The Taproom

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December 2, 2008 at 3:30 pm #3708
Theobald
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Huoommm …. thank you for the round, Mistress Wendy. … as for your lack of those coiny things you might just buy one of those tabs Master Barliman sells …. or even offers for free ….. rhuooommmm … they seem to have the same effect, as they can be used for payment here …. huoomm … so he just keeps one of those tabs he before dedicated to you … huom … then he scibbles some signs on it and you get your drink …. rhuoommm … at least that is how I understand that strange habit ….. hom
December 2, 2008 at 4:21 pm #3709
Barliman
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Your grasp of fiscal dynamics is awesome, Master Tree…and explains why I have such difficulty extracting any coiny things from you!
December 2, 2008 at 7:52 pm #3711
Theobald
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Rhuooommmm …. hom … alas … well … right … maybe … but in the past you did receive metal things from me, didn’t you? …. rhuoommm … ( and some coiny things,too as far as I can recall … though quite a long time ago, I unfortunately have to admit) …. rhuooommm …. of course that might not settle all that you ask for … rhuoommm …
Alas … thanks for your compliment about “fiscal dynamics” provided by me … huoommm …
as I do have to rething some of those matters again … rhuooommm …
please, Master Barliman, let me rather pay with rumours, if you please ….
Morlas has been finished and sent …… rhuooommmrhom ….
December 3, 2008 at 4:49 pm #3714
Theobald
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Huoommm … no reaction within about twenty-four hours … hom … there could be three reasons for this, methinks … hom … first is you’re not listening any more until the end whenever I speak … rhuoommm … I might be a little too talkative, well …. hom … second is that this place once again seems to be abandoned (except that smoky smell from that corner over there) … homrhuoomm … or third is that you do not know Morlas ….
Huoommm … I restricted from having his name being the solution for my December-riddle-question …. hoooommm … that might have been a bit too much unfair I thought …. hom
December 3, 2008 at 9:53 pm #3720
Barliman
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Not so hasty, Master Tree! There is also a fourth reason that explains my absence, which is that, sadly, I sometimes have to do some work in order to justify my existence… which means that I can’t always be present in the taproom to keep an eye on what’s going on.

And if Morlas is a riddle, then it’s one that’s way over my head. Is it in Entish, or Westron?
December 4, 2008 at 3:41 pm #3721
Theobald
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Huooommmm … indeed, Master Barliman, I can understand, as business has been slowing down here …. huomm …. unfortunately … I hope you’re fine with your second job then … hom
Alas …. nay, the name Morlas, I explained, is not about a riddle … rhuooommm … that would have been much too difficult for everyone being interested in riddles … hom … it simply is the name The Man gave to the “Prince of Squirrels” … Morlas he called him ….. hom
December 4, 2008 at 4:10 pm #3722
Barliman
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Well that has me even more foxed than I was! Who in Middle-earth is the “Prince of Squirrels”?
December 4, 2008 at 5:36 pm #3723
Theobald
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Huooommmrhuoomm …. Morlas is the “Prince of Squirrels” of course … huommm … as the name tells it is a black squirrel …
Ahhh, that feels good to have you foxed for the first time, Master Barliman … rhuoommm .. well, it’s not about foxes … hom …
I recently received news that The Man sculpted a sqirrel he named Morlas, Prince of Squirrels … huoommm … you might remember that some while ago a squirrel was permanently mentioned on that other GF-board … rhuoommm …. this very tiny piece was not meant as a Mithril release, of course …. rhuoommm … but all this reveils that The Man has a close look at some places ….
rhuooommm … Morlas, Prince of Squirrels, is a more or less private compensation for the Moria Gate …. huommm … that’s what I know … hom … I’ll provide pictures in that ‘Mathom House’ once there’s time …. rhuoooommmm … alas, I should also provide the last riddle there next weekend …. huoommm …. a simple one, this time …… hom
December 4, 2008 at 6:54 pm #3724
ddaines
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Yes the squirrel was that which the man mentioned to me at Salute, I think partly as recompense for a certain unmade portal, and partly I think because the suggestion of a squirrel was made with a certain amount of …………(sarcasm is perhaps too strong a word to use).

