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Gil-Galad · 07-24-2004, 03:47 PM

meh...i guess the dead make good fighters, don't disobey commands, don't run away from dragons and they don't stop fighting after a random body part falls off

Thorongil · 07-24-2004, 03:48 PM

Ok, Morgy, just a question: What's PPC?

There you have it Gil-Galad. Death isn't so bad after all is it?

Gil-Galad · 07-24-2004, 03:51 PM

yeah that last part comes in handy i guess... body projectiles!!!

Morgul Queen · 07-24-2004, 04:12 PM

The PPC. *settles down in chair for a long explaination* All of you who already know this, just pass this post by.

I suppose that you know of Fanfiction? *sees nods and continues* Well, there's such thing as Bad!Fic. Really Bad!Fic. Like Celebrian...*shudders*

Anyway, you know of the dreaded Mary-sue, right? The 'perfect' girl who comes into a story and makes all the canon characters fall in love with her.

Quote:

'Oh, Legolas,' Princess SugarPlumFairy of Random Flying Forest sighed. 'Willest thou lovest me forever?'

You know the type. They're horrible and will send canon characters out of character too.

Quote:

Legolas smiled bashfully. 'Foreverest my love. I willest lovest thou forever.'

Occassionally they use bad english like the bits above.

The PPC hunts them down, kills them and restores the plot. PPC stands for Protectors of the Plot Continuum. Several other departments deal with different offenses, bad geography, acts of violence, and my department deals with Silmarillion canon violations.

That's the PPC explained. If you want to find out more, go here: PPC Site

Thorongil · 07-24-2004, 07:18 PM

Seems like you're doing a most needed job. Keep up the good work!

Lady Gamgee · 07-25-2004, 07:15 PM

Hi. I'm new, just joined today. Like everyone here, I'm a huge LOTR fan ... SamWise being my fav. character. I've watched the movies & am in the process of reading the books. Started with "The Hobbit", and am now in the "Two Towers" book. Anyhow, just wanted to introduce myself & I look forward to hangin' around the boards & talking with y'all! Have a good one!

Gil-Galad · 