How did you find out about the Barrowdowns? - Page 2 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lolidir · 01-13-2005, 09:52 PM

i had just finished the books and was hooked. i loved the elvish names so i decided to find my own. i searched for name generators and found my way here. this was a while ago. just recently have i ventured into the world of forums.

Lalwendë · 01-14-2005, 07:18 AM

I found this site by happy accident. I was looking up my own surname - which some Downers actually know - and this site came up on Google. Intrigued, I came in for a look and the rest is history. I'll leave you to ponder how peculiar my 'real' name is.

Mithalwen · 01-14-2005, 11:45 AM

ooh Lalwende ..not "Miss Barrowdowns" ? LOL...

Someone I RPGed with introduced me to MadLibs about 3 years ago!!! and it tool another 2 years to look at the forum

Lalwendë · 01-14-2005, 02:58 PM

Quote:

ooh Lalwende ..not "Miss Barrowdowns" ? LOL...

Erm, not far off!

The other odd thing about me joining the 'Downs was that some months before I found A.N.Other Forum and I was pondering whether to join that. Alas, I found it far too confusing so I didn't bother, and I assumed all forums were equally as confusing. Then I joined and after just a few posts didn't post anything for months because I had a supremely dodgy computer. It was reading the RPGs that got me into it again.

Diamond18 · 07-20-2006, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Me, about 3 years ago

Barrowdowns.com was recommended as a cool Tolkien site by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal in their online section. I'm very impressionable, you know.

Funny how forgetful I am -- I know the above is why I checked out the main page, with the name generator and other goodies, but I don't remember how I made the leap to the forum. I'd never posted on a forum or any other kind of internet group before, so I must have had some special reason to think "Hey, this is the very first internet community I want to become a part of!" I assume I was really bored one day and decided to check out the one part of the site I hadn't been to, and read something and wanted to respond, but I can't actually remember it.

Premature senility.

Rockin_tha_Casbah · 07-20-2006, 10:17 AM

Jeez...I can't remember how I found out about this board...

Wait! It's coming back to me!

[LONG, DRAWN OUT STORY]

Back when I still had money and spare time, I was a big GameBoy Freak. I bought the FotR Game (the one from Black Label; Man, that game was horrible.) and I needed a bunch of help on it. (I didn't say I was a good GameBoy Freak.)

I found another message board that dealt with the game, and eventually I stumbled on The BD. This was a couple of years ago; the first movie still hadn't come out yet. I kept reading the boards (I still hadn't registered) until just after RotK came out, then I became a bit too busy. I don't think I even had time to look at a computer, let alone post on a message board.

Now, a couple of weeks ago, I was reading another board I like, and someone linked to a thread here. Something clicked. "Hey...this place seems familiar..."

So, I bit the bullet and registered (yesterday).

[/LONG DRAWN OUT STORY]

And yes, I know I'm using fake codes to add to my post. Just one more rung on the Ladder of Geekdom.

Durelin · 07-20-2006, 10:38 AM

I was shown this site by a person who was banned from the forums 2-3 years ago...

Hookbill the Goomba · 07-30-2006, 04:53 PM

I seem to recall that a good friend of mine was once a member of the Downs. She has since forgotten her username and all that and gave up on it, but she told me about it and I checked it out.

After messing around with hangahobbit and the name generator for a while, I found the forum and said, "ooohhh!"

So, that's the fascinating story of how I came to the Downs. Next week: How

got his cigar.

GaladrieloftheOlden · 05-10-2003, 03:09 AM

10? Wow, it's 5 here. And I've been on the BDs most of the night [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

~Menelien

Annalaliath · 05-20-2003, 10:20 PM

I found out at an MSN board that was fun. But anyway I thaught this palce was cool! So I joined. Me and a few freinds like the Name generator and so we torment others with it. We also played Hang a Hobbit and laughed the whole thing through. This is the coolest thing that I had found for a longgg time. Other than that I was looking for a site that I had been looing for for a while, was something similer or other. Anyway that is how I found it.

