[Amariden Ravenhill]

My name originated from my earliest role-playing game experiences as a young teenager. I had joined a Lord of the Rings online RPG at the invitation of a friend and created the eccentric Hobbit lass Amariden Ravenhill. Sadly, the forum was shut down, yet the two of us continued building upon the plot. Two years later, it had grown from a humble Lord of the Rings RPG that was barely surviving to an entirely new, enormous epic-scope story played only by the two of us and a few other friends. While it had drifted far from it's Middle-Earth genesis, we still payed due homage to Master Tolkien. Then, in February of 2004, my dad died suddenly. I used the RPG as a means to vent my emotions during the next several months. Our group had begun to slowly unravel and many of them lost interest in it, became involved in other RPGs or denounced it as "stupid". In the end, even my closest co-RPGer drifted away. During these times, I started working on an RPG/Webcomic in a completely different setting, but in the old one still lingered like a ghost flitting about the dark corners of my mind. As I was clearing out my e-mail of old letters and other such things last night, I found pieces of Amariden's long-lost Hobbit origins as well as my password for this forum (I had lost it in the summer of 2004) and now I return to the Barrow Downs at long last.

This, dear friends, is the origin of my name.