Top Ten Signs You're Addicted to the Barrow-Downs

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I think that we are talking of an addiction to WW, which I would argue is not the same as an addiciotn to The Downs.

[Thinlómien]

Well, Rune, if that's not good enough for you, how about making 107 posts in the past 15 days...?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Well, Rune, if that's not good enough for you, how about making 107 posts in the past 15 days...?

Hey, and what about 117 posts?

*serious face* I should really do something about it. The more that only about 10% of that were in the Books thread.

*more serious face* See it? Now this is indeed a grave case.

*even more serious face* I should delete this post.

[satansaloser2005]

I keep refreshing the main page to see if anyone has posted in the werewolf topics. and there's not even a game going yet. if that's not sad, i don't know what is

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I have one interesting contribution, maybe I would not even call it a sign of addiction. But today on one lesson I had to make notes from what the lecturer was saying very fast. And once it came handy to me that I am a Downer: the lecturer was saying some quotation, and I did not have to write it all, I simply noted: "Kitanna's avatar" and moved on.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Well, Rune, if that's not good enough for you, how about making 107 posts in the past 15 days...?

That depends. . .how many was in ww?

I would like a tally where you tell me exactly how many post in which thread. . . .

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Hmmmm... The First day on the Downs, I think I made forty-some posts or something.
You know... my family thinks I am crazy and you should see my friends, I hadn't been on the Downs for like a week or two and they were mad at me for mentioning it at lunch.

Anyway, how do you say Volo... I've always pronounced it like Volvo, just without the v.
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or you check the newspaper thread every time you're on, even though it only comes out weekly. Because you like it so much.

[Volo]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

Anyway, how do you say Volo... I've always pronounced it like Volvo, just without the L.

How do you pronounce Volvo? I pronounce it with o's like in "odd". Funny thing is that I was teased by being called Volvo in primary school. :S

[Lhunardawen]

When, after waking up and not knowing the time because your phone's battery died, worrying it might already be 6 AM when you needed to wake up at 5, and your panic subsided when you found out it was not even 4, the first thing you thought of, and ended up, doing was logging on to the Downs and posting about your BD dream before you forgot it.

[Thinlómien]

I'm not sure if a BD addiction or having slept only a few hours is to blame, but there's certainly something wrong with you if you can't help laughing hysterically at a BigMac advertisement...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

When, even in your own work, you cannot help but mention the Downs, even if *cough* subtly. This is one of three Downs references I've put into my pseudo mythology which includes Penguins as a race:



There is also a Bear called Legate and a Dinosaur called Rune in the legends...

[Lhunardawen]

Hahaha! Nice, Hookbill.

When my Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy prof told us one lecture class that she likes penguins, I almost blurted out, "Pareho kayo ni Lommy!" I caught myself just when the words were at the tip of my tongue..

(Pareho means same, kayo is you (plural). Do the math. )

[Thinlómien]

When you try to log in to a school computer with your BD user name and wonder why it's not working.

When you realise that you can mostly blame BD for having read so little lately. I used to spend more time with books and less with the computer. *sigh*

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

When you try to log in to a school computer with your BD user name and wonder why it's not working.

Am I just having a deja vu, or is it a sign of addiction that I think I remember someone saying something like this before?

[Kath]

You see penguins on the tv and immediately wonder if you should tell Lommy.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

When you have an amazing dream but are disappointed that it didn't have any downers in it so you can't post it on the relevant thread.

[Bêthberry]

when you use Middle-earth words/Tolkien languages on Text/Twist and take umbrage when they aren't accepted.

Really--orcs is part of the English vocabulary now, itsn't it? And ent? and hobbit surely is.

[Kath]

When you're watching a clip from 'Britain's most interesting trees' (or whatever it was actually called) and you can't help but think the man being interviewed is actually an ent, so when you see Bethberry's post on here you can't help but mention it!

[Gwathagor]

When you can't wait for the email updates, and have to personally check all threads for new replies every fifteen minutes.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

In my univercity course (Creative Writing) we have a Fantasy Fiction module. As part of our coursework we have to make a biography of a new character for our imaginary world, and this is the one I did:

Lómmi was the daughter of Philip who was the son of Philipip, the emperor of the Penguins. She was born in Edarnia in the year that the great darkness of Fácen was driven away. For fifteen years she dwelt among the hills of Pengover and explored the barrows there in. There were many Penguins who came there and soon they grew in number to one hundred. They took Lómmi as their leader, wandering through the Pengish lands and making mischief. But when the Lizard King left for the land of Norán, they became worried, for the barrows were disturbed.
After one year of wandering, they took a boat to Bunchnoic, the Penguin settlement on the main land, and there explored the wide forests. When the Wolf clan began to rise and war broke out in Lizarn Major, the Penguins of Lómmi wandered into Fellin, a Bearish settlement. there they found a small town besieged by the wolf followers. Lómmi lead the Penguins in battle and they rescued the town from destruction. So, when they returned they had great renown among the Penguins and their number was made much greater. Seeing that they were strong and the Pengish folk willing, Lómmi lead them into the forest to attempt an assault upon Helzar, but they were driven back by a new evil. For some Penguins had been corrupted to the Wolf followers and they were red of feathers and green of eyes. The Blood-Penguins they were named.
For the next year they battled and were driven back over the sea to Edarnia until the Blood Penguins came after them. More of that great battle in Emporia is told in the Book of Diyn. But once all was won, though at great loss, Lómmi was distressed. For many of her friends had fallen in the battle and she took what remained of her folk and went to Penguve, the south Pole, and remained there until the final assault on Helzar began. Then she arose with ten thousand Penguins she had gathered in that time and won renown, yet lost many more things.
And when her father, Philip, announced that Wybren the Dragon would be made a Thain of Edarnia, she grew wrathful and asked him "Why have you done this thing? The Dragons are our foes and ever shall be."
"Wybren is a friend," said Philip, "and he has saved my feathers more times than I care to mention. Besides which, I say that the Dragons should be our friends." But Lómmi was reluctant.
She lived then in Emporia before sailing the sea to visit King Diyn by request. And he told her the tale of Philip and Wybren and so she understood. Yet she did not return to her father's house, but stayed in Lizarn until she died, aged 97. Wybren himself buried her next to her father in the barrows she had loved and so the peace between Penguins and Dragons begun.


But this is an abridged version.

Next week, I'll write about Rune the Bear who was the first to sail to the Drago Lands.

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Kath

When you're watching a clip from 'Britain's most interesting trees' (or whatever it was actually called) and you can't help but think the man being interviewed is actually an ent, so when you see Bethberry's post on here you can't help but mention it!

I think my post here was not precisely on topic. Such a post should more properly be in a thread on Top Ten Signs You're Addicted to Tolkien Incunabula.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Today I saw some interesting graffiti on an old derelict building. It simply said 'Squatters!' in bold red paint. I almost went to it and put an apostrophe before the second 's'. I also wanted to draw a trilby next to it.