Guinevere · 05-22-2003, 03:15 AM

While reading LotR I bought a book "Tolkiens Welt" (in German) and at the back of it there was a list of the 50 best internet-addresses about Tolkien! I checked some of them and liked the BD best.

I had never before used the internet at all and the computer hardly ever (being rather a luddite [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) My son had to show me how to work it.
And now I have been frequenting the Downs for a year! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Who would have thought that! My son is always teasing me about "looking into the Palantir" too often!

Orofaniel · 05-22-2003, 03:23 AM

I found barrow downs as a link on another site..... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] oh, well I think I did, it's been a long time since I found it....

Orofâniel

Linaeve · 12-01-2003, 04:02 PM

My twin sister, whom I think you know as Merri (or Merry?) told me about this site last year. I think she was a regular poster until our mother banned her from all use of the computer because she wasn't studying hard enough! She told me to apologize for her, because apparently she abandoned an RPG thread or something that she was in charge of. She says she'd come back but she thinks you're going to eat her alive or something, as I said in another thread in The Shire. Anyway, I didn't have time to actually do any registering or posting or what have you until this year, so here I am!

Theron Bugtussle · 12-02-2003, 06:50 PM

A simple internet search for interesting LotR/Tolkien sites. Certainly didn't intend on joining a forum, but got hooked.

Enorëiel · 12-02-2003, 09:57 PM

I owe all my thanks to miss Sapphire_Flame, who suggested this site when I complained about my lack of Lord-of-the-Rings-fan-friends. Hannon le!

The Only Real Estel · 12-06-2003, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Certainly didn't intend on joining a forum, but got hooked.

Same here! My friend was showing me Barrowdowns once when I was over at his house, & then a few months later I decided to get on at my own house. The rest is history [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img].

Imladris · 12-06-2003, 07:30 PM

Looking for an elvish name. My brother found the name generator and I just happened to remember the site. Then I saw the forum...and discovered RPG games...and now I waste all my time here!

Trippo The Hippo · 12-12-2003, 10:50 AM

Before I was a reader or really interested at all my friend showed me the some threads about the ring. Such as could Frodo have controlled the nazgul if he kept the ring or what would have happened if Sam kept the ring. I found it all interesting then when I was more interested I had my friend give me the name of the site again and here I am.

lord_of_rohan2003 · 12-13-2003, 04:53 PM

I was a member of two other boards,one I didin't get along with the people(hey it's not me they were the ones who laid into me)and the other was more of a movie fan site and didin't have much to do with the books.

So one late night I was bored and surfing the net and I found a link to this site,so I grabed a pint and checked it out and ta da!Here I am. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Gorwingel · 12-24-2003, 04:04 PM

Well today is my one-year anniversary of being a member of the downs! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I remember it vaguely because I think I went on the internet on Christmas Eve because there was nothing to watch on TV, and went on here to see what everyone was talking about (like I did many times), and I decided to take a chance and join. I think I first posted in the movies forum, but don't try to make me find that first post because I think it is long gone now.

This experience of being a member of the Downs has changed me much. I am now a much more outgoing person on the net, and it has encouraged me to do many Tolkien related things that I wouldn't normally do.

I love this place, it is now one of my little homes on the Internet [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

Finwe · 12-24-2003, 05:03 PM

Happy deathday!

I had known about the Barrowdowns site for a fairly long time, but I never realized that it had a forum until this May. By then, I had stopped posting on the LotR Fanatics Plaza (where I had been a very rabid poster) and was suffering severe posting withdrawal. So, I decided to join this forum, and I'm having LOADS of fun! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Lady_Galadriel · 12-24-2003, 05:57 PM

i found out about the barrow-downs from my good friend macaroni, and i'm glad she told me about it! cudos to you macaroni!!!

