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10-07-2003, 05:23 PM
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Animated Skeleton
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: A van down by the river.
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-When you haven't even been here long and you already come here everyday [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
-When you giggle at anything that says "flammable" because it reminds you of Meela and Denethor [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] -When you stole a balloon from the pep rally and wrote all over it "Do the Wave for Boromir the Disco King!" and get funny looks from people who read it. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I really like this smilie [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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10-07-2003, 08:18 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Bag End... On Frodo's laptop. Shhhh! Don't tell!
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-When you kelebrate that last post, thankful of the converts [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Welcome to the Downs, Elwen_starmaiden, and enjoy being dead! *That was my first time saying that, and boy did it feel good!*
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10-07-2003, 08:45 PM
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Deathless Sun
Join Date: May 2003
Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos
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- When you write epic LotR-related poetry in your Spanish class instead of listening to the teacher and reviewing for your 1st Quarter Exam.
- When said teacher threatens to take away the notebook in which you are writing, and your face develops an expression remarkably similar to Gollum's when he sees the Ring around Frodo's neck for the first time. (Needless to say, my Spanish teacher backed off!!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]) - When you meet a fellow LotR fan at the beach because you're walking in the surf singing "To the Sea" and suddenly this voice joins in with yours, and you meet another fan. - When you pretend to be studying for your 1st Quarter Exams, but instead are posting in this thread.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark. |
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10-08-2003, 11:55 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: middle of Nowhere/Norway
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I also think I counts as slightly obsessive when you actually walk all over Oslo to find a store that sells prostetic elf ears, even though you know you can't afford them, all the while thinking about how much this'll improve your RtR mileage... [ October 08, 2003: Message edited by: vanwalossien ]
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10-11-2003, 01:51 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: middle of Nowhere/Norway
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I think I'm in trouble, I just re-read the first half of this thread just to find some comfort in the fact that I'm not the only one who's dangerously addicted. I think there might even be people who are more addicted than me.. But since page 2 I've also learnt how to spell Marileangorifurnimaluim, Eärendil [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Your quotes still trouble me though... You do know we wanted to rename the thread, to name it after you?
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"The ships hung in the air in much the same way as bricks don't" |
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10-11-2003, 04:31 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: the Realm of Nargothrond beyond Narog
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When your posts are just questions asking about in jokes. Speaking of that, where did the meela-denethor thing start? I feel really stupid right now. I just found out about Boromir the Disco King a week ago.
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10-11-2003, 06:31 PM
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Deathless Sun
Join Date: May 2003
Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos
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When you giggle like a maniac whenever someone mentions "Denethor" or "fire."
When you tell your teachers you have a project to work on, just so you can get a pass to go to the school library to get on the Downs.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark. |
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10-11-2003, 07:29 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Gondor
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I've only read this page on the thread, so if this one's been posted before, please don't shoot me!!
When you put as your signature in other LotR message boards, 'Do the wave for Boromir the disco king,' in hopes of finding another Downie there, or making some converts [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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10-14-2003, 01:44 AM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: middle of Nowhere/Norway
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The Boromir the Disco King-thing is really mad [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I never read the thread where it came from, I don't really know what it's all about, but I picture Boromir dancing all the time. Yesterday a guy in my class pretended to do some disco dancing, and I started giggling hysterically.. He suddenly stopped dancing [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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"The ships hung in the air in much the same way as bricks don't" |
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10-19-2003, 08:37 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Mirkwood
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the only way I can do me homework is: do a problem, read a post, do a problem, read a post hehe
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10-21-2003, 04:40 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Nowhere...now here
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When you are talking about the 'downs, and your guy-friend says "Is it a bad thing that I don't go to freaky obsessive websites?" and before he finishes the sentence you yell "YES!" Scared him pretty bad, I did, yes, preciousss... [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]
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10-21-2003, 05:43 PM
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: my computer chair, being smothered by my impossibly large cat
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You see a lisence plate with 'PFC' on it, and you instantly think 'Purplefluffychainsaw!' [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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10-21-2003, 07:57 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: watching the ants closing in
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not sure if something like this has been done, but:
If ever the barrow downs is not working, you start freaking out, are really snappy, and bite your nails, possibly pulling out hair, because you are unable to visit one of the best forums ever!!! yup something like that [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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10-24-2003, 02:39 PM
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Rohan or some where there abouts (probably lost!)
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Wow that really describes me... Hehe
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I have been: eating sugar, drinking caffeinated soda, doing the wave, the disco and various other dances just as, if not more humiliating, and all in all, acting like the deranged Pirate that I am… |
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10-29-2003, 05:16 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: A portal to an alternate dimension at your local Wal-Mart store.
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Black, Green, and a Computer Screen, Vuelve [ October 29, 2003: Message edited by: Vuelve ]
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12-26-2003, 10:03 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Nowhere...now here
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-When you see 'PM' you think 'private message' rather than 'afternoon.'
