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A little bit of art would be wonderful .

Hullo,

My name is Beren and I found this site by searching around for some Tolkien news... maybe some people do know me in here since I have been using the nickname Beren since 1996 on numerous Tolkien related boards.

I'm now 28 years and live in Belgium... and been reading Tolkien since age 6, collecting Tolkien books since I was 11 and have now a very large book collection. I'm the man behind the website Tolkienlibrary.com and hope to find some amusement here... and interesting topics to talk about.

It is terrific to meet you Beren. I have seen your name on other boards (I lurk at a few) and welcome you to MeJ. I look forward to having your thoughts on our humble board.

Welcome Beren!

I am hoping that you will share your passion for Tolkien with all of us here at Middle-earth Journeys. Your website, Tolkienlibrary.com is an enormous resource and a well crafted website. Huge kudos to you for putting that together.

We have just added an articles section to our forums, and are anticipating some vibrant discussions there.

We also hope that you might join the rest of us in an essay contest that we are launching today. Stay tuned!

Again...welcome. It is good to have you here.

Hello and welcome, Beren. You run a great website - I have used it as a resource. It's great to have you here .

hello Beren

Nice to have more members to join in the fun

Belated greetings and welcome from me, too, Beren! Please make yourself at home. I look forward to learning new things from you.

Hi there, I'm White rose who has 'crossed over' from Viggo works to see what MeJ is all about. May take me a little while to find my way around. I'm not sure my Tolkien knowledge will be up to much , but I may learn something
Great to see some names from the 'other side' Anyway I am on New Zealand time so I'm off to bed now

White rose Oh there's more emoticons here

Hi White Rose. Post when you can and don't worry about being a novice Tolkien student...I'm one too.

Howdy White Rose! Glad you made the crossing! Gotta LOVE that Tolkien!!

Greetings, White Rose! and what a lovely name. I figure that everyone is a novice in regard to someone. There's lots to be learned by everyone here, which is cool, right?

Hello White rose

Nice to have you join MEJ and from Viggoworks ( I like your taste)

Hello White Rose , lovely to see you here .

Merry wrote:Greetings, White Rose! and what a lovely name. I figure that everyone is a novice in regard to someone. There's lots to be learned by everyone here, which is cool, right?

Thank you all for the welcome. Although I live in NZ I am English, from Yorkshire to be precise and the county flower of Yorkshire is the white rose...

Ref Tolkien, it's a while since I read the books so rather rusty. One thing I'd like to share though is how I think Tolkien brought in pieces of where he had been or read, into his books.

For example, in Beddgelert in North Wales there is Sygun copper mines. Just outside these mines is a hill called Dinas Emyrs where Welsh history has it that the red dragon (of Wales) fought the white dragon (of England) - the red dragon won, hence a red dragon is on the Welsh flag.

But doesn't that make you think of Smaug and the mines etc??? Anyway, not sure this should be posted here but I still don't know my way around yet. Will came back and play soon

I, for one, would love to learn more about things llike that--post away!