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Braeden Fireheart
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*waves*
Female, 28, Aussie, voluntary writer. 
I started reading Tolkien in 1999 when I learned there'd be films based upon The Lord of the Rings, and I wanted to read the books before the films came out.  Started with The Hobbit, then LotR, then Unfinished Tales, and The Silmarillion. I've got three History of Middle-earth books (BoLT1&2, XII), most recently read Roverandom, and I'm patiently waiting for my paperback copy of The Children of Hurin.
My pseudonym here is my own Middle-earth character (created for a LotR fanfic). |
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Findaráto
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Location: Nargothrond
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*waves* Hi, Braeden!
Great to have you.  Hopefully we should be getting some RP's and the like started soon, and it'll be great to have you here for that!
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Varnafindë
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Location: Rivendell, sometimes Norway
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| Findaráto wrote: | EDIT: And Dior is also, incidentally, related to us. You're my first cousin twice removed.  |
How is that? Isn't he your second cousin?
To me you are doubly related, Dior Eluchil. On my father's side you're
my second cousin three times removed (if I'm right about the above). On
my mother's side, you're actually the same (through different people).
I'm even more closely related to your wife, though - she's my grandaunt, sister of my grandfather.
Oh, enough of genealogy ... I'm off to the Lit fora!
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Findaráto
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| Quote: | | How is that? Isn't he your second cousin? |
I'm crap with the relational stuff. 
All I know is I'm related to him through Earwen. My mother is Dior's mother's first cousin. So however that works.
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'But
why dost thou say 'mere words'? Do not words overpass the gulf between
one life and another? Between thee and me surely more has passed than
empty sound?'
~Finrod, Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth
Avatar art by Alice i Angel Falto.
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Braeden Fireheart
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Findaráto wrote: | | Great to have you. Hopefully we should be getting some RP's and the like started soon, and it'll be great to have you here for that! |
Aye, if I can wrangle my muse into doing something for me.
Though, there is a 4th Age RP I've trialed elsewhere - it's been going fairly well there; just damn slow.  It might work better here.
And then there's that other idea I've had for years... that may never work. But this site might be a good place to try it out.  |
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Aikanáro
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Location: Dorthonion-Sondinórë
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome, Braeden and Eluchil! (Love your avatar, by the way!)
Varna - you know far too much when it comes to genealogy! I think I'm just going to call everyone cousin unless I know different. |
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Findaráto
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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Try out any RP ideas you like! We'd be glad to have them. I can't get enough RP, even though I RP heavily on two other sites.
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'But
why dost thou say 'mere words'? Do not words overpass the gulf between
one life and another? Between thee and me surely more has passed than
empty sound?'
~Finrod, Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth
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Varnafindë
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| Findaráto wrote: | | All I know is I'm related to him through Earwen. My mother is Dior's mother's first cousin. So however that works. |
When your mothers are first cousins, then their children - one level down on each side - are second cousins.
It's when you get people from different levels that you get the
'removed' business. My librarian friend in Bexleyheath (whom I visited
in August, and whose husband is recovering from his stroke, btw) found
a table for me, showing graphically who belongs with who - that finally
explained it to me.
Find the level down both sides of the family where one branch
stops, and work out the relationship there - then count the generations
down the other branch.
Arwen and Aragorn are first cousins thirty-something-times removed.
Count the generations down from the son of Elros, who is Arwen's first
cousin.
And it's much easier if you can find that kind of table.
Did I just say 'enough of genealogy'?
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Aikanáro
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Glad to hear your friend's husband is recovering, Varna. And don't stop, it's interesting!
There's a table here if anyone's interested. |
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Varnafindë
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Nice table (different from the one I saw)!
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Eluchil
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Location: Menegroth
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| Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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So, see you all in some days : off to bed, and tomorrow morning to Columbia 
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behold!" said he, "in the armour of Fate (as the Children of Earth name
it) there is ever a rift, and in the walls of Doom a breach, until the
full-making, which ye call the End. So it shall be while I endure, a
secret voice that gainsayeth, and a light where darkness was decreed."
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Findaráto
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Have fun in Columbia, Eluchil!
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'But
why dost thou say 'mere words'? Do not words overpass the gulf between
one life and another? Between thee and me surely more has passed than
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~Finrod, Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth
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adulithien
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Joined: 27 Apr 2008
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Location: Bomb City, TX
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OK, well, a bastardized imaginary Sinda, but another one all the same. Hope it's good enough for you Elu.
So... I'm a 25 year old journalism student. I currently work for slave
wages as a photographer for two different newspapers. It is hellish and
I am looking forward to getting a different job doing fieldwork for an
entomology and silviculture lab. Soon! And then it will be off to Japan
for a year to be overpaid as an assistant English teacher. Yatta!
Other than that, I love the Professor, and particularly the
Silmarillion. I need to read it again when I get done with this whole
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Findaráto
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Welcome, Addie!
*goes to see how many other people she can guilt trip/fenagle/in any other way pressure into joining*
Even if they are Sindarin... 
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'But
why dost thou say 'mere words'? Do not words overpass the gulf between
one life and another? Between thee and me surely more has passed than
empty sound?'
~Finrod, Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth
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Hoom
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Hey everyone!
A lot of you don't know me so I will say that I'm a 20 year old
Australian Science/Arts student who is obsessed with Britian. I know a
few things about post-colonial Asian history especially Buddhism
(though I'm not Buddhist or anything at all) and chemistry. I also
write short stories when I have the time.
As for Prof. Tolkien, it's been a few years since I've read LotR or
the Hobbit (or attempted to brave the archaic style of the Silm ... one
day). I'll leave the literary discussion to my betters.
Adulithien, are you doing JET?!
Eek, I'm so jealous!! Waa, yokatta! I did Japanese for 5 years in high
school, but honestly it was just watching anime and saying itedakimasu
at absolutely everything. Still, I could speak it all right ... now
it's appalling! I'm planning on for applying for JET when I graduate at
the end of next year. |
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