THE TAPROOM 4

Quiet maybe, but eyes are watching (you don’t help yourself to too many drinks ). Guinness Tom?

hsf62 wrote:

Big brother is watching you!
Isn’t me!:lol::lol:
Cheers friends!:cool:

😆 ‘While the cat is away…..’

Well I’ve been dreading making this post for several weeks. It is with great regret that my Mithril collecting must come to an end. This summer my wife had some unexpected health expenses that we now have to pay off. I have good insurance but we still have quite large medical bills to pay off as we had to go out of state for over 6 weeks to get treatment. It was very expensive to say the least. I’m going to have to go to my collection to help pay them off. I wanted to come here first to let you all know as many here have been so instrumental in helping me over years. It is because of you that I’ll be able to sell some very rare figures for a good price to help reduce those bills quickly. I hope you all understand and accept my sincere thank you for all of your help and friendly correspondence. I don’t know if I’ll come back to collect in the future as I don’t think I’ll be able to “find” some of these rare figures I’ve purchase from many of you.

Thank you again from the bottom of my heart. I have LOVED collecting these figures over the years and interacting with you all!

Thank you for your prayers. Yes, she is doing well. It is truly amazing the technology that is available in today’s medicine (though expensive!). She received something called “Proton” therapy for the tumor. Apparently it is many times better than normal “Photon” radiation as it only targets the tumor and doesn’t keep going through the surrounding healthy tissue. However, it was an everyday, six week procedure so we had to temporarily move to the area where this treatment is available as it is only offered in select hospitals. Between the cost of living in a “big city” and losing her own income during this time did hurt. Luckily I am a teacher and was not teaching during the summer. We do feel blessed (and pray a lot!!) and the doctor’s predict a less than 5% chance of the tumor returning! Those are good odds and well worth ANY price!

Dear David… I wish to your wife all the best… This sad news is really disturbing… Take care on you family and you… I hope you will in some future be able to come back to our forum….

Thank you all for the kind words. As I stated in my two previous posts my wife’s treatments appears to be very successful. My wife looks and acts as the vibrant and wonderful woman she is. I am grateful to the wonderful doctors, nurses and technicians as they were all wonderful. It’s the cost that has become the issue which unfortunately means my Mithril collection is a means to an end. As was just said these are just bits of metal and cannot (nor will anything ever) be better than the gift that God granted me when I married my wife.

However, just bits of metal does have some meaning. I have been able to interact and “meet” you all through this shared passion. Tolkien’s world is a part of me and has been since my mother gave me a paperback copy of The Fellowship of the Ring when I was only 7 years old. I was an avid reader even at a young age but looking back reading LotR at such a young age…well, I’m sure there was much I didn’t understand. I did understand enough to know this was a world I wanted to know more of. That led to finding MERP then to Mithril Minis almost a decade later. Even though I didn’t have many of them back in the late 80s I always thought they captured what Middle-earth “looked like” as much Alan Lee or John Howe. This led to my finding these again so many years later (and with your help) when I could actually afford them!

Well, I apologize for the sentimental post but I do love Chris Tubb’s sculpts and have enjoyed, immensely, my time collecting, gluing, Mithril-greying (only as I can’t paint) and just admiring these figures. That two of my “ideas” were actually sculpted as figures (Lorien boat and Deadman of Dunharrow) was really special as well.

Looking now at the 600-700 or so figures is a daunting site as I will need to photograph them all and then post them for sale. As I said, that is truly a daunting task and seems as if it will be like a second job!! :lol:I need to figure out if I should start at M1 and put each one up individually or start with the rarest ones (M16, MX535 variant, MS532, etc.) then later sell the others in groups?

Alas, that is the least of my worries in the grander scheme of things in this merry-go-round we call life!! Again, my MANY heart felt thank yous to each and everyone here. I don’t intend to disappear and will try and pop-in for a pint here at the Inn and see how all the ents, hobbits and other are doing.

i, too send my best wishes and am glad to read that she is on the path of recovery. like many other forum members, i have had my share of cancer experience in my close and extended family, so i know how profoundly it affects everybody … cheers.

My dear friend Master mindx2. Sorry for I have been away for a while and just read your news about your wife.
This is really good news that she is on recovery.
Most of all, high above any kind of matter for little toys, you shall take care of her as much as she would for you I am sure.

And as others fellows wrote, you are part of MMP now, you come and sit for a drink, a thought or even breakfasts anytime.

Cheers !

Enjoy your life Master Mindx2 with your wife. Happy end .
I understood the illness quite well.

I couldn’t agree more with master elf here ! you’ll always be welcome at the Poney and around master David !
and I hope your wife will recover fast and great !

Cheers!