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12-27-2003, 11:35 AM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: May 2003
Location: my TARDIS!
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12-27-2003, 03:16 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Nowhere...now here
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Yeah... I got points off a lot of assignments in typing class for using European spelling. My stupid teacher doesn't know about it. [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] Or, I should say didn't know about it, as I informed her. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
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12-30-2003, 08:08 AM
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Scion of The Faithful
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: The brink, where hope and despair are akin. [The Philippines]
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I guess you're addicted to the 'Downs when you say, "I'll be a Ghost Prince before 2004!"
Later days! [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] ->Elenrod P.S. Well what did you know...I am a Ghost Prince!
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フェンリス鴨 (Fenrisu Kamo) The plot, cut, defeated. I intend to copy this sig forever - so far so good...
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12-30-2003, 11:42 PM
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Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Probably stalking Orlando. Or Viggo. Or Dom. Or Johnny Depp, for that matter.
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This thread is hysterical!
Okay, my pitiful contribution: *After just 1 day of being on this site, you're instantly hooked *When you spend thousands of dollars buying a new computer so that Barrowdowns will load faster *You wake up at 11am, go see ROTK for the fourth time, come home, log onto Barrowdowns, and at approx. 11pm you realize that all you've had to eat the entire day was 1/2 a bag of greasy, buttery popcorn. You then realize that food is no longer important, and stay on til about 12:30. **my life story** *Sleep? What is this "sleep" you speak of? We of this age know nothing of "sleep." The only proper use for that word is when it is proceeded by "I'll catch up on my" and followed by "in study hall." And that's only if you can't get to the library to use the computers! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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Neo is not the one -- that's because Frodo is! < I just realized my location makes me sound like a total fangirl........ |
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12-31-2003, 12:59 AM
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Mordor University, Wisconsin Campus
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I read this thread when I first joined BD this summer, and thought, "This is gonna be me, isn't it?" I bet after these past four months I can come up with ten signs, no sweat. All of these are taken from real experience, except #2. When I get to #2, it's time to check myself into the loony bin. (Or dump my boyfriend. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )
1. Your friends limit you to one Barrowdowns related exclamation per day. 2. Barrowdowns takes precedence over calling your boyfriend. 3. You've redecorated your room in Black, Green, and Gold to make you feel more at home. 4. You need more school notebooks halfway through the semester, not because your classes have covered that much information, but because you've written that many posts in the back of your notebooks. 5. You're not only familiar with the terms "Legolover" and "Leggybopper", you've applied them in real life. 6. The only time you're not on the Barrows is when you're reading Tolkien's books, or Walking to Rivendell. 7. Your spell checker is filled with Elvish words. 8. You carry on a lengthily hypothetical discussion with your friends, never revealing to them that the hypothetocity is in fact your latest RPG situation. 9. Everything you see reminds you of someone on barrowdowns. (Pepsi Blue, Fire, Disco anything, the Wave, Enni Minne Minny Moe...) 10. You carry a notebook with you everywhere, in case you think of another top ten sign.
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12-31-2003, 04:30 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Nowhere...now here
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~When you plan to celebrate the day you joined the 'downs. ~When you care more about your "deathday" than your birthday.
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12-31-2003, 06:54 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: On the sand dunes outside of Ilium, watching it burn.
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When you realise youve been here for a year and you cant tell where the time has gone.
<font size=1 color=339966>[ 7:56 PM December 31, 2003: Message edited by: Everdawn ]
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01-01-2004, 12:32 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Numenore
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Whwn youve only been here for month and your already a Mod cause you have so many posts.
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01-01-2004, 02:19 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Nowhere...now here
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~When most of your New Years Resolutions involve the 'downs or LotR. For example: Read UT and HoME and post more often in Books. (Yes, that is one of mine.)
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01-02-2004, 02:08 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Up a tree somewhere in Caras Galadhon...or England
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Oh golly, this thread has REALLY grown...
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Hmmm...I don't know, it's more lotr than BD, but: When you read 'me' as Middle Earth When you write all your Christmas cards in Angerthas When as a result of the above 7 people come up to you and ask you to teach it to them (well I go to a grammar school...I know someone who writes in greek script as a kind of code- like I use Angerthas). When you hand in all your school work with your name as 'Elentári Silivriel'...not that they know that, as it's in Angerthas (I think my teachers have given up on me. Or they just love me too much lol, in fact I think they do, due to getting good marks and stuff. It is very scary...) EDIT: Ahh an obvious one: when you come on BD several times a day... <font size=1 color=339966>[ 3:09 PM January 02, 2004: Message edited by: Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1 ]
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01-02-2004, 02:24 PM
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Deathless Sun
Join Date: May 2003
Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos
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~ When you've reached 1916 posts in 8 months. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
~ When you begin to think of yourself as your BD alter-ego (I'm becoming more and more of a Finwë. It's rather scary. Especially because I don't want to get my head bashed in by a Dark Lord's mace. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img])
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark. |
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01-02-2004, 02:36 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Lothlorien, the Woodlen Realm
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~ When everytime you see a tree, you stop to talk to it, and ask if it's an ent.
