Let's not forget the ultimate possibility for all of us to keep involved with Middle-earth: The Downs!! There are so many fantastic threads to read on the forum, with five years' worth of wonderful posts. The Chapter-by-Chapter discussions are all open, so you can go back to your favorite chapters to read and post there. I also encourage you to go back to the last page of the Books forum and start reading old threads - there are gems just waiting to be discovered! The possibility of joining the writing team of an RPG on the Downs has already been mentioned.
I think it's safe to say that all of us who stick around here do so to prolong our stay in Middle-earth - perhaps the Barrow-Downs forum is the last of the great embalming rings?!
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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