edit: current skin possibilites:
1. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/Er ... out1-3.png
2. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/Er ... out2-1.png
3. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/Er ... out2-2.png
with a bit of pink added to the picture:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/Er ... adient.png
4. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/Er ... out2-3.png
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Link, because the image is waaaaaay big:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/Er ... ayout1.png
The font on the banner can be changed if it's not to people's liking, but to me, those fonts have the Rivendell/Elvish feel. Also colors can be changed...the more I look at that black box, the less sure I am about it...but I'm not sure what else to do other than trying to blend the rivendell picture into the background or placing it on the side.
There's another rivendell picture that could be used:
or I could even cut Frodo out of this one and use the rest:
I didn't mess with properly matching the blue colors of the message board to the banner as that could be done later if we went with this idea.
Here's what I think would be really cool:
The Rivendell theme could be the board's main theme, but we could also have a Shire, Gondor, Mordor, and Rohan theme. All that needs to be done is a new banner and matching the colors. Alatar has graciously offerred to help actually code a skin I come up with and if he were to do the Rivendell one, I could probably do the rest of the themes once I saw what he did.
I just think it would be really neat to let people pick which one fits them best as some of us are pervy elf fanciers and others are pervy hobbit fanciers.
Anyway, that's my idea. I think it would be lovely to have awesome scenery pics from the movies. We may not be a LotR site really, but it's our roots and it's what bound us together to start with.