How Did Your Downs Name Come About?

[Glirdan]

Ahh, this one again.

Well, it was simple for me, but I'll go into greater detail and then you will all know the full reasoning for my joining the Down's. To say it in short form though, all I have to say is blame it on Wilwa of the numbers!!

Anyway, abou a year or so ago, Wilwa came to school reading the Silmarillion and we just got into talking about LotR. I mean, I saw all three movies and I read the trilogy as well as The Hobbit and I loved. Anyway, so there we are, sitting in our cafeteria during a scheduled spare talking about LotR and she comes out and says "I found this really cool website that you have to check out!" So, me being the curious person that I am, questioned her and that night, I got on the computer and came and checked out the site. I read a few threads, all in the books section and I felt very intimidated. I mean, come one, all of your writing is awsome and I was onlyy fourteen at the time. So, the next day, she asks me if I checked it out and I said yes and then she suggests that I join it. I thought about it for awhile but never actually got around to it. So, the next time we went to the library, she signed me up and found the direct translation to my real name and it turned out as Glirdan and I've gone by it ever since. But now I rather like it when everyone calls me Glirdy. But I can live with either.