All About You (Part II)

[*Varda*]

About time that this got updated. I’m going to have to find my older posts, since I think I made a dogs dinner of this one.

Name (that you go by): Varda, Lindsay, Lindz
Age: 17
Occupation: full-time student/”catering assistant” as Tesco kindly dubs me.
Future Aspirations: Oh, blah. *tries to think of a few*
Goal in life: Must I have a goal? I’m just a drifter at heart…oh well, I suppose it would be to be happy, and all that stuff.
Short term goals: Survive the last six weeks of secondary school without too many hangovers from endless parties/rollickings from teachers/going to too many classes. Pass Advanced Higher English. Convince Dad to fork out the money for me going to Edinburgh for uni. That’ll do for now.
Hobbies: Reading, writing, singing, chatting, seeing my friends.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Am I famous for anything…? Fine then, my ability to skip numerous classes and go to Italian only once out of six classes every week, without ever getting pulled up about it.
Fave book(s): LOTR, Sil, His Dark Materials, Chronicles of Narnia. I love loads others, but I’ll always love those ones.
Fave movie: RotK, FotR, TT, Big Fish, Shrek, Moulin Rouge…
Fave sport: …I don’t do sport. Blah.
Fave store: Waterstones, Accessorize, Topshop, H&M
Fave music: LotR soundtracks, Travis, Evanescence, Feeder

What you can't stand: Stubborness to the point of stupidity, prejudice, and really bratty children you can tell are going to cause the world hell in 10 years time.
What you plain dislike: As above.
Who you admire: *frowns* I don’t really do admiration or idolising that much, I don’t think. At least, no one instantly springs to mind.
What you most love to do: read, chat, listen to music
Your self-confessed flaws: I can be stubborn…(but not to the point that I can’t stand myself, can get fed up with people quite easily
What intrigues/fascinates you: These questions are hard…I find it interesting how history can be looked at from so many different viewpoints…and how twisted the truth can get over the years.
What scares you: It used to be death, but I think I’ve come to some kind of acceptance of that…so I suppose it’s spiders.
Quotation to live by: I think I have too many quotations to dig through and find an appropriate one. If you desperately need a Varda quote, consult Gayahithwen.
Additional comments: Live life as you actually want to live it…don’t listen to your parents.

[Thorongil]

Name: Morten
Age: 17
Occupation: Student
Future Aspirations: Becoming a space technician at ESA
Goal in life: Make lots of money
Short term goals: get a good average at school
Passion: Final Fantasy
Hobbies: Taekwon-do
Famous for: Nothing that I can think of.

Fave book: Kind of obvious...Lord of the Rings
Fave movie: I'm repeating myself...Lord of the Rings
Fave sport: Taekwon-do
Fave store: The local candy store
Fave music: I like a bit of everything

What you can't stand: my sister in her bothering mood
What you plain dislike: Poeple who critizise others
Who you admire: myself
What you most love to do: Relaxing, doing nothing.
Your self-confessed flaws: I'm too lazy
What intrigues/fascinates you: A good RPG game
What scares you: Doctors with sharp things
Quotation to live by: Why do today what you can do tomorrow!

Additional comments: Well, this is me. Nice to meet you all.

[Miriel Undomiel]

Name (that you go by): Lene
Age: 15
Occupation: student
Future Aspirations: Not much...
Goal in life: Get paid for doing something I love (watch movies..)
Short term goals: survive through the exam
Passion: Movies!!! and LotR
Hobbies: spending time with friends and having a good time
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): my friends call me Queen Sarcasm (I'm a queen!) besides from that, I'm not very famous.

Fave book: Return of the King, Silmarillion, Order of the Phenix
Fave movie: all of LotR, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sleepy Hollow, Star Wars, Big Fish, From Hell, Edward Scissorhands and many more...
Fave sport: I don't like sports... maybe football (soccer)
Fave store: Avalon
Fave music: I listen to almost everything. not opera..

What you can't stand: superficial people and blondes (oops... I'm blonde...)
What you plain dislike: school and homework
Who you admire: my mum
What you most love to do: nothing... just hang out with friends
Your self-confessed flaws: too lazy and a bit bossy
What intrigues/fascinates you: computers and other machines. How the heck do they work? I dont get it... how do they make so small machines?
What scares you: spiders and clownes.
Quotation to live by: Why do something when you can watch someone elde do it?

Additional comments: I love BD and LotR...

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Name (that you go by): Louis Ortal, Elenrod Felagund, and Nilpaurion Felagund. Plus half a dozen aliases.

Age: 17 years, 6 months and a day.

Occupation: A failing college student, a writer, and a Barrow-downer.

Future Aspirations: To finish my novels, collect enough Lego to rival the US Navy, and finish college - crawl through it, if I have to.

Goal in life: To be a better Christian, which includes being a good child, a good friend, and a good neighbour. Which currently I am not. I mean I have my days, but...never mind.

Short-term Goals: Survive this semester...or stop making impossible goals.

Passion: is a fruit. See Hobbies.

Hobbies: Reading, writing, watching TV and playing Lego. And a newfangled hobby called "loafing."

Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Making a 20" Lego model of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate. I was supposed to say high scorer at Minesweeper until I realised people can finish it in at least 1/4 the time I take to finish one. *sigh*

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Favorites

Books
In order...

1. All Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.
3. All tales of Middle-earth by J.R.R. Tolkien.
4. All Jack Ryan story by Tom Clancy.
5. The works of Philip Yancey.
6. The Little Prince by A.S. Exupery.

I also read comics, particularly enjoying Calvin and Hobbes and Archie comics.

Movies: Let's see...The best trilogy ever - I hope you all know which is that, all Star Wars, The Matrix(only), Lilo and Stitch, The Hunt for Red October, The Sum of All Fears, Independence Day, The Rock, Armageddon, Men in Black - both, Anger Management, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and Kate and Leopold - the odd one out. Guess why.

Sports Association Football, Basketball, Chess, Scrabble, Fencing, and Archery.

Store: Anything that sells food, Lego, and books. Especially PowerBooks bookstore.

Music: Mostly alternative stuff, a smattering of everything else.

Wait, here's the list: Clay Aiken, All-American Rejects, Blink 182, Michelle Branch, The Cardigans, Vanessa Carlton, Coldplay, The Corrs, Dido, Evan and Jaron, Fra Lippo Lippi, Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, Natalie Imbruglia, Incubus, Lifehouse, Linkin Park, Lisa Loeb, Matchbox 20, New Radicals, Nickelback, Nickelcreek, Nine Days, The Offspring, Outkast, Papa Roach, Duncan Sheik, Simple Plan, Sixpence None the Richer, Smash Mouth, Splendor, System of a Down, Third Eye Blind, Three Doors Down, Toad Wet the Sprocket, Train, Vertical Horizon, and Wheatus. Whew!

Wait...there might be more.

TV Shows: OK...Gilmore Girls, the dearly departed The Weekenders, Will and Grace, Alias, The Practice, 24, The Amazing Race, and a growing respect for Survivor.

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What you can't stand: Backstabbing "friends", smokers who care not where they spout their smoke, mass transport.

Who you plain dislike: School and homework. ( Miriel Undomiel)

Who do you admire: Jesus Christ...the only perfect person...and he wasn't a perfectionist.

Your self-confessed flaws: I am a procrastinator, a liar, a loudmouth, and a sloth. And I have a mean capacity to retaliate against my enemies.

What intrigues or fascinates you: Everything I do not know.

What scares me: Seeing myself a few years from now. And Saucepan.

Quotations to live by:

• Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. James 1:21
  
• When I'm not in the news, I win.
  
• I'm trying to live a normal life, which is always hard given what I do.
  
• Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, but socially dead.
  
• Early to bed, early to rise - might as well be dead.
  
• Patience is not only a virtue - it's a job description.
  
  and...
  
• Must...have...personal space...

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Additional comments: This is an almost-ripoff of my profile on my homepage, but who cares?

Oh, and if anyone is interested, my Minesweeper records are:
Beginner: 9 seconds.
Intermediate: 46 seconds.
Expert: 162 seconds.

[Thorongil]

I got 8 seconds on beginner
Muhahahaha(where is that evil smiley!?!?)

[Bill]

Well, the chances of my piece getting read is damn low in this chaos of replies, but I will still try.

My real name is William and I am a 14 year old schoolboy. I know I gotta be a fiction writer. I just wanna be one - even though thousands of other boys and girls also do and never make it. Yeah, maybe my love for reading and writing is escapism, but who cares? I just luv it!!

