Know Yer Mates, or a Member Above Ye

[Cailín]

Let’s see if I can do this...

Gurthang likes werewolves, video games, starting intelligent new threads and eating chickens, innocents and wolves alike . He dislikes homework, and can appreciate neither coke nor pepsi. Recently, he has been using quotes from other Downers as his signature, which is probably the reason why the entire Downs population is constantly trying to make witty, intelligent and memorable one-liners.

Gurthang’s werewolf obsession is alarmingly obvious. Not only has he never quite gotten over his Bear-experience, he also intends to pick up girls by using WW references. Lately, he has posted that he has become a highly suspicious being, which possibly explains his camera fear and urge to hide in what looks like a cornfield.

His birthday is in July, he is currently 19, and he is now ranked 23rd in the members list. He failed to fill out the Barrow Confessional, though, which makes him much more mysterious than some.

Edit: Oi, sorry Orominuialwen, I again forgot to check for cross-posting...

So here for Oro:

Orominuialwen has about the hardest name to spell correctly on the entire Downs. She is a fan of Celtic things, which is why I'm convinced she’s very nice. I believe she’s quite into music and arts and all other pleasant things. She looks very Hobbit-like, according to herself, and I suppose that must be true then. She hates being mistaken for much older than she really is, but I’m not sure just how old she is, because she chose not to reveal that in her profile. She says she lives in The Pit of Oblivion, but we all know she really lives in that wonderful place called the Shire.

[Bergil]

Cailin is youngish and joined the downs due to werewolf.

[mormegil]

Bergil is a newer member of the downs and joined in August 2005. He has a modest posting average of 1.22 a day with a total of 113 posts. I believe he is fairly young (meaning under 20). He spends most of his time in Mirth but is seen often in others such as quotes and books. He hasn's posted much personal information so I can't get that on him but something interesting is he probably has the shortest post on this thread .

He is interested in WW and played in the latest WWJ game.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Mormegil joined the downs in april this year and has an impressive 7.77 post per day. He is 28 years old, lives in Utah with his wife and child, the last he has allredy startet indoctrinating in to loving the world of Tolkien. Mormegil has allso lived out side Rio for some years.

Thts about what I remember. . .

[HerenIstarion]

Rune Son of Bjarne is twenty, he's been around little bit more than two months but already achieved place at Elrond's Council (kudos!) and his per day posting average is little less impressive than what Mormegil may boast of - 6.96, one of the highest averages I'm aware of (Morsul the Dark held the highest of 12 odd per day, though his average dropped since, but that's another story...)

Rune is interested in Norse Mythology, also (I reckon consequently) in dragon-slaying, especially dragon-slayings historical, dubious, and mythical, and the various sorts of stabs and jabs and undercuts. Though his favourite character is not one of the dragon-slayers, but Fingolfin the High King of the Noldor. But here is the one who challenged more dangerous foe than fiercest of dragons may have ever been - Morgoth himself...

Rune lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. He likes Tolkien (bingo! but you've already known that...), Music and Football (European type of, for those across the pond that'd be Soccer) and collects coins. I would not be surprised to learn he likes Royal Hunt, seeing as it is a Danish band and Mythology lovers tend to lend their ears to good old hard rock music, and probably owns a Thomas Sorensen poster, but both last two are mere assumptions, educated guesswork, so to say, I would stand corrected if my shooting went wild here.

He would study history in University (and he is good at remembering historical facts). Besides, he is a believer in socialism ideology and its values and will try to apply knowledge obtained in University to achive some practical results in the field or maybe writhe theoretical works about the subject (seeing as he has Karl Marx for an avatar and quotes him in his signature: 'Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity' - lest he changes it and the exact one is forgotten ) Consequently, Rune likes his beer in the evening with political debate for a taste.

What else? His name means 'secret lore', and such a lore he has all chances of learning hanging with us around these here fora. His father's name stands for 'bear' (old Norse - Bjorn - Danish - Bjarne), hence in Common Tongue here we have Secret Knowledge Son of Bear. Not a bad choice of a name, I daresay. Also, I assume, if we were to live in M-E, Beorning he would be, no doubt . But that is what I assume following his father's name, he himself would better like to live in (order of preference):

1) Hithlum
2) Rohan and Gondolin
3) Lothlórien

And, as I've started with BD, let me finish with it: the place he visits the most is the Quiz Room, and the people he knows the best around here are Sleepy Ranger, Valesse and the guy who be short

[Anguirel]

Heren Istarion is a figure of contention and mystery. Among others, he has been identified as:

five separate personalities forming an Order of Wizards
The Necromancer of Threadwood
A large, ever-sparkling orange firework
and
King George the Fourth of Georgia

Certainly, there is no doubt he possesses deeply magical powers. Despite his exotic origins in Valinor/somewhere in the East/Rasghobel/Isengard/Georgia, his mastery of the tongue of the Angles and Saxons far surpasses that of any of us prosaic inhabitants of "Tol Eressea", and is distinguished for its fluency, originality, yea, and usefulness too. Obscure Latinate constructions that we mere Britons have long forgotten find a haven in the Heren English Dictionary (it's well known that the HED outstripped the OED back in the Third Age...)

He is known to be the most generous inhabitant of the Downs, and is a prodigious rep-pourer, though some sources have him down as sending the occasional mischievous anonymous rep...

In the Seventh Age, Heren Istarion took a wife of mysterious beauty, who is captured in a picture where her face slips away. Mrs Istarion is registered, rumour has it, to the Downs, though she is quite self-effacing. Reactions to the news of the union caused various lines of speculation along these terms:

"Ask her to study Heren and tell us everything she finds out about the Blue Wizards!"

But presumably the discreet Mrs Istarion is sworn to secrecy on such topics.

Finally, Heren is one of the greatest romanciers of our time. Listen to his description of the birth of Aranarth:

Third party may lawfully knock holes in both theories, indicating the whole story as mere typo on Tolkien's part. But I prefer to dream romance behind it, masked Arvedui climbing the walls and swimming over Anduin to (not to lose sight of the title) kiss his beloved, that kind of thing. And little Aranarth being as much a cause for the wedding as political necessity may have been. Things tend to be hushed up in higher up circles, yer honour. Having in mind marriage customs, though, every union is automatically 'in wedlock', so 1940 T.A. may be viewed as the year of 'official rituals', confirming the fact.

[Celuien]

Anguirel is a well-known Downer from Oxford, England. Astonishingly to many posters on the "How do you imagine other BDers" thread, he is but 16 years of age. This came as a shocking revelation to the vast majority of us who believed him to be 20-30.

An avid werewolf player, Anguirel is currently preparing to mod the latest incarnation of the game and has listed it as his strangest habit in the Barrow Confessional. He is also a fan of the Sons of Feanor, going so far as to rehabiliate the worse behaved members of the clan in his Silmarillion Survivor.

Finally, Anguirel is a member of the Barrow-Downs Procrastination Society.