So, this weekend my Dagorhir friends and I were planning to do a period hike. The closest, most convenient place with plenty of trails and room was French Creek campground, but we totally forgot to check whether we needed to book a site for Memorial Day weekend! So, instead, we went to the village f...

I love this pack idea! I tried lining my canvas Cloak with wool since it provided absolutely no warmth, but that made it too bulky, so I've been looking for a good way to carry a blanket. In fact, I've been looking for a way to carry two blankets, one for under me and one for on top. So, this is per...

Sorry I haven't replied for a while, but I got a chance to try this shelter this weekend, and it was amazing! Plenty of room for my bedroll along the side, and plenty of room on either side of that to shift during the night. The high entrance made it easy to get in and out and move gear around from ...

Nemo approves of this idea. I also find myself often looking up people's kits on this forum, but it's often difficult. What if there were a section of the wiki for kit breakdowns? People could keep updating them whenever they update their kits, and new and old people could have reference points for ...

Thanks for the tip. I used my pollaxe trainer because it happened to be the right height. I'm going to make a better pole before I use the tent for any length of time. I did notice the stabbing tip staining oddly, so I took that section off of the pole. Now the hammer head is just preventing the loo...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1003145_10200957005200244_457763250_n.jpg It's rained every single day for almost three weeks now, so I just got a chance to set up the tarp shelter in that configuration. Obviously I haven't tried it for real yet, but this is probably my new f...

Oh, wow. That's probably the coolest tarp shelter I've ever seen. Once I get back from my Fourth of July trip, I'm definitely going to have to try that. Hopefully my tent being 12'x12' instead of 9'x12' won't matter. I'm pretty short, so a six foot high peak sounds like plenty of room, and being abl...

I love my tarp shelter. It's so light and versatile, and a simple diamond fly can handle most types of weather. But last week was Dagorhir's biggest event, Ragnarok, and it was a week of solid rain. Luckily, I had the forethought to take my 10'x12' that lasted through a hurricane at the 2005 Nationa...

Wow, thanks! That means a lot coming from you. Feel free to use it, though you may want to copy and paste it again because I fixed a couple of grammatical errors and typos.

Since there's been a push to get better garb in Dagorhir recently, I decided to write a guide on what I feel is necessary to look like a Ranger. Check it out and let me know what you guys think. http://www.dagorhir.com/forums/index.php/topic,26870.0.html Note: it's not Tolkien-specific, but then aga...

Sorry in advance everyone.

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But, on a more serious note, stay safe if you're in the path of this thing.

I got my third viewing in and it got even better. I looked, but I couldn't see this dwarf everyone's been talking about at the battle for Moria.

Is there a difference between the Extended Soundtrack and the Special Edition Soundtrack? I got the latter because I couldn't find the former, and I've noticed that (as usual) all of the best songs are inexplicably absent. Instead of the amazing music from the end of the Into the Fire scene, I got f...

Alright, second viewing done. I take back what I said about the dwarves and the cgi. Taking a better look at the armor, it does fit in with the overall art style of the films. The cgi managed to hold up even in Imax HFR somehow, which impressed me. I can't wait to see it again.

I try to identify the swords every time I watch Return of the King. Neither are prominent swords from the movies, I know that much. I always assumed that the curved one was an Easterling's sword, but I could never figure out the straight one. Since they are in the Hobbit, though, they must not have ...