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Originally Posted by Boromir88
I'm just glad this forum is still around, even though it's gone treeish over the last couple years.
Like a lot of forums a few years ago (what was it 4-5 years ago?) it suffered a vicious virus attack that nearly destroyed the whole thing. But perhaps the best thing about social media is the members banded together to rescue it. Even though if most of them don't post anymore (for a variety of reasons) there was that dedication and love from the membership to not let the site suffer the same fate as Melkor and disappear into the interwebs void.
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I just have to say "Amen to this!" Being without the Downs was a distressing time...even though I don't check in to it nearly as often anymore. It is comforting knowing that it is still there. And
Boro The Great Whiteout was right before the Ten Year Anniversary Werewolf game (which was partially such an exuberant festival because everyone was so happy that the Downs were back)...so it is more like six years ago rather than five.
Where does the time go?
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Originally Posted by Mithadan
The "fair weather" fans spawned by the movies faded away and the Hobbit movies did not resurrect them.
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I am afraid I must (yes it is a physiological imperative) snidely comment, "Gee, I wonder why the Hobbit films didn't generate a ton of new interest in Tolkien...vile spawns that they were."
There, I said it, I'm better now.
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Originally Posted by Inziladun
There were indeed some very spirited  discussions here back in the day. The fur was really flying for a while just before PJ released the LOTR films, and those threads were great. |
I still go back and re-read lots of threads from the golden years.
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Originally Posted by Inziladun
Am I going to have to watch that wretched Amazon series so I can come here and tear it shreds?  |
Ours is not to reason why,
Ours is but to riff and cry!
Besides, if you don't do it, who will?
I'm reminded of something the venerated
Mister Underhill said one time about there only being so much mileage that you can get out of a dead author's work. (I wish I could find the post where he said that, but it eludes me).
One of the big issues the forum faced is I think as the core group of Downers shrank, the long-standers have kind of all talked out the Tolkien issues that we had over the years and there grows to be less and less new items to discuss.
It is why re-reads are good and new blood is better.