: : BTW, my tiny, tiny complaint is as of this writing, me and The White Rider have accounted for exactly 100% of new posts for the last two days. Middle-Earth is it's own world. Let the ideas, thoughts, and questions spawn!!!

: Hi all!
: This is my first post on this board and like Neithan I´m a Scandinavian. My real name is Joakim and I live in Sweden where I work as an Environmental Consultant. I´m 25 years old and I read LOtR for the first time when I was 13 I think. Since then I´ve read the swedish translation (by Åke Ohlmarks) about six times. When I picked up the Trilogy for the first time in English I was stunned by the beautiful language and shocked by discovering som major translation errors done by Mr Ohlmarks. Since then I´ve reread the English version about four times.

: Like someone mentioned back at ´Aint-It-Cool News I felt like I´d just got to know Santa really existed and that he would visit me on Christmas 2000 when I heard Peter Jackson and New Line where going to make THE movies. I think he´s going to do a great job after I read the interview with him. I can´t wait until I see Éowyn challenging the Witch-King on the big screen. I shiver with delight!

: ... I´d like to see Max Von Sydow as Gandalf. Just give the man a big beard and a pointy, blue hat. The voice and eyes are right (...and he´s a Swede;)).

: May The Sun shine upon Your path!

: Joakim

>>>Hi Joakim, damned Swede (I do not really mean that we Danes just have a love-hate relationship to Swedes after several wars, defeats, and a lot of drunken Swedes in our port towns. Actually my current lover is half Swedish, so I quite like you guys- as long as you remember that Skåne, Halland og Blekinge is Danish territory- hahaha), ever been to a viking market?? there is one in Trelleborg every year, another one in foteviken, also annually, and there was one in Stockholm this summer that we hope to repeat next year- come look.
May you always find water and shade; Palle "Neithan" Rasmussen