Well I guess one extreme to the other; the gate was too big so the squirrel would be very small It also shows a nice sense of humour as well methinks.
December 4, 2008 at 7:06 pm #3725
Gildor
MMP Elder
well, the name Morlas was not given by the Man, it was given … by its suggestor… as Morlas mean Black Feather in Sindarin I think… If you look closely at the archives of the GF suggestions, for March 2008… you’ll find more details
December 4, 2008 at 8:17 pm #3726
Barliman
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None of which is the sort of data I carry about in my noggin! I remember the squirrel suggestion being made at some point, but I was unaware someone had gone so far as to suggest a name for it. I don’t speak Elvish, though – I have difficulty enough with Common Speech…
December 4, 2008 at 10:03 pm #3727
ddaines
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I was a bit ‘rushed’ in my reply, there was no squirrel name mentioned, but the Man was certainly going to sculpt one as a response to the ‘suggestion’.
December 4, 2008 at 10:42 pm #3728
Gildor
MMP Elder
oh but the name Morlas was given… but not by Chris, it is all explained in the suggestion post. Chris only kept the name submitted actually… indeed a pure invention non canon but… if I may ask
Does such a figurine have its place in the database?…. I think the decision is not mine to take, in this particular case
December 5, 2008 at 1:24 pm #3729
Theobald
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Huoommmm …. you’re right, Master Ddaines, this figure was meant as “a little compansation for the Moria Gate” …. rhuoommm …. yes, and also as a nice reaction to some sarcastic remarks ….huomm …. well, in the end Master Bombadil1963 received that squirrel …. as for the name I think Master Gildor is right, as it is taken from Sindarin ‘môr-lass’ which might be translated as ‘dark leave’ (not feather) ….. huooommm … that’s all I know …. hom ….
December 5, 2008 at 1:28 pm #3730
Theobald
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Huooommmm …. I’m sure all of you have heard about the earlier release of that Christmas-Sharkey (with antique finish) …. hom …
December 5, 2008 at 1:41 pm #3731
Theobald
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huoomm ….. Master Gildor, I don’t think that Morlas should have a place in the database because that figure is not a regular Mithril-release … huom … where to put him? … I don’ know, as there’s no section that reads “curiosities” …. hom … definitely that figurine is somewhere far away from any other category …. rhuoommm …. I’ll hang a picture of that nice, tiny, squirrely prince in the Mathom House ….. rhuommm … but I cannot haste, as might know … hom
December 5, 2008 at 2:19 pm #3732
Barliman
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I agree with the Tree. Morlas was a non-commercial one-off, produced as a favour for ‘a friend’ if you like. Certainly it’s existence should be acknowledged somewhere (after all, it may appear for sale one day in the distant future!), but it isn’t a true Mithril figure, either released or unreleased. Perhaps, as Master Theobald suggests, there should indeed be a special area for curios and oddities?
December 5, 2008 at 3:30 pm #3733
Gildor
MMP Elder
well if you look closely the elven princess PM1 was not linked to mithril, but it is in the database nonetheless under the “unique and prototypes” type.. still the problem is not the kind (unique or prototype) but rather the series… I once created the Phaeton Miniatures series as this series is meant to have several references in the future, there is also the “unreleased prototypes” but that’s not really the case here…. but I also created the “Non-Mithril Range” series for the MSA1 for example (lotro witch king) but this was not at the same time a non-mithril and a very special curiosity…

In the end…. I suggest this : Not put it in the database at all… as it has no reference, non applicable price, non applicable series, non applicable rarity and availability, or weapon… and from what I heard the quantity is far lower than even the rarest prototypes ever produced…. it is a curiosity and as such should have its place in the Mithril Gallery section… but not the database, that would be irrelevant….
What do you think?
December 5, 2008 at 4:07 pm #3734
Theobald
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Huooommmm …. well, Master Gildor, the Gallery section might be a place to put him … hom … but as I said before, it’s not the database …. rhuoommm …. why are we discussing these matters in the taproom, gentlemen? …. huom …. anyway, as this has started here I might add two more comments if you please …. huommm …. as for his appearance on Ebay one day I think that there’s notthe slightest “chance”, Master Barliman …. hom … and as for the quantity, Master Gildor, there are four castings, as far as I know …. rhuooommhom
Huoommm …. I’m satisfied with the fact that the Pony was a bit more frequented within the last hours … though we all forgot to order any drinkable liquids … so Master Barliman, would you please fill up my bowl and those thimbles for the others …. rhuoommm … of course I’ll pay for that somehow … huooommm … somewhen … hom
December 5, 2008 at 5:00 pm #3736
Barliman
Participant
The amber liquid is on me this time, Master Tree.

And as for slightest chances, well, I wouldn’t mind putting money on one of the squirrels coming up for sale sometime, somewhere, however far in the future. How likely was it five years ago that any of the Mw346 or Mw347 figures would ever materialise, let alone come up for sale? Strange things happen. This is, after all, a strange world.

On another matter entirely, The Man has just sent me an email about yet another upcoming M range! – and people will like this one as well. The only problem is that I shall probably explode with suppressed excitement long before I’m allowed to tell anyone about them.
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