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Announcements and Articles: The Gatehouse Quarter => The Welcome Hall - Start Here! => Topic started by: Glaurung on August 03, 2014, 10:12:39 AM
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Hi there.
I understand new members are encouraged to introduce themselves here. I went to Exilicon and met some of you; you seem like interesting people, so I thought I'd join.
Jubal will know me immediately from my user name; Comrade_General survived the mental and physical tests of a tour of Cambridge with me; four more of you were kind enough to repay me for your drinks. I'm waiting to see what response I get from Pentagathus...
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Wharblegarble?
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Indeed :) Welcome to the site!
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Hello somewhat-newcomer! :D Welcome to our humble abode. ;D
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Thanks for the welcome. I'm hoping I can make a contribution here, though I'm not sure what it might be, as I'm not really into games. However, I'm a computer programmer who's interested in SF & fantasy, languages and history, so I hope I can add something to discussions.
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Mark? Hi there, I was Rob maybe you saw me at the convention? Blue shirt, nerdy haircut, joking with cg most of the time :P
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All you convention - goers :(.
How bout instead of having it in north UK, you just bring it a bit further south down to Australia ;p
Anyway, welcome! We certainly hope you don't vanish.
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It'll be good to hopefully get more discussion going in the sciences and history sections, certainly :)
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Mark? Hi there, I was Rob maybe you saw me at the convention? Blue shirt, nerdy haircut, joking with cg most of the time :P
Hi there. Yes, I am Mark - I guess comrade_general mentioned me last week. I did see you, and I recognise you from the photos on the Facebook page. I now wish I had introduced myself to you and others, but I wasn't very awake that afternoon (too hot!) and it takes me a while to "warm up" to people. Still, I will know for next time!
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Anyway, welcome! We certainly hope you don't vanish.
Many thanks - I hope I don't as well!
How bout instead of having it in north UK, you just bring it a bit further south down to Australia ;p
It can be done: the Tolkien Society (for Jubal's benefit, not the Cambridge one but the UK and international one) occasionally holds its annual "Seminar" in Australia instead of the UK. I went "down under" for the one in Sydney in 2007, and spent 6 weeks touring Australia and New Zealand. An antipodean Exilicon might just tempt me again...
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Welcome to Exilian!
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Welcome Glaurung! :)
How does one manage to take 6 weeks off of work?? :o
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Welcome Glaurung! :)
Thank you.
How does one manage to take 6 weeks off of work?? :o
By having an annual holiday allowance of 25 days (this is now quite common in the UK) and by working for a company that's willing to let me organise this sort of thing provided I give them plenty of warning - about a year in this case!
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Child! :P
Welcome to Exilian :D
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Child! :P
Hello, mum :)
Welcome to Exilian :D
Many thanks, and thank you also to Othko97. I'm enjoying being here.
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Wasn't Glaurung the father of dragons? So MoD would now be MotFoD if she is Glaurung's mumma.
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Wasn't Glaurung the father of dragons?
The father of dragons, and the first dragon, if I've read the Silmarillion correctly. It's not stated where Glaurung (and hence the whole dragon species) came from. Then again, Tolkien didn't do biology, so if he wanted dragons, he just invented them.
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I wanted my name to be 'Mother of Baby Soup Dragons' but it wouldn't fit in the text field :(
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He was also slaughtered by Turin wasn't he?
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Yarp. But he got revenge. In a pretty bitchin fashion.