~ When you send more time posting on Barrowdowns than talking with your friends on the phone or AIM (this one is especially for girls). ~ When you refer to your character's father as Aba (father), and talk to your friends about him like he's real.
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01-02-2004, 03:12 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Do you mean ada, Galadel? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Nowhere...now here
Posts: 952
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~You dream in colours-but only black, green, and gold!
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01-02-2004, 09:16 PM
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: perth, west australia
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Here's mine:
--- You were a member of bd back when it was on ezboard, but finally managed to quit (in order to spend time actually studying). The other day, you recall a discussion about balrogs (not/) having wings. The discussion included a comment about a flying black shadow-thing mentioned in HoME which could possibly have been a balrog. What sticks in your mind is the reply, "no, that was Tom Bombadil on his hanglider". You proceed to google 'bombadil hanglider' to try and find out who made this joke. Nothing turns up, and in desparation you enter barrowdowns.com into your browser. Little do you know your peril... --- And here I am again. Let this be a lesson to you all - never think you've truly quit the downs until you're dead. And probably not even then. ps: do any long-time bd-ers know who made the bombadil hanglider joke? It will bug me forever, at this rate.
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"Do you think I am trying to weave a spell? Perhaps I am; but remember your fairy tales. Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as inducing them. And you and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness..." - C.S. Lewis |
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01-02-2004, 11:06 PM
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Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Sydney
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*When you haven't done an essay that's really over-due, and then in frustration your english teacher suggests a slightly different interpretation of the question, so as to invite Silmarillion-based topics and comparisons. And then when you have the 3 week overdue essay in the day after.
*When you multi-task as follows: -In one window of your computer you're doing a couple of hours of work for your father - and plan to use the money to buy a HoME. -In another you're looking up pictures and maps to print-out and put on your walls. No need to ask what -type- of maps. -And in your third window, you're writing a post on the signs of your obsession. Aiya
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01-03-2004, 03:35 AM
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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zb, welcome back to the Downs - here is the thread with the hangglider reference - enjoy!
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...' |
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01-03-2004, 08:58 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Nowhere...now here
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When you see the word 'bolt' you think 'Book of Lost Tales,' and when you see the word 'home' you think 'History of Middle-Earth.'
When this also applies when you hear these words...
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01-09-2004, 08:32 AM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Up a tree somewhere in Caras Galadhon...or England
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When you spend several hours trying to trace when your 'deathday' was on hearing that to someone (sorry- awful memory) their deathday is more important than their birthday. (I did a search of posts from my first account which I can't access because my password got blocked by my filter and I think it was on 28th June or something...)EDIT: Just corrected a stupid spelling mistake [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
<font size=1 color=339966>[ 11:40 AM January 10, 2004: Message edited by: Elentári_O_Most_Mighty_1 ]
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'"Forweg can lead you no longer; for he is dead...I slew him...I will govern this fellowship now, or leave it." "As it was when he joined us, so it is again. He kills to make room."' |
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01-09-2004, 06:31 PM
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Deathless Sun
Join Date: May 2003
Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos
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When you're more excited about getting a PM from Esty saying that you're qualified for a personal title, than you are about your boyfriend asking you to *coughcoughdoitcoughcough*.
*sheepish grin*
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark. |
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01-09-2004, 06:47 PM
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Corpus Cacophonous
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A green and pleasant land
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Congrats, Finwe (on the PT, that is [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ). [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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01-09-2004, 06:57 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: The Old Forest
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I knew I was addicted to the downs when I went into a state of forgetfulness because I hadn't been on the downs for several days straight, so I was starting to go into a crazed sort of state. I completely forgot about all those confounded tests I had today! [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] And this doesn't really have to do with the downs themselves but...every time I see the name "Theodora" in social studies, I think Theoden, and then I start renaming every other name I come across in my textbook. And Congratulations, Finwe, on your soon-to-be PT! (not that the other thing isn't important [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]) A PT is exciting news indeed! I was recently thinking it was about time you got a PT. You deserve it fully. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] <font size=1 color=339966>[ 8:39 PM January 09, 2004: Message edited by: Goldberry ]
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01-09-2004, 09:23 PM
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Deathless Sun
Join Date: May 2003
Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos
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Why thank you all! I nearly died laughing when I read your posts.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark. |
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01-10-2004, 12:09 AM
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
Posts: 2,538
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I think I'm totally addicted to the Downs because I ask my brother (Nilpaurion Felagund) to post for me while I am in school. Don't ask why I can't use the computer during the weekdays...I don't think you would understand. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]
And I envy Finwë who is already getting a PT though I have been here before her... [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Congratulations, Finwë! You deserve it! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] <font size=1 color=339966>[ 1:11 AM January 10, 2004: Message edited by: Lhunardawen ] |
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