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Call of Cthulhu wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:43 pm For sheer hilarious typos, I humbly submit this encounter with an oliphaunt. Can you find the typo?

Take two, because I'm an idiot sandwich.

This post is going to be a bit of a hodgepodge, however, there is a method to my madness. Its aim is threefold? Firstly, to highlight some new(ish) and interesting threads that I would like to RP in, or that I just enjoy reading. Second, some collaborations of member's posts that I need to catch up with and thirdly, possible ARPY 2021 nomination posts/threads/whatnots.

New(ish) threads that you should definitely check out (in alphabetical order):

• Arda: A World of Dreams - Free RP (Imladris) - I particularly like the option of writing believable AUs and crossovers here. AUs and crossovers are interesting concepts and you need some skill to make them ME believable and maybe one day I might do that.

• Children of the Stones [an Anthropology RPG] (Rohan) - Frost's brainchild, much love, highly enjoyable, go forth and read etc.

• Dol Guldur: The Forest Under Nightshade (Mordor) - So much potential in here! I need to find some time to carefully read the descriptions in the OP, but even if I don't post anything here I'll keep my eye on this thread.

• The Ered Luin - Dwarven Free RP (Khazad Dum) - I see a lot of potential here for RP-ing, perhaps even exploring how the 3 races mine together or are rivals for mines... That could be interesting too!

• The Farthings and Beyond - Free RP (Shire) - The childhood (mis)adventures of young Pippin coming soonish (a relative term), working title A Curious Hobbit. Also the curious case of Lalia Took's, née Clayhanger's fatal accident!

• The Lands of Harad (WIP) (Mordor) - Another thread with great potential for RP-ing and exploring different cultures that were not so prominent in canon. What will your Harad be? Idea and OP A+ IMO.

• @Ercassie's elves, a selection (need to catch up with the pirate story)

• A collaboration between @Ercassie and @Rillewen - starts here, also forgot which was the last post I've read, so let's start again from the start

• Liver and Onions - starts here, a story brought to you by the power combo of @Prometherion and @Tarawen

• Rembina, a tale of Davos Seaworth and his ward Finnbarr Galedeep. YT 1495 - an ongoing collaboration between @Moriel and @Prometherion that starts with this post. I forgot which was the last post I've read, so I'll just read from the start shall I

• Wild Mountain Thyme - @Moriel as Caranthir, for Best Canon Character. Utter perfection of a post!

• Don't Look Back @Moriel as Capalimo et alii, for Best Drama?

• Lindon Masquerade | Spring Ball run by @Annúnfalas, Best RPG

• Harlan (Halifirien, Anorien, TA March 3019) by @Lailyn, Best character or drama?

• @Aduchil and @Tarawen the shroom go on a date in Mordor, Best Comedy & Best Small Collaboration

• The Last Ringbearer @Saranna as Sam Gamgee, Best Canon Character

• Anadûnê - Númenor Free RP (Gondor) - So many options, so many population/resources related questions here! This clown will find her way there someday.

• Beneath the Boughs: Forest Free RP (Fangorn) - a walk through the ages and forests of Middle-earth

• Minas Morgul – The "Dead" City (Mordor) - The quotation marks on the dead part are my addition, because that city doesn't look dead to me brah Also love how the library is in a spiral tower and not in the basement.

• The Far Reaches - Free RP (Imladris) - The Old Pukeland looks like a really interesting place for some archaeological investigative RP. Now there's an idea... *add to list*

• The Lands of Arnor: Free RP (Gondor) - I don't want to hear about it how Arnor is always the forgotten realm, or why don't we have a dedicated Arnor thread... You have it, the TRs are awesome! Go play in the sandbox children, Mother needs to write.

Nessa edit (22.06.2021.): added Lail's new Fangorn thread to the list

Enchantress wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:06 pmDwarven procreation, such as it was, was highly personal and highly secretive. Instead of giving birth like humans or elves, dwarves carved their offspring. In the same way that Mahal had carved out the original seven dwarves (two male, two female, and three enby), parents carved their children. Dwarven family units, too, were highly unique and different from many of the other races within Middle-earth. It was just as common to have a family unit consist of a mother and child as it was to have two fathers, another parent and three children. Individual expression was paramount. The dwarves were a people that prided themselves on their craftsmanship as well as their diversity. Since their inception, dwarves had sought out new ways and new avenues of self-exploration and self-expression it only seemed natural for them to explore those avenues socially as well as creatively. Their societies had been blessed with great amounts of love and tolerance as a result. They reached the conclusion that nonbinary was a valid feeling much earlier than the elves or humans (though those were both coming around to it these days). They still used terms like “king” and “queen” despite the utter lack of needed gender qualifications for the roles, mostly so as not to confuse their poor, taller allies too much (Maedhros was one of the few elven leaders to ever learn and accept that the greatest leader of the First Age, Azaghâl, was in fact a woman despite the title of king). As it turned out, dwarves had more than metallurgy, stonework, and construction secrets to share with humans and elves.

the greatest leader of the First Age, Azaghâl, was in fact a woman despite the title of king