Alatariel Telemnar · 12-24-2003, 09:55 PM

I found the Barrow-downs from Elencala Isil, who showed me the 'Sauron's Discount Rings' thread... after a few months I decided what the hey, and joined. yes... *cowers and scurries away*

Lhunardawen · 12-30-2003, 12:34 AM

Two years ago, when FotR was first shown, my classmates were all musing over this site that has an Elf-name generator. I was quite amused (though I was not an LotR fan then) and went to the site they told me to go to. After many months of playing with the name generators and stuff, I went to the chatroom. However, people there were not discussing ME-related things. Since I was a nouveau fan looking for others who can relate to me, I decided to see the forum for myself. At first I couldn't quite understand how it works, since I've never joined a forum before. Now, I'm a wight! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

The Dark Elf · 01-04-2004, 09:46 PM

My friend sent me the name generator and then i checked out the site. I loved it! a year later i find ou you can sign up and do forums!

Rilwen Gamgee · 01-07-2004, 05:16 PM

I was looking through Google for some LotR sites and stumbled across this one. It looked really spiffy and well organized so I checked it out more. Quite a while later I found about the forums. No this is one of the only other sites that I check regularly... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Morgul Queen · 01-12-2004, 02:41 AM

Mine's not that interesting, but, Mr Barrow-Wight, you may find it flattering.

Being a New Zealander, I get a free magazing every year on the LotR movies in the Newspaper, in the Fellowship one (which I still have, you won't believe some of the stuff you get out of the papers here, sometimes it's almost as crammed of Tolkien as TOR.net) was an interview. Tehanu's interview, in fact. As a side note is written...

Quote:

"There are hundreds of internet sites devoted to The Lord of the Rings including several with name generators. One (www.barrowdowns.com) provides your Orc name, your Hobbit name, your Elf name, your Dwarf name as well as guessing who you could be in Middle-earth."

...followed by...

Quote:

"In another internet tribute site (http://fan.theonering.net/writing/stories/files/whistler_greeneggs.html) a fan has rewritten Tolkien in the style of Dr Suess"

That is actually how I found TOR.net as well. Then, sometime after sneaking off to see LotR at midnight at somepoint (Mum had forbidden me to see it again, something about 10 times being enough) I got fed up with lurking and joined the Forum...I had lurked since November 2001!

Yeah...so there's my story. Be proud, Mr Barrow-wight, your site was in a special souvenir magazine celebrating all the best things about LotR!! And was mentioned *before* TOR.net [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

MatthewM · 07-18-2006, 04:30 PM

I came across the Barrow-Downs when the moderator of a Lord of the Rings group on MySpace posted a Tolkien fansite list. I wish I knew about it before!

01-13-2005, 09:52 PM	#1
Lolidir Wight Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Roaming the plains of Middle Earth Posts: 103	i had just finished the books and was hooked. i loved the elvish names so i decided to find my own. i searched for name generators and found my way here. this was a while ago. just recently have i ventured into the world of forums. __________________ "Its a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to"

01-14-2005, 07:18 AM	#2
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	I found this site by happy accident. I was looking up my own surname - which some Downers actually know - and this site came up on Google. Intrigued, I came in for a look and the rest is history. I'll leave you to ponder how peculiar my 'real' name is. __________________ Gordon's alive!

01-14-2005, 11:45 AM	#3
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	ooh Lalwende ..not "Miss Barrowdowns" ? LOL... Someone I RPGed with introduced me to MadLibs about 3 years ago!!! and it tool another 2 years to look at the forum __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

07-20-2006, 10:17 AM	#6
Rockin_tha_Casbah Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Between the Middle of Nowhere and the End of the Line Posts: 10	Jeez...I can't remember how I found out about this board... Wait! It's coming back to me! [LONG, DRAWN OUT STORY] Back when I still had money and spare time, I was a big GameBoy Freak. I bought the FotR Game (the one from Black Label; Man, that game was horrible.) and I needed a bunch of help on it. (I didn't say I was a good GameBoy Freak.) I found another message board that dealt with the game, and eventually I stumbled on The BD. This was a couple of years ago; the first movie still hadn't come out yet. I kept reading the boards (I still hadn't registered) until just after RotK came out, then I became a bit too busy. I don't think I even had time to look at a computer, let alone post on a message board. Now, a couple of weeks ago, I was reading another board I like, and someone linked to a thread here. Something clicked. "Hey...this place seems familiar..." So, I bit the bullet and registered (yesterday). [/LONG DRAWN OUT STORY] And yes, I know I'm using fake codes to add to my post. Just one more rung on the Ladder of Geekdom. __________________ Sona si Latine loqueris.

