
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Middle Earth haiku
by: H Herz
Strider's valiant, but... Not all who wander can cook. Where's second breakfast?
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Kili’s plan for a special Thanksgiving episode is ruined… until Fili comes to her aid!
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