What do you "assign" to the Shire? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Rikae · 01-11-2007, 03:44 PM

I assign to the shire:

After seven hours on a plane, a far green country and a swift sunrise*. Tube stations that, though they look old and dilapidated, have touches like fancy columns or mosaics or such things, hostels that cost 10 pounds a night yet have rooms with high ceilings, huge windows and beautiful architecture you would only see in expensive hotels in the US, trains that come every two minutes, mist and fog and air so wet it's like a sauna, and everything damp and green, with richer, darker colors, blue-green grass, seeing Bellini and Titian paintings from two inches away, recordings reminding one to “mind the gap” and “caution, you are approaching the end of the conveyor”, decibel levels in public places roughly half the US equivalent, little shops with all sorts of fresh produce in baskets in front of them, warm, friendly well-read people with melodic accents, tropical looking plants growing outdoors in people's gardens and black and white tiled paths to the door, tiny little electric cars, signs that tell you “look right” and “look left” when you cross the road, the feeling of being in Middle earth, in a Dickens story, in a place where human beings have lived since prehistory – a place that is old and full of memory.

*Without being dead/unable to return!

Oddwen · 01-14-2007, 09:25 AM

I assign things that help you reconnect with someone close. My brother and I used to do everything together, but as we've grown up we've grown apart a bit. We hardly speak the same language anymore.

Thank you, Trogdor, for changing all that.

the guy who be short · 01-15-2007, 02:28 PM

I assign Lhuna. Thank you for warning me, months ago, of the horror of vectors.

Elmo · 01-28-2007, 05:05 PM

3 points to Aberdeen on a Saturday

shieldmaiden4xsword · 01-28-2007, 05:33 PM

teasing my youth pastor, being teased by him, and laughing together about stuff.

Roa_Aoife · 02-06-2007, 01:14 PM

I assign having a student who has had a very hard time adapting to pre-school, the other children, and especially these strange adults called teachers, run up and give you a hug and a kiss before she goes home.

Also, the cheers from the entire building when you turn the lights back on after nap-time. It makes me feel like a superhero.

ninja91 · 02-06-2007, 05:57 PM

I assign when a great idea hits you dead on, and it works great with everything you have already written.

01-14-2007, 09:25 AM	#2
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,145	I assign things that help you reconnect with someone close. My brother and I used to do everything together, but as we've grown up we've grown apart a bit. We hardly speak the same language anymore. Thank you, Trogdor, for changing all that. __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

01-28-2007, 05:05 PM	#4
Elmo Pittodrie Poltergeist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: trying to find that warm and winding lane again Posts: 633	3 points to Aberdeen on a Saturday __________________ As Beren looked into her eyes within the shadows of her hair, The trembling starlight of the skies he saw there mirrored shimmering.

01-28-2007, 05:33 PM	#5
shieldmaiden4xsword Wight Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: where people stick out their tongues at their youth pastor.... Posts: 183	teasing my youth pastor, being teased by him, and laughing together about stuff. __________________ Sometimes the peril is not in what is around us, what enemies or trials that may come, but what is in our own hearts.

02-06-2007, 01:14 PM	#6
Roa_Aoife Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Someday, I'll rule all of it. Posts: 1,696	I assign having a student who has had a very hard time adapting to pre-school, the other children, and especially these strange adults called teachers, run up and give you a hug and a kiss before she goes home. Also, the cheers from the entire building when you turn the lights back on after nap-time. It makes me feel like a superhero. __________________ We can't all be Roas* when it comes to analysing...* -Lommy I didn't say you're evil, Roa, I said you're exasperating. -Nerwen

01-11-2007, 03:44 PM	#1
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	I assign to the shire: After seven hours on a plane, a far green country and a swift sunrise. Tube stations that, though they look old and dilapidated, have touches like fancy columns or mosaics or such things, hostels that cost 10 pounds a night yet have rooms with high ceilings, huge windows and beautiful architecture you would only see in expensive hotels in the US, trains that come every two minutes, mist and fog and air so wet it's like a sauna, and everything damp and green, with richer, darker colors, blue-green grass, seeing Bellini and Titian paintings from two inches away, recordings reminding one to “mind the gap” and “caution, you are approaching the end of the conveyor”, decibel levels in public places roughly half the US equivalent, little shops with all sorts of fresh produce in baskets in front of them, warm, friendly well-read people with melodic accents, tropical looking plants growing outdoors in people's gardens and black and white tiled paths to the door, tiny little electric cars, signs that tell you “look right” and “look left” when you cross the road, the feeling of being in Middle earth, in a Dickens story, in a place where human beings have lived since prehistory – a place that is old and full of memory. Without being dead/unable to return!

01-15-2007, 02:28 PM	#3
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	I assign Lhuna. Thank you for warning me, months ago, of the horror of vectors.