I googled LOTR figures, found Xelee's blog, where he talked about One-Ring, and that soon became my favourite haunt.

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"... Telchar wrought it in the deeps of time."
-On Andùril, The Lord of the Rings

I found this forum through the biggest german speaking forum: tabletop-hdr.de, which isstill my favourite forum! But I like to hang around here too...in fact two relatively different communities

I think that I found the one ring from tla.
like most others.

martijn

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"tonight you will taste man flesh!"
saruman the white

When I found out about the hobby, I came across TLA through Google searches, but never made an account - I just liked the inspirational pictures back then. I liked the articles, and then found our beloved One Ring, where the articles (IMO) were fewer in number but of perhaps higher standard. After a while, I made an account and the rest is happy hobby history!

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Better, though difficult, the right way to go, than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe. John Bunyan - Pilgrim's Progress

When I bought my first LOTR set, Return of the King box set, I went to GW's forum (long since gone) and started there. I can't remember how, but I eventually came upon the OR, which has been my favorite all along.

I joined TLA in 2004, and there were references to O-R there and I signed up here in 2005, chiefly because of the awesome annual awards. I still spent most of my time on TLA as I was a mod there, but after it crashed, I wasn't invited back to resume the post, and a major disagreement with the new TLA management led me to all but boycott the site and set up home here. I haven't looked back since.

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You don't have to be great to start. But you do have to start to be great.

GW had forums, wow!! What are the annual awards UkFreddybear? I did not know OR had such an event.

I heard about the OneRing also on TLA, years ago (must have been around 2004 I think?).
I checked the OneRing from that time, although I didn't make an account. That was until 2009, when I made an account but forgot to use it. Now, I'm finally active on here!

They were once a year with Sculpting, Painting, Terrain building and Diorama categories, with first second and third places being awarded a prize. There was also a Master Craftsman category which was themed. You can read more about it in the One Ring Competitions forum:
http://one-ring.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=70

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You don't have to be great to start. But you do have to start to be great.

Ive only just found out about this forum. having been a regular(ish) on heresyonline.net, I found myself drawn to the LOTR section, and after a few posts trying to drum up some interest (in which unfortunately it was lacking) I was led here. I was an avid modeller/player of the SBG around 5-6 years ago, but then as most teenage lads I was more interested in girls, skateboards and beer. i found my way back to 40k around a year ago, and recently found my old LOTR models and decided to get back into it, as im a huge Tolkien fan!

I believe I googled LOTR SBG websites and came across warseer, after a bit of lurking I made an account and was one of the few people who were actually using the LOTR part. After a while I got bored on there, it just wasn't active enough, I somehow found TLA and lurked there for a while until I found out about the OR. I liked what I saw and made an account and as they say the rest is history. I still check up on warseer every once in a while same with TLA(but I have yet to make an account over there) this is definatly where my LOTR home is.

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Fight! Fight to the last man!

If this was to be our end then I would have them make SUCH AN END as to be worthy of remembrance

This ^^^

can I ask what TLA is please?

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I can't spell

www.thelastalliance.com

Another forum dedicated to the hobby.

Way back when the films were out and when TLA was in its prime I spent a lot of time there, along with the official GW forums and The Palantir.

Just before TLA crashed I thought about getting back into the hobby. Checked back a week later, bam, it had vanished.

So a few months after that I again sought to return to the hobby, and remembered TOR. Lurked around for a couple of days, thought the atmosphere felt great and that the community was one I'd be happy and proud to be a part of. And thus the downfall began

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Soon the Dark Lord Knighty shall have all he needs to cover the lands in an eevee-related darkness...

I actually got here through the Fall of Gondolin Supplement, I couldn't get the link working & I ended up here.

I think I must 've been looking at this site for about a year back then... I think I read every new article / topic daily, but it took me about a year to finally register!

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We must forgive our enemies...
But not before they are hanged

I have been looking for that guy for years. If it is the same guy... he also set up a website called aftertheonering and lived in the U.S? May be wrong...

Still I was friends with a guy years back, he vanished from the hobby and a few years later i remembered him and his website with the name "onering" in it, I then searched that and found this beautiful forum! That and grungehog mentioned he was a member as well (as ungoliant the giant spider).

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If I can recall correctly it was the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game, Wikipedia Article

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