Lalwende & davem wish to announce their engagement
 

Yes, its true. Lalwende has agreed to make an honest man of me.

For those who are interested, we met up in December after pm'ing each other for a few months & discovering we only lived 20 miles from each other. We got engaged on Sunday & are both very happy.

We're now hoping all our rep points can be amalgamated so that no-one has a hope in hell of beating us :p

Congratulations to you both!

Congrats!
 

Wow, cool. Best wishes to you both!

The BD's must be the first ever Tolkien match-maker website... ;) :D

Congratulations!
 

Wow! I thought you two were getting on well together.

I am very happy for you both and may I wish you every happiness together. Marriage is certainly something that I can heartily recommend. :)

Will it be a Tolkien-themed wedding, perhaps? I can well imagine Hobbit page-boys and bridesmaids and a wing-crowned davem and Elven-gowned Lalwende walking back down the aisle together ... :smokin:

Goodness gracious me! That's two enagements announced on the Downs in the space of a month or so! I shall have to buy a new Saucepan hat. :D

Congratulations to you both! Provided, of course, it's not another Crystal Heart type fiasco... ;)

Congrats and may you two have many happy rep-gathering years together. :D

Congratulations! And the best to you both. :D

My congratulations are being mentally (oh look! AND visually) sent to you. :) I wish you all the happiness and that good stuff. Having never been married, I can offer no good advice, but will this shindig involve mathoms?

*Fea has thought* Now wouldn't it be fun if Lal and davem had an RP wedding with all the members involved? Kinda like the birthday parties.

Fea

Congratulations!
 

Aww, that's so cool. You'll be having a marvelously long courtship to get things worked out, so it's probably too soon to know if you've got a date set, I hope. ;) After all you two have been together only as long as my leg has been broken... now that's odd. :rolleyes:
Good luck to you both!:D

Congratulations!
 

Oh wow!

Well, Blessed be you both! I wish you both that it will be great on both of your parts!


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To think the BD's will become a match making paradise for Tolkien fans... Hmm... This will be interesting!

Anyways, I wish you both a wonderful relationship. :)

~ A blessing Ka

Congratulations and may you both be eternally happy.

Congratulations to you both. :) :)

May your marriage be happy and not founder as so many marriages seem to do these days.

A toast !

:eek:
Holy moley!!

That definitely put me over my shock quota for the day.

Wow.

I suppose this means you'll be getting a joint Barrow-Downs account? :D

May you have good times and smooth sailing.

*dies from the loveliness of it all*
 

How perfectly wonderful! Congratulations, Lal and davem -- much happiness to you.

Congratulations!

May you have many, many happy years together.

Congratulations davem and Lalwende! As all the jokes seem to have already been made, I'll just wish you all the best. So- all the best. :)

Congragulations! Best wishes for all your future happiness.

More Cheers!
 

All fear the mighty Lalwendavem! Points approaching infinity, and a double punch on every post! This is wonderful news! Congratulations to both of you, and hopefully all your arguments will be good-natured! (I don't think this was altogether a surprise, but only because I read the ghost of a hint a little while back and passed it off...I should trust my instincts more!) :D I'm raising my glass to you both as I speak (no mean feat, as I have to type this as well!). Unfortunately, although the beverage is solidly alcoholic, it is but a salve to a sore throat and nagging cough...anyway "thag you very buch" for sharing the great news!

Cheers and sniffles,
Lyta

Congratulations!

I only hope that this relationship works out well, and is of as much joy to the two of you as the relationships of Tolkien's couples were.

Wait...

Tarannon&Beruthiel
Aldarion&Erendis
Denethor&Finduilas (ended in tragedy, if naught else)
Turambar&Niniel (ewww!!!)
Aredhel&Eol

Okay... maybe not all of Tolkien's couples. May the blessing of Sam and Rosie be upon you!

Wait again!

That might not work either....

Okay, we can't go wrong with the Master's own allegory: Beren and Luthien. May your lives be full of happiness, and your spirits be entwined beyond the ending of this life.

*is boggled*

Congrats to both of you! Goodness you're good at keeping secrets.

-Sophia

Davem & Lalwende -

My fairest greetings to you both!

Child

A hearty congratulations.
 

I just wonder: how many boxes would that be? :p

Would you then be Eru's right-hand . . . errrr . . . pair?

A wish for the both of you:

Walls for the wind
And a roof for the rain,
And drinks beside the fire.
Laughter to cheer you
And those you love near you.
And all that your heart may desire.

~*~ Pio http://forum.barrowdowns.com/ubb/icons/icon13.gif

:D

Well what can I say? :)

I shall start with a big thank you for all the lovely messages! I have a big smile from reading them all. :D

But I have made sure to save one special smile for davem, because he's the one who brought me all this happiness in the first place! :)

Thanks all. I don't know what to say. I suppose main thanks have to go to our beloved BW as without this site L & I would never have met. 'Strange are the turns of fate' as someone once said...

I am absolutely delighted for both of you, Lalwendë and davem! You've been walking hand-in-hand on the reputation list for awhile now, so to have you find each other in real life is a wonderful continuation. What is it they say about life imitating art (or was that the other way around? ;) )... I wish you all the very best - and this gives me just one more reason to look forward to meeting the two of you at "Tolkien 2005" this summer!

Wonderful. Best wishes to the both of you. :)

ps. For future reference: We want pictures. :D ;)

Seems most things have been said, so I'll just add my hearty congratulations!

Congratulations Lalwendë and davem. It is an institution that I too can thoroughly recommend (even after 28 years!!) Best wishes to you both :D

I'd like to share the following good advice, from Ogden Nash:

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up!

I second the request for photographs of the Happy Event, when it occurs :)

Congratulations! May your life together be filled with moments of bliss. Note that, from experience, the only thing better than finding your love with whom to share your life is to create a family with the same.

And I assume that you both are on the same side of the 'Balrog's wings' debate, surely, and if not, then there's a plan to resolve the issue before the big day? ;)

Best wishes!

I am so happy for you both! But not nearly half as happy as you two are, I'll wager. Many thanks for sharing the good news and best wishes. You've made my day a rather pleasant one. :D

:D That's so great!!!! Happy weddingness!!!!:D
~EF

Many congratulations Lalwende and davem :) :D

(davem, I hope you had an easier time getting hold of a suitable Silmaril for the lady than old Beren had!)

Wow. . .and. . .

Wow. . .

That's wonderful news! Best I've heard in a long time. (But don't think for a moment that I will stand idly by and allow you to combine your reps!)

There absolutely must be some role or part for us of the BDs in the ceremony. At my own wedding, those who could not attend sent 'telegrams' (emails) that were read out at the reception -- any chance of the same??

Failing that, at the very least, maybe we could entice the happy couple into their first RPG: The Wedding of Lord Davem and the Lady Lalwende! It could be like the annual Birthday Party for the Downs and everyone could come in their BD character to wish the couple well. But where would it be set? The Shire? Rivendell? Lorien? Minas Tirith? Mordor? :eek:

"Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undomiel daughter of Elrond."

As Chesterton says... "Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline."

:D

My heartiest congratulations to the both of you! My joyful prayers will certainly be with the two of you. May the sweetness of marriage bring its sweetest of sweetness to you.

And may I second Helen's request for pictures?

Awwwww!

Congratulations, best wishes, and lots and lots of kisses. I hope wedded bliss won't take you away from the BD for too long. Both of you are such pleasurable company.

Mnogaya leta. As we sing in Ukraine on joyous occasions such as this one.

Good luck to you, guys. Imagine, you already have a great how-we-met story to tell. :)

I wish you all the best.

Hugs and a Few Stray Tears,
Natalia.

Weddings? I love Weddings! Drinks all around!
 

This is the cutest thing I have EVER read. Its all thanks to Mister Tolkien! This is amazing! Congrats to you both. I hope you have a long and happy life together(and as many children as Sam and Rosie ;) )

XOXOXOX

~*Willy*~

Heh, they will be at the altar (or before a justice of the peace or judge or however they choose to wed) and hissing back and forth... "Wings!" -- "No wings!" -- "Of course they had wings, it says so right there in the book!" -- "It's metaphorical!" :D

Pictures would be lovely!