How do you imagine other BDers

[Gil-Galad]

Originally Posted by Neurion

Here's one who's not.

uh huh... i'm 6'4 btw

[Nuranar]

uh huh... i'm 6'4 btw

Tall is such a relative term. Gil-Galad, I'm ready to concede that you're taller than *most* other people on the Downs. But to me, you're not tall. My father and my middle younger brother are both 6'8". When people say someone is tall, perhaps he is - to them. To me, someone needs to be at least 6'6" for me to recognize that he's tall. There's a guy I've known for 3 years, and he's 6'5", I think. It never occurred to me that he was tall - I just felt normal around him! He was the size I am used to. My father was the first man I ever knew (obviously), and for a very long time the tallest I'd ever seen. When you see 6'8" as normal, what does that make the rest of the world??

But, for the sake of most other people, I'm ready to admit that you're tall. But I also hasten to defend Neurion. I don't know how tall he is. But I'm certainly not going to assume that 6'4" is the Downs' upper limit!

Incidentally, my oldest younger brother is roughly 6'2" - 6'3". My youngest younger brother is nearly 6' (we haven't measured in a while), and he's younger than you. It's a big question to see if he'll beat the oldest or not.

To stay on-topic: I see Neurion as his avatar, one of the Lorien Elves, and particularly since he's agreed he's tall. So, that makes him a good 6'6" or more, with a slim, strong build. Blond hair (but not long - I can't stand that), grey eyes, "aristocratic features." But he's a teenage boy, say 15, and although he looks like an Elf, he's full of mischief and chain-pulling.

[Elennar Starfire]

So, maybe the astrology thread can get started up again?

I believe my favourite of all the descriptions of me is the fashionable glowing cloud...

Hmm. I seem to have run out of people to describe. I really must pay more attention to the new members!

Why will it not let me use four smilies? The limit used to be eight! *is somewhat confused*

[The Saucepan Man]

Talk of the respective heights of Gil-Galad and Neurion was of limited interest the first time that it came up on this thread. Now we are into the third or fourth round of discussion on this issue, it is becoming rather dull. Another occurrence may result in the closure of the thread ...

Personally, I would like to see more posts along the following lines:

Abercrombie of Rohan

Diamond18

A large majority of the umpteen hundred posts on this thread are distinctly lacking in the humour which one would expect on a Middle-earth Mirth thread, but which is exemplified in these posts.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

For some reason, I'm picturing a PotC fan. Perhaps it's the "Pot" in her name. She's obviously a Star Trek fan, but I can also see a creative writer hiding inside her. Maybe some manic poetry or a private journal. Not the internet blog variety of girl. She's got waist-length black hair and dark eyes. Her skin is a lovely glowing golden brown, and she listens to The Beatles and a bunch of bands that nobody else has ever heard of. She has a great fondness of the classic arts, but (forgive me) is not much of an artist herself. She loves riding and spends an inordinate amount of time around horses, and when she isn't dreaming of riding off into the sunset with her hero, she's dreaming... of the hero.

Fea

[wilwarin538]

I agree with Saucy, that post about me looking like a butterfly was very ammussing. I shall have funny descriptions of some of you very soon.

[Morai]

Abercrombie of Rohan

: I don't think that you have fallen victim to my guesses yet, so here it goes: Again, the name prompts me to think you as a Blonde who loves horses. Unlike most in your land, you enjoy wearing jeans and tee-shirts with unusual print on them. Occasionally, you wear a brimmed hat that shadows your facial features.

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Elennar Starfire

So, maybe the astrology thread can get started up again?

I believe my favourite of all the descriptions of me is the fashionable glowing cloud...

Hmm. I seem to have run out of people to describe. I really must pay more attention to the new members!

Why will it not let me use four smilies? The limit used to be eight! *is somewhat confused*

Heh, I wish... That thread has a slight chance later on, but I'm pretty occupied for the following two months. Business, National History Day Finals, School trips for weeks in Victoria, BC, Tiegen and Sara concert... and much, much more.

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Fasionable glowing cloud? I really have been gone for a long time! I've missed out...

~ Oh Pooh! Ka

[The Barrow-Wight]

Stop chatting.

[elronds_daughter]

My visions of AbercrombieOfRohan differ muchly from Morai's imaginitive imaginings. In my visions, Abercrombie is a somewhat bouncy girl with long brown hair and brown eyes, who is addicted to shopping. She consistantly wears distinctly "non-preppy" clothing.

[Neurion]

Originally Posted by Nuranar

To stay on-topic: I see Neurion as his avatar, one of the Lorien Elves, and particularly since he's agreed he's tall. So, that makes him a good 6'6" or more, with a slim, strong build. Blond hair (but not long - I can't stand that), grey eyes, "aristocratic features." But he's a teenage boy, say 15, and although he looks like an Elf, he's full of mischief and chain-pulling.

