Hello lovely folks! Reposting my #Introduction for my new instance. My interests are all over the place, but these are the things I'm most likely to post about:
Age 7 (111 in binary, base 2)
Age 13 (111 in base 3)
Age 21 (111 in base 4)
Age 31 (111 in base 5)
Age 43 (111 in base 6)
Age 57 (111 in base 7)
Age 73 (111 in octal, base 8)
Age 91 (111 in base 9)
and, of course,
Age 111 (111 in decimal, base 10)
Age 133 (111 in base 11)
Age 157 (111 in base 12)
If you make it past 157, then every day is your 111th Birthday.
HYPNOGORIA 243 - Valhalla, I am Loading!!!
In this podcast we revisit two ground-breaking computer rpg games from the early 1980s, the era of the home micro, when the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 were king - The Hobbit from Beam Software and Valhalla from Legend
Und als die Zähne geputzt, das Nachthemd angezogen und der Nachttrunk getrunken war, setzte die Gemeinschaft von Zwergen, einem Hobbit und einem Zauberer ihre Reise fort. Über schlechte Pfade und unbekannte Gegenden gelangten sie schlussendlich nach Bruchtal zu Elrond. Dort ruhten sie sich zwei Wochen bei den Elben aus und zogen schweren Herzens weiter gen Osten.
At a Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game tournament today, at The BatCave in Blackburn, Lancs., UK.
Six tables running, 2 hours per game, lunch break atm.
Great to see all the #hobbit and #lordoftherings armies appearing. Even the three trolls, Bill, Bert and Tom, who narrowly lost to an enemy with enough sense to run away. #mesbg#MiddleEarthStrategyBattlegame#tabletopgaming#wargaming#hobby#miniatures
I find the way Tolkien describes Bilbo's mother fascinating. His father is one of those staid gentlemen. But every time I read how exactly Gandalf talks about her I get more convinced that she was one of the Hobbits Gandalf convinced to join him on an adventure.
So was her father most likely.
In my headcanon Belladonna was a tough as nails treasure hunter, before coming back home and marrying the prettiest boy toy she could find.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Edition of “The Hobbit” By Maria Popova
"...People have celebrated Tolkien as a writer for years — you haven’t been able to get away from him since all the books of the century polls. But The Lord of the Rings has always been the focus since it was published in 1954 — it’s a much more grown-up, significant book. It has overshadowed The Hobbit as a more old-fashioned, children’s book, which has become known in the context of The Lord of the Rings. The anniversary allows us to move the spotlight back on to the book which started it all.
A rare piece of cross-disciplinary creativity from the mind of one of modern history’s greatest creators, The Art of the Hobbit is equal parts literary treasure and treat of art, exploring the notion of the author as designer — a particularly timely concept in the age of self-publishing and disciplinary cross-pollination in the making of books..."
See the face of the 'Hobbit,' an extinct human relative (www.livescience.com)
A new facial approximation offers insight into one of humankind's extinct relatives, Homo floresiensis.