very nice! Soooo... a pinot noir or???

Kortoso wrote:Some modern orc-hybrids may be using the tower to generate energy for their mysterious industries.

Hmm... could be. You can actually see it on Google Earth at NAD-84, UTM 11s, 468523mE, 4232481mN.

Very nice! I love the outward-leaning bowl.

I see now that I should have posted that in a separate thread.
Yes it's a strange sad story... not one I would have written intentionally.
There's more to it... not to the verse itself but as background to where it's coming from and why...

I only saw one jackalope... some miles north of the Morannon, and it must have been a female because it didn't have antlers. I inadvertently almost walked right on it. It stood up suddenly from a shallow hole not ten feet from me and bounded off. I looked it straight in the eye. it was taller than a...

Well, it's been many umpty thousands of the years of our world since Barad-Dur fell, but the Tower of Light that the Elves set up on the former site of the Dark Tower can still be seen through the ruins of the Morannon, when the moon is in just the right phase and the wind blows from the west. I cha...

I absolutely love this concept! Would you be interested in making it into something of a friendly little contest? Or would you prefer a less competitive approach? Either way, I will certainly be looking at the woods with a different eye next time I am out and about! I don't mind a little competitio...

The second one I found was nearly as remarkable... this one was about an hour's drive away in a very remote area of Bear Hollow, near Kings River in Madison County Arkansas. Taken with a Sony Coolpix digital point-and-shoot camera. The root of a large oak tree was curling around a sandstone rock in ...

I'll begin with my first one, and perhaps the most astonishing. This was several years ago in the woods just a few miles from my home. It was taken with a film camera and then scanned. I was looking closely at a strangely shaped burl on a beech tree, and my wife Peggy snapped the photo. We did not n...

I'm sure you all recall Treebeard exhorting Merry and Pippin to keep an eye out for the Entwives on their travels. I would like to challenge people to photograph entwife candidates that they find. I have seen several! As soon as I figure out how one posts images on this board I will try to put some ...

There once was a little girl, sat by the shore Reading library books of animal lore A photograph, taken this very place Showed an otterhead with a whiskered face Little girl went and she asked her pa Then she ran and asked her ma Her parents told her, through their tears There hadn't been an otter f...

LegenGary wrote: I just came across this thread and couldn't help but giggle after reading this.

Yes... the subject line "R-rated Hobbits" had me thinking we were talking some Rosie and Sam honeymoon scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor. Arwen and Aragorn? Faramir and Eowyn?

Interesting news. I am not particularly sorry to hear it. Having been in the knife/sword making trade for quite a few years, I tend to be a fan of "Buy American". The mass influx of poorly made Chinese goods has been devastating for those still trying to pursue the traditional metal crafts...

Yes I've played with Shakudo also. I have a few grams of leftover scraps. (We made the gold marks for Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle from Shakudo) Typical composition ois 94% copper, 5% gold, 1% silver. The raw metal just looks like copper... nothing special about it. But it takes an unusual...

I'd need to do more detailed research to be sure... but just off the cuff: Zinc was not known as a separate metal until the late 1700s. There are indications that it was thought to be a "kind of silver". Here in the Ozark Mountains of Northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri there are all k...