Timewaster's Guide Archive

i mean like TOlkien. After spiders in the hobbits and Shelob made into some demon-goddess... That guy had issues with spiders.

OK, I looked this up (Because I have no life)
In a letter Tolkien had written to some reporter who wanted material for a bio, Tolkien says that as a small child, he WAS bitten by a Trantula.  
BUT
He had no memory of the incident and only knew of it because his mother told him of it years later.  
He went on to say that he had no specific problem with spiders and actualy would rescue them when he found them in the bath.  
letters # 168

I am guessing that the Unquenchable darkness was seperated from the World in the Reshaping.  Eru dosen't play dice with Middle Earth  

Shelob was just one of the Lesser Children of Ungoliant... The REAL Arachnid DemiGod who literaly sucked the Light out of the world when Melkor led her to the Trees.

Im going to get my buddy Mike to help out with the Tolkein Religion aspect (Valar, Maiar etc) and Each major homeland will get a nice writeup. I may even help setting up a first age, second age, third age set of campaigns.

Do I smell a Tolkien Project  

Yeah, I have the Wife going over the books for that reason right now...  

Be sure to RESEARCH the Charity first.  Make sure that your donation wont mostly go to "administrative fees"
I tend to prefer faith based Charities as they tend to spend less on such costs and are more efficent than other NGOs (Catholic Charities for example)
Any way, here is a list of Charities helping this Cataclysm.  
(sorry about the length)

Action Against Hunger
247 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
212-967-7800
www.actionagainsthunger.org

ADRA International
Asia Tsunami Crisis Fund
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904
800-424-ADRA (2372)
www.adra.org

Air Serv International
6583 Merchant Place, Suite 100
Warrenton, VA 20187
540-428-2323
www.airserv.org

American Friends Service Committee
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-241-7050
www.afsc.org

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc.
JDC-South Asia Tsunami Relief
P.O. Box 321
847A Second Avenue
New York, New York 10017
212-885-0832
www.jdc.org

American Jewish World Service
45 W. 36th St., 10th Fl.
New York, NY 10018
212-736-2597
www.ajws.org

American Red Cross
International Response Fund
2025 E St. NW
Washington, DC 20006
800-HELP-NOW
www.redcross.org

AmeriCares
88 Hamilton Ave
Stamford, CT 06902
800-486-4357
www.americares.org

Baptist World Aid
Asia Tidal Waves
405 North Washington Street
Falls Church, VA 22046
703 790 8980
www.bwanet.org/bwaid

B'nai B'rith International
B'nai B'rith Disaster Relief Fund
2020 K Street NW
7th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
212-490-3290
www.bnaibrith.org

Brother's Brother Foundation
1200 Galveston Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15233
412-321-3160
www.brothersbrother.org

CARE
151 Ellis Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
800-521-CARE
www.care.org

Catholic Relief Services
209 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
877-HELP-CRS
www.catholicrelief.org

Christian Children's Fund
Child Alert Fund
PO Box 26484
Richmond, Virginia - 23261-6484
800-776-6767
www.ChristianChildrensFund.org

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC)
South Asia Earthquake
2850 Kalamazoo Ave. SE
Grand Rapids, MI, 49560
800-55-CRWRC
www.crwrc.org

Church World Service
PO Box 968
Elkhart, IN 46515
800-297-1516
www.churchworldservice.org

Direct Relief International
27 South La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
805-964-4767
www.directrelief.org

Episcopal Relief and Development
South Asia Relief Fund
815 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10017
800-334-7626, ext. 5129
www.er-d.org

Food for the Hungry, Inc.
Food for the Hungry
Asia Quake Relief
1224 E. Washington St.
Phoenix, AZ 85034
800-2-HUNGERS
www.fh.org

Habitat for Humanity International
Asia Tsunami Response Fund
121 Habitat St
Americus, GA 31709
229-924-6935
www.habitat.org

So the moral is....

Don use webcomic images as Avatars?  

oops...  www.ctrlaltdel-online.com (Source for mine)