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| ==Some favourite quotes==
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| {{quote|All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.|[[Gandalf]] to [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] in ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', "[[The Shadow of the Past]]"}} <small>(noted by [[User:Mith]])</small> | |
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| {{quote|...there are Tolkien's latest thoughts, his best thoughts, and his published thoughts and these are not necessarily the same.|''[[Tolkien's Legendarium|Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth]]''}} <small>(noted by [[User:Ælfwine]])</small>
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| {{quote|"Bla bla bla Kalevala" and "bla bla bla Sarehole Mill"|[[User:Mith]], 2011}}
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| {{quote|So the question of whether a word or grammatical construct is 'proper Quenya' turns out to become, paradoxically, more uncertain the more we learn about how Tolkien worked.|[[Bill Welden]] (VT42:34)}}
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| {{quote|Linguists are often unstable.|[[Ursula K. Le Guin]], "The Pathways of Desire"}} <small>(noted by [[Arden R. Smith]])</small>
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| On Fantasy literature: {{quote|...were it not for [Jack] Vance I think I might have been one of those writers who examine the psychological nuances of their failed marriages. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but this way it's been so much more fun...|Lucius Shepard, "Sylgarmo's Proclamation"}}
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| {{quote|There never was a merry world since the fairies left dancing, and the priest conjuring.|John Selden ''Table Talk'' (1689)<!-- Quoted in The Penguin Illustrated History of Britain and Ireland, p. 114 -->}}
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| ==Some favourite artists==
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| *[[:Category:Images by Matt Stewart|Images by Matt Stewart]]
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| *[[:Category:Images by Timo Vihola|Images by Timo Vihola]]
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| *[http://www.robhruppel.com/ Robh Ruppel]
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| ==IRC==
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| [16 April 2012]
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| <poem>
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| [02:12] * Hyarion has quit IRC (Connection reset by peer)
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| [02:13] <P_____> Quite true!
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| [02:14] * P_____ sets mode +oo Hyarion Morgan
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| [02:14] <P_____> Once I get some of this work done, I might have time for some of my interesting items.
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| [02:14] <Morgan> Oh, what happened?
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| [02:14] <Morgan> I have a new sign before my name
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| [02:14] <P_____> I made you "operator" of this channel. Don't let it go to your head.
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| [02:15] <P_____> :)
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| [02:15] <Morgan> :-S What does it mean?
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| [02:15] <Morgan> Do I have ultimate power?
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| [02:15] * Morgan has kicked Hyarion from #TolkienGateway (No Reason)
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| [02:15] <P_____> Omg!
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| [02:16] <P_____> Maybe you shouldn't have ops!
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| [02:16] <P_____> :)
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| [02:16] * Morgan has kicked P_____ from #TolkienGateway (No Reason)
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| </poem>
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