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Tengwar Geocoin Precious

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Owner:
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Released:
Monday, June 30, 2008
Origin:
Florida, United States
Recently Spotted:
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Make Love, not War

About This Item

Tengwar_Red_on_Gold copy

Gold coin. Red design.
"NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST SCAVOK"
SCAVOK is a geocacher. (scavok.com)
Tengwar is a script which was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. In his works, the Tengwar script, invented by Fëanor, was used to write a number of the languages of Middle-earth, including Quenya and Sindarin. However, it can also be used to write other languages, such as English (most of Tolkien's Tengwar samples are actually in English). The word tengwar is Quenya for "letters".

It was J.R.R. Tolkien who once said that "not all who wander are lost." What better philosophy for a geocacher? For us, the beauty is in the hunt, the search, the "wandering." The true prize is what you find along the way to the cache. Sometimes the journey is the destination.

Tolkien was an established polyglot and even created his own organized spoken and written languages to embellish the fantastical worlds he created. One of such languages is Tengwar, the writing on one of this coin's sides. It is a direct translation of the flip side. It is simply a reminder that no matter how you look at anything, whether you understand it or not, “there is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” –Tolkien

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Tracking History (2131mi) View Map

Mark Missing 3/22/2011 imaboone marked it as missing   Visit Log

The owner has set this Trackable as missing.

Retrieve It from a Cache 6/14/2009 lanecrew retrieved it from What A Hoot!! Florida   Visit Log

This was the best one we have had so far! Man what a reward to find our first GC "Precious". We will move on to next location but we want to make it hard like the owner requested.

Dropped Off 6/12/2009 Ditching_Suburbia placed it in What A Hoot!! Florida - 64.11 miles  Visit Log

Finally found a cache that I felt was tough enough to drop this coin in. It's not really deep in the woods but it's at the end of a 9 part multi that spans 13 hiking/biking miles.

[This entry was edited by paulzilla on Friday, June 12, 2009 at 9:44:01 PM.]

Retrieve It from a Cache 3/29/2009 Ditching_Suburbia retrieved it from PINELLAS GEO EVENT 2 Florida   Visit Log

Time to move along...

Dropped Off 3/28/2009 Ditching_Suburbia placed it in PINELLAS GEO EVENT 2 Florida - 1,074.04 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/13/2009 Ditching_Suburbia retrieved it from Coke and toy Trinkets Florida   Visit Log

Will move along. Really nice coin!

Discovered It 3/7/2009 cinkara pinklady discovered it   Visit Log

found it in coke and trinkets
cinkara pinklady

Dropped Off 2/15/2009 Geo Sense placed it in Coke and toy Trinkets Florida - 1,061.07 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/7/2009 Geo Sense retrieved it from Headstone Milestone Challenge Michigan   Visit Log

Found this TB and I guessed it was something from Lord of the Rings...I was right on. The saying is right on for geocaching. Team Whoy-Dey found this with us while snowshoeing. Will be moving for hot weather.

Dropped Off 1/22/2009 Gaviidae placed it in Headstone Milestone Challenge Michigan - 1,036.05 miles  Visit Log
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