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Post by Michael O'Brien on Feb 2, 2015 13:02:34 GMT
This single figure month has closed its suggestions and is now open for voting. There will be two rounds of voting. This vote will hide the current status of the vote until after you have submitted your idea. Every member gets to vote once.
On the 19th of February I will start the 2nd round and that will run until the end of the month. Please remember you can still sway voters by adding your comments about the ideas and offering support for your favourite, even if you were not the poster than submitted it.
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Post by picard on Feb 2, 2015 14:36:01 GMT
Fili and Kili in the battle of the five armies
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Post by orc on Feb 3, 2015 6:26:59 GMT
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Post by mcdsean on Feb 5, 2015 1:11:31 GMT
Duinhir, lord of the Blackroot Vale
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Post by Milo on Feb 5, 2015 8:59:17 GMT
Merry & Pippin drink to victory at Isengard's gate.
I know this is a single month suggestion but hobbits are so small that I feel 2 minis is a minimum for MS prices.
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Post by northtroll on Feb 5, 2015 17:54:07 GMT
My favorite character has always been Eowyn. I don't think a single of her dressed for battle is currently available. So that is my suggestion.
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Post by northtroll on Feb 5, 2015 17:58:21 GMT
"Eowyn Girds herself for Battle"
We know she disguises herself as a man to join her family in battle, but other than her fight with the Witch King as a boxed set and her holding the sword there are no current figures of her dressed for war. Something that should be remedied!
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Post by Mornedhel on Feb 6, 2015 12:45:30 GMT
Meglinon (S- 'Honey-eater / Bear-like Person') - Bee-herald of Imladris
From Rockheimr@aol.com, Middle-Earth MERP module group
"Bees are infamously haughty, proud, self-important and touchy creatures, ever aware they are the only ones able to create the golden gift of honey. Even worker bees believe themselves to be on a social par with the heirs of an Elvish or Mannish household, and queen bees are as honoured as the head of the house.
Thus, long ago, the Elves learned that to successfully keep and breed bees required ensuring they are kept happy and content, but most importantly feeling appreciated and respected. Thus one must speak to them regularly and always deferentially, almost as a supplicant, regularly informing them of all the doings of the house, and most importantly of all inviting them politely to attend important social events, such as weddings, funerals and so on.
Even though the bees actually don't deign to attend most social functions, feeling they are far too busy working and can't spare the time, should they not be kept properly informed, or worse yet be left uninvited to a wedding for example, they will certainly become most wroth, and either leave in an angry swarm to find a new and better home, with folk who have manners more worthy of them, or worse yet attack anyone who comes near their hives.
So it is that Elves, who love honey like all sensible folk, keep bees in hives, a craft they first invented and perfected, before sharing it with Men, but always appoint a 'Bee-herald', (S- 'Glíwilnaror', 'One who tells the Bees') who spends endless hours talking and singing to the bees, keeping them abreast of current events, or recounting poems and songs for their enjoyment, whilst also of course tending the hives and collecting honeycomb from them with the gracious consent of the Queens.
The Bee-herald of the Rivendell Hives, which are located at the edge of the West Orchard in a neat white fenced area beside a small cottage where the herald lives, is Meglinon.
An Avari Silvan Elf, who was once King Oropher of the Greenwood's Bee-herald, but who departed that land at the end of the last Age, when Oropher's son Thranduil assumed the throne rather than Bladorthin, whom Meglinon have favoured, of average height and stature, with long hazel hair upon which is set a golden circlet with an amber bee emblem at it's centre. His eyes are golden brown, and it is said they were once blue, but that they slowly changed colour over many long years of gazing upon the honey he collects and prizes. Dressed in rustic Silvan green and brown tunic and trews, Meglinon knows the name of every bee in the valley, and their lineage, and refers to them as; 'Master Nimbleflit, of the line of the Glimmergold Hive', or 'Squire Bumbledash', or 'Lord Antbane, of the Combwatch Guard of Good Queen Pollenrich', or 'Young Sir Farflight the Daring', or 'Old Strongwing the Flowerminer' and so on. The bees respect Meglinon more than they do anyone else at Rivendell, save Lord Elrond and his immediate family, and occasional important visitors such as the Lady Galadriel for example. The bees will not bother other Elves, but Meglinon asks that any entering the Hive Paddock bow as they approach the hives. On some nights as Meglinon sings to them in Elvish, the bees will dance for him, soaring about the evening sky in amazing swarming patterns, their combined buzzing forming a rythmic accompaniment to Meglinon's songs"
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Post by mcdsean on Feb 6, 2015 14:11:00 GMT
Meglinon (S- 'Honey-eater / Bear-like Person') - Bee-herald of Imladris Isn't this just a character that someone made up on a MERP fan fiction site that never appears in any of Tolkien's works or any published material?
