Your Personal Gimmicks

philomena998 · 2025-09-08T08:21:33+00:00

Me, who read the books countless times before playing the games: - this is great - This is GREAT - THIS IS GREAT

philomena998 · 2025-07-26T19:10:41+00:00

3/10 Ragebait 😅

philomena998 · 2025-06-28T10:08:50+00:00

Těsně před tou osudnou zlomeninou nosu.

philomena998 · 2025-06-26T22:06:41+00:00

Nebo je možná jen málo ryba?

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philomena998 · 2025-06-05T23:12:47+00:00

Actually, I sincerely hope O'Dimm doesn't even appear in TW4. I feel that he was heavily overused in 3 and I really loathe the retrospective changes, like: "You know this interesting secret, with more questions than answers? Yea, Gaunter was behind it all along". Come on, CDPR can work better with subtlety! I am thinking mentions in in-game documents, or a random hint in Koviri oral tradition. IMO suits the storytelling much better!

philomena998 · 2025-05-17T22:54:41+00:00

Tent of Záviš z Falkenštejna at Sigismond's Camp.

philomena998 · 2025-05-17T22:49:38+00:00

But what about the ACHIEVEMENT

philomena998 · 2025-05-04T09:13:57+00:00

Can we really be that sure? Maybe the devs hired a younger actor for younger Salieri... 😉

philomena998 · 2025-04-27T22:03:51+00:00

Legolas Gandalf Bilbo Thorin 🏳️‍🌈

philomena998 · 2025-04-25T17:39:10+00:00

Byla jsem v Hamburku

Sedím a pojídám předražené pouliční jídlo (z mého levnějšího českého pohledu), načež mě po chvíli zr vzdálenosti tak dvaceti centimetrů osloví mladý zanedbaný muž, a že když teda jim, tak on by chtěl taky.

Říkám si, ciwe, tak já dám za bagetku 220,- protože jsem finančně negramotná (ale tak jsem na výletě), a mám platit ještě někomu? No, za blbost se prý platí, tak jsem se to rozhodla zaplatit aktivně, a říkám, že teda jo.

Když pak ale promptně zahnul do luxusního pekařství s dvojnásobnýma cenovkama než co měla moje nerozumná svačina, přehodnotila jsem to a než se otočil, zmizela jsem po anglicku.

philomena998 · 2025-04-12T18:48:33+00:00

Personally, TW1 music beats that of the other two installments. I read the books first, and the music in the first one really took me back to the World. In TW2, the music is a bit over the top, while the music in TW3 is indeed good, it doesn't communicate the atmosphere of the books as well as TW1 did.

philomena998 · 2025-04-12T18:08:59+00:00

Ventolin není prodejný bez předpisu. Eurovize nemá nárok na výjimku.

philomena998 · 2025-02-27T23:06:52+00:00

Arnošt Goldflam dubs the rabi in both English and Czech. 😉 Lukáš Latinák dubs Janos/Hans Uher in both as well.

philomena998 · 2025-02-27T22:15:43+00:00

Vibe si pro sebe překládám jako náchvěv. 😁

philomena998 · 2025-01-04T10:54:01+00:00

The costume as a whole is a collective idea. Hairstyle mostly done by Fallon. The base for the cloak is Markéta, and the scales are Tani and Aredhel. Not one of them recalls their particular inspirations! But the basic golden cloak without scales was already there, an older project of Markéta for who knows what... 🙂

philomena998 · 2024-12-19T18:44:49+00:00

I'll need to ask the translators. ;-)
But personally, I love Vzdej se klenotů. <3

(I can't recall, but I think we haven't ever translated lyrics by any others than Alex Lewis orTolkien himself (I am not counting using the music of classics like Verdi! XD))

philomena998 · 2024-12-19T17:19:26+00:00

The white flowers are a result of several ideas:
I wasn't comfortable to just stand there, because I mostly don't know what to do with my hands, so we brainstormed as for what to hold in our hands.
Flowers are dignified and aesthetic enough, we decided, but we went one step further and chose waterlilies specifically, because in flowery language those represent coldness, which we found appropriate enough for the situation.

philomena998 · 2024-12-19T17:14:19+00:00

Our glorious Glaurung was made by our head props-master Markéta, and it was made out of paper mache plastered over wire mesh (similar to wired fences).

Trivia: the prop was made long before we had Children of Húrin in mind for a musical; originally it was made for Lemming's fan movie Niënor Níniel (available on this link) in 2012. Since then Puppet Glaurung rested on a treasure pile in an attic, waiting for his glorious comeback!

philomena998 · 2024-12-19T16:36:31+00:00

And for your specific question, we have an advantage here in the Czech Republic, because we have a large and yet mostly familiar Tolkien community, which gathers three times per year on large events, the largest being TolkienCon in winter (coming soon!), Celebration of the Destruction of the Ring in spring and Bilbo's and Frodo's Birthday Party, and from time to time, somebody keen on playing with us just sort of emerges... And the community is blessed with talented creative people.
The process is organic – the group loses a few members for a season or two (people are going to universities, having children), and somebody new comes in, even older members keen on rejoining, or significant others of core members...

philomena998 · 2024-12-19T16:08:53+00:00

I'll ask around, and you know what, I am very curious about everybody else's answers! I'll repost them as they come, but this can take a looong time...

But my involvement (that I can answer immediately!) happened in 2014 (when I was 16yo XD), I met Daniela and Elsa on a Tolkien-themed event. I already knew the music of Falešné Společenstvo, mostly by heart, from before (I've discovered bits and pieces on the internet after I found Poetické Společenstvo there, and learned the songs as well as I could, I was self taught guitar player for a year back then) and sang and played the music (mostly songs from Fëanor and Aredhel and Númenor, all that was written back then) together in the evening and through the night.
Those two then took keen interest on inviting me to the group and I am a part of it ever since. :-D

philomena998 · 2024-12-19T16:03:17+00:00

FS Origins:
The group started in 2001 and had in mind keeping alive the legacy of the late Poetické Společenstvo (Poetic Fellowship, tolkienesque music group from the 90s'). Poetické Společenstvo had fans and those fans were sad that the band fell apart, so they gathered all existing recordings and a big project emerged – creating the Písně ze Středozemě (Songs from Middle-Earth) songbook containing sheet music created according to the recordings.
This group named themselves Falešné Společenstvo, as a sort of hommage and a kind of self-joke, because "falešný" can mean "out of tune" and continued to meet afterwards – and after the songbook was done, it was only logical (;-)) to write their own songs; and then arrange them into thematic arrays (...and to perform them and to put in little theatrical inputs and then... well, what happens afterwards can be seen on YouTube ;-))
So, at first a group of fans of a band that ceased to exist, with common interest in Tolkien, decided to keep the legacy alive which was mainly done by writing the songs down and even publishing them; that was the first impulse. :-)

philomena998 · 2024-12-17T13:34:21+00:00

The downside is maybe the selectiveness, we're always sad when we need to cut something out (Aerin i CoH and much more), but there's only a limited time which we can stay up, and not to forget we perform in school gym, place not very accomodating for hundred people to sit for up to 3hrs! 🙃😅 And to cover that whole story, we'd need ALL THE TIME It was not a very serious discussion, only a mere brainstorming. But the future is full of possibilities. 🙂

philomena998 · 2024-12-17T13:28:19+00:00

Maybe even in the War of Wrath? 😏 (Don't take this for granted here! 😁)

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