You have a point, I'll give you that

[Tharmáras]

She pauses, wishing she had a drink of water. Perhaps she could hop on over and peck off some of Taniquetil’s eternal ice.

She can't have shiny points but I'll give @Goosil here a yummy plump Oiolosse rabbit for her to devour. Her Eagle post in AoA was delightful and she's the only Plaza member I know who writes WHAM! in her IC replies, making me laugh !

https://lotrfanaticsplaza.com/forum/vie ... 444#p44444

[Galadrihell]

Ooh thank you lovely OM NOM NOM

[Tharmáras]

"Here in this place of safety from all harm, has my past come back to haunt me. And there is no way out."

Could some lovely tribute be given to @Ercassie for her captivating diary entry of her shameless dimensional character Fëapoldië?

https://lotrfanaticsplaza.com/forum/vie ... 639#p44639


NPF edit: Done!

[Moriel]

@Tharmáras Totally forgot to stop by and thank you for my bunnies!! I thoroughly enjoyed writing that mammoth of a post and I'm so glad you enjoyed the ride as well

[Raisins]

Can I get a few shinies tossed to @Afird Splitax for winning Race three of IK Racing? Please and thanks

NPF edit: Sure thing! And some for TR too :)

[Nessa Saelind]

Thank you for the shiny glittery star points you sprinkled on my robe NPF You are the bestest of faeries!

[Ercassie]

Awww thank you (again ) @Tharmáras for your kindness and of course to the NPF for such generosity.

[Raisins]

Many thanks NPF!

[Afird Splitax]

Thank you @Fuin Elda and NPF. It looks like Afird did win some coin after all. Let us hope someone will attempt to outpace the lumbering badger in the next challenge.

[Lailyn]

Can @Istya Alassea please receive some shinies for doing a lovely job running the Strawberry Star Brewery please? She has done a wonderful job interacting with everyone who arrived to play, wrote some nice posts about hobbits making wine and deserves bonus points for putting up with Rilla's silly antics.

NPF edit: yes of course, done!

[Afird Splitax]

Can Tharmáras please be sprinkled with shinies or love just for having posted the gif or meme (or whatever they are called these days) of the great Antonio Banderas in this POST. Hey, it made my day. I actually googled Mr. Banderas's image, again. I forgot how darn gorgeous he was!!! Thanks Aig!

NPF edit: sure

[Tharmáras]

She was not fair, not even in the manner of Melkor’s acolytes who toyed at their whim with disarming countenances. Her eyes, roiling like fluid ink blots, were overlarge in proportion to hawkish features hurled with distemper against an ashen canvas. Slick and cold as is an eel to the touch, her skin was pinched as though it would not quite stretch to mask the cathedral of jutting bones beneath. A wide band of crimson scored across the high reach of her brow, as though there flesh had been seared sure away and fresh blood beaded like sweat, receding like an oil slick into a tide of dark dry hair that fled the length of her back down into shadow.

Every needle-like tooth was a serrated incisor, the grotto of her jaw contorted forever ajar. Hisses emanated from that hole, whispers, streams of malice spilling like a slurry of guts out of an opened wound. Coriaceous sails hung like broken limbs framing the darkness which engulfed her form. She clove through passage after passage, raised just so far off the scabbed ground that her talons, each a hooked scythe of an anchor, dragged along the ground.

Could you toss some glittering tribute to @Ercassie for her evil and wonderfully descriptive post in AoA, please? https://lotrfanaticsplaza.com/forum/vie ... 107#p45107 .

NPF edit: Done!

[Tharmáras]

@Afird Splitax , that was unexpected, thank you ! Guess I need to post more pics and gifs of him often . Antonio has always been one of my favorite actors. I use him as a model for Rincion, one of my Noldorin High Elves. I use his Armand image from Interview With the Vampire. Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise who I both use for Aigronding and Telkelion characters, also star in that film of course. Guess I need to make another red-head NPC who I can use Kirsten Dunst for ! Big Anne Rice fan, here; I'm reading The Vampire, Lestat and The Wolf Gift presently.

Thank you, NPF !

You're welcome, Cassie and Moriel !

[Nessa Saelind]

Cometh the hour, cometh the Old Crone Woman of a Certain Age™ with a list of people for the NPF to bestow points to. Many thanks to the hardworking NPF in advance from a grateful supplicant.

Can @Shivased please get some shiny points for all the hard work for the Cavalry, but especially for the prompt/first task for the Cavalry Team-building exercise?

From the same thread can @Aethelu get shinies because Dicun and elbow grease and socks made me laugh in addition to learning something about horses.

Same thread, but @Taethowen as Sighard - love how Taeth portrays him and how his love of horses shines through the grumpiness.

Last one from this thread, promise. @Amadhrill as Rohan's newest bealdorhælend and her calm and gentle approach to everything. Everything Ama is shines from this post.

I'd also like to take a moment to express my admiration for the above-mentioned people. I don't know much about horses, but by reading your posts in this Team-building exercise I learned lots not just about horses and caring for them, but about your characters and Rohan and the culture of Rohan as Tolkien imagined it and as you interpreted it. Thank you for writing such beautiful works and sharing your writing skills and imagination with us. I am very grateful.

Before I close, it would be remiss of me if I don't ask some shinies for @Saranna for these two tales from her archive: The Last Ringbearer and Harad; a tale of Hope. Yes, both works are older and have been posted on the Old Plaza, but that doesn't mean that they are not resplendent in their beauty. And it is good to see these works that were thought lost back and in the light again.

NPF edit: Consider it done <3

[Taethowen]

Aww thanks NPF & @Nessa Saelind!

[Saranna]

@Nessa Saelind Thank you so much; I'm just glad that people are enjoying them

[Raisins]

I'' be notably angry if this has been brought before the NPF before this but

https://lotrfanaticsplaza.com/forum/vie ... 075#p45075

Because honestly the amount of 'lighten the load' humor that happens involving birds is fantastic, also I love that I have Gwaihir rivalry with this birb.

NPF edit: How did I miss this? So sorry guys! On it now <3 Please feel free to poke us if you don't see a response within a couple of days <3

[Nessa Saelind]

Honestly everyone's post in the Fly the Fellowship! game are amazing, the birbs especially @Goosil deserves some birb treats for organising this

[Tharmáras]

The form of this solitary silhouette was an armoured soldier, his whole clad in a darkness which somehow glimmered amidst the depths; like coal, in answer to the spears of lightning which smote down haphazardly to scar the beach. And bright as it was dark, there glimmered a sword, or so it seemed; immense in height and in girth enough to stand a sentry in it’s own right. The dark gloved hands which folded around it, were obscured at it’s hilt, that it may in fact be stood up of it’s own accord. Save that he stood in it’s shadowed wake; a priest before his altar, a judge before his bench. A knight behind his blade.


May @Ercassie be gifted a shiny collection of points for her darkly ominous post ? https://lotrfanaticsplaza.com/forum/vie ... 467#p45467

NPF edit: Done!

[Nessa Saelind]

My thanks to the NPF for sending some shinies my way!

And a request for some shinies for these wonderful people: can @Taethowen and @Androthelm get shinies for these two posts (Taeth's first post and Andro's first post) in their collab in Lindon Free RP? In a few words, both of them manage to portray their characters, the uncertainty and awkwardness they feel and the happiness of meeting a new friend. It's a great joy to see them post again and read their stories.

NPF edit: D'aww!

[Lailyn]

thank you for the treats!

[Raisins]

Thanks very much for the shinies and for giving out the shinies

Will keep that in mind if it gets missed I've got to admit I was a bit too busy to notice with work.

[Nessa Saelind]

*waddles in* It is I, again! Can the lovely NPF distribute some shinies for these folks:

to @Aodh Hammerhelm for Sheemie's post in the Riddermarket. Aodh's posts are always an interesting combination of everyday life in which something strange, just below the surface is happening and you can't wait to see what the uncanny is.

to @Prometherion for this post in the Children of the Stones. Yoshiyo et alii are fascinatingly quirky elves in the best possible way. I love how Frost's portraying them, but in all honesty, although I selected this post for tribute I think the whole thread idea deserves some glitter fireworks for its originality and uniqueness.

Thanks in advance dear NPF

NPF edit: Consider it done!

[Pele Alarion]

Not sure whatever I've written to get shinies, but thankeeeee!

NPF edit: Shinies were sprinkled through the Children of Stone RPG :)

[Baphởmet]

Many thanks for the extra points, ye dragons of horded gold

[Nessa Saelind]

Almost forgot: many, many thanks and chocolate and marzipan mice to the NPF for sprinkling some shinies (again) my way.

[Aodh Hammerhelm]

@Nessa Saelind
Thanks for your kind word, and to whoever sprinkled them shinies.

It's a faltering start after too long away. Hope to begin fleshing out the Sheemie's tale (and those of his friends) in the coming days.

[Androthelm]

ahh I'm super behind as the semester pulls through but thank you @Nessa Saelind for your kindness (and the shinies!)

[Lailyn]

Aw thank you for the shinies!

[Nessa Saelind]

Firstly, thank you dearest NPF for some shinies for my Pippin and his astrolabe get lost in the libraries dream post thingy!

Secondly, can @Lailyn get shinies for making me laugh and for being a glorious Glorfindel and a very confused (but still magnificent) birb in this post, but especially for "I am not meant to play a direct role in this story!" sentence

NPF edit: Sure thing!

[Lailyn]

Thanks, Ness + NPF. I was very overtired when I wrote that and honestly had no idea if it came out coherent or not after I hit post.. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Taethowen]

very late, but thanks @Nessa Saelind and NPF!

[Nessa Saelind]

Can the NPF get a bucket of glitter for the following ARPY presenters for their brilliant work so far:

@Prometherion for the Queen of the Spiders, Goddess of the Empty Spaces, the Devourer of Worlds, the Monster under the Bed of the Gods
@Lailyn for the bestestest comedic duo of Merry and Quickbeam
@Ercassie for being the most glam dead prince at this party

Thank you very muchly!

NPF edit: Of course!

[Lailyn]

Thanks Nessa!

Can @Pele Alarion receive some tasty treats for this post? Not only do I love the nature descriptions but also the outer physical struggle juxtaposed with the one to find inner peace.

And speaking of dichotomies, I really enjoyed this post by @Prometherion. A lovely nature setting as the background for the struggle between bear and humanity, the yearning for a quiet escape against the responsibility of doing what is right.

NPF edit: Of course!

[Baphởmet]

You are all being far too kind. Seriously cut it out! (also thank you)

NPF edit: Ok, I will cut you out:

[Pele Alarion]

*sneaks in and bows in thanks*

[Ercassie]

Thankyou for the glitter, @Nessa Saelind and NPF.

[Raisins]

Hey We have our last race for the first half of IK racing season done and @Afird Splitax has won another race so if you could please toss a few shinies there that would be fantastic. (I now get to have a month long break yeah!)

NPF edit: It is done! And some for you as TR

[Raisins]

@Goosil

[Afird Splitax]

Thank you Fuin and the pretty NPF who flitted into this thread and drop coins upon my head. (Three bumps on this dwarven character's head thus far. I am told that it is a lucky charm, three bumps on the head, bringing gold, less wrinkles, and engaging eccentricity)

[Raisins]

Many thanks as well NPF!

[Baphởmet]

Thank you for the trib, secret NPF!

[Nessa Saelind]

Can the following people get a bucket of glitter on them from the lovely NPF for their ARPY presentation posts, please?

@Prometherion for being a delightfully manevolent Mairon

@Fuin Elda and poly fam awesomeness

@Tharmáras for the meta amount of silliness and hilariousness

And a tub of ice cream for @Moriel for being the man on Moon on vacation

NPF edit: Sure thing! But manevolent? O.o

Nessa edit: he was also delightful and thank you

NPF edit: You mean Malevolent, cause he is sure that :P Sent some points your way too <3

[Tharmáras]

@Annúnfalas first told to me in private that this was gonna be meta writing from me and now it's also praised by you, @Nessa Saelind . It's so cosmically confirmed! Thank you kindly. The best is yet to come

[Raisins]

Thanks for the shines! Am glad nessa got some luv too!

[Moriel]

@Nessa Saelind How did you know I was craving ice cream?!?!

[Nessa Saelind]

Dearest NPF, firstly thank you for the shiny glittery points! Secondly, it legit took me 5 minutes of close inspection of my previous post while looking like this --> only to figure out I have spelt malevolent wrong How I manage to keep my job and write coherent e-mails is a mystery to everyone including me! (In case you haven't noticed I'm mildly dyslexic and somewhat illiterate at times )

@Tharmáras keep doing what you're doing, it's good silliness

@Moriel because it's officially ice cream season! And everybody needs ice cream!

[Nessa Saelind]

Can @Prometherion please get some shiny mushrooms points for his latest Jorgy post at the ARPY party? It was so hilarious and hobbity and made me laugh and feel that everything was right in the world Many thanks!

NPF edit: Done!

[Nia]

Just wanted to say a lil thank you to the lovely little smattering I got on Friday. (I also had fun on my little hunt to work out why!)

NPF edit: Ninja! :D

[Raisins]

Thanks for the random magical points NPF!

NPF edit: It was a lil extra (as have given some before) for all your work with the Arpy's. @Nessa Saelind was given some too :)