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Ottis413
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 Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject: A couple of questions... |
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Does anyone know when Halbarad was borne? I'm assuming he's about the same age as Aragorn, but need to know about how old he would have been in 3007TA.
Also, any info on 'The Forsaken Inn', was it on the Great East Road at the intersection leading to Archet? or off the road in the town of Archet itself?
Looked for this info but couldn't find much, just wanted to make sure of the cannon before I started making things up....
Needed for my 'Wonderful Wizard of Isenguard' story, (working title, PG13) which is up to chapter 4.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:21 am Post subject: Re: A couple of questions... |
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| Ottis413 wrote: | | Does anyone know when Halbarad was borne? I'm assuming he's about the same age as Aragorn, but need to know about how old he would have been in 3007TA. |
Unknown. But I agree with you that he might be of the same age.
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Also, any info on 'The Forsaken Inn', was it on the Great East Road at the intersection leading to Archet? or off the road in the town of Archet itself? |
Aragorn says to Frodo (in FOTR): "non have measured the road between Rivendell and the Forsaken Inn, a day's ride east of Bree."
Archet is North of Bree. Just have a look at this map I found. It gives you the exact location of the Forsaken Inn. I hope it is useful.
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Needed for my 'Wonderful Wizard of Isenguard' story, (working title, PG13) which is up to chapter 4. |
Sounds like a wonderful story Ottis! Just let us know when you start to share it with us.
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Ottis413
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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Nice map,  thats how I thought it was, most maps arn't very clear on that area. 
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That map is from Karen Wynn Fonstad's "the Atlas of Middle Earth" (just in case anyone needed to know), but I never noticed the Forsaken Inn on it before; coincidentally I was just reading that passage in FOTR the other day.
I always assumed Halbarad was younger than Aragorn, just because A was so particularly long-lived ... in absense of any canon I know I presumed they met and became friends when Aragorn left the protection of Rivendell for the Wilds and Ranger-ing proper. Nothing to support this, of course ...
Sounds like fertile ground for a story, Ottis; do you have something about staging stories in bars? 
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Ottis413
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | do you have something about staging stories in bars? |
Hadn't really noticed, but maybe I do.  anything can happen in a bar so I guess it's as good a place as any for a story 
I'll have to look for that Atlas of Middle Earth, looks good.
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Someone asking about Halbarad? Hu, as the the greatest Halbarad fan here (I think) I searchd everywhere and was disappointed that I found nothing of his background.
On the other hand, it makes the character very flexible.
Most stories I have read made him the same age as Aragorn (very often a first degree maternal cousin of some older brother of Gilraen), which would be a very nice thought.
I know of one story where he is a very good friend of Arathorn's, and even one where he is Aragorn's son (which was rather a 'what if Aragorn were forced to sire an heir' by Dwimordene than an actual consideration of possible canon.)
Personally, I go with the majority of a same-aged cousin, because it is a nice thought, no?
Puh, once I even dreamed of him (he had very curly, raven hair) and cursed the fact that I do not have the tiniest bit of talent when it comes to painting (he looked very sexy and would have been worth to be shared *lol*)
Oh hey, what am I talking about? t is all Halbarad's fault! I just can't stop when the man is concerened.
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Ok, I have a question and it concerns people who had read the Silmarillion. Did Melkor/Morgoth had a sword and if it's yes, what is the name of it? Thanks in advance.
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Yes - it was poisoned.
(Probably sharp, too. But that's not described)
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| Robbie wrote: | Yes - it was poisoned.
(Probably sharp, too. But that's not described) |
Thanks for the information. Do you know if it has a name?
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Mr Pointy Thing.
(Or rather, no, I don't know. Sorry!)
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| Isadora22 wrote: | | Ok, I have a question and it concerns people who had read the Silmarillion. Did Melkor/Morgoth had a sword and if it's yes, what is the name of it? Thanks in advance. |
No Morgoth/Melkor didn't had a sword. Melkor did had Grond though, also called the Hammer of the Underworld and he killed Fingolfin with it (who wounded Melkor in return seven times with his sword Ringil).
”Then Morgoth hurled aloft Grond, the Hammer of the Underworld, and swung it down like a bolt of thunder. But Fingolfin sprang aside, and Grond rent a mighty pit in the earth, whence smoke and fire darted. Many times Morgoth essayed to smite him, and each time Fingolfin leaped away, as a lightning shoots from under a dark cloud; and he wounded Morgoth with seven wounds, and seven times Morgoth gave a cry of anguish, whereat the hosts of Angband fell upon their faces in dismay, and the cries echoed in the Northlands.”
- J. R. R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion, chapter 18: Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin [/i]
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| Robbie wrote: | Mr Pointy Thing.
(Or rather, no, I don't know. Sorry!) |
No that was Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)'s favorite stake.
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Yes, you're right. I knew this thing because I followed Buffy's series very carefully as a fan of it. Thanks for the informations. I will try to remind it carefully. This way, I will be able to make the right choice about the character I want to pick. It will help now that I know the response of my question. Thanks to all of people who had answered to it. Things are now clearer for me.
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