Exactly what we're trying to illustrate here, dearest Rimbaud. It could turn into something terrible. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Quoting French literature isn't going to solve it, Rim; they'll just start swooning over Gustave Flaubert instead.

Now THERE's an interesting thought.

And no, I don't have a latent crush on the Barrow-Wight or Mithadan or anyone. I was just thinking in terms of those who DESERVE swoon forums.

An attraction of the bovine to the Bovary, Squatter?

Precisely, HerenIstarion. It is called hoisting them on their own petard. Or, conversely, having your cake and eating it, too. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Bethberry

Couldn't have put it better myself, Rim; which is why I didn't. ;)

Anyone who manages to squeeze the word 'petard' into modern English use has my vote for President. Swoon room number Two, anyone?

-Maril

Bb just did it. Or are my eyes deceived?

Bethberry for president!!!!

The Convenor for the Middle Earth Hostelry and Inn Association regrets to inform you that we cannot at this time accommodate your request for election facilities at the Barrow Downs Swoonery for a Ms. Berry.

Swoon Room # 2, salons A, B, and C are currently booked for a long-term engagement by the Barrow Downs Birding Club. Some of the events you might wish to attend this evening, 28 Winterfilth, are the following:

Stalking the Elusive Mellow-throated Birdland
Top Hot Spots for Sighting Birdie
Birdie Up Close: Binoculars or Scopes?
Building a Better Blind: Privacy or Peek-a-boo
Identifying Birdie's Songs: To-wit, To-Wit

Our sister Inn at Bree is also full, with reservations tonight for an appearance by some hobbits, followed by a wizard and a pony.

The following week, the Barrow Downs Birding Club will be hosting a tribute to Birdland sightings, tentatively titled, "Perched atop the Lonely Star." Tickets on sale next Tuesday. Proceeds to the Barrow Downs Store.

[ October 19, 2002: Message edited by: Bethberry ]

To all members of the Barrow Downs Birding Club:

Please note that Miss Bird is currently trapped in the tombs of Numenor and is not responding to requests for interviews. It is hoped that she will be rescued next week, and will make her reappearance at the Barrow Downs. This, however, is not certain, given the vagaries of RPGs, and those who travel with her!

All requests for promotional appearances should be deferred until that date.

Camelia Goodchilde,
Press Secretary for Mistress Bird aboard
the Lonely Star

Thenk yoo...Thenk yoo...(blows kisses the crowd), all you lovely little common people.

And remember, the Birdland Action Figure will be available soon through the Barrow Downs Store. Pre-Orders are being accepted now.

Please buy generously.

Congratulations, Birdy. I trust that you don't mean to forget the little people who made it all possible.

Why do so many celebrities attribute their success to Leprechauns anyway?

The Underground Treasury of Leprechauns (Ltd) is reported to announce it is cutting short it's sponsorship program for celebrities-to-be. As a press-attaché of the Treasury told our correspondent, since all potters went to Hogwarts, leprechauns supply of pots for their gold was cut short. Though, as selfsame press-attaché announces, Treasury is seriously considering a project of issuing it's own credit cards. There is a plan to establish the original network of ATM throughout the world. ATM will be installed by Golems Inc, and made out of finest china porcelain golems. The ATM are reported to have passed tests successfully, though the cash advance process is rather peculiar - customer is supposed to stick the card into golems mouth, than make a tour around it and wait for his cash on the other side. Leprechaun Treasury (Ltd) and Golems Inc announce that their cooperation will not end with this single project, and we are to meet new products in nearest future.

-The Nightly Palantir-

Disclaimer: The idea of the previous post style indeed owes it's inspiration to Marileangorifurnimaluim with her "Academy of Thread Names" (here) post in "Nominations: Best Thread Names" thread in The Barrow Downs

Thanks, Maril

The Birdland Action Figure . . . does that come with batteries?

Has anyone ever thought that some fangirl would stumble onto the 'Downs looking for hot Legolas pics, start reading, and get converted?? Having a great Tolkien site like this is bound to sport evangelistic properties. Go in an Orli freak, come out a Tolkien freak! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] It's a thought, at least.

-'Vana

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: DaughterofVana ]

that's exactly what I'm hoping for. yet we are not freaks, we are high brow intelligentsia with deep appreciation and profound knowledge of J.R.R.T.'s world, as well as down-to-bottom diggers in other fields of earthly wisdom [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

I forgot those of my friends out in the Great Void aren't familiar with the terms of endearment in my corner of the universe. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] To be a "Tolkien-freak" is a title that holds great honor and prestige in my little world. I curtsy in your general direction!

-'Vana

Here's my story - my little sister (age 12) was looking for Elijah Wood pictures on the Internet. She is the epitome of fangirliness. Anyway, this site came up on the Google engine. She checked it out, and started making noises of disgust that there weren't any movie pictures. But I thought the name generator was really cool, so I checked it out.

And here I am today. I was already something of a Tolkien fan, but it's possible for a fangirl to become a thoughtful discusser. I think. Even though my sister (the Philistine) thinks the books are stupid.

I was not aware that the Barrow Downs is an evangelical movement.

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: Bethberry ]

(Birdie thows a blanket over her shrine to Eru.)

Whoopsie - better stop trying to convince everyone to pray to Elbereth...

And we are an evangelical movement of sorts. We attempt to convert people to the cult of rational thought and conscientious discussion.

The bolded phrase is a non sequitur, Elenna. Please think about the connotations of the word "cult." And also look up the meaning of "evangelical."

Bethberry

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: Bethberry ]

Come on, Bethberry, stop being serious! It's too late in the game for that! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: Lush ]

I would like to take this moment to say how wonderful it is that our moderators are good-natured enough to take such horribly disrespectful conduct and, dare I say, even grammatical correction *gasps* with such good nature. Aren't we lucky?

*reaches under the blanket Bird has thrown over Eru*

Ah! There's the switch!

*click*

*strains of the Ainulindalë pour into the forum - Melkor doing the oom pah pah accompaniment*

Pio and Birdie envoke The Great Conductor:
"Ohhhhhhhhh...

I don't care if it rains or hails-oooo,
'Long as I got my plastic Eru,
Riding on the dash board of my car!

You can buy Him phosphorescent
Glows in the dark, He's Pink and Pleasant,
Take Him with you when you're travelling far

Plastic Eru! Plastic Eru!
Riding on the dashboard of my car.
But I think he'll have to go,
His magnet ruins my radio
And if we have a wreck he'll leave a scar."

I don't care if any mod's wroth,
Long as I have magnetic Morgoth,
Sneerin' from the dashboard of my car,

I feel I'm protected amply,
I've got the whole dang Ainu Family,
Riding on the dashboard of my car.

Plastic Eru! Plastic Morgoth!
Ridin' on the dashboard of my car
Through all trials and tribulations
We'll travel Mithlond's every nation
With my Plastic Valar I'll go far

'EY, leave my Morgoth alone! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[ October 24, 2002: Message edited by: Maikadilwen ]

shame on you, piosenniel and Birdland [img]smilies/redface.gif[/img]

boo

Awwww, you're just jealous, Heren, 'cause our cars are blessed with with the Light of the Two Dashboard Ornaments.

well, I may be jealous, but the reason you give is not correct. I envy you on the plain basis of simply owing cars whilst I do not [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

I don't have a car either. Oh, the injustice.

But my license plate, when I get one is going to say "NATWWAL". Guess what THAT means.

What's this? I'm gone for a day and everyone goes all happy-clappy. Stop behaving like a cluster of boring hippies or there'll be some smiting done.

I want to see more anarchy, in the style of Bethberry, Mod-Corrector General.

NATWWAL?

Not All The Women Wheel Around Loonely?
(don't get at me, just a joke)
[img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

NOOO! NO SMITING, PLEASE!

And I really don't mind being corrected when I make mistakes. Mods are people too, and I'm a rather young one, so I make more than my quota.

And NATWWAL means Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost! Because once I get a car, you'll never get me out!

( [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Birdie pats her 10 year old Geo and appreciates what she's got.)

(Heren walks down street with a plastic Eru on his head and a pair of fuzzy dice hanging 'round his neck, but it's just not the same.)

LOL, Birdie, Pio, and Heren!

I am the very model of a mod-correcting general. And Squatter, you are indeed a favoured aide-de-camp, but it would behoove you if you capitalized on my name. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

And, yes, well, some minor squirmishes provide but brief exercise of our might. We must save ourselves for the greater battle that awaits, when the rough beast slouches forth in December.

[ October 24, 2002: Message edited by: Bethberry ]

If forum members (you) wish to "fight" this problem, you should really do nothing but proceed with things as usual and ingore such problems. If you do so, you won't be bothered and the administration will undoubtedly handle anything that presents itself as a threat to the mature, Tolkien-related discussion that goes on here.