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- Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the Pipe Smokers: Favorite Tobacco?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16603
Re: For the Pipe Smokers: Favorite Tobacco?
My blend of choice is Boswell's "Berry Cobbler." http://www.boswellpipes.com/tobaccoblends.html I partake about four to eight pipe-fulls a year, particularly in nice weather when hiking. Keeps bugs away from your face, too. Regarding blending 'baccy in the same pipe: it depends on the kind...
- Mon Mar 03, 2014 1:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Strider Sword
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14514
Re: Strider Sword
If you want to do it with Strider's sword rather than Anduril, I could take a photo of my Borderwatch for you to 'shop.
- Sat Feb 15, 2014 4:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For those dealing with this latest storm!!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 23827
Re: For those dealing with this latest storm!!
We're too Hellenistic in our thought: Helios and Selene, Apollo and Diana, etc.Eledhwen wrote:And the Japanese; the Sun is female for them, or was at one time. Actually, for a lot of early cultures the Sun was female, something that hasn't really filtered through to the modern age so easily.
Eledhwen
- Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:05 am
- Forum: WMA / NMA
- Topic: True WMA in film
- Replies: 38
- Views: 50446
Re: True WMA in film
Kingdom of Heaven at least *mentioned* some WMA, and showed it in the training sequence. They then proceeded to go back to spinny movie swordfighting for the rest of the film.
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:46 pm
- Forum: WMA / NMA
- Topic: Scenario - February 2014
- Replies: 17
- Views: 25394
Re: Scenario - February 2014
Here's mine. First of all, as a tactician, I really dislike this village. As one of the guys in the 13th Warrior said, "You couldn't keep a cow out of this place." No fence, no wall, no river... My first inclination is pure flight, and if we had a few horses, or if we didn't have so many c...
- Sat Feb 01, 2014 3:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Member Shirt!!!
- Replies: 87
- Views: 81451
Re: The Member Shirt!!!
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- Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:21 am
- Forum: WMA / NMA
- Topic: Scenario - January 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20432
Re: Scenario - January 2014
Okay, here we go. First problem is those hounds. So, I cut into the rocky foothills and find myself a nice steep cliff, climbable but too steep for dogs. Up I go, straight up and over. The orcs will be forced to either leave the dogs behind (unlikely) or find another way around. This should buy me a...
- Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Midde Earth from space, rendered photorealistically
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9921
Re: Midde Earth from space, rendered photorealistically
Well, you're north of the Gulf of Lune, somewhere near the Blue Mountains... I'm guessing around where Thorin's dwarven colony would be?Greg wrote:Kudos goes to the first person who can accurately guess where the "camera" is at the beginning of that video.
- Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:14 am
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: Affordable spear head.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15326
Re: Affordable spear head.
I've always gone with around 5 feet for a dedicated thrower, 8+ for a dedicated stabber, and between 6 and 7 for an allaround. But that's based on personal preference more than any historical record.
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 3:02 am
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: Affordable spear head.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15326
Re: Affordable spear head.
I also have the other JAS Townsend spearhead and it is nice and solid. No complaints. I've thrown it, sharpened it, stabbed soft targets with it, and once scared off coyotes with it and some recorder music. If that is like this one, it's not a bad purchase. http://s17.postimg.org/lh95mpy1b/A_Blacksh...
- Tue Dec 17, 2013 12:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: COOKING
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8068
Re: COOKING
That pan Chris linked is pretty cool, but frying pans to be used as frying pans, if you'll pardon my being repetitive, shouldn't be made of tin-lined copper. The tin-to-copper attachment process can't handle the high heats necessary for browning meat, etc., and will bubble and separate from the cop...
- Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: COOKING
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8068
Re: COOKING
It depends on what you're cooking and how. The Boy Scouts have a saying: "Flames for boiling, coals for broiling." Mostly of my packed-in trekking food tends to be dried stuff that gets boiled into a stew: dried corn, jerky, and beans. Flames and a pot serve quite well in this regard: I su...
- Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:35 pm
- Forum: Dunedain Culture
- Topic: Ranger Boats and Watercraft
- Replies: 27
- Views: 32528
Re: Ranger Boats and Watercraft
Ringulf, where in Lindenhurst? I lived on 8th street by the water, and then on 5th a few blocks north of Montauk, up until two years ago!
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: To Prof. Tolkien, wherever he may be...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17594
Re: To Prof. Tolkien, wherever he may be...
I've attained a sort of legendary status among my friends... See, whenever we're watching LOTR or the Hobbit, and something doesn't make sense, they turn to me and say, "Why did X do Y?" (Why is Arwen dying? Why is Frodo showing the Ringwraiths the Ring? Why doesn't Gandalf just cast Feath...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:20 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movie Talk
- Topic: Desolation of Smaug: Review
- Replies: 25
- Views: 41455
Desolation of Smaug: Review
Spoiler alert, in case it isn't obvious. ... ... ... Okay, you've been warned. First off, I have to say, I love the opening scene. It really is straight out of the Appendix (or was it the Unfinished Tales?), the meeting between Gandalf and Thorin. And, of course, it means we get to see Bree again......