Tolkien Events 2013

[Pervinca Took]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Pervinca Took was very friendly and to my shame I did not realise who she was until it was too late! If I knew that I knew you I would probably have been more talkative!!

Hookbill, we've never really talked on here, because I only registered in 2009 and I got quite "talked out" on Tolkien in the early noughties, on a different board which was never the same after it crashed and lost all its old threads. Also I began to feel out of place on boards that seemed to become very pro-film (even though I like aspects of the films and was tremendously enthusiastic in the "looking forward" stage that preceded them). And I'd joined the Tolkien Society about a year before having any Tolkien activity online, and had always felt very comfortable there.

I think I became properly aware of the Barrow-Downs when Downers started coming to Oxonmoot. (I remember quite a lot of their masquerade costumes, too!) And eventually I decided I'd like to try a bit of online Tolkien discussion again. I've posted elsewhere, but I find the BD to be the best place around. My addiction to cryptic clues (especially lots of them in a "Password" arrangement) may have something to do with this, but I also very much enjoy the literary discussion here.

Bungo, did you and your daughter go to the Slide Show? (The lighthearted slide-show of Tolkien art, with audience participation, in the wooden-panelled room with the tapestries). If that was you, I certainly remember talking with you, and your daughter playing with my friends' children (I was sitting next to them).