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Post by Luthien Tinuviel on Feb 6, 2015 15:51:16 GMT
Bladorthin
Bladorthin was a King of Men in the Northeast sometime during the late Third Age. His realm was probably close in proximity to Lonely Mountain, because in The Hobbit Thorin and Balin remember and wonder if Bladorthin's order is still intact:
"The spears made for the armies of the great King Bladorthin (long since dead), each had a thrice-forged head and their shafts were inlaid with cunning gold, but they were never delivered or paid for."
Therefore Bladorthin probably ruled either Lake-town, Dale, maybe Rhûn, or Dorwinion. It says in the above quote that the spears were never delivered or paid for. This means either that the coming of Smaug or Bladorthin's own death delayed their delivery. The King's name appears to come from Elvish, most likely derived from blador, meaning "wide plain" and thin, meaning "grey". Actually, in the first draft of the Hobbit Gandalf the Grey was called Bladorthin. In the final copy, however, it the name only survives in this way.
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Post by Halbarad II. on Feb 8, 2015 13:31:27 GMT
seated Elessar - King of Gondor
This is my idea for the new Month of suggesting and voting:
We have the Throne of Gondor modelled and cast ALREADY and it is still available from Mithril on this webpage:
MC20 Lord of the Rings 'Denethor™, Steward of Gondor™' Classic 32mm Scale Metal Figure.
BUT the trone is empty, because Denethor isnt alloved to sit on it.
So my thougt is to have one single figure of Aragorn, King Elessar in royal garments with the winged crown, the sceptre of Annúminas and perhaps even the Ring of Barahir visible in a sitting position, supposed to be placed ON the throne of Gondor
as described in
Lord of the Rings Book III The Return of the King Chapter V - The Steward and The King:
In the days that followed his crowning the King sat on his throne in the halls of the Kings and pronounced his judgements. And embassies came from many lands and peoples, from the East and from the South, and from the borders of Mirkwood, and from Dunland in the West. And The King pardoned the Easterlings that had given themselves up, and sent them away free, and he made peace with the peoples of Harad; and the slaves of Mordor he released and gave to them all the lands about Lake Núrnen to be their own. And there were brought before him many to receive his praise and reward for their valour;...
This means dear Fellowship members, should you like this suggestion to support it to be released just order Nr. MC20 together with the purchase of King Elessar, and we can have a very much worthy Fellowship miniature of one of the most important characters of The Lord of the Rings!
Please think about that possibility
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Post by cfisher on Feb 8, 2015 16:12:26 GMT
"Eowyn Girds herself for Battle" We know she disguises herself as a man to join her family in battle, but other than her fight with the Witch King as a boxed set and her holding the sword there are no current figures of her dressed for war. Something that should be remedied! Don't forget that we already have M316 Dernhelm; Eowyn already dressed for battle.
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Post by Mornedhel on Feb 8, 2015 20:18:53 GMT
seated Elessar - King of GondorThis means dear Fellowship members, should you like this suggestion to support it to be released just order Nr. MC20 together with the purchase of King Elessar, and we can have a very much worthy Fellowship miniature of one of the most important characters of The Lord of the Rings!
Please think about that possibility Excellent ...
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Post by ddaines on Feb 11, 2015 22:59:19 GMT
Well Bladorthin gets my vote as I have suggested him more than once myself and would like to see this character realised
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Post by maenas on Feb 12, 2015 10:59:14 GMT
Both kings drawed my attention, but I have only one vote so, mine is for Elessar
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