Any chance of getting the Language Forum back? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Galadrie1 · 05-09-2004, 02:33 PM

The Language Forum was closed quite a few months ago. I highly doubt that it will ever be re-opened; a few of us tried very hard to keep it open in the first place, but it still got deleted.

***Sharkû*** · 05-10-2004, 06:30 AM

1. It didn't get deleted, it got merged.

2. Like I said before, and I won't hesitate to quote myself:

"I don't see why it should be impossible for our members to incorporate the Languages forum into Books. The close correlation of language and literature is what mediaeval lit., and incidentally, Tolkien, is all about after all. This does not even mean that language topics need to have any special relevance for a literature discussion. However, if it forces language topics to adopt the same standard as the Books forum is intented to have, I cannot see how people willing to discuss the Languages would not benefit from it." (see here for the earlier discussion: http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthr...1&page=1&pp=40 )

05-09-2004, 02:33 PM	#1
Galadrie1 Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The wrong place at the wrong time. Posts: 385	The Language Forum was closed quite a few months ago. I highly doubt that it will ever be re-opened; a few of us tried very hard to keep it open in the first place, but it still got deleted. __________________ "For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel."

05-10-2004, 06:30 AM	#2
*Sharkû* Hungry Ghoul Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 1,719	1. It didn't get deleted, it got merged. 2. Like I said before, and I won't hesitate to quote myself: "I don't see why it should be impossible for our members to incorporate the Languages forum into Books. The close correlation of language and literature is what mediaeval lit., and incidentally, Tolkien, is all about after all. This does not even mean that language topics need to have any special relevance for a literature discussion. However, if it forces language topics to adopt the same standard as the Books forum is intented to have, I cannot see how people willing to discuss the Languages would not benefit from it." (see here for the earlier discussion: http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthr...1&page=1&pp=40 )