Buckles? Like medieval style belt or armor buckles? Another idea: you could make a fire piston - a project presumably within the great knowledge and wisdom of the Numenoreans, may have been passed down for generations due to the great craft of its makers - and the perfect sort of ranger project for ...

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Continued discussion? This is still far enough out that I can try to plan for it.

Ernildir wrote:Come, I seek a bargain with thee:
For the least of all these,
Of the great you'll have three;
For the least of all these,
You'll have friendship with me.

Rings! Specifically Sauron asking the dwarves of Erebor for Bilbo's ring, in return for three dwarf rings.

PJ's dwarves must have a higher heat tolerance... If Thorin can hold is knuckles an inch above a river of molten gold, maybe he does all his forging without tongs too... Honestly from a visual/conceptual/technical perspective, I think the whole "metalworking" part bugs me more than anythin...

Agreed...there is no mention of plate armor other than helms in Tolkien's works; everything else is a coat of steel or mithril rings, such as Bilbo/Frodo's, and Gimli's, which he wore despite traveling because "Dwarves make light of burdens". I don't see the need for anything beyond leath...

This is a start: http://www.fanedit.org/ifdb/component/content/article/79-fanedit-listings/fanfix/962-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-arkenstone-edition On their forums they are already discussing an edit of Desolation; and I believe the same editor plans to do a "purist" cut of all three...

Well, I went and saw it last night... without giving spoilers, here are my impressions: First of all as a parenthetical remark, I got to watch in HFR 3D this time.... and wow, I thought it was great. It was a little odd the first few minutes, but I quickly adapted; for me this is the only way you ca...

Ah, I figured it would be something like that. And you're right, a once-size-fits-all solution is never optimum for a particular situation - I think that's true no matter what you're talking about. So then you would say that one couldn't simply take multiple herbs noted for a particular effect, and ...

At this point I'm pretty open - my only issue with weekdays is that I don't get much PTO. Also - what's the weather like in early April? I went (semi-minimalist) camping with some friends the first week in April this year.... we had snow, and I was freezing my tail off the first night (no proper ten...

Does that mean if I plan an event in Michigan, you guys will come up here too? Maybe we could do February if you're feeling adventurous.

Thanks for the info herbcraft! This immediately causes me to wonder: is there any problem with just mixing every herb with healing properties into a "super-salve" that has it all? Because the (over)enthusiastic engineer in me always wants to optimize to the most effective possible solution.

I'd love to be able to go, though it's about 5 hours away for me; this is too early to say for sure if I can go, but I want to try to be able to. Since you have weekdays off, and most of us (I assume) have weekends off, I would suggest timing it in a way that catches both weekday and weekend. So, da...

Wanderer, eh? That's fascinating. First, because wanderer means nearly the same thing as ranger, second, because "not all those who wander are lost." And third, because there is an anglo-saxon poem called "The Wanderer" which the Professor was quite well aware of - in fact he ada...

As a blacksmith, I would say that doing a leaf/vine version of that would be really easy. Is there any special requirement for steel type, or is there some type that works best?

Actually, those are both correct and equivalent. If you have an "n" before a "t" or "d," it can be written shorthand by having a line over top of the letter (usually I draw it with more of a tilde or wavy line though). Also, if you have an "m" before a "p...