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Lariren Shadow · 01-12-2009, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Okay, so I did actively recruit Lari. I cornered her and all but told her that if she didn't join and play werewolf, I'd make sure she got stranded at the airport.

Which is funny because when I joined the plan was you were going to work for me and not get me. But then again, I wouldn't have put it past you to then let the air out of everyone's tires I called to make sure I was stranded and make me join.

..I mean..

Mirandir · 01-13-2009, 12:22 AM

Oh Fea, it is TOTALLY your fault and you know it. You were the one who started it all. Stop denying the truth, my dear.

Mänwe · 01-23-2009, 03:11 PM

Popping in after a fair while away! Hello to all, new and old.

Elanor Gardener · 01-30-2009, 01:43 PM

Hello all.

I've been a fan of Tolkien for a long time, and thought I knew a lot about Middle Earth until I started reading posts on here!

alatar · 01-30-2009, 03:06 PM

Welcome, Elanor Gardener, and well met. Enjoy your stay at the Downs!

Thinlómien · 01-31-2009, 07:52 AM

Welcome, Elanor, and enjoy your stay.

And don't be intimidated by the several human Tolkien Encyclopedias, they tend to be quite nice.

And you can surely have worthy things to say even if you don't match their level of knowledge - there are people here living (err... being dead?

) happily among us even though they haven't even read LotR...

Tilion the Wayward · 02-09-2009, 12:09 PM

Greetings Tolkien fans!

I stumbled upon this site a while back & was well-pleased with the intelligent conversation & number of active threads (in comparison to multitudes of other decrepit LOTR forums). Of course I promptly lost the link & the name, thankfully to find it again later.

I must admit I am new to Tolkien (& largely to fantasy in general - I am more sci-fi inclined), even though I am well past my teenage years. When the movies were released I told myself I would read the books 1st, but alas, college is a difficult time for pleasure reading. So I watched The Fellowship of the Ring, thoroughly enjoying it. Somehow I managed to miss the subsequent films in the theater but caught them both together at home on DVD later. I vowed that I would read the books. Time passed, again, (though I found paperback copies of the Trilogy + Hobbit for $.25 each at a used bookstore) & I finally found myself ready to experience The War of The Ring as it was intended.

Woe, thee Ring!
How beautiful and terrible is thy orbit!
The all-consuming fire scorches;
Though I darenot relinquish the flame!

I feel as though I was finally let in to a world for which I was destined, some 15 years late (my youth spent reading Grisham & Crichton seems wasted in comparison). Especially as our technology obsessed world wears very thin on me, Middle Earth resonated in my desire for a simpler world (but certainly no less dangerous). Having thought I knew the story from the film version, the books provided some delightful surprises. After falling unknowingly under the spell of a power far greater than I have encountered before, providence shined on me, allowing me to procure a beautiful 2nd edition hardcover of the works (my preciousss), as well as an illustrated Silmarillion (which I have yet to read as other books of immediate importance are occupying me). So, my hope is that this site will illuminate some of the shadows for me until Tolkien can do so himself.

01-13-2009, 12:22 AM	#2
Mirandir Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: CT/NY Posts: 681	Oh Fea, it is TOTALLY your fault and you know it. You were the one who started it all. Stop denying the truth, my dear. __________________ Rise and rise again until lambs become lions.

01-23-2009, 03:11 PM	#3
Mänwe Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: May as well be the Arctic Circle Posts: 283	Popping in after a fair while away! Hello to all, new and old. __________________ "I am, I fear, a most unsatisfactory person." - (Letter #124 To Sir Stanley Unwin)

01-30-2009, 01:43 PM	#4
Elanor Gardener Newly Deceased Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Cumbria Posts: 6	Hello :) Hello all. I've been a fan of Tolkien for a long time, and thought I knew a lot about Middle Earth until I started reading posts on here!

01-30-2009, 03:06 PM	#5
alatar Doubting Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Heaven's basement Posts: 2,466	Welcome, Elanor Gardener, and well met. Enjoy your stay at the Downs! __________________ There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it.

01-31-2009, 07:52 AM	#6
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	Welcome, Elanor, and enjoy your stay. And don't be intimidated by the several human Tolkien Encyclopedias, they tend to be quite nice. And you can surely have worthy things to say even if you don't match their level of knowledge - there are people here living (err... being dead? ) happily among us even though they haven't even read LotR... __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

02-09-2009, 12:09 PM	#7
Tilion the Wayward Newly Deceased Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Among the stars Posts: 4	Greetings Tolkien fans! I stumbled upon this site a while back & was well-pleased with the intelligent conversation & number of active threads (in comparison to multitudes of other decrepit LOTR forums). Of course I promptly lost the link & the name, thankfully to find it again later. I must admit I am new to Tolkien (& largely to fantasy in general - I am more sci-fi inclined), even though I am well past my teenage years. When the movies were released I told myself I would read the books 1st, but alas, college is a difficult time for pleasure reading. So I watched The Fellowship of the Ring, thoroughly enjoying it. Somehow I managed to miss the subsequent films in the theater but caught them both together at home on DVD later. I vowed that I would read the books. Time passed, again, (though I found paperback copies of the Trilogy + Hobbit for $.25 each at a used bookstore) & I finally found myself ready to experience The War of The Ring as it was intended. Woe, thee Ring! How beautiful and terrible is thy orbit! The all-consuming fire scorches; Though I darenot relinquish the flame! I feel as though I was finally let in to a world for which I was destined, some 15 years late (my youth spent reading Grisham & Crichton seems wasted in comparison). Especially as our technology obsessed world wears very thin on me, Middle Earth resonated in my desire for a simpler world (but certainly no less dangerous). Having thought I knew the story from the film version, the books provided some delightful surprises. After falling unknowingly under the spell of a power far greater than I have encountered before, providence shined on me, allowing me to procure a beautiful 2nd edition hardcover of the works (my preciousss), as well as an illustrated Silmarillion (which I have yet to read as other books of immediate importance are occupying me). So, my hope is that this site will illuminate some of the shadows for me until Tolkien can do so himself. __________________ "Do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for it may chance that old wives kept in memory words of things that were once needful for the wise to know." Last edited by Tilion the Wayward; 02-09-2009 at 12:18 PM.

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