I once had to bow out completely ungraciously of the Tolkien's Letters thread in the quiz room.  I solved a few anagrams, but every time I tried to write new ones I added extra letters or left out important ones.  This must have happened five or six times in two weeks.  I'm 
very careful about anagrams now 

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My first RPing experiences were pretty bad too.  I believe my first character was a Rohirrim woman who carried a sword, was half Gondorian, and had fled to the Shire because she was running away from the dark memories of her haunted past.  She could almost have been a character in the Entish Bow 

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Sophia