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Thanks for the warm welcome.  To answer your question about my favorite book;  it would probably be The Children of Hurin and the main character within- Turin Turambar.  I think its a perfectly miserable story.  The fact that the main character lives such a tragic life and it seems that all his plans and intentions fall to misfortune.  Tolkien wasn't able to finish the story before his death so his son Christopher compiled his father's notes and published it.  It's got all the depth and history of LOTR and Dragons!  Have you read it?

     This book in particular raised a question with me.  Turin has a sister Nienor, who gets bewitched by the dragon Glaurung and and forgets who she is.  Don't want to spoil it but she ends up casting herself into the river and is presumed dead.  Her body was never found. 

This led me to believe that she might be lady goldberry from LOTR!  Tom Bombadil says he found her in the river of course this was before the world changed and most of the lands that this story takes place in sink beneath the sea.  Stuff like that always keeps me guessing!  Kind of a stretch I know but provoking yes? 

Do you get into the Role playing games on this site?  Hope to bump into you in a chat room or forum soon.  

Carry on Bear.  Your providing a marvelous service to the community.  You have proven well established in the writings of Professor Tolkien and various subsequent studies.  I dig it!  You are the Lore Keeper I strive to be.  In my brief searches around the forums of this site I've noticed that you have been around for sometime.  It's good to meet a staple such as yourself.  I look forward to hearing more of your exploits and hope I may tap your brain in the future. 

Question:  What's the best way to get an E-mail alert if I'm responded to?  I'm not only new to this site and chat rooms in general, but also to this new fan dangled technology, in fact, this is my first PC since 1994 (not to date myself). 

Take care, and God speed!

Jaidoprism7,

To get email alerts is quite simple really.

At the bottom of the reply box, below the "Show Preview" and "Hide Preview" boxes is a small box with the caption;  " Email me whenever there is a new post to this topic".

Just check it and presto ~ any posted activity will trigger your E~mail ...

I just keep logging on and checking the recent activity posted below the chat box.

Hope this helps.

Thank you for the kind affirmations.  I do enjoy this forum very much ... but folks like mouth of sauron, Glorfindel 1235, Arwen Legolas, Mr. Baggins, Galin, and Kyranger (to name a few), are amazing wells of knowledge and fun. And every single one of them can and will respond warmly to your questions and comments.

The computer tech stuff seems to come with practice and asking questions as you are doing.

I have a hunch you will be a "lore-master" yourself before too long.

A kingdom to belong to...that sounds ideal.  I like the mode of this site so far. Everyone seems to be well rooted in Tolkien knowledge.  To paraphrase the irishman in "Braveheart" when asked if he was mad:  "Well,  I've come to the right place then eh?"

Technically I am not supposed to post here because I joined much later than you (and am in no position to welcome you). But that's where you posted your hypothesis that Goldberry is Nienor. I read it when I was fixing to introduce myself - to see how people do it. Then I forgot where I have seen it and couldn't find it, until I finally did a search...

So I was amazed that someone would come up with something that original. Evidence is of course lacking but the hypothesis itself is attractive. Tom Bombadil is in all possible ways unlike Turin, and wouldn't she want just that, should she indeed have undergone such a transformation?

The piece on Arkenstone/Silmaril is now in the "Lost history and speculation fun" in Utterly Miscellaneous.