mudo pointed us to a web comic that we haven’t covered before, “Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign.” DM of the Ring
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Nairn writes: Looks like the Sheldon comic strip is going for a week of LOTR related fun. Sheldon Goes Geek
After the ‘Great TORn Crash’ of a few weeks ago, many of the TORn staff were extremely worried about the possibility of having lost 18,000+ images and photos that comprise our Scrapbook section. After all, this area contains nearly 10 years of Tolkien fandom history represented in visual form. (Just think of all those fan events and Ringer submitted photos!!!) Thankfully, through the hard work of Arathorn and Corvar, the Scrapbook was completely recovered and is now revitalized in our brand new design. When you are bored at work today, take a moment to browse Tolkien history. [TORn’s Scrapbook]
Ostadan sent us the link to Eric Joisel’s page where he explains how to create origami versions of Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas. It is incredible, even if it doesn’t quite match your vision of the characters. [More]
If we’ve never sent you to Obelia Medusa’s LiveJournal to view the miniature Bag End, we should have! Ms. Obelia has recreated Bag End in teeny weeny doll house scale, and it is quite simply astonishing. There are two posts in her Journal related to this project, one a photo tour and the other a detailed back-story on its creation. As we mentioned, we may have reported this in the past, as the Journal entry is from 2005, but Ringer UncleAndy recently reminded us of this masterpiece, and we thought we’d share! [Photo Tour] [The Making of…]