I luv playin soccer, adventuring, play acting, play script writing, hanging around with my friends and talk nonsense, reading & writing esp. fantasy, talk about the book I've read, tell stories I've written, listening to music esp. hip hop & rap & R&B, singing and rapping nonsense, and acting cool to get out of awkward situation.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Name (that you go by):

• Birth Name: Louis Allen Ortal
• Elven Name: Elenrod Felagund
• BD Handle: Nilpaurion Felagund

Age: 18 . . . if you’re lucky you’ll make it just in time to see me arrested as an adult.

For espionage. Doesn’t that carry the death penalty?

Occupation: Freelance foreign policy analyst and sole employee of Wacky Entertainment Studios (I do writing and cartooning and programming and more writing . . . hey, how come I still have no profit?)

Being a student is no longer an occupation. It’s such a burden.

It wouldn’t be much of one if you study every now and then . . .

But when will I write?

Future Aspirations: To finish my novels. All of them.

Goal in life: To be a better Christian, which includes being a good child, a good friend, and a good neighbour. Which I currently am not.

Short term goals: To get that degree in German and Russian, and to collect enough Lego to build enough ships to rival the US Navy.

Hobbies: In no particular order: loafing, reading, writing, watching TV, Downing, analysing foreign policy and playing Lego.

Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being quoted once in a while on national FM radio stations, almost making it to the finals of a televised quiz show, appearing on national TV six times for said quiz show, and being the only son of Finrod. Mom and her Vanyar friends spoil me.

~*~

Fave book: Still . . .

1. All Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.
3. All tales of Middle-earth by J.R.R. Tolkien.
4. All Jack Ryan stories, Red Storm Rising, and the Op-Center series by Tom Clancy.
5. The works of Philip Yancey.
6. The Little Prince by A.S. Exupery.

I also read comics, particularly enjoying Calvin and Hobbes and Archie comics.

Fave movie: Let's see . . . The best trilogy ever--I hope you all know which is that, all Star Wars, The Matrix--only, Lilo and Stitch, The Hunt for Red October, The Sum of All Fears, Independence Day, The Rock, Armageddon, Men in Black--both, Anger Management, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Wild Wild West, and Kate and Leopold.

Fave sport: These are the sports I play and/or watch. Favourite teams in parentheses.

Association Football (Real Madrid, until Zidane retires or switches teams, and Arsenal. Deutschland for Euro and World Cup), Basketball (San Antonio Spurs, although I did root for the Lithuanians during the 2004 Olympics), Chess, Scrabble, Fencing (even though I still haven’t won), and Archery.

Fave store: National Bookstore (for various needs, not only books), Book Sale (for really cheap books), and Gift Gate (the only halfway decent shop that sells Lego in this country).

Fave music: I’ve decided to list twenty of my most loved songs. Here goes (in no particular order) . . .

• Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
• What Can I Do by The Corrs
• Brick by Ben Folds 5
• If You’re Gone by Matchbox 20
• Time Stands Still by The All-American Rejects
• If I Am by Nine Days
• Come Around by Rhett Miller
• In My Place by Coldplay
• Sick Cycle Carousel by Lifehouse
• All You Wanted by Michelle Branch
• Loneliest Person by Splender
• Toxicity!!! by System of a Down
• The Freshmen by Verve Pipe
• Stay by Lisa Loeb
• Semi Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind
• Misery by The Moffats
• Crave by Marc Dorsey
• Best I Ever Had by Vertical Horizon
• A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton
• Everybody's Changing by Keane

~*~

What you can't stand: Backstabbing "friends", smokers who care not where they spout their smoke, and the fact that I am both lazy and a perfectionist - as if being a perfectionist isn’t hard enough . . .

What you plain dislike: Mass transportation (must . . . have . . . personal space . . . ) and polar co-ordinates. Oh, and vector-valued functions . . . you pretty much get the picture.

Who you admire: Still Jesus Christ . . . still the only perfect person . . . and he still isn't a perfectionist. Else I would have long burned in perdition.

What you most love to do: I guess my hobbies.

Your self-confessed flaws: I am a procrastinator, a liar, a loudmouth, a perfectionist (which gets in the way of many things), and a sloth.

What intrigues/fascinates you: Many things I do not know. One time I read the Encyclopædia Britannica article on Metaphysics just because.

What scares you: Seeing myself a few years from now. I hope I’m just being paranoid. Oh, and centipedes.

Quotation to live by:

• Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. [James 1:21]
  
• I'm trying to live a normal life, which is always hard given what I am.
  
• Early to bed, early to rise--can anyone do that and not go crazy?
  
• Patience is not only a virtue--it's a job description.

Additional comments: Adam is one of my alter-egos. He tried to kill me back in high school, but I made him realise killing me would kill him too. Now he torments my life.

Alice is another of my alter-ego. She rarely appears on this forum, although if you see one sentence in italics after another, one of them is bound to be her. Or if you see any writing in italics that doesn't disparage me.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Here goes nothing...

Name (that you go by):
Joel Kristofer Cornah. (Or J.K.Cornah as I write on all written peaces of work)

Age: 17

Occupation:
Student / Part time Author.
Future Aspirations:
Ministry, and to be an Author.

Goal in life:
to be an Author, mainly of Children fantasy.

Short-term goals:
To finish College and then University.

Passion:
Tolkien

Hobbies:
Reading, writing, going to the Downs

Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself):
Writing a Book. Tis true you know. It's going to be (hopefully) published some time in the next two years. 'I know a guy who knows a guy' if you know what I mean.

Fave book:
Duh! The Lord of the Rings!

Fave Film:
Not sure... probably The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. (Mind you, I'm not much of a Movie Gower.)

Fave sport:
Tennis.

Fave store:
Hum... Probably Waterstones Book store. For obvious reasons.

Fave music:
Jethro Tull

What you can't stand:
Arrogance and being patronised.

What you plain dislike:
Down right arrogant people really.

Who you admire:
The Proff! (Tolkien that is!)

What you most love to do:
Write fiction.

Your self-confessed flaws:
Probably my inability to stop rambling when I get onto certain subjects.

What intrigues/fascinates you:
Space, and Dragons.

What scares you:
Erm... the end of the world...?

Quotation to live by:
I saw some one on the Downs use it, "When you are speaking, no one can tell if you're spelling the words rite."

Additional comments:

I am Dyslexic, which means I spend most of my wiring time correcting errors..., which is annoying.

[Snowdog]

Since this was on page one and was a couple years old, I deleted that post and copied it here and updated...


Name: Rich
Age: 47
Occupation: Medical Electronics
Future Aspirations: Retire
Goal in life: Climb Mt Rainier (but I will settle for Mt Adams)
Short term goals: Have enough money to retire
Passion: Hiking, Mountain climbing, Middle Earth
Hobbies: Hiking, Posting on messageboards. Writing Middle-Earth fantasy stories.
Famous for: um... getting banned from Tolkienonline?

Favorite books: The Black Company (ten books), Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Favorite movie: Kelly's Heroes
Favorite sport: Auto racing, Hockey
Favorite store: Used record stores, used book stores, garage sales, etc.
Favorite music: Classic rock, blues, classical, jazz

What you most love to do: Hike, fish, listen to music, write stories
Who you admire: My high school auto shop teacher


Additional comments: Reading the ages in this thread explains alot to me. I'm hanging out on a messageboard where it seems most folk are the same age as my kids.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Well... Since I haven't been here in over a year--I think I stopped getting on sometime the summer before last. o.O--I figure it's about time I reupdate this thing. I can't even remember if I did one on the original.

Name (that you go by): Depends on where I am. Kiki, Aki, and Sammie are the most common.
Age: 18
Occupation: College student. w00t!
Future Aspirations: To graduate, not lose my mind, and I'm debating between law and a career in theatre. Yes. I know.
Goal in life: To live.
Short term goals: To pass my American Heritage class. Where I am hanging by a thread. (Probably a bad time to renew my interest in the Downs, but what can ya do?)
Passion: *ponderponder* Probably my boyfriend, my best friend, and the rest of my dear friends. Also fantasy. And writing.
Hobbies: Roleplaying, admin on Citrine, writing, drawing, reading, and being alternately philosophical and silly.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Teasing my English professor... and getting away with it. Also for Alexander. (If you're really curious about that, feel free to ask.)

Fave book: Anything by Tolkien, Lawhead, Hans Bemman, C.S. Lewis, Diana Gabaldon (all right, so I like well-written romance, so what?), um... more authors who I cannot think of at the moment, butyeah. I think Hans Bemman probably tops the list, so The Stone and the Flute.
Fave movie: The Lord of the Rings, the original Star Wars trilogies, Dark Crystal, the Phantom of the Opera, and a few classic Disney movies I'm embarrassed to name.
Fave sport: Unless ballet counts, none.
Fave store: Either Recycled Books at home, or World Market, or some hobby store. I like crafts.
Fave music: At the moment, anime soundtracks, Voltaire (*hums The Headless Waltz*), Hayley Westenra, Maire Brennan, and assorted movie/musical soundtracks.

What you can't stand: Certain people. Who are traitors. But, ahem. Also, I can't stand Mary-Sues, people who are stupid, and people who can't take hints when bashed over the head with them.
What you plain dislike: Spelling/grammar errors (but watch me make at least one in this post and miss it entirely), bureaucracy, and getting up early for my eight o clock class.
Who you admire: Um... Cluu, Jackamy, Reist, Cat, Seth, Twiet... (Yes, I am aware that none of you know these people.)
What you most love to do: Read, write, and roleplay. Also other things, but I'm pretty sure you don't want to hear about those.
Your self-confessed flaws: I'm lazy, I procrastinate, and I have a mean sense of humor.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Human nature. And that just covers everything, doesn't it?
What scares you: Dark, men, dying/not dying, not living, and my GPA.
Quotation to live by: "What went before was only a faint dream of the beginning.

not all,
no,
very far from all."

Additional comments: Well, I'm back.

We'll see if I stick around this time.

[Lindolirian]

Name: Benjamin Goller
Age: 18 at the moment... Apr. 1987
Occupation: Student... soon at college
Future Aspirations: Become a teacher of either history, or literature, etc.
Goal in life: Enjoy my work, get (and stay) married, and end up being that old guy all the kids love to play with.
Short term goals: Stave off senioritis as long as possible (okay okay, so I've failed already) Get my leg healed so I can walk again... Rar
Passions: Jesus, Tolkien, History (primarily WWII)
Hobbies: Hmm see above and include bicycling and card-playing
Famous for: Marching in the Fiesta Bowl with the most devastating flu and a temp of 106.
Favorite books: the Bible, naturally anything by Tolkien, anything by Ernie Pyle, true WWII stories (Great Escape, Band of Brothers), and historical fiction
Favorite movie: Dead Poets Society and/or Lawrence of Arabia
Favorite sport: Bicycling and frisbee
Favorite store: Good q... No idea
Favorite music: Contemporary Christian, 70s and 80s rock, random spatterings of modern alternative

What you can't stand: Grudges, people who aren't in control of themselves. And bad teachers
Your self-confessed flaws: Procrastinator, liar, actually a really good liar.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Somebody said it well: "Whatever I don't already know." Yeah...
What you most love to do: Talk with friends, especially when in extreme moods whether it's delirously happy or ponderously serious.
What scares you: Spiders when they leave my sight. If I can see them, they die: if I know they're there and I can't see them... You'd better watch out, cause I'm flippin' out. EDIT: I just noticed this, but it's really odd how this fits in with my quote below.
Quotation to live by: Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Who you admire: Jesus, my grandfather, my favorite teachers, the infantry (thanks to Ernie Pyle), and all those crazy-awesome people with more green boxes than me.

Additional comments: I can't believe I haven't seen or posted in this thread until now. I mean it's been around long enough... sheesh.

[Formendacil]

Name: Michael. Or, to some, Mike.
Age: 18
Occupation: Student/Library Page
Future Aspirations: Depends on the month, but the most constant of my goals is to become a Priest. If not, then a Dad. Dunno about the day job...
Goal in life: Write and publish a book.
Short term goals: Finish Grade 12
Passion: LEGO, Tolkien, Church
Hobbies: Reading, writing, posting online, playing with LEGO...
Famous for (okay, this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being the smart kid. I've always been known as the smart, or mature kid. The sooner I shed that image, the better. Also known about town as "the boy who wants to become a priest". Great way to avoid matchmaking old ladies, I might add....

Favorite books: The Lord of the Rings, obviously. Anything by Tolkien, for that matter (excepting maybe his "real" scholarly works). Actually like the Harry Potter series as well. Anything well-written and historical tends to fascinate me.
Favorite movie: Don't really have a permanent one. Loved the new Peter Pan!
Favorite sport: Bunnock That's right, you've never heard of it before...
Favorite store: Toys 'r Us, or possibly any Mens' Wear store.
Favorite music: Classical, Country

What you most love to do: Hanging out with friends, go to church, acting, reading, writing, vegetating, sleeping...
Who you admire: John Paul II, J.R.R. Tolkien, Alec Guiness, and a plethora of others...

[Gil-Galad]

Name (that you go by):Gil-Galad, Glen, The Glenster, Glennard(perferred) GlenGlen, Vilad, Professor Tor Coolguy and many more
Age:15
Occupation:student
Future Aspirations:vivid love of history...hope to travel europe
Goal in life:be successful
Short term goals:get 80 average in school
Passion:history, books, lego
Hobbies:games i guess...
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself):

Fave book:LOTR, history books
Fave movie:Spaceballs and Monty Python and the search for the Holy Grail
Fave sport:Hockey
Fave store:
Fave music:U2(once and awhile0

What you can't stand:teachers that don't care
What you plain dislike: people who shut you down trying to make themselves look better
Who you admire:nobody really comes too mind...
What you most love to do:make people laugh(on and off the downs)
Your self-confessed flaws:i care too much
What intrigues/fascinates you:
What scares you:nothing cause i am the mighting Gil-Galadster!hey another name to go by!
Quotation to live by: "One day a man has everything, the next day he blows up a 400-billion dollar space station, and the next day nothing, it makes you think"

Additional comments: a personal thanks to all downers, this is quite literally like my second home...

cheers

G.G.Meister(another name!)

[Formendacil]

Retaining three year old answers, let's see what's changed...


Name: Michael. Or, to some, Mike. -Still true, except many now habitually call me "Joosten."
Age: 18 +3=21
Occupation: Student/Library Page -Well, I'm still a student, and I still work with written materials, but I'm in university now and I'm an assistant archivist in the summer.
Future Aspirations: Depends on the month, but the most constant of my goals is to become a Priest. If not, then a Dad. Dunno about the day job... -I appear to have totally settled on priest, barring (pun intended) an act of God.
Goal in life: Write and publish a book. -Still would be nice, but right now I'd rather aim to not be monolingual... which will be difficult, given that I'm lazy.
Short term goals: Finish Grade 12 -Finish my BA (one more year...)
Passion: LEGO, Tolkien, Church -And one could probably add "the Barrow-downs"
Hobbies: Reading, writing, posting online, playing with LEGO... -except that I don't have time for all of the above anymore...
Famous for (okay, this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being the smart kid. I've always been known as the smart, or mature kid. The sooner I shed that image, the better. Also known about town as "the boy who wants to become a priest". Great way to avoid matchmaking old ladies, I might add.... -Still known as the smart kid, still known as "wants to be a priest." Also known as "the" Catholic in a couple circles.

Favorite books: The Lord of the Rings, obviously. Anything by Tolkien, for that matter (excepting maybe his "real" scholarly works). Actually like the Harry Potter series as well. Also anything well-written and historical tends to fascinate me. -Haven't read much fiction these past couple years... nothing new anyway. I've read a lot of Philosophy, and enjoyed it... but more the ideas than the actual reading thereof.
Favorite movie: Don't really have a permanent one. Loved the new Peter Pan! -Still nothing permanent, but I would probably pick the Chronicles of Narnia.
Favorite sport: Bunnock That's right, you've never heard of it before... -No change.
Favorite store: Toys 'r Us, or possibly any Mens' Wear store. -TRU is still a big hit, but my idea of good clothes leans ever closer to cassock and surplice.
Favorite music: Classical, Country -And anything liturgical with Latin &/or an Organ.

What you most love to do: Hanging out with friends, go to church, acting, reading, writing, vegetating, sleeping... -same, except I haven't acted in years...
Who you admire: John Paul II, J.R.R. Tolkien, Alec Guiness, and a plethora of others... -most notably including Papa Benedetto, St. Thomas Aquinas, and quite a number of other Catholics.

[Evisse the Blue]

Name (that you go by): Evisse is good enough
Age: 23 very soon
Occupation: teacher, school counsellor
Future Aspirations: loads. I'll just say the Tolkien-related ones: I want to read all the books (including HoME, of which I don't have all the volumes), I want to learn Elvish, I want to visit Oxford, and the place where Tolkien spent his childhood, I want to place a flower and a little gift at his grave, and finally I want sometime in my life to be able to write a piece of poetry or prose that is written in his style.
Goal in life: No specific goal, just to make the most of all opportunities that present themselves to me.
Short term goals: To get a new job
Passion: See hobbies.
Hobbies: reading, surfing (the net), hiking, ice skating, music, games
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Everyone who knows me well tells me I'm the most weird person they know, so this could be something...
Fave book: LOTR, and others
Fave movie: LOTR, Harry Potter, X Files the Movie, Matrix 1, Tarkovski's movies (though one must find the right disposition for those, but once you're in...'there's no going out'), Casablanca, South Park, Seinfeld, Home Alone, Finding Nemo, Disney's Snow White, The Aristocats
Fave sport: ice skating
Fave store: Like a have so many choices...
Fave music: loads! But the band of the moment - of the year, that is, even better said of the past few years, is Nightwish.
What you can't stand: too many things, unfortunately.
What you plain dislike: Isn't it the same as above? For me it is.
Who you admire: Tolkien. Chris Carter. After I saw extended ROTK, Peter Jackson and company. ; D
What you most love to do: see hobbies.
Your self-confessed flaws: I'm the most undecided and whimsical person ever (though I realize there are some serious competitors out there ). Plus I guess I'm pretty shallow at times, and too obstinate at other times.
What intrigues/fascinates you: life, death, religion, Tolkien's world, X Files, Nightwish lyrics lately, the weird coincidences of life (ever had one of those?) Apparently I'm easily intrigued/fascinated.
What scares you: violence
Quotation to live by: "I'll think of it tomorrow"

[Mad Baggins]

Name (that you go by): Becka, Cherry to my camp buddies

Age: 16

Occupation: High school student looking for an occupation

Future Aspirations: Become a veterinarian and invent edible earmuffs

Goal in life: Save a lot of animals

Short-term goals: Get a job at the Motor Inn, pass my exams, graduate from high school, get into Brandon University

Hobbies: Reading, dancing, listening to music, watching the tube, going on the computer

Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Unwrapping a Starburst in my mouth and that magic trick with the pencil


Fave books: Tolkien's works, Chronicles of Narnia, Count Karlstein, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (see sig), Among the Hidden, The Rum Diary

Fave movies: LotR, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Meaning of Life (MP), Mean Girls, Edward Scissorhands, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fave sports: Hockey as a spectator, pocket protector softball as a player

Fave stores: The Crypt is good, and I love thrift stores

Fave music: Some rock, Great Big Sea, any good dancing stuff


What you can't stand: The feeling of wet wool, stupid people

What you plain dislike: Racists and blueberries

Who you admire: My mom, lots of others

What you most love to do: Hobbies, go walking

Your self-confessed flaws: Biting my fingernails, fidgeting, ruining books

What intrigues/fascinates you: Paranormal events

What scares you: Tornadoes

Quotation to live by: "Reality has its limits, but imagination is endless."


Additional comment: Run for your lives! It's the Pillsbury Doughboy!

[Finwe-89]

Name:Jim
Age:15
Occupation: Student
Future Aspirations: Going to university
Goal in life: Enjoy life
Short term goals: Enjoy life even more when it gets hard
Passion: Dunno
Hobbies:Nature, Soccer, LOTR, animals, video games
Famous for: Being one of the best in HALO PC

Fave book:The Return of The King
Fave movie:The Return of The King
Fave sport: Soccer
Fave store:Gameshop
Fave music:Everything

What you can't stand: People who think that they can take on the world
What you plain dislike: Dunno
Who you admire: People who give their lives for others
What you most love to do: Reading
Your self-confessed flaws: No idea
What intrigues/fascinates you: Tolkien
What scares you: That people won't enjoy life
Quotation to live by: Don't know, but ENJOY LIVE :P

Name (that you go by): Ryan Buckley
Age: 16
Occupation: Working on it . (No seriously, I just handed in an application.)
Future Aspirations: Live a succesful life, marry a beautiful woman and have children.
Goal in life: Basically the same as my future aspirations, but also I would like to publish book.
Short term goals: Finish my book, get 200 on flat bench.
Passion: Reading, watching movies, gaming.
Hobbies: Reading, gaming, writing, web-design, all things computer related, and weight lifting.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): I guess you could say I'm famous because my dad published a book, but I'm mainly popular around my school due to the fact I'm the "guy with the long hair."

Fave book: Lord of the Rings, Shannara Series,
Fave movie: The whole LoTR Trilogy, Saving Private Ryan, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Road to Perdition, Band of Brothers, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Forrest Gump, True Grit, Pulp Fiction, Starship Troopers, Napolean Dynamite, The Village, The Falcon and the Snowman, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Rudy
Fave sport: Baseball, Football
Fave store: EB Games, Best Buy, Any book store
Fave music: The Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin

What you can't stand: People who are ignorant or are hypocritacal.
What you plain dislike: Bad music.
Who you admire: J.R.R. Tolkien, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Winters, Jerry Garcia, Jimmy Paige.
What you most love to do: Same as my hobbies or passion.
Your self-confessed flaws: Absolutely eccentric.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Life, space, etc...
What scares you: Just thinking of the uncomprehensible vastness of space.
Quotation to live by: Anything in Tolkien's works is really an inspiration.

Additional comments:

I just thought I'd throw in a few pictures of me so everyone knows who they're dealing with.

Karaoke on New Year's Eve


Blow-drying the hair.

Added this for the humor, you have to admit it's funny.

Also, here is a website I designed for my father's book.
http://www.curvefromheaven.com

[ElementFire]

Name: Rachel
Age: 17
Future Plan: Pianist (I'm not that bad) XD
Occupation: student
Short term goals: Get a purple belt!
Passion: I love karate, piano, and drawing anime
Hobbies: role playing, karate, and computer :P
Famous for: um... nothing? well I was on tv once, for a swimming program...
Fave Book: Talking to Dragons
Fave movie: RotK
Fave music: heck, I like em' all
Fave store: Target (it has everything)
Fave Sport: Karate
Can't stand: snobs
Plain dislike: preppy giggly girls
Who I admire: my P.E. coach and my sensei (not that you know who they are....)
Flaws: anger, >.<
What intrigues you: Lab chemistry and human science
What scares you: spiders
Additional comments: I don't have any pictures the right pixel amount, so no pics of drying my hair.... XD

[Holbytlass]

Name (that you go by): Beck
Age:32
Occupation:homemaker
Future Aspirations: more self-sufficient, live off land
Goal in life:most famous extra in movies
Short term goals:be on 'Survivor' T.V. show
Passion:Chocolate, reading
Hobbies:reading, photography, scrapbooking, sewing
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself):making babies, climbing trees bare-foot

Fave book:LotR, Little house series
Fave movie:Lotr, Titanic, Sleepy Hollow
Fave sport:baseball (to play)
Fave store:Wal-mart
Fave music:Led Zeppelin, Dave Mathews

What you can't stand:ketchup on peas
What you plain dislike, people who put family people down
Who you admire, Duggar family of Arkansas (they have 15 children!)
What you most love to do:read, swim, walk in woods
Your self-confessed flaws:major nail-biter
What intrigues/fascinates you:tall people (they are just so tall)
What scares you:Portugese-man-of-war (it's a real nasty kind of jellyfish)
Quotation to live by:'No other success can compensate for failure in the home'-S.W.K.

Additional comments: I'm a simple kind of person with some huge pipe dreams!!

[Celuien]

Name (that you go by): Celuien, Nichole, "you, over there with the laptop."
Age: 21
Occupation: Med student (third year as of yesterday!)
Future Aspirations: Graduate, figure out what I want to be when I grow up (I like too many specialties).
Goal in life: What, just one???
Short term goals: I want to do well on Step 1 of the USMLE.
Passion: The Three "M"s: Medicine, Middle Earth, and Music.
Hobbies: Playing music, reading, nature walks, programming web sites.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Being the youngest person in my class, being inseparable from my computer, bringing 20-gallon buckets and Super Soakers to the end-of-the-year picnic.
Fave book: Pride and Prejudice, anything by Thomas Hardy, LOTR (obviously), The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.
Fave movie: Casablanca, Bringing up Baby
Fave sport: Bowling.
Fave store: Boscov's
Fave music: Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert

What you can't stand: Hypocrisy
What you plain dislike: Red tape, overly long student council meetings.
Who you admire: People who stand by their convictions.
What you most love to do: Solve puzzles, play music.
Your self-confessed flaws: Procrastination, tendency to over-react to things.
What intrigues/fascinates you: The human mind.
What scares you: Crazy drivers in the city.
Quotation to live by: "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." - Winston Churchill

[VanimaEdhel]

Name (that you go by): Rachel
Age: 18 (as of today!)
Occupation: student - going to Wellesley College next year
Future Aspirations: Oh...gee...yeah...that's the question isn't it? Well, I'm interested in either being a diplomat/ambassador, something along those lines, working for the UN or the government and with other nations...or acting.
Goal in life: To make at least one person's life a little better than it currently is.
Short term goals: To make it through the summer and get to college
Passion: dreams - okay, I'm sorry, but it's true...and not just sleeping dreams, but the ideas in your head - the thoughts and stories that just pass through 24/7 that make you just run to your computer, open Microsoft Word and just type. I love those - they make me feel serene.
Hobbies: horseback riding, reading, writing, art, piano, singing, the TV show Deadwood, learning
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): being "cute" according to my friends...that's the word I've heard the most lately; and for wearing short skirts in the winter

Fave book: Gotta say Unfinished Tales and The Lord of the Rings...also like The Princess Bride (better than the movie, though the movie's a favorite too)...don't hit me for this one...if you look, the Harry Potter books are beautifully written - I'm a complete sucker for those books and the language JK employs: she has a humor behind them that's as sharp as a hunting knife.
Fave movie: Always up for watching anything remotely connected with Quentin Tarantino, Sideways, Fight Club, Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, couldn't watch it to many times, but House of Sand and Fog was beautiful, Breakfast at Tiffany's (anything Audrey Hepburn), Finding Neverland, Life of David Gale, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, History of the World Part I, Whale Rider...I could go on and on...
Fave sport: baseball to watch, horseback riding and softball to participate in
Fave store: any spiritist/new age store
Fave music: The Killers, JET, Seven Nations, Green Day (at times)

What you can't stand: intolerance...that's pretty hypocritical, isn't it? No, I can "stand" it, I just feel stronger than "dislike" in regards intolerance
What you plain dislike: the stress this society has on youthfulness - the fact that it's not "en vogue" to age, the stress it puts on "perfection," not just physical, mind you
Who you admire: Hill, though a lot of people don't like her (going to her Alma Mater); a lot of people in my personal life...qualities I admire would be disregard to other people's opinions, trueness to oneself, strength to go against the mold, individuality, creativity, inner strength - the strength to lead but follow if need be
What you most love to do: sit at my computer and write for hours
Your self-confessed flaws: I can be a bit of a narcissist - need to hear that I'm attractive or intelligent, I'm very manipulative at times, I have a great self-worth (asset and flaw at the same time), almost unceasing personal motivation (ditto for that)
What intrigues/fascinates you: language, culture, evolution of societies, words, writing, emotions evoked by words
What scares you: the fact that the world seems to be spiralling down a hole of inevitability - culminating in a horrific I-don't-know-what, helplessness, futility, uselessness...I'm a bit of a control freak
Quotation to live by:
Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
No, just kidding, I have another by Dumbledore...
To the well organised mind, death is but the next great adventure

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. - Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Thoreau again

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home -
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.
- Emily Dickinson

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Additional comments:
Ummm...look both ways before you cross the street? I don't know...

[Amanaduial the archer]

Happy birthday, Vanima And hey, it's good to see you 'making a comeback' so to speak, and I apologise if that is a little belated - I have been hiding behind my chemistry books, yay....not.

Wellesley, eh? *golf clap* Good show, old girl, good show indeed...

[VanimaEdhel]

Originally Posted by Amanaduial the archer

Happy birthday, Vanima And hey, it's good to see you 'making a comeback' so to speak, and I apologise if that is a little belated - I have been hiding behind my chemistry books, yay....not.

Wellesley, eh? *golf clap* Good show, old girl, good show indeed...

Oh, seeing as yesterday was my "comeback" (not to be confused with the horrible new HBO faux reality show with Lisa Kudrow), you haven't really missed a beat.

And thank you! I'm so excited about Wellesley - gorgeous college...and the girls I met at the Open House when I stayed overnight are great.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Name that you go by: Neil, Nelus, Stelios, Ciro Orlando, King Cynical, King Whatever, etc...
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland.
Age: 21
Future Aspirations: To cause mischief throughout the lands.
Goal in life: To complete my book. And to find the Queen of Elves.
Short term goals: The theft of precious jewels which will fund my further skullduggery.
Passion: It's brilliant, isn't it? Passion rocks.
Hobbies: Jamming with my fellow art-stars.
Famous for: Making a completely unfashionable haircut cool. Also, for inventing the concept of honour and for rebelling against religion.

Fave books: Apart from Tolkers, I'll pick Nineteen Eighty-Four by Orwell, Hitchhikers' trilogy of five by Adams, and His Dark Materials trilogy by Pullman. O, and Descartes' Meditations.......because dualism lives, baby!
Fave movie: Memento
Fave sport: Football; despite the woeful condition of Scotland's team, I cannot help myself but watch. Still, Aberdeen are slowly getting better!
Fave music: Some of my favourites are Sigur Ros, Interpol, The Raveonettes and British Sea Power. And, of course, the Lord of Music Andrew WK.

What you can't stand: Misplaced hatred, I guess.
What you plain dislike: Mobile phones.
Who you admire: Andrew WK, and Nick Malbasa the Rightful King of Belgium.
What intrigues you: Atoms and the cosmos
What scares you: Being trapped in a cage with several ferocious tigers.
Quotation to live by: Don't live by a quotation, it's too narrow and it will fight you and knock you off the edge of the galaxy. (that's not my quotation, it's just a thought)

Additional comments: If I'm ever stranded on an island somewhere, I may need you guys to help me out. So if anyone wants to be a partner-in-honour, I'd love to take an oath with ye. Hark!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Who could have expected things to change so much in two years?

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Name (that you go by): Laura.

Age: 19

Occupation: over-achieving student/waitress/librarian/free-lance photographer. Plus whatever else comes up. If I don't keep busy, I get myself into trouble.

Future Aspirations: Let's stick with the foreseeable future, eh? I've got three, maybe four more years before I get my first degree. Those will be spent in NY and maybe in Ontario. Then I plan to acquire a city apartment with a few friends, all of us teachers-in-progress, and get my master's while working whatever job seems like a good idea at the time. I will struggle to pay rent, utilities, and college loans in the same month. I will sit in a window with a notebook and pen and write and wonder if life this way is worth it. I will sleep hours as odd as those I keep currently. I may have a cat.

Goal in life: become a college professor. Write the sort of novel that can be read over and over again. Become one with everything.

Short term goals: Get the financial end of yet another school year sorted out; pack for school; buy new flipflops; get my room clean. Figure out if I can handle a lab science this semester; check out classes with which to maybe replace it.

Passion: telling stories through whichever medium is handed to me.

Hobbies: writing; photography; discussion.

Famous for: Nobody ever believing me when I tell them that I'm shy. Hanging out with professors outside of class. Having friends of all ages from a lot of different places. Taking chances.

Fave books: The Return of the King; A Child Called It; Silence; Night; The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down; Tuck Everlasting; Macbeth; All-American Girl; Matilda; Jane Eyre; White Oleander

Fave movies: LotR; Donnie Darko; The Boondock Saints; V for Vendetta; Stepmom; White Oleander; Mulan; Ladder 49; History of the World, Part I; The Great Escape

Fave sport: curling

Fave store: Powell's City of Books

Fave music: Bright Eyes; Blind Guardian; The Decemberists; Florida Sessions; The Fray; Green Day; Jack Johnson; Lacuna Coil; Theatre of Tragedy; Metallica; Matchbook Romance; Modest Mouse; The Pax Cecelia; Phantom Planet; Ben Folds; Eisley; Rilo Kiley

What you can't stand: malicious dishonesty

What you plain dislike: lima beans

Who you admire: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

What you most love to do: exist

Your self-confessed flaws: I don't trust people.

What intrigues/fascinates you: the question "Why?".

What scares you: snakes.

Quotation to live by: Wheresoever you go, go with all of your heart. -Confucious

[Macalaure]

Name (that you go by): Christian
Age: 27
Occupation: PhD student
Future Aspirations: yup...
Goal in life: exactly! sigh...
Short term goals: Finishing my degree, finally ( ) find out what to do with my life, post more in Books, get my most recent fanfiction done, get more exercise
Passion: Middle-earth, old history
Hobbies: Middle-earth, writing, devising stories I never get to write down
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Making laziness an art

Fave book: Fave book not by Tolkien: Fight Club
Fave movie: LotR, Seven, Leon, Alien, Interview with the Vampire, American Beauty, Dead Poets Society, many others
Fave sport: Football (not American Football), Basketball (both more watching than actually playing)
Fave store: None, I hate shopping
Fave music: Nine Inch Nails, Garbage, Björk, Marilyn Manson, Placebo, Auf der Maur, Portishead, the LotR Soundtrack, many others

What you can't stand: Hectic people, people who drive slowly - figure out how that fits together...
What you plain dislike: Brussels sprouts and carrots
Who you admire: Many people, for various things
What you most love to do: Daydreaming
Your self-confessed flaws: Procrastinating
What intrigues/fascinates you: Truth, because it's very rare
What scares you: Moths! Wasps are predictable, moths are just mad. And don't tell me they don't hurt you! They do! I'm sure!!
Quotation to live by: "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." ~ Winston Churchill *ducks*

Additional comments: I think it's incredibly difficult to characterise yourself. I feel if I did this questionnaire again in one week it will read like it's from a complete different human being.

Oh, and Nilp: 8/32/97

[*Varda*]

Name (that you go by): Lindsay
Age: 19
Occupation: Student
Future Aspirations: Teaching, maybe
Goal in life: To know who I am
Short term goals: Get through 3rd year of my degree, keep doing well at work, etc etc
Passion: The student that I am, hobbies are mostly drinking and going out
Hobbies: Writing, my diary, Tolkien is still one of my favourite authors, sadly on the back burner though since I’ve read so much for my degree (Eng Lit & History)
Famous for not much.
Fave book: Any Jasper Fforde book, and Tolkien
Fave movie: LotR (all 3), Moulin Rouge, Shrek, Requiem for a Dream, many others
Fave sport: Rugby
Fave store: H&M
Fave music: Blondie, Snow Patrol, Belle & Sebastian, Isobel Campbell, Rogue Traders, Pink, Beth Orton, The Feeling, many others.

What you can't stand: People who have no patience or tolerance.
What you plain dislike: Intolerant (esp. homophobic or racist people)
Who you admire: My grandad, for building such a good life despite leaving school at 14 because of WW2
What you most love to do: Daydreaming
Your self-confessed flaws: Procrastinating
What intrigues/fascinates you: History, stories, and knowledge
What scares you: spiders, death
Quotation to live by: My sig: 'It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them' ~Frodo
"Life is hard. After all, it kills you." - Katharine Hepburn

Additional comments: I’ve definitely changed since I last filled this out (over a year ago, at least)

[Thinlómien]

Name (that you go by): Thinlómien, Lommy, Thin, Thinlo and that boring RL one, Hanni.

Age: 16

Occupation: student

Future Aspirations: To write a book. To see more of the world. And hopefully, to become wiser. (And no, I don't belong to a hobbit family called the Bagginses...)

Goal in life: To survive through it.

Short term goals: To find out why my ear hurts. To eat breakfast. To read and comment through what has happened in the BD in past five days. To answer to a pm and to an e-mail that have waited for too long. To hug Noggie when he next comes to stalk what I am doing. To change to normal day clothing. To drink something. To make Noggie bring me painkillers from the apothecary. To write a Mead Hall post.

Passion: Penguins. Arda and the books that tell its tale.

Hobbies: Reading, BD, drawing, "art club", roleplaying...

Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Reading the Lord of The Rings on second grade (8 year old) while other people read children's books of about 20 pages...

Fave book: The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. The Farseer, Liveship Traders and The Golden Fool -series by Robin Hobb. Tigana, Lions of Al-Rassan and A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay. Earthsea books by Ursula Le Guin.

Fave movie: Hair, Edward Scissorhands, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Fave sport: Sport? Never! Well, if having long walks in parks, swimming in the sea and in lakes in summer or skating in winter count, then... But I don't count them as "sport". I count them as "having fun"... (Two words very far from each other for me...)

Fave store: Akateeminen kirjakauppa (It's a big bookshop, though there are still too few books in there.)

Fave music: I'm expected to make a list? Though from most of the following artists I really love only a few albums, not all... Here it comes... Kate Bush, Gjallarhorn, Sonata Arctica, Nightwish, Dido, Blackmore's Night, Art of Noise, Natacha Atlas, Anouar Brahem, Radio Tarifa... I'm sure I forgot something. Oh, it was Nawal and Fröbelin palikat...

What you can't stand: Cleaning. Maths. Health education. Computer problems. Being in a hurry. Seeing dead animals and eating food that looks living. Religious (and other) fanatics.

What you plain dislike: Greedy humans who are going to destroy the world (and, I might be one of them ).

Who you admire: The Prof. (Who else?)

What you most love to do: Walking the silent city streets by night, after the rain, and smelling wet grass and asphalt. Wading to the sea and letting the waves splash against me and feel the wind in my hair. Sitting inside in a warm and soft place reading a book and listening to the rain (or storm) outside. Going to a park or a forest and climbing to a tree and sitting there (possibly with a book).

Your self-confessed flaws: Being lazy. I could also qualify for the BD procrastination club.

What intrigues/fascinates you: Old languages, plum jam, human evolution, how people lived in history, how the mind of my silly tortoise works, making little songs for different food products (or dictators), Arda.

What scares you: Mankind and what horrible it will next come up with. The future of the world. Having a responsible role in ww. Helplessness.

Quotation to live by: Live and let live.

Additional comments: Err... Penguins are cute.

Name (that you go by): Cúchulainn, The Hound of Ulster, Conor (Anglicized), Conchobar (Irish Gaelic).

Age: 17

Occupation: Full Time layabout. (A student)

Future Aspirations: Get rich or die trying! Maybe Journalism.

Goal in life: Family, security and a nice house somewhere in the country to retire to.

Short term goals: Passing my A-Levels and getting a job.

Passion: Irish History and politics as well as reading.

Hobbies: Reading, listening to music, surfing the net, drinking, chatting with my muckers and uhmm the odd bit of sport.

Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): My drunken antics on the Walls and my politics.

Fave book: Hard one, my favourite fantasy book (So far) is definitely The Lord of the Rings (Including the hobbit). The Fellowship of the Ring would be my favourite out of that. Non fantasy would be maybe Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor or The Year of the French by Thomas Flanaghan, both are works of Historical Fiction, my favourite genre.

Fave movie: Mmm, again very difficult. The LOTR and Star War's trilogys are up there, but I have to say that my favourite movie would probably be....... The Wind that Shakes the Barley, at the moment anyway.

Fave sport: Pool, Football, Gaelic and Hurling (sometimes).

Fave store: Amazon.co.uk

Fave music: Irish traditional, classic rock and abit of everything really EXCEPT rap.

What you can't stand: Rap, chavs, bigots, self-righteous people, snobs, most kinds of vegetables.

What you plain dislike: See above ^^

Who you admire: Humanitarians (Ghandi, Mother Teresa, Bob Geldolf lol, etc etc). Also, the whole pantheon of Irish patriots.

What you most love to do: Travel the world, see new places, achieve change through politics, write a book, have a family and a well paying job.

Your self-confessed flaws: Tempermental when provoked, often stubborn with maybe too much pride, and fairly lazy.

What intrigues/fascinates you: History, morality and the unknown...

What scares you: Blind nationalism, nuclear war.

Quotation to live by: "Life is what happens, while you are busy making plans." - John Lennon

[Elmo]

Name (that you go by): hewhoariiiiiiiifalls asleep while type ridiculously vast name
Age: 18
Occupation: student
Future Aspirations: Maybe move to Australia
Goal in life:earn lots do little
Short term goals: finish this post
Passion: women
Hobbies: women
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Having a stupid Irish name noone can spell or pronounce

Fave book: Cosa Nostra: history of the Sicilian Mafia and oh I don't know.. maybe a little book containing Elves, Dwarves and the like
Fave movie: Trainspotting
Fave sport: fitba
Fave store: ma wee corner shop
Fave music: Oasis, The Libertines...

What you can't stand: Old firm fans not from Glasgow
What you plain dislike: Scotland's winter
Who you admire: David Brent
What you most love to do: sleep
Your self-confessed flaws: where do I start.. cowardice, inarticulateness, hypocrisy, arrogance...'
What intrigues/fascinates you: women
What scares you: women
Quotation to live by: 'I drink therefore I am'

[The Might]

Name (that you go by): Sabin
Age: 18 on July 23rd
Occupation: Student in the 11th grade
Future Aspirations: study, not sure very sure what yet
Goal in life: Enjoy it
Short term goals: To finish a paper for which I still have 2 weeks time, on a bit longer term to finish the grade well
Passion: Tolkien, skiing in winter and football
Hobbies: Sports (just about anything), spending quality with my friends, with my fraternity "brothers" as well
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): good marks though I spend little time learning (yes, it is possible), pretty long hair, jokes

Fave book: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Fave movie: LotR - RotK
Fave sport: Football
Fave store: A skateshop in Prague, only been there once and I fell in love with it
Fave music: Hard to say, it depends on the situation, I can't say I have a favourite genre...about anything except too old music and gangsta rap

What you can't stand: people talking bad things behind your back, hypocrisy, stupid jokes
What you plain dislike: Vegetarian food, people without manners
Who you admire: Well, depends...hard to answer
What you most love to do: Travel around the world, meet new people, have fun
Your self-confessed flaws: If I ever move out I'm afraid of eating too much, I sometimes am too straight forward, lazy sometimes
What intrigues/fascinates you: At the time...why some girls still are together with guys who treat them badly...sometimes I think they actually enjoy it
What scares you: The idea of losing my friends
Quotation to live by: Non scholae sed vitae discimus (Don't learn for school, but for life)

Additional comments: Nice thread

[littlemanpoet]

Name (that you go by): littlemanpoet or LMP or Elempi
Age: 47 (and counting)
Occupation: shipping clerk
Future Aspirations: to be a better paid shipping clerk
Goal in life: to get it all together
Short term goals: to be a better paid shipping clerk
Passion: Tolkien, worldbuilding, writing
Hobbies: Tolkien, worldbuilding, writing
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): nothing. Really. Unless you're talking about here; then maybe I'm famous for starting certain threads like "What do you assign to Mordor", etc.

Fave book: Anything Tolkien
Fave movie: Wow, that's hard; uh.... Dead Poet's Society?
Fave sport: to watch: college football; to play: biking (if that counts)
Fave store: anywhere that serves up Guinness and other such wonderful fare.... oh! you mean NOT restaurants? Sorry, none.
Fave music: Peter Gabriel, old Genesis, U2, Loreena McKennitt, and October Project.

What you can't stand: not being trusted. Just as SPM regarding werewolf.
What you plain dislike: liver. anchovies. twangy country music.
Who you admire: a certain friend who sticks to the truth, no matter what, better than I.
What you most love to do: travel.
Your self-confessed flaws: failing to consistently stand up for what I believe.
What intrigues/fascinates you: how societies, teams, you name it, works.
What scares you: infinity
Quotation to live by: "Don't fret, be still."

Additional comments: I'm hooked on this place.

[Nogrod]

Name (that you go by): Nogrod, or Ukri
Age: 39 (funny how fast the time goes...)
Occupation: Teacher (philosophy for Senior Secondary High School (?) - 16-19 year olds)
Future Aspirations: To learn to appreciate the here and now even better. To find new things to appreciate.
Goal in life: To see my children finding themselves and what they might be - and maybe to find that myself too. Hoping to make my life something that has an effect for good on even some tiny little things in this huge universe we live in.
Short term goals: Better time-management, quitting smoking & losing weight (an impossible equation? )
Passion: Other people, music
Hobbies: Thinking, listening, talking, playing music, singing, listening to the music, all the silly but fun games we do with Lommy & her sis.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): My classes in the school I'm in - some of the most unrelated people seem to know of them... "Motormuzzle" (Finnish idiom) when I get into the feeling. Happily I've learned to be silent too when required.

Fave book: I wouldn't like to point to individual books, but Kafka, Gogol, Banks, Borges, Broch, Mann, Holdstock, Sandemose, Kyrklund, Saramago... and surely Tolkien. Just to name a few writers.
Fave movie: So different movies have moved or entertained me and made their mark in different phases of my life, but at least Hair, The Wall, Clockwork Orange, Erasurehead, Andrei Rublev, Stalker (by Tarkovski the two last ones), Monty Python movies...
Fave sport to watch: Football and Ice Hockey go when the game and the stakes are high. Otherwise I'm not so much of a sports fan. Occasionally I may jam in front of the tv with snooker or curling on Eurosport...
Fave store: My corner Czech-pub Hadanka. The Academic Bookstore in Helsinki (the only real bookstore here).
Fave music: Anything made with a heart and soul present be it classic or punk: from Bach, Beethoven and Satie to Louis Armrstrong, Led Zeppelin, Massive Attack and Radio Tarifa.

What you can't stand: consults, effectivity, bussiness-as-usual, dishonesty and faking in general.
What you plain dislike: open and concealed egoism, going with the flow thinking...
Who you admire: All people with integrity. Thoughtful and autonomous people notwithstanding whether I agree with them or not.
What you most love to do: Spending time with my children, discussing things in earnest with friends or students, listening to thoughtful or entertaining speech (in radio), making music or listening to it. Cooking.
Your self-confessed flaws: Laziness when there are no dead-lines. Many bad habits: smokin, drinking, too much fat in the diet... pleasures are not always good to oneself...
What intrigues/fascinates you: Life, the Universe and Everything.
What scares you: The possible stupidity of us humans: we're not bad by birth but we may end up short-sighted and easily swayed from our common and shared goodness and the things that actually matter.
Quotation to live by: Don't do as I do, but as I say...

Additional comments: How hard it is to fill in these questionnaires...
Let the sunshine in!

[Rikae]

Name (that you go by): Rikae
Age: Old enough to know better, too immature to act on it.
Occupation: Student - literature major, to be specific.
Future Aspirations: Lots of 'em.
Goal in life: Only having one goal in life sounds depressing.
Short term goals: Finish my degree; see the world (or at least a little more of it.)
Passion: Learning, exploring, adventure.
Hobbies: Writing short stories & poetry, painting, gardening, camping, wasting time and money.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): I should be famous for writing a paper that was, in theory, about Borges, but took the form of interdimensional epistles about Andy Serkis found on Blather.com, and getting an A+ on it.

Fave book: Non Tolkien? Pale Fire.
Fave movie: La Strada, Monty Python movies, Fight Club, Brazil, Being There, LOTR, Last Year at Marienbad, Donnie Darko...
Fave sport: Skinny-dipping
Fave store: Ebay
Fave music: Radiohead, Portishead, Muse, Within Temptation, This Mortal Coil...

What you can't stand: The sound of chalk on a blackboard, or the (similar) sound of squeaking styrofoam.
What you plain dislike: Daytime TV.
Who you admire: Intelligent and creative people, people who don't take life too seriously.
What you most love to do: Waste time.
Your self-confessed flaws: Excess in all things (except housework...)
What intrigues/fascinates you: People. Psychology, philosophy, literature, art, religion, history...
What scares you: Butterflies. They just freak me out...
Quotation to live by:
"Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow."

Additional comments:

All your base are belong to Serious Cat.

[Volo]

Name (that you go by): You can call me Volo

Age: 17,5

Occupation: high school student

Future Aspirations: Nothing as such. I'll see what happens and where I end up and then decide whether it was good or bad. The current joke is that I'll study every science in universities for the rest of my life.

Goal in life: As for now, nothing much. Not to create too much havoc and keep to my ideals.

Short term goals: Fall asleep in 45 minutes (22:00 I'm doomed to fail) so I could be more awake tomorrow than today.

Passion: For the past year, nothing. I guess a slight passion for learning, creating weird ideals and sticking to them.

Hobbies: Hard one too. I don't have hobbies as such, but as I and a friend decided to call them, some manners of living. Reading books, listening to music, carrying a camera with me, eating, complaining to new friends, trying not to waste my time by playing computer games (notice self-irony). A passive lifestyle, I've become to like it.

Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): ...once being a very active person in Protu-circles. I constantly wonder about that, because the truth is that I never did do anything. I'm pretty sure I have a general reputation of being "that weird guy".

Fave book(s): Mostly high fantasy. I prefer dark art.

Fave movie: I have a special, nearly patriotic, loving for 70/80s Soviet films. I enjoy slightly artsy or weird films more than the basic Hollywood stuff. On the other hand, I'm not that strict with my likes and dislikes.

Fave sport: Sports can be enjoyable if the goal is to have fun. I don't do any kind of sports myself and pretty much dislike all serious compeditive sports. The whole idea feels so utterly wrong.

Fave store: The only category I have a favourite store from is music, and cheese (that's from the market). Clothes and books I very rarelly buy.

Fave music: Also waried. Nothing too poppy, rappy, hiphoppy or generally happy (because sad is the happy for deep people ), but otherwise pretty much anything goes. I've heard good and bad songs from every genre, currently have 8873 songs on my computer (bless the state libraries) and am listening to Sibelius at the moment. The most I like experimental music, something that no other band does, a distinctive sound.

What you can't stand: I can stand it, but the badly thought sentimental or conservative attitudes people have do drive me mad sometimes. For my own reasons I try to be arrogant myself quite a lot, but that's also something I'm very annoyed by. Surely, greed the most.

What you plain dislike: Travelling, being spoken over...

Who you admire: People who have a goal in their life; who are good in something but don't think less of others who aren't; who have similar thoughts compared to mine.

What you most love to do: Being with friends, doesn't matter much which friends as long as they aren't too sentimental, but somewhat melancholic. Feeling good about being honest. Diving into a good book or hearing some very good song. Feeling beauty in surprising things.

Your self-confessed flaws: A certain lack of feelings and understanding the way people want it. A self-destructive wish to know everything.

What intrigues/fascinates you: Two years ago I wrote "many things", nowadays "nothing really" ...especially much. I'm quite fascinated by most things, but not to a high extend.

What scares you: That one day I might either lose my ideals or become too strong in them. Generally that I or people close to me will become sad or start thinking "wrong". I have an irrational (probably) fear for snakes and the underwater world. Somewhat that my closest friend will go to the States as an exchange student for a year.

Quotation to live by: I have a bad memory for words and sentences so nothing comes to my mind at the moment. And anyway, I've always liked sarcastic, self-ironic, dark, destructive quotations more than those by which I'd like to live by. "Oh well..."

Additional comments: I'm hairier than you.

[Precioussss]

Name: Fallon
Age: 20
Occupation: is student an occupation?
Future Aspirations: to be a teacher
Goal in life: I don't have goals
Short term goals: see above
Passion: music
Hobbies: knitting, playing music
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): being the one who works 3 jobs while going to school...and having zero life

Fave book:Catch-22
Fave movie:The Graduate
Fave sport: HOCKEY!
Fave store: Frenchy's Thrift Boutique
Fave music: Everything before 1991

What you can't stand: current music
What you plain dislike: school, working
Who you admire: my best friend Anne
What you most love to do: lie down and listen to music
Your self-confessed flaws: I'm a dreamer
What intrigues/fascinates you: how people can think that wearing spandek leggings with a skirt over it looks nice.
What scares you: not very much
Quotation to live by: "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existance" --> this was one of my friend's favourite quotes

Additional comments: how many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?

[Farael]

Name: Farael, Che... also known as Matias by some =P but Mati by my firends
Age: 21... I feel old
Occupation: Student, super-hero... but only when I'm not studying. Sadly, it hasn't happened yet.
Future Aspirations: Maybe to get into Med School... but not too sure about that anymore. It's taken too much of a toll on me
Goal in life: Be happy, maybe find Ms. Farael, find a job I like... oh! and go to Europe
Short term goals: EUROTRIP though it might take a while
Passion: Ranting!! There is nothing like a good, passionate, spontaneous rant.
Hobbies: Read above
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): My passion in life... or rather, the fact that I can get easily excited when something really interests (or upsets) me

Fave book:I've got to say it's LoTR, but I had to think about it... there are so many other great ones, like "Arabian Nights" (I think that's the name in English) and "La Gesta del Marrano" (sorry, can't translate that one and be fair to its meaning)
Fave movie:Again, so many... but I recently watched "La Historia Oficial" (old argentine movie) and I must say I'm quite impressed... it definitely hits a nerve in me, but that's why I'd say it's up there. LoTR (again?) is also good... I don't know, hard to say
Fave sport:To watch: Football (NFL, I know ,I'm a bad Canuck) To play: Football or Volleyball (no, not soccer)
Fave store: Does Subway count? if not, probably McNally Robinson and Chapters (two biggest bookstores around here)
Fave music: Pink Floyd!

What you can't stand: Bimbos and jocks. Really, if all you do with your life is look good and "talk, you know, all like this, *click tounge* you know? it's sooo in" there is just something not right!!
What you plain dislike: The feeling of despair that can overcome you when you find out that growing old does not mean more freedom but just different (yet still very real) boundaries
Who you admire: My dad.. what can I say? he makes mistakes just like anyone else, but I've never seen someone so determined to make things right
What you most love to do: Right now, sleep... but when I'm better rested, staying up late at night reading a good book... or camping... or listening to good music... or being in good company.. I don't know, I can't pick ONE thing.
Your self-confessed flaws: I'm too rational. Sometimes I wish I could cry and just tell myself "I'm sad" and not try to dissect the feeling. Maybe it'd help letting some things out.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Biology (yes, I'm a geek) and the creative process... what leads a man to create something new? specially if it's something artistic, as otherwise the answer might just be "need" (or greed in some cases)
What scares you: Other than any insect bigger than my thumb? Realizing some day that I am "boxed in" on a life path I do not want for myself and yet that I cannot leave.
Quotation to live by: "Love is more than a bunch of hormones running loose and a short-circuit on my synapses"

Additional comments: I know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!

[Valier]

Name: Valier, or Val
Occupation: Hair stylist/Barber
Future Aspirations: Hmmmm to make more money, and get married and have some kids.
Goal in life: to be happy (i know it's not much but it's what counts right?)
Short term goals: To not work so much and to have a good Christmas
Passion: I love art, of all sorts and I like to write.
Famous for: Talking way too much

Fave book:Hmmmm I would have to say The return of the King and a new one...The last Harry Potter
Fave movie: The fifth Element
Fave sport: Not to big on sports, but I like to play baseball
Fave store: Lol Wal-mart
Fave music: I like a little bit of everything

What you can't stand: Waiting. I'm very impatient
What you plain dislike: Rude, selfish people
Who you admire: Hmmm that's a hard one...I'll have to think more about it
Your self-confessed flaws: I'm a little to forward at times and I talk too much.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Ummm I would have to say accents and different cultures also the Ocean...it's just so mysterious
Quotation to live by: "Don't worry be happy."

Additional comments: I thought I would post on this thread seeing as there are so many new members.

[Brinniel]

Name (that you go by): Brinniel, Brinn, Erin
Age: 20
Occupation: college student
Future Aspirations: to have a successful career in filmmaking...particularly post-production
Goal in life: see the world, be happy in whatever I do
Short term goals: find a summer job to get some money, get an internship, graduate, return to Europe, meet even more BDers
Passion: traveling
Hobbies: dance, writing, drawing, wwing, watching films
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): having the wonderful opportunity to study abroad. Among other students in the same program, I was famous for going to different countries to meet random strangers (aka BDers)

Fave book: LotR, The Silmarillion, Narnia, His Dark Materials, Snow Falling on Cedars
Fave movie: LotR, Little Miss Sunshine, Sweeney Todd, V for Vendetta, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Juno, Prince Caspian, Amelie, Shaun of the Dead, the list goes on....
Fave sport: dance...I also like to watch the Olympics
Fave store: Best Buy, Barnes and Noble, Hot Topic, H&M (which sadly doesn't exist in Boise)
Fave music: Medieval Baebes, Fiona Apple, Alphabeat, Damien Rice, Imogen Heap, Dido, Kimya Dawson, Apocalyptica...I also love soundtracks of all sorts

What you can't stand: close-minded people
What you plain dislike: bad drivers, Americans who live up to the negative stereotypes that the world gives us (such as loud and ignorant)
Who you admire: Umm...I don't know...my pets?
What you most love to do: sleep, be lazy, go on the computer....on the less lazy side, travel
Your self-confessed flaws: procrastinator, perfectionist, I get easily frustrated, sensitive
What intrigues/fascinates you: culture, astrology
What scares you: spiders
Quotation to live by: Hmmm...I have no idea

Additional comments: It's always interesting to see how much you've changed over the last couple years. For me, a lot has happened since I last filled this out.