Tolkien Events 2013 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mithalwen · 09-21-2013, 07:45 AM

I know Pervinca and PI have met up and Bethberry I know that PI' costume is due feture something you might recognise.

Bêthberry · 09-21-2013, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I know Pervinca and PI have met up and Bethberry I know that PI' costume is due feture something you might recognise.

Yes, I have been waiting an entire year for the rest of the (Tolkien) (Downer) world to know what you and I have known. It sounds absolutely splendid and I'm quite disappointed that I didn't come up with the idea.

And wonderful that PI has met up with Pervinca. I had no idea Pervinca was attending. Still a good number of Downers representing us.

Mithalwen · 09-21-2013, 08:32 AM

Oh inhope she doesn't mind me saying. But she is running her Password clue via text message... so already public domain.

Pervinca Took · 09-22-2013, 03:51 PM

Got home about half an hour ago!

What an absolute joy to meet Aganzir and Kath and have a good discussion with The Squatter Of Amon Rudh (sp?) (my last conversation with a group including the Squatter was on a roof about six years ago). The conversation of last night/this morning was also shared by Faramir Jones, whom I already knew before he became a Downer.

Poison Ivy and I had a brief conversation a few years ago which would have been longer, but she had promised to meet someone. We had a really good conversation this time - in fact more than one.

Have been attending Oxonmoots for quite some time now, so met quite a few Downers before I knew they were Downers.

Hookbill the Goomba · 09-23-2013, 04:19 PM

Oxonmoot was a much more relaxed affair than in past years. There still manged to be clashes of things we wanted to see, but it was still great and we all had a lot of fun.
I didn't think it was possible, but my Saruman of many colours costume was upstaged by Aganzir and Kath as Fili and Mr Dwalin! Next year I will wear EVEN MORE COLOURS!!

Squatter was mad as a hatter as usual. His hilarious impractical car nearly got crushed by a pair of gates, but at least he didn't think cheese was a viable currency, so I think he ended up ahead.
Pervinca Took was very friendly and to my shame I did not realise who she was until it was too late! If I knew that I knew you I would probably have been more talkative!
Poison Ivy is as enthusiastic and creative as ever! I will never look at otters the same way again!

Bungo · 09-26-2013, 04:34 PM

Hello to all those that I met at Oxonmoot this year, after hearing about the Barrow downs at Oxonmoot I just registered to give it a go.

(for those who met me, I was the father of young Arwen. I suppose I should have registered as Elrond - but instead I chose Bilbo's dad's name!)

Aganzir · 09-27-2013, 04:42 AM

Yay welcome! I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to play a final table football match with Arwen on Sunday, and the other team never got permanent proof of just how much better we are.

Well maybe next year!

Enjoy your stay on the forum.

Pervinca Took · 09-27-2013, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Pervinca Took was very friendly and to my shame I did not realise who she was until it was too late! If I knew that I knew you I would probably have been more talkative!!

Hookbill, we've never really talked on here, because I only registered in 2009 and I got quite "talked out" on Tolkien in the early noughties, on a different board which was never the same after it crashed and lost all its old threads. Also I began to feel out of place on boards that seemed to become very pro-film (even though I like aspects of the films and was tremendously enthusiastic in the "looking forward" stage that preceded them). And I'd joined the Tolkien Society about a year before having any Tolkien activity online, and had always felt very comfortable there.

I think I became properly aware of the Barrow-Downs when Downers started coming to Oxonmoot. (I remember quite a lot of their masquerade costumes, too!) And eventually I decided I'd like to try a bit of online Tolkien discussion again. I've posted elsewhere, but I find the BD to be the best place around. My addiction to cryptic clues (especially lots of them in a "Password" arrangement) may have something to do with this, but I also very much enjoy the literary discussion here.

Bungo, did you and your daughter go to the Slide Show? (The lighthearted slide-show of Tolkien art, with audience participation, in the wooden-panelled room with the tapestries). If that was you, I certainly remember talking with you, and your daughter playing with my friends' children (I was sitting next to them).

Bungo · 09-27-2013, 10:06 AM

Hi Pervinca

yes, that was us - we did go to the slide-show. We also went to the auction in the morning and managed to buy a bunch of Tolkien calendars. Then when we returned home we found many of the slides in the slides show already in our set of calendars - which was nice!

best wishes

Bungo and Arwen

09-21-2013, 07:45 AM	#1
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	I know Pervinca and PI have met up and Bethberry I know that PI' costume is due feture something you might recognise. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

09-21-2013, 08:32 AM	#3
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Oh inhope she doesn't mind me saying. But she is running her Password clue via text message... so already public domain. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

09-22-2013, 03:51 PM	#4
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Got home about half an hour ago! What an absolute joy to meet Aganzir and Kath and have a good discussion with The Squatter Of Amon Rudh (sp?) (my last conversation with a group including the Squatter was on a roof about six years ago). The conversation of last night/this morning was also shared by Faramir Jones, whom I already knew before he became a Downer. Poison Ivy and I had a brief conversation a few years ago which would have been longer, but she had promised to meet someone. We had a really good conversation this time - in fact more than one. Have been attending Oxonmoots for quite some time now, so met quite a few Downers before I knew they were Downers. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 09-24-2013 at 04:29 PM.

09-23-2013, 04:19 PM	#5
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Oxonmoot was a much more relaxed affair than in past years. There still manged to be clashes of things we wanted to see, but it was still great and we all had a lot of fun. I didn't think it was possible, but my Saruman of many colours costume was upstaged by Aganzir and Kath as Fili and Mr Dwalin! Next year I will wear EVEN MORE COLOURS!! Squatter was mad as a hatter as usual. His hilarious impractical car nearly got crushed by a pair of gates, but at least he didn't think cheese was a viable currency, so I think he ended up ahead. Pervinca Took was very friendly and to my shame I did not realise who she was until it was too late! If I knew that I knew you I would probably have been more talkative! Poison Ivy is as enthusiastic and creative as ever! I will never look at otters the same way again! __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

09-27-2013, 04:42 AM	#7
Aganzir Woman of Secret Shadow Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells Posts: 4,511	Yay welcome! I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to play a final table football match with Arwen on Sunday, and the other team never got permanent proof of just how much better we are. Well maybe next year! Enjoy your stay on the forum. __________________ He bit me, and I was not gentle.

09-26-2013, 04:34 PM	#6
Bungo Newly Deceased Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Worcestershire Posts: 7	Hello to all those that I met at Oxonmoot this year, after hearing about the Barrow downs at Oxonmoot I just registered to give it a go. (for those who met me, I was the father of young Arwen. I suppose I should have registered as Elrond - but instead I chose Bilbo's dad's name!)

09-27-2013, 10:06 AM	#9
Bungo Newly Deceased Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Worcestershire Posts: 7	Hi Pervinca yes, that was us - we did go to the slide-show. We also went to the auction in the morning and managed to buy a bunch of Tolkien calendars. Then when we returned home we found many of the slides in the slides show already in our set of calendars - which was nice! best wishes Bungo and Arwen