Howdy! Just a quick introduction. I'm an old (well not that old) avid Tolkien fan. I first read the LOTR books when I was 13, in the original language. Enjoyed it immensely, so I got hooked for life! I bought my first prop from UC in 2003 which was the Shards of Narsil. After that it became kind of a draught in buying things for myself since my son was born the same year. And of course being married can be hard on the wallet
But now I am a single parent, divorced 2 years, and I decided I would follow my affliction which is Tolkien yet again. So I have started to build a collection of mostly UC items. I get a bit upset with myself when I see how much the price of some items have risen in just the past months to a year, mainly due to re-hype after The Hobbit I think. I should have bought something now and again over the past years, but alas! I'm getting there now anyway!
I am also a fan of Game of Thrones. And this makes me want to decide sometimes on which item I want to get since I do not have unlimited funds. This I hope will get easier when I manage to complete the collection of UC items (that I want) that are already released and OOS. Buuuuuut so many new things pop up so it is really hard to know where to go next. I was going to order the book version of Longclaw last year, but decided it could wait another month. I do regret that now, it was sold out 2 weeks later...
But that's the way of the game. Now I am having fun on forums (plural: fora?) getting to know fellow collectors and discussing this and that. And of course the good deal that often comes up. And ebay
Well, glad to be able to participate here. Hopefully I can ad something to the community
E.
Re: Hi from Norway
2Welcome Sirjump glad to have you here.
You fit right in I challenge you to find anyone here that has not passed up an opportunity to get an item to then kick themselves in the *** and later scavenge like a mad man to get the piece he/she wanted.
But that becomes a fun albeit sometimes e xp ensive challenge .
You fit right in I challenge you to find anyone here that has not passed up an opportunity to get an item to then kick themselves in the *** and later scavenge like a mad man to get the piece he/she wanted.
But that becomes a fun albeit sometimes e xp ensive challenge .
Re: Hi from Norway
3Welcome aboard, Sirjump. The people here are the finest kind!
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Re: Hi from Norway
4[quote=""Sirjump""]Howdy! Just a quick introduction. I'm an old (well not that old) avid Tolkien fan. I first read the LOTR books when I was 13, in the original language. Enjoyed it immensely, so I got hooked for life! I bought my first prop from UC in 2003 which was the Shards of Narsil. ....I get a bit upset with myself when I see how much the price of some items have risen in just the past months to a year, mainly due to re-hype after The Hobbit I think. I should have bought something now and again over the past years, but alas! I'm getting there now anyway!
... Now I am having fun on forums (plural: fora?) getting to know fellow collectors and discussing this and that. And of course the good deal that often comes up. And ebay
Well, glad to be able to participate here. Hopefully I can ad something to the community
E.[/quote]
Love the avatar, Sirjump!
And welcome indeed to the "fora"....(ooooo --- another Latinist perchance?---yes, plural, 2nd declension, neuter.)
You'll fit right in.
... Now I am having fun on forums (plural: fora?) getting to know fellow collectors and discussing this and that. And of course the good deal that often comes up. And ebay
Well, glad to be able to participate here. Hopefully I can ad something to the community
E.[/quote]
Love the avatar, Sirjump!
And welcome indeed to the "fora"....(ooooo --- another Latinist perchance?---yes, plural, 2nd declension, neuter.)
You'll fit right in.
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Re: Hi from Norway
6[quote=""Deimos""].(ooooo --- another Latinist perchance?---yes, plural, 2nd declension, neuter.) [/quote]
Oh dear, the Latin nerds are here! Agricola, agricolae, agricolarum
Oh dear, the Latin nerds are here! Agricola, agricolae, agricolarum
Re: Hi from Norway
7[quote=""Sirjump""]Thanks for the nice welcome [/quote]
Indeed, SirJump...Welcome aboard!
Indeed, SirJump...Welcome aboard!
Re: Hi from Norway
8[quote=""polyphemus""]Oh dear, the Latin nerds are here! Agricola, agricolae, agricolarum [/quote]
You forgot "Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est".
You forgot "Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est".
"Eternity is an awful long time, especially towards the end."
"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing.
It also depends on what sort of person you are.” -- CSL
Re: Hi from Norway
9Welcome to this wonderful forum SJ I hope you will have a good time over here and i believe we know each other for a while somewhere else in fact i'm pretty sure about that hahaha.
Very nice collection you have,you must be very proud of it.
Very nice collection you have,you must be very proud of it.
Re: Hi from Norway
10Need I say a thing?
How about a pun?
You're welcome!
How about a pun?
You're welcome!
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