Hmm, I guess "aristocratic features" is probably a good guess.

I'm also one of those naturally lean people who don't put on extra flesh easily (probably high metabolism), so the build guess is acurate.

Heightwise, I'm somewhere around 6'3", but I stated I was not one of those shorter than Gil because I'm still growing. As for my age, I'm an immortal Eldar.

[Shelob]

Well Abercrombie, it seems to be the popular thing these days (OK...today) to Imagine you...and after the "oh-so fitting"* image you gave of me I feel an overpowering need to respond in kind.

So, without further ado, I think AbercrombieOfRohan is decidedly stranger than has yet been suggested.

APPEARANCE: I imagine she's a fairly nondescript person who could
almost pass for normal if not for the fact that she is usually
muttering some work of Tolkien to herself, or caressing her copies
of the books between classes. I imagine that while she usually wears
jeans and a T-shirt (usually one that says something like 'Frodo
lives', 'There are some who call me...Tim' or 'I survived the Cliffs
of Insantiy') she has been known to wear various replicas of
clothing from the movies and has most likely incorporated some
aspect of The Lord of the Rings into every conceivable part of her
daily life at some time or another.

GEOGRAPHIC RANGE: New England...but with various escape
(mirgration?...no, American Abercrombies are non-mirgratorial)
attempts to England.

HABITAT: In her room, which has been made to resemble
Bag End...pantries and all...

BEHAVIOR:As suggested by her location and signature, I imagine she
spends a fair amount of time gallivanting around the galaxy, looking
for a cup of tea, and playing Scrabble. She has probably been tossed
out of more than a few pet stores for using their fish inappropriately in
an attempt to learn either Esparanto, Klingon, Xaasongaxango, or all three.

FOOD HABITS: The rival of mine...I susspect that "you also enjoy
eating odd food combinations, like peanuts and chocolate milkshakes."

OTHER: I imagine that she is not nearly as nerdy as suggested by her
appearance, and that people who take the time to know her find that
she is in fact a really nice, enthusiastic person who has a great
sense of humour and find that she isn't nearly as obsessive as she
first seems...but that she is in fact more obsessive...


::reads it over:: yep...most definitely Abercrombie...Sorry about it being written like a field guide entry, but that's what you get when I'm posting while studying...

*sarcastic...very sarcastic

[THE Ka]

Abercrombie has always seemed to me, to be either:

a) Just bursting to the brim with pop culture, and taste in fashion, with a side of fantasy reading.
or
b) Tigger wearing Abercrombie & Finch, bouncing while reading LOTR...

I don't know why, but i'm senseing a Tigger... Bouncy extroverted outside, but with an inside unknown to most of the general population.

~Ka

[Formendacil]

I am a dashingly handsome young man, with deep green eyes, tall (but not by Nurunar's standards), with a brilliant intelligence, charming wit, and money like a Rockefeller.

Oh! Wait!

This is the "How do you imagine other BDers?" thread, not the "How do you imagine yourself thread?"

Unfortunately, most people's images are tied to their avatars and/or names. Thus, Estelyn Telcontar is some strange amalgamation of ogre, elf, and princess. A nasty combination, let me assure you. Let's hope she doesn't change to a Dwarf avatar....

The Barrow-wight is a fun-loving, rule-breaking, chatter. He lives in a rather dimly-lit basement, and has a small circle of furry, but devoted friends. (Sorry, that avatar looks too cheerful...)

Fordim Hedgethistle is known to be Canadian, and is known to use good Queen's English. Unfortunately, he is displayed as an Indiana Jones dog, so we come up with a cur of American ancestry (therefore, probably a prairie boy), grew up in the country, inherited a fortune from a British uncle that sent him to Oxford, and is now living in the Toronto area, where he fits in about as well as an ork in Rivendell...

[TPotSS]

Wow, Feanor, that was a good description!

Feanor, you are like me only shorter hair, lighter skin, and better at drawing.

I picture The Barrow-Wight as my dad.

The Saucepan Man, for some reason, is Rumplestiltskin.

Encaitare is a hobbit dressed up gothic style.

Eomer is an unkempt cave man (as opposed to those well groomed cave men).

Gil-Galad is the little twerp that sits next to me in English.

[Thinlómien]

I laughed a lot to what you thought about me. Not very close. (Sorry, I know you probably were serious about that but still it makes me laugh.) Maybe I should change my avatar, because I don't look like it? (Well it's amazing how much avatars affect.) And yes, I'm planning a raccoon invasion!

[elronds_daughter]

Gil-Galad spends most of his day sitting in front of his computer playing Tetris whilst wearing a suit of armor.

The Only Real Estel goes about waving his sword at people and muttering something about his notion that the word "captain" should precede his name.