Very cool. “Do what you love and you won’t work a day in your life.”
The one I know takes place on a dark street and ends with “I must be the luckiest Palestinian in Belfast…”
In like 1995 or so. That and alt.fan.pratchett
LOL - thanks.
You mean Adunaic?
Well if you’re going to be nitpicky about it, I meant Adûnaic. 
Hey, did Legolas fight in the battle that saw Sauron defeated by Isildur?
Probably not. There is no mention of any of Thranduil’s people joining in that battle.
And I see no birthdate for Leggo, so I can’t tell if he was even alive at the time.
From the Tolkien Gateway’s entry on Thranduil:
The Elves of Mirkwood joined the Last Alliance and in S.A. 3434, Thranduil followed his father and numerous lightly armed Elves in the War of the Last Alliance. In the Battle of Dagorlad, Oropher was slain in the first assault upon Mordor, “rushing forward at the head of his most doughty warriors before Gil-galad had given the signal for the advance.”[2] His son survived, but over the course of the war, two-thirds of his people had perished. After the Siege of Barad-dûr in S.A. 3441, when Sauron was defeated, Thranduil led the remainder of his people north back to the Woodland Realm, where he was crowned king.[2]
The reference is to Unfinished Tales, “The History of Galadriel and Celeborn”, “Appendix B: The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves”
No mention of when Legolas was born, or if he was present.
Thank you, I had missed that.
Middle-earth travel posters: Hobbiton - Nucleus | Art Gallery and Store
Scroll down to see others. Quite striking!
They remind of the old Ace edition paperback covers from the Sixties.
Wow! Well, I know what I’m buying myself for my birthday.
Nice art, but a part of me resents that they’re just using the Weta imagery rather than original interpretations. It seems a little creatively depauperate somehow.
A bright, distant star is given a Tolkienesque name: WHL0137-LS - Wikipedia
Please excuse my 12 year gap in responding to this thread. 
To answer various points in no particular order:
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I’m a chap (my reference to being like an Entwife was that ‘nobody knew where I was’ (as I hadn’t been put on the original thread list)
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my favourite character is Sam. He was a simple gardener, but he stuck to his task of helping Mr. Frodo… and even gave up the Ring!
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I wrote to the Professor in the late sixties (I was a teenager riveted by LOTRO.) Sadly I don’t remember what I said. I got a polite typed reply soon after, signed by the man himself.
It was on A5 paper; I don’t remember what it said … and I have mislaid it. 
It is written* that Saruman and Grima had a sexual relationship, and that Saruman gave Grima the affectionate nickname Wormtongue because of some unspecified talent.
*by me.
Prof. Tolkien can now help keep your feet warm!:
I’m reading Barnes’ book Tiw, and in it he defines ‘moot’ like this:
Moot, w. of a tree, the meeting of the roots, bottom of the stem. (p. 168)
No mention of a stump.
Hi Vambrace, and welcome to the Straight Dope! Yes, Barnes’s definition in Tiw seems to be pretty much in line with my previous link’s description of how Barnes himself defined “moot” on p. 464 of his Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, namely “the bottom and roots of a felled tree”.
After all, the “meeting of the roots” and “bottom of the stem” is pretty much what you’ve got left over once you’ve felled a tree. That’s basically what a stump is.