Barrow-Downs hiatus - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

TealDude4 · 10-20-2003, 06:30 PM

You see, my Internet connection has been gone since July. I haven't been able to discuss the greatness that is LOTR since then. It has driven me CRAZY! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]
I'm not talking just a little crazy. I mean 'screaming-smashing-ax through the wall-HERE'S JOHNNNEYYYYYY!!!' crazy. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

So, I figure for a Downer, being away from the Barrow-Downs is somewhat of a endurance test. So, what is the longest you've ever been away from the Barrow Downs? And what were some of the things that you did to keep sane (or partialy sane)?

Mine is 103 days to be exact (I counted the days. Sad, huh?). I read LOTR for the second time though it all. Beat THAT!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Oh, yaeh. I'M SOOOOOO HAPPY TO BE BACK AT THE BARROW DOWNS!!!!

InklingElf · 10-21-2003, 05:49 PM

Gahhh...5 MONTHS -- and I read the canons and the Silm [<---Silmarillion being my hundreth time!]HAHAHAHAHAHA -- I'm over my head sorry...

Ahhh sweet ignorance that has plagued me of madness...

Eruwen · 10-21-2003, 07:00 PM

Less than a month for I find this site very addictive at times. During that time, I watched LOTR as much as I could, drew pictures of the characters in my sketchbook, and just tried to not think of how much I was missing while being offline.

Knight of Gondor · 10-21-2003, 08:00 PM

I was gone for a full 8 months, as some of you might possibly remember. And it was RIGHT before The Two Towers released no less! It was terrible. But I got back on, now, and that's what counts. [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

Ainaserkewen · 10-22-2003, 01:52 PM

I'd say about five or six weeks. I went to camp in the summer. 600 kids and ONE computer with Internet. I got on twice for email and just long enough to see the downs and check up. 3 minutes, however, is not nearly enough to digest this site. But I survived.

Arwen Eruantale · 10-22-2003, 06:03 PM

Sheesh. I was away for about three weeks once, just because I didn't have time to do much besides school. But I can't imagine how hard it would be for to much longer than that. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Eight months...?

Edit: Knight of Gondor, I really like your sig. That is my very favourite Faramir quote.

[ October 22, 2003: Message edited by: Arwen Eruantale ]

Elennar Starfire · 10-22-2003, 06:12 PM

I was grounded from the computer for about a month a while ago. I sneaked on from the library whenever I could.

How did I keep my sanity? The 'downs is what's driving it away, but this is a good thing. Someday it will all be gone, and I'm not trying to keep it.

THE Ka · 10-22-2003, 08:09 PM

The longest the Ka has been deprived of the joy and light of this wonderful site has been 5 months. Why so long you may ask? well, first of all i moved as most spirits should do, and that i had to speed a month trying to find an internet provider that didn't dig to deep in my pockets. ( internet providers are like Gollums to Bilbo remember" what's in your pocketsssss...")
[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

what i did was read the last two chapters out of the FOTR and most but not all of the second book. And i saw the first movie. The favorite parts of the books for the Ka are the last two chapters of the FOTR and the chapter the counsil of elrond, and finally threeb is company. so you can see i was content. how about you?

"Samhains almost here!"
- The KA

The Elusive Spirit · 10-23-2003, 02:41 PM

I've been off for about a month now. It's good to get back. I have so much work to to it's insane. I have been reading FOTR to my little bro. The only thing is I get yelled at for about a week every time I come on here. My mom think I spend too much time on LOTR in general. It's tough but I should be able to make it.

Neferchoirwen · 11-03-2003, 02:12 AM

I came back just a few days ago...and I've been gone almost 3 months.

Been reading the trilogy in preparation for movie three (giving myself till next week to finish, and I'm hardly done with A Knife In The Dark!

Nothing like a good challenge!

elfearz1 · 11-03-2003, 10:47 PM

a whole week *whew* I could barely take it.

Lindril Arvilya · 11-06-2003, 06:44 PM

Ainaserkewen, I feel your pain. Add up nine weeks at camp, one excrutiatingly slow computer with internet, one hour off a day, fifty counsellors and not enough time for us all, and you get no Lindril for two months.
I barely survived, getting through by having "spirited arguments" with my friends there. ... or, you know... "heated debates".... yeah.

I was always right.