07-30-2006, 04:53 PM	#8
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	I seem to recall that a good friend of mine was once a member of the Downs. She has since forgotten her username and all that and gave up on it, but she told me about it and I checked it out. After messing around with hangahobbit and the name generator for a while, I found the forum and said, "ooohhh!" So, that's the fascinating story of how I came to the Downs. Next week: How got his cigar. __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

07-20-2006, 10:38 AM	#7
Durelin Estelo dagnir, Melo ring Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,063	I was shown this site by a person who was banned from the forums 2-3 years ago...

05-10-2003, 03:09 AM	#9
GaladrieloftheOlden Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Massachusetts - digging up a bottomless hole, searching for something that's not there... Posts: 1,514	10? Wow, it's 5 here. And I've been on the BDs most of the night [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] ~Menelien __________________ "Glue... very powerful stuff."

05-20-2003, 10:20 PM	#10
Annalaliath Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 380	I found out at an MSN board that was fun. But anyway I thaught this palce was cool! So I joined. Me and a few freinds like the Name generator and so we torment others with it. We also played Hang a Hobbit and laughed the whole thing through. This is the coolest thing that I had found for a longgg time. Other than that I was looking for a site that I had been looing for for a while, was something similer or other. Anyway that is how I found it. __________________ Bloody Stumps!!!

05-22-2003, 03:15 AM	#11
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	While reading LotR I bought a book "Tolkiens Welt" (in German) and at the back of it there was a list of the 50 best internet-addresses about Tolkien! I checked some of them and liked the BD best. I had never before used the internet at all and the computer hardly ever (being rather a luddite [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ) My son had to show me how to work it. And now I have been frequenting the Downs for a year! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Who would have thought that! My son is always teasing me about "looking into the Palantir" too often! __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

05-22-2003, 03:23 AM	#12
Orofaniel Mighty Mouse of Mordor Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Lands of the North, where no man can reach.... Posts: 823	I found barrow downs as a link on another site..... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] oh, well I think I did, it's been a long time since I found it.... Orofâniel __________________ I lost my old sig...somehow....screams and shouts ..............What is this?- Now isn't this fun? >_< .....and yes, the jumping mouse is my new avatar. ^_^

12-01-2003, 04:02 PM	#13
Linaeve Animated Skeleton Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 37	My twin sister, whom I think you know as Merri (or Merry?) told me about this site last year. I think she was a regular poster until our mother banned her from all use of the computer because she wasn't studying hard enough! She told me to apologize for her, because apparently she abandoned an RPG thread or something that she was in charge of. She says she'd come back but she thinks you're going to eat her alive or something, as I said in another thread in The Shire. Anyway, I didn't have time to actually do any registering or posting or what have you until this year, so here I am! __________________ I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy. -Dory, from Finding Nemo

12-02-2003, 06:50 PM	#14
Theron Bugtussle Wight Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Blowing the froth off a couple in this quaint little pub in Michel Delving. Posts: 147	A simple internet search for interesting LotR/Tolkien sites. Certainly didn't intend on joining a forum, but got hooked. __________________ For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying. -Gandalf, The Two Towers

12-02-2003, 09:57 PM	#15
Enorëiel Wight Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Hobbiton, U.S.A. Posts: 165	I owe all my thanks to miss Sapphire_Flame, who suggested this site when I complained about my lack of Lord-of-the-Rings-fan-friends. Hannon le! __________________ You can take a hobbit out of the Shire but you can't take the Shire out of a hobbit. Whoever said "Nothing is impossible" never tried to slam a revolving door.

12-06-2003, 07:30 PM	#17
Imladris Tears of the Phoenix Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Putting dimes in the jukebox baby. Posts: 1,453	Looking for an elvish name. My brother found the name generator and I just happened to remember the site. Then I saw the forum...and discovered RPG games...and now I waste all my time here! __________________ I'm sorry it wasn't a unicorn. It would have been nice to have unicorns. I'm your huckleberry.

12-12-2003, 10:50 AM	#18
Trippo The Hippo Wight Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: somewhere with hippos that say jolly o and wear spectacles Posts: 195	Before I was a reader or really interested at all my friend showed me the some threads about the ring. Such as could Frodo have controlled the nazgul if he kept the ring or what would have happened if Sam kept the ring. I found it all interesting then when I was more interested I had my friend give me the name of the site again and here I am. __________________ Shouldn't he be the disco steward?

12-13-2003, 04:53 PM	#19
lord_of_rohan2003 Animated Skeleton Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Rohan Posts: 50	I was a member of two other boards,one I didin't get along with the people(hey it's not me they were the ones who laid into me)and the other was more of a movie fan site and didin't have much to do with the books. So one late night I was bored and surfing the net and I found a link to this site,so I grabed a pint and checked it out and ta da!Here I am. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

12-24-2003, 04:04 PM	#20
Gorwingel Beholder of the Mists Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Somewhere in the Northwest... for now Posts: 1,419	Well today is my one-year anniversary of being a member of the downs! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I remember it vaguely because I think I went on the internet on Christmas Eve because there was nothing to watch on TV, and went on here to see what everyone was talking about (like I did many times), and I decided to take a chance and join. I think I first posted in the movies forum, but don't try to make me find that first post because I think it is long gone now. This experience of being a member of the Downs has changed me much. I am now a much more outgoing person on the net, and it has encouraged me to do many Tolkien related things that I wouldn't normally do. I love this place, it is now one of my little homes on the Internet [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] __________________ Wanted - Wonderfully witty quote that consists of pure brilliance

12-24-2003, 05:03 PM	#21
Finwe Deathless Sun Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos Posts: 2,609	Happy deathday! I had known about the Barrowdowns site for a fairly long time, but I never realized that it had a forum until this May. By then, I had stopped posting on the LotR Fanatics Plaza (where I had been a very rabid poster) and was suffering severe posting withdrawal. So, I decided to join this forum, and I'm having LOADS of fun! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ 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.

12-24-2003, 05:57 PM	#22
Lady_Galadriel Wight Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Shire, Hobbiton, Middle Earth Posts: 135	i found out about the barrow-downs from my good friend macaroni, and i'm glad she told me about it! cudos to you macaroni!!! __________________ " You can't toast me!"

12-24-2003, 09:55 PM	#23
Alatariel Telemnar Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: watching the ants closing in Posts: 292	I found the Barrow-downs from Elencala Isil, who showed me the 'Sauron's Discount Rings' thread... after a few months I decided what the hey, and joined. yes... cowers and scurries away __________________ -Ever wonder whats beyond those trees? -More trees. 'Poor ye. Ye're tied to someone who's been photographed trying to shave their hand... My condolences.'

12-30-2003, 12:34 AM	#24
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	Two years ago, when FotR was first shown, my classmates were all musing over this site that has an Elf-name generator. I was quite amused (though I was not an LotR fan then) and went to the site they told me to go to. After many months of playing with the name generators and stuff, I went to the chatroom. However, people there were not discussing ME-related things. Since I was a nouveau fan looking for others who can relate to me, I decided to see the forum for myself. At first I couldn't quite understand how it works, since I've never joined a forum before. Now, I'm a wight! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

01-04-2004, 09:46 PM	#25
The Dark Elf Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Angmar Posts: 74	My friend sent me the name generator and then i checked out the site. I loved it! a year later i find ou you can sign up and do forums! __________________ "Fool of a Took!"

01-07-2004, 05:16 PM	#26
Rilwen Gamgee Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: At home. Posts: 135	I was looking through Google for some LotR sites and stumbled across this one. It looked really spiffy and well organized so I checked it out more. Quite a while later I found about the forums. No this is one of the only other sites that I check regularly... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

07-18-2006, 04:30 PM	#28
MatthewM Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New York Posts: 628	I came across the Barrow-Downs when the moderator of a Lord of the Rings group on MySpace posted a Tolkien fansite list. I wish I knew about it before! __________________ "Loud and clear it sounds in the valleys of the hills...and then let all the foes of Gondor flee!" -Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring