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- Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:19 pm
- Forum: Dwarven Culture
- Topic: Dwarven Bounder?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 54785
Re: Dwarven Bounder?
Iodo, I think it just depends on how you prefer to describe things, if that makes sense. For example, when we hear the voice of Tolkien's characters, we are hearing them translated from the languages they were speaking in their world, into the language we understand. So, when Tolkien as the translat...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:55 pm
- Forum: Dwarven Culture
- Topic: Dwarven Bounder?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 54785
Re: Dwarven Bounder?
I agree with Peter, Tolkien mentions bounders at the beginning of the Fellowship, in "The shadow of the past", during a conversation at The Green Dragon at Bywater. My impression is that bounders are a kind of hobbit border patrol group. At least they turn away people (or other creatures) ...
- Wed Aug 15, 2018 8:06 pm
- Forum: WMA / NMA
- Topic: Conducting reconnaissance; a multiple part post.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11113
Conducting reconnaissance; a multiple part post.
Greetings all, I've been thinking about what I could share with the forum that might not have already been thoroughly discussed, and have settled here. I didn't want to just launch into a sort of class on how to conduct reconnaissance without examining what the forum had in it's collective memory re...
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 6:28 am
- Forum: Soft Kit
- Topic: concerning cloaks...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12566
Re: concerning cloaks...
Roac, I can speak to the poncho/woobie thought a bit. I spent many years with those pieces of gear constantly in my rucksack, and outside of basic training never used my poncho as a piece of wet-weather gear (because it sucked, I always ended up wet anyway, so might as well not be all flippety-flapp...
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:20 am
- Forum: The Bard's Stage
- Topic: Ranger oaths and other items of interest
- Replies: 36
- Views: 62926
Re: Ranger oaths and other items of interest
Here is the oath of Fëanor, from "Morgoth's Ring". This might also provide a fine base for other oaths. “Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean Brood of Morgoth or bright Vala, Elda or Maia or aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth, Neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, D...
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:02 am
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: 3rd Age longsword scabbard
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18309
Re: 3rd Age longsword scabbard
You could put a really beautiful cap on the butt of that knife without too much trouble, but how useful it might be even for crushing nuts or used as an improvised pestle would depend on how you secure it and what kind of shape you put to it. Depending on how you attach it, you might need to shorten...
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:43 am
- Forum: Soft Kit
- Topic: Current thoughts on "Ranger" boots?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 26262
Re: Current thoughts on "Ranger" boots?
I've had over the knee cavalier boots that had really pointy toes, and I used to fence in them and such. I can tell you that I agree completely with your decision to move away from pointy toes...not easy to run in for sure. Those boots had a spine up the back (kind of like the ones in the photo), an...
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 4:59 am
- Forum: Hard Kit
- Topic: knife sheath attatchments - what's your favorite?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 24548
Re: knife sheath attatchments - what's your favorite?
I agree...looks great, and keeps the weapon secure. Win/win!
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Grimolt
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Grimolt
- Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dwarven Hair Cutting Techniques?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5495
Re: Dwarven Hair Cutting Techniques?
"Fili! Get over here!" he called out. Out of the side of his beard he quietly said, "Hey Bombur, hold my tankard and watch this..."
- Mon Jul 23, 2018 4:31 pm
- Forum: Dwarven Culture
- Topic: An Adventure in Dwarven Summer Kit – Pic Heavy
- Replies: 9
- Views: 22109
Re: An Adventure in Dwarven Summer Kit – Pic Heavy
Your geo-cache clue looks to be a short walk south from the Barns at Alderlee. Looks like a beautiful area to tramp around in!
Looks like you had a great time, I'm very inspired to get out and do a bit of rambling myself. Thank you!
Very respectfully,
Grimolt
Looks like you had a great time, I'm very inspired to get out and do a bit of rambling myself. Thank you!
Very respectfully,
Grimolt
- Mon Jul 23, 2018 1:40 am
- Forum: WMA / NMA
- Topic: Ranger patrol tactics
- Replies: 16
- Views: 34491
Re: Ranger patrol tactics
Elleth, Thank you for posting the Michael Martinez article links, that opened a resource to me that I was not previously aware of. (Bow) I have a sneaking suspicion that Tolkien's ideas about how sparse the Dúnedain population in the North was involved several different factors. First the Dúnedain...
- Sun Jul 22, 2018 5:50 am
- Forum: WMA / NMA
- Topic: Ranger patrol tactics
- Replies: 16
- Views: 34491
Re: Ranger patrol tactics
Kortoso, While arrows are quiet, people (and other creatures) more often than not don't die quietly. I'm afraid that Tolkien would have known that all too well. At least, that was where my mind went regarding what Haldir was referring to, I could very well be missing the mark. However, when a Galadr...
- Thu Jul 19, 2018 7:47 pm
- Forum: WMA / NMA
- Topic: Ranger patrol tactics
- Replies: 16
- Views: 34491
Re: Ranger patrol tactics
Kortoso, I was giving Elleth's idea some thought. To only be able to gather thirty men for a mission of that importance implies it seems either an extremely sparse population, or very heavy commitments elsewhere I realized that I was thinking at the problem in a myopic and self-oriented way. And tha...
- Wed Jul 18, 2018 4:58 pm
- Forum: WMA / NMA
- Topic: Ranger patrol tactics
- Replies: 16
- Views: 34491
Re: Ranger patrol tactics
Elleth, I think that regarding the Grey Company, or any of the Rangers in the North, the analogy of a colonial muster is way closer to their organization than that of the military unit of the Rangers in Ithilien. Even then, it's a bit on the iffy side in my opinion. The way that Tolkien writes of th...
- Wed Jul 18, 2018 6:07 am
- Forum: WMA / NMA
- Topic: Ranger patrol tactics
- Replies: 16
- Views: 34491
Re: Ranger patrol tactics
My apologies for waking a long sleeping post, I hope that you will forgive me for any incivility. I feel that I can competently shed some light on relatively current US Army doctrine regarding recon/patrolling tactics, techniques, and procedures. I served (got out in March 2015) as a RSTA Cavalry Sc...