Lindril (ain't that always the way?) Arvilya

Finwe · 11-06-2003, 06:52 PM

Ai Elbereth! Now I feel like an obsessed maniac! The longest I've been away from the Downs in the past few months is about three or four days. *sheepish grin* [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Lindril Arvilya · 11-07-2003, 10:41 PM

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Now I feel like an obsessed maniac!

Finwe, that would be because you are an obsessed maniac. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Horse-Maiden of the Shire · 11-08-2003, 02:16 PM

Two weeks at Air Cadet camp, and I couldn't get on the computers at all. I would be waiting, and then the counsellors would come in and yell at us for having too many people in the room. Bah. Plus in the beginning of May my computer died, and I didn't get it fixed until the beginning of June. Soo...one month at one time, and two weeks at another time.

Finwe · 11-08-2003, 02:48 PM

Well, Lindy, I presume that would explain it.

Ophelia · 11-09-2003, 12:40 PM

I haven`t been away for too long . Well if you mean all the BD`s (the forum and the chat) thenthe longest ? 2weeks . But if forum - this is my first post after a ve-e-e-errry long time . There are less and less topics to reply to these days [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

-OpheliA-

Knight of Gondor · 11-09-2003, 02:49 PM

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Knight of Gondor, I really like your sig. That is my very favourite Faramir quote.

I chose it to contrast the many outcries against the war these days. Not to turn political, but interesting how it applies to modern-day America, and her fights against terrorism! (And interesting, too, is it not, that Viggo Mortenson can get on the camera and say "Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not" then spear a few hundred Uruk-hai, then go out off-camera and be anti-war. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] )

10-20-2003, 06:30 PM	#1
TealDude4 Animated Skeleton Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Earth Posts: 42	Barrow-Downs hiatus You see, my Internet connection has been gone since July. I haven't been able to discuss the greatness that is LOTR since then. It has driven me CRAZY! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] I'm not talking just a little crazy. I mean 'screaming-smashing-ax through the wall-HERE'S JOHNNNEYYYYYY!!!' crazy. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] So, I figure for a Downer, being away from the Barrow-Downs is somewhat of a endurance test. So, what is the longest you've ever been away from the Barrow Downs? And what were some of the things that you did to keep sane (or partialy sane)? Mine is 103 days to be exact (I counted the days. Sad, huh?). I read LOTR for the second time though it all. Beat THAT!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Oh, yaeh. I'M SOOOOOO HAPPY TO BE BACK AT THE BARROW DOWNS!!!! __________________ "I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come, when the courage of men fail. And we forsake our friends, and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. This day, we fight!"

10-21-2003, 08:00 PM	#4
Knight of Gondor Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 744	I was gone for a full 8 months, as some of you might possibly remember. And it was RIGHT before The Two Towers released no less! It was terrible. But I got back on, now, and that's what counts. [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] __________________ Eagerly awaiting the REAL Return of the King - Jesus Christ! Revelation 19:11-16

10-22-2003, 01:52 PM	#5
Ainaserkewen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A cosmic waiting room Posts: 651	I'd say about five or six weeks. I went to camp in the summer. 600 kids and ONE computer with Internet. I got on twice for email and just long enough to see the downs and check up. 3 minutes, however, is not nearly enough to digest this site. But I survived. __________________ Solus... I'm eating chicken again. I ate chicken yesterday and the day before... will I be eating chicken again tomorrow? Why am I always eating chicken?

10-22-2003, 06:03 PM	#6
Arwen Eruantale Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: My Field of Paper Flowers Posts: 282	Sheesh. I was away for about three weeks once, just because I didn't have time to do much besides school. But I can't imagine how hard it would be for to much longer than that. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Eight months...? Edit: Knight of Gondor, I really like your sig. That is my very favourite Faramir quote. [ October 22, 2003: Message edited by: Arwen Eruantale ] __________________ And he became somewhat grim to look upon, unless he chanced to smile... Will you pay attention?

10-22-2003, 06:12 PM	#7
Elennar Starfire Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Nowhere...now here Posts: 952	I was grounded from the computer for about a month a while ago. I sneaked on from the library whenever I could. How did I keep my sanity? The 'downs is what's driving it away, but this is a good thing. Someday it will all be gone, and I'm not trying to keep it. __________________ Don't let me die!

10-21-2003, 05:49 PM	#2
InklingElf Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 402	Gahhh...5 MONTHS -- and I read the canons and the Silm [<---Silmarillion being my hundreth time!]HAHAHAHAHAHA -- I'm over my head sorry... Ahhh sweet ignorance that has plagued me of madness...

10-21-2003, 07:00 PM	#3
Eruwen Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 892	Less than a month for I find this site very addictive at times. During that time, I watched LOTR as much as I could, drew pictures of the characters in my sketchbook, and just tried to not think of how much I was missing while being offline.

10-22-2003, 08:09 PM	#8
THE Ka Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: As with the flygja Posts: 1,403	The longest the Ka has been deprived of the joy and light of this wonderful site has been 5 months. Why so long you may ask? well, first of all i moved as most spirits should do, and that i had to speed a month trying to find an internet provider that didn't dig to deep in my pockets. ( internet providers are like Gollums to Bilbo remember" what's in your pocketsssss...") [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] what i did was read the last two chapters out of the FOTR and most but not all of the second book. And i saw the first movie. The favorite parts of the books for the Ka are the last two chapters of the FOTR and the chapter the counsil of elrond, and finally threeb is company. so you can see i was content. how about you? "Samhains almost here!" - The KA __________________ Vinur, vinur skilur tú meg? Veitst tú ongan loyniveg? Hevur tú reikað líka sum eg, í endaleysu tokuni?

10-23-2003, 02:41 PM	#9
The Elusive Spirit Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The out-skirts of Bree, on my way to some where. Posts: 53	I've been off for about a month now. It's good to get back. I have so much work to to it's insane. I have been reading FOTR to my little bro. The only thing is I get yelled at for about a week every time I come on here. My mom think I spend too much time on LOTR in general. It's tough but I should be able to make it. __________________ Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood, And torrents dashed, and rivlets played, And fountains spouted in the shade. -Bryant

11-03-2003, 02:12 AM	#10
Neferchoirwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: RtR: 483.3 miles, Fords of Bruinen Posts: 512	I came back just a few days ago...and I've been gone almost 3 months. Been reading the trilogy in preparation for movie three (giving myself till next week to finish, and I'm hardly done with A Knife In The Dark! Nothing like a good challenge! __________________ On really romantic nights of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion. ~Speed Levitch http://crevicesofsilence.blogspot.com/

11-03-2003, 10:47 PM	#11
elfearz1 Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 259	a whole week whew I could barely take it. __________________ I didn't eat Merry, i just ate his waistcoat!-Horse maidens dream 915/920 miles. On my way to Lothlorien! ^^Elfearz^^

11-06-2003, 06:44 PM	#12
Lindril Arvilya Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In a box at the end of Harrison Ford's street, with a pair of binoculars Posts: 332	Ainaserkewen, I feel your pain. Add up nine weeks at camp, one excrutiatingly slow computer with internet, one hour off a day, fifty counsellors and not enough time for us all, and you get no Lindril for two months. I barely survived, getting through by having "spirited arguments" with my friends there. ... or, you know... "heated debates".... yeah. I was always right. Lindril (ain't that always the way?) Arvilya __________________ Neo, watch out! Trinity's going to steal your pants! Pants thief! Pants thief!

11-06-2003, 06:52 PM	#13
Finwe Deathless Sun Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos Posts: 2,609	Ai Elbereth! Now I feel like an obsessed maniac! The longest I've been away from the Downs in the past few months is about three or four days. sheepish grin [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.

11-08-2003, 02:16 PM	#15
Horse-Maiden of the Shire Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Chillaxin' with Glorfindel-441 miles on the RtR Posts: 1,197	Two weeks at Air Cadet camp, and I couldn't get on the computers at all. I would be waiting, and then the counsellors would come in and yell at us for having too many people in the room. Bah. Plus in the beginning of May my computer died, and I didn't get it fixed until the beginning of June. Soo...one month at one time, and two weeks at another time. __________________ "There's a big...machine in the sky...some kind of electric snake...coming straight at us." "Shoot it," said my attorney. "Not yet...I want to study its habits."

11-08-2003, 02:48 PM	#16
Finwe Deathless Sun Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos Posts: 2,609	Well, Lindy, I presume that would explain it. __________________ But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.

11-09-2003, 12:40 PM	#17
Ophelia Wight Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: somewhere between the sacred , silence and sweet . Posts: 169	I haven`t been away for too long . Well if you mean all the BD`s (the forum and the chat) thenthe longest ? 2weeks . But if forum - this is my first post after a ve-e-e-errry long time . There are less and less topics to reply to these days [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] -OpheliA- __________________ I didn't lose my mind . It was mine to give away .