First ever posts!

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Memory lane indeed! I think my first ever post was this one: my personal fellowship of movie goers on a thread called 'Anyone else have a sister as stupid as this?'. I must confess, it's a thread over which my moderator's hand of doom has hovered a number of times, but I save it "for historical interest"!

BTW, finding that thread was a real archaeological feat - I did resort to Saucy's trick with the individual forum searches. It's easier to locate the threads I've started; not even I have managed to create over 500 new ones, and the first one I started is rather appropriately entitled 'the first time'.

[Oddwen]

...and again, wow. I don't think this is my first post ever, but it's from my first day as a 'Downer.

I don't even know what I'm talking about.

Also, here is my first introductory-type post.

[alatar]

Nice idea, The Sixth Wizard, as now that you mention it, I too am interested in some of the heavy-hitters' first posts. Were they always thus, or did they too grow in their manner of posting?

My first post, read here, was nothing groundbreaking. In retrospect, and to rewrite history a little, alatar's first post was that newbie's attempt to sneak in where he'd never ventured before, namely an internet forum. It would take a few posts for him to unleash his real venom - and show his real reason for joining - which was to carp about Peter Jackson's mishandling of Gandalf in RotK:EE. Luckily for all, said carpiness and sniveling was an attitude reserved only for that one scene from that one movie, and so never appeared in any of the milk and honey posts about all other topics.

Odd, looking back at the first few posts...clearly that's not me. Did I actually write like that, and think that way? Must have been the other me... And I do remember, or at least think that I remember, or saw a really good TV show with the same information that I've subconsciously included into my life in lieu of more mundane events, that I was a bit disconcerted that no one "answered" my first few. I felt like I was invisible and talking to myself, which is at least one thing that's consistent over these years as, while I type, I'm having this conversation in my head.

But then I got answered, and I was like, "Oh my gosh!" I went from invisible to scorned. Ouch. Luckily, with advice (received and inferred) I learned to love this Big Barrow.

I could describe what it felt like when I took my first hit of rep, and when I first got repdrunk, but think that that's a thread asking to be closed.

[The Sixth Wizard]

If you are laughing at my apparent noobiness ( ) remember I was only thirteen when that was posted, I had not read LOTR for a year and didn't know anything about the Silmarillion. AND it was my first time on an internet forum. I then proceeded to get the Sil and take a bit of time off to get out of the whole Runescape-talk rut.

But STILL... Jeez...

[Kath]

I can't even remember where I first posted. It was somewhere in the Quiz forum I believe. I didn't actually find the Introduce Yourself thread until nearly two months after I joined and when I did post on there it was just to welcome a friend!

I strongly suspect that my first post probably consisted of me asking for a letter in Palantir of Fortune ... not the most attention-getting of starts!

[Macalaure]

My first post was on Anguirel's Il Principe-thread (here 's my post). The first to greet me was also the first to rep me, which was very nice of that person.
I think the thread would also deserve a little revival. *hints*

I introduced myself some days later here (just a few posts before Sixth's introduction).

My first thread was at the same time also my first encounter with the whips of the knowledgable members.

[Rikae]

I take it the thread was deleted?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Rikae

I take it the thread was deleted?

Nope, Mac mistyped it - he wrote twice http there in the link. The thread is here. Quite interesting, I might add.