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KarlPeredhel · 09-25-2015, 01:31 PM

Hey, I several someones mentioned this forum at Oxonmoot, so here I am!
I first got into Tolkien with the LOTR films (I was 5 at the time) and since then seem to have "accidentally" read far too many books far too many times.

Galadriel55 · 09-25-2015, 01:34 PM

Hi Karl!

Welcome to the Downs! Reading far too many books far too many times is a noble pasttime.

Pervinca Took · 09-25-2015, 02:37 PM

Hi Karl, and welcome! I was at that room party, if that's where it was that you kept hearing about the Downs.

KarlPeredhel · 09-25-2015, 02:57 PM

The room party was just one of many occasions

Galadriel55 · 09-25-2015, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by KarlPeredhel

The room party was just one of many occasions

Can I just mention that I'm really proud of my fellow Downers?

(I wasn't at Oxonmoot, but I'm really happy that the Downs had a strong enough representation to draw your attention!)

narfforc · 09-25-2015, 03:39 PM

I wasn't at the room party, or you would surely have remembered, however welcome home.

Aganzir · 09-25-2015, 03:55 PM

Hurrah glad you joined! I was probably the most vocal about the Downs at Oxonmoot so good to see it wasn't for nothing.

Hope you'll enjoy your stay!

Pervinca Took · 09-25-2015, 04:23 PM

I've been attending Oxonmoots for some years now, and I think 2007 was the first one at which we were graced with shades from the Downs. I considered this visitation (and the subsequent ones - every year since, I think - were some of you at Christ Church?) such an excellent and happy phenomenon that I eventually became undead myself.

Estelyn Telcontar · 09-26-2015, 02:31 AM

The first time I met Downers at a Tolkien Society event was at the big conference in 2005 in Birmingham ("The Ring Goes Ever On"). Incidentally, it took that trip across the water for me to actually meet members of the German Tolkien Society as well and to subsequently join it. Since then I've attended Oxonmoot a number of times, including the one in Christ Church.

At the moment circumstances are such that I can do very little travelling, alas, but in keeping with my nick I do hold on to hope that there will be opportunity for many meetings in the future! (I already have some fabrics for costumes that need to be made and shown...

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09-25-2015, 01:31 PM	#1
KarlPeredhel Newly Deceased Join Date: Sep 2015 Posts: 5	Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Hey, I several someones mentioned this forum at Oxonmoot, so here I am! I first got into Tolkien with the LOTR films (I was 5 at the time) and since then seem to have "accidentally" read far too many books far too many times.

09-25-2015, 01:34 PM	#2
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,495	Hi Karl! Welcome to the Downs! Reading far too many books far too many times is a noble pasttime. __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

09-25-2015, 02:37 PM	#3
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Hi Karl, and welcome! I was at that room party, if that's where it was that you kept hearing about the Downs. __________________ "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."

09-25-2015, 03:39 PM	#6
narfforc Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Muddy-earth Posts: 1,297	I wasn't at the room party, or you would surely have remembered, however welcome home. __________________ [B]THE LORD OF THE GRINS:THE ONE PARODY....A PARODY BETTER THAN THE RINGS OF POWER.

09-25-2015, 03:55 PM	#7
Aganzir Woman of Secret Shadow Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells Posts: 4,511	Hurrah glad you joined! I was probably the most vocal about the Downs at Oxonmoot so good to see it wasn't for nothing. Hope you'll enjoy your stay! __________________ He bit me, and I was not gentle.

09-25-2015, 02:57 PM	#4
KarlPeredhel Newly Deceased Join Date: Sep 2015 Posts: 5	The room party was just one of many occasions

09-25-2015, 04:23 PM	#8
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	I've been attending Oxonmoots for some years now, and I think 2007 was the first one at which we were graced with shades from the Downs. I considered this visitation (and the subsequent ones - every year since, I think - were some of you at Christ Church?) such an excellent and happy phenomenon that I eventually became undead myself. __________________ "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."

09-26-2015, 02:31 AM	#9
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	The first time I met Downers at a Tolkien Society event was at the big conference in 2005 in Birmingham ("The Ring Goes Ever On"). Incidentally, it took that trip across the water for me to actually meet members of the German Tolkien Society as well and to subsequently join it. Since then I've attended Oxonmoot a number of times, including the one in Christ Church. At the moment circumstances are such that I can do very little travelling, alas, but in keeping with my nick I do hold on to hope that there will be opportunity for many meetings in the future! (I already have some fabrics for costumes that need to be made and shown... ) __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'