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

Lhunardawen · 09-10-2007, 05:35 AM

Night strolls.

Mithalwen · 09-10-2007, 06:28 AM

Watching really good Rugby when the ball is run with not just kicked ... it is just such a great game when played properly.

Lalwendë · 09-12-2007, 02:43 PM

I assign whoever decided to sell things like rugs with Dragons on them in IKEA. This is A Very Good Thing.

And it even more deserves to go to The Shire because a visit to IKEA is in itself like Frodo's journey...the warehouse section where you try to find the Groett and Tatt parts that you need is Mordor; the towering, bleak shelves which do not contain your needed new chair parts are Mount Doom; and the Cracks of Doom are the greedy checkouts ready to swallow up golden credit cards...here you battle not with Gollum but with the packaging of your heavy Groett and Tatt because the barcode is helpfully (inevitably) on the bottom of a box of super-heavy MDF (which tears as you manhandle it over to find the sinister barcode, thus losing the all-important allen key in the process).

The Field of Cormallen is the hotdog stand on the other side. Bliss. Though you have the Scouring of the Shire to get through with the ridiculous loading bay due to the 'no troilleys in the car park' policy, something that could easily have been dreamt up by Saruman.

Kath · 09-19-2007, 10:08 AM

This afternoon. It was ridiculously fun.

We had Freshers Fayre and had a cheerleading stall going to try and get people to join which went well, we even got some guys signing up.

Then we did our demonstration which went almost perfectly (and I didn't fall off so that was good) and the American Football lot were cheering us on.

After that the rugby guys came over and started lifting us up their way, so we taught them how to do it our way and they agreed to come stunt with us on Tuesday. It may go slightly better then as they won't be quite so drunk!

But the best part of all was that in the midst of a rainy, dull, cold day the sun came out for the fifteen minutes that we were outside.

Mithalwen · 09-27-2007, 11:44 AM

Getting a journal entry on one of your "Bookcrossing" releases after nearly 3 years. Amazing - it has travelled a hundred miles or so....

Submitting your tax return in time for the IR to do the calculation and 3 months (not hte usual 3 days before the deadline)

littlemanpoet · 10-24-2007, 08:46 PM

Going for a long weekend color tour and hitting the colors just at their peak; finding a nice, not too pricey motel; happening upon a curving road we never had been down before, surrounded by maples, oaks, and other trees in full fire of fall color, and it goes on for miles.

Oddwen · 10-25-2007, 10:10 AM

Visits from relatives - almost all my family's back in the homestate, and it's so nice to see them again.

Macalaure · 10-29-2007, 03:31 PM

I assign the end of the daylight saving time. Finally, after half a year, all my clocks are right again.

Folwren · 10-30-2007, 07:32 PM

Daylight savings doesn't end until next Sunday, though, I thought?

I hope I'm right...

Brinniel · 10-30-2007, 08:32 PM

Folwren- Daylight savings time ends at different weeks in other countries. So you're right...we don't change our clocks in the US until the 4th of November.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 10-30-2007, 09:42 PM

I assign this wonderful place with all of you very nice people, and going down to my nice quiet room with absolutely no brothers wanting to listen and scratch up your RotK or FotR soundtrack, reading a nice book. Or eating Pierogies eating veggie sausage links and drinking Henry Weinhard's root beer, and watching those PJ LotR movies and yelling at the tv screen for bad or worse.

And playing outside on a warm sunny summer or autumn day, and whacking the boys across the street with my awesome stick...(just wait 'till I can get myself a "Sting"). Or laying on the bright green grass in my front yard in the lazy days of summer break feeling the sun on my face!

Macalaure · 10-31-2007, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Folwren

Daylight savings doesn't end until next Sunday, though, I thought?

I hope I'm right...

Yep, as Brinniel said, it ends at different dates in different places. It really should be unified internationally. I can tell you from recent personal experience how confusing it can get.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 10-31-2007, 06:43 AM

I'd like to assign a small Peruvian boy who will never know I exist for selling one of my teachers a bag of [knit?] finger puppets an indeterminate number of years ago.

littlemanpoet · 11-03-2007, 10:07 AM

I assign staying up late and getting up late the next morning because there's nothing you need to get up for. Very rare these days. *sigh*

Feanor of the Peredhil · 11-03-2007, 02:46 PM

Days that are perfect for coats and hats and scarves but don't require gloves, with sunlight and leaves on sidewalks and wind that is cold but doesn't insist you be that way too.

Hot soup for lunch in small establishments with live music. Good company. Good tea.

Pumpkin pie!

Autumn makes me happiest of all the seasons.

Thinlómien · 11-03-2007, 02:48 PM

I assign reading a good book that is not fantasy.

I always seem to read either fantasy books or not-so-good non-fantasy books. Small wonder I read mostly fantasy.

Kath · 11-03-2007, 04:45 PM

Spending the evening with family members you don't see that often, and having a surprisingly good time considering you know a grand total of 3 people in a crowd of about 20.

Good food!

Mithalwen · 11-05-2007, 12:55 PM

Coming home - I love travelling but Dorothy was right....

Brinniel · 11-07-2007, 11:40 PM

I assign doing something for once on a whim.

I went to the box office to buy tickets for Wicked for Sunday's showing only to find out they were all sold out. I was ready to go home when I ran into a friend and he invited me to sign up for the lottery for tonight's show. And what do you know, I won! So I got two seats for a $20 discount. The last thing I expected to do tonight (a school night) was see a Broadway show...but I did and I had a blast!

09-10-2007, 06:28 AM	#2
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Watching really good Rugby when the ball is run with not just kicked ... it is just such a great game when played properly. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

09-12-2007, 02:43 PM	#3
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	I assign whoever decided to sell things like rugs with Dragons on them in IKEA. This is A Very Good Thing. And it even more deserves to go to The Shire because a visit to IKEA is in itself like Frodo's journey...the warehouse section where you try to find the Groett and Tatt parts that you need is Mordor; the towering, bleak shelves which do not contain your needed new chair parts are Mount Doom; and the Cracks of Doom are the greedy checkouts ready to swallow up golden credit cards...here you battle not with Gollum but with the packaging of your heavy Groett and Tatt because the barcode is helpfully (inevitably) on the bottom of a box of super-heavy MDF (which tears as you manhandle it over to find the sinister barcode, thus losing the all-important allen key in the process). The Field of Cormallen is the hotdog stand on the other side. Bliss. Though you have the Scouring of the Shire to get through with the ridiculous loading bay due to the 'no troilleys in the car park' policy, something that could easily have been dreamt up by Saruman. __________________ Gordon's alive!

09-19-2007, 10:08 AM	#4
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	This afternoon. It was ridiculously fun. We had Freshers Fayre and had a cheerleading stall going to try and get people to join which went well, we even got some guys signing up. Then we did our demonstration which went almost perfectly (and I didn't fall off so that was good) and the American Football lot were cheering us on. After that the rugby guys came over and started lifting us up their way, so we taught them how to do it our way and they agreed to come stunt with us on Tuesday. It may go slightly better then as they won't be quite so drunk! But the best part of all was that in the midst of a rainy, dull, cold day the sun came out for the fifteen minutes that we were outside. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

09-27-2007, 11:44 AM	#5
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Getting a journal entry on one of your "Bookcrossing" releases after nearly 3 years. Amazing - it has travelled a hundred miles or so.... Submitting your tax return in time for the IR to do the calculation and 3 months (not hte usual 3 days before the deadline) __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

10-25-2007, 10:10 AM	#7
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,145	Visits from relatives - almost all my family's back in the homestate, and it's so nice to see them again. __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

09-10-2007, 05:35 AM	#1
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	Night strolls.

10-24-2007, 08:46 PM	#6
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Going for a long weekend color tour and hitting the colors just at their peak; finding a nice, not too pricey motel; happening upon a curving road we never had been down before, surrounded by maples, oaks, and other trees in full fire of fall color, and it goes on for miles.

10-29-2007, 03:31 PM	#8
Macalaure Fading Fëanorion Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: into the flood again Posts: 2,911	I assign the end of the daylight saving time. Finally, after half a year, all my clocks are right again.

10-30-2007, 07:32 PM	#9
Folwren Messenger of Hope Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a tiny, insignificant little town in one of the many States. Posts: 5,076	Daylight savings doesn't end until next Sunday, though, I thought? I hope I'm right... __________________ A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. - C.S. Lewis

10-30-2007, 08:32 PM	#10
Brinniel Reflection of Darkness Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull. Posts: 2,983	Folwren- Daylight savings time ends at different weeks in other countries. So you're right...we don't change our clocks in the US until the 4th of November. __________________ Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

10-30-2007, 09:42 PM	#11
TheGreatElvenWarrior Mighty Quill Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walking off to look for America Posts: 2,230	I assign this wonderful place with all of you very nice people, and going down to my nice quiet room with absolutely no brothers wanting to listen and scratch up your RotK or FotR soundtrack, reading a nice book. Or eating Pierogies eating veggie sausage links and drinking Henry Weinhard's root beer, and watching those PJ LotR movies and yelling at the tv screen for bad or worse. And playing outside on a warm sunny summer or autumn day, and whacking the boys across the street with my awesome stick...(just wait 'till I can get myself a "Sting"). Or laying on the bright green grass in my front yard in the lazy days of summer break feeling the sun on my face! __________________ The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.

10-31-2007, 06:43 AM	#13
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	I'd like to assign a small Peruvian boy who will never know I exist for selling one of my teachers a bag of [knit?] finger puppets an indeterminate number of years ago. __________________ peace

11-03-2007, 10:07 AM	#14
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I assign staying up late and getting up late the next morning because there's nothing you need to get up for. Very rare these days. sigh

11-03-2007, 02:46 PM	#15
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	Days that are perfect for coats and hats and scarves but don't require gloves, with sunlight and leaves on sidewalks and wind that is cold but doesn't insist you be that way too. Hot soup for lunch in small establishments with live music. Good company. Good tea. Pumpkin pie! Autumn makes me happiest of all the seasons. __________________ peace

11-03-2007, 02:48 PM	#16
Thinlómien Shady She-Penguin Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a far land beyond the Sea Posts: 8,093	I assign reading a good book that is not fantasy. I always seem to read either fantasy books or not-so-good non-fantasy books. Small wonder I read mostly fantasy. __________________ Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris

11-03-2007, 04:45 PM	#17
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Spending the evening with family members you don't see that often, and having a surprisingly good time considering you know a grand total of 3 people in a crowd of about 20. Good food! __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

11-05-2007, 12:55 PM	#18
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Coming home - I love travelling but Dorothy was right.... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

11-07-2007, 11:40 PM	#19
Brinniel Reflection of Darkness Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull. Posts: 2,983	I assign doing something for once on a whim. I went to the box office to buy tickets for Wicked for Sunday's showing only to find out they were all sold out. I was ready to go home when I ran into a friend and he invited me to sign up for the lottery for tonight's show. And what do you know, I won! So I got two seats for a $20 discount. The last thing I expected to do tonight (a school night) was see a Broadway show...but I did and I had a blast! __________________ Nolite te bastardes carborundorum