How do you imagine other BDers

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

There used to be a separate Photo Page that is still linked at the top of the forum, but it seems to be out of action.
This thread gives some faces behind the avvies, though.

Here is another good thread for member photos.

Talk about a blast from the past. The original photo-page is full of such memories--back before Facebook, when anonymity was actually normal on the Internet, those were (for most of us) our first real pictures of other Downers--and goodness are some of us young back then!

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Tar-Jêx

Just so you know, I look almost identical to my avatar, but with a regal composure and menacing eyes.

Hot.

I'm glad to see this thread was upped! I've been meaning to go back to it myself to share some thoughts about newer downers but will have to save it till later - or, well, earlier is the right word here.

Is it just me, or doesn't the photo page work?

There's also a Barrow-Downs facebook group for those who are on facebook!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

Talk about a blast from the past. The original photo-page is full of such memories--back before Facebook, when anonymity was actually normal on the Internet, those were (for most of us) our first real pictures of other Downers--and goodness are some of us young back then!

Yes, I recall how exciting it was when the photo-page got updated with new photos... I also recall that I was quite exited about peoples reactions to my own photo.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Tar-Jêx

This is very interesting when it comes to people like Galadriel.

Oh, I am blooming and prospering in real life too. Why, I practically glow.

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

Yes, I recall how exciting it was when the photo-page got updated with new photos... I also recall that I was quite exited about peoples reactions to my own photo.

Haha, I'm too fresh a corpse to have seen those days. Nah, I was terribly excited when I discovered the photo page, and just as disappointed when I found out it's at least several years old. But the I met a BD-er thread has some regular updates on the looks of some people.

[Aganzir]

After we discovered the photo page doesn't work, Volo and I spent a good hour trying to fix it (digging Volo's account details up from the mathom house that's the internet, that is) and found all the old photos still safely tucked away in his hard drive. And man, are they cute! I'll make him do something about the page as long as we're still housemates.

Anyway - now that I found my way here I might as well share some impressions.

I first thought Tar-Jêx was an American or German man in his mid-30s who was really into Númenor and enacted naval battles with miniatures. Now I know most of that is not true but I still think he likes Númenor and wargaming. Also he drinks hot chocolate in the evenings. His hair is light brown and long.

Coppermirror is 19 and American and has reddish blond hair and glasses. She's too clever for school so she spends her classes making crossword puzzles at the back of the room. She rides a bike and likes to read letters by famous authors.

Zigûr has dreadlocks and lots of tattoos and he rides a motorcycle. He's 30-40 and works in IT. He likes to drink beer and watch the sunset in beach boulevard pubs while rereading Sauron Defeated over and over.

Galin is a lumberjack. He's secretly building his own personal Barad-dûr in his backyard.

IxnaY AintsaY is a tall cold woman who wears her long black hair plaited. She lives in a tower somewhere north.

[Zigûr]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Zigûr has dreadlocks and lots of tattoos and he rides a motorcycle. He's 30-40 and works in IT. He likes to drink beer and watch the sunset in beach boulevard pubs while rereading Sauron Defeated over and over.

Amusingly, and at the risk of giving too much away about myself (although I'm part of the Facebook group so I can be seen there already):
I keep my hair short
I don't have tattoos (and don't particularly like them)
I don't drive (and consider motorcycles to be very dangerous)
I'm in my mid-twenties
I'm an English academic-in-training
I prefer red wine to beer, although I do like a good German Beer
I haven't actually read all of Sauron Defeated (although admittedly I have read all of the Notion Club Papers and Drowning of Anadûnë material because of it's relation to Sauron - it was the draft of The Lord of the Rings part that I didn't get through, having read the previous three volumes, because of the enormity of the Shelob's Lair draft chapter)

Funny how what we say gives a very different impression of ourselves.

[IxnaY AintsaY]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

IxnaY AintsaY is a tall cold woman who wears her long black hair plaited. She lives in a tower somewhere north.

I do, in fact, "live...somewhere". I'd love to know what gave me away. :P

(And I wonder what it says about me that I got a little thrill in seeing my screen-name in this thread? Nothing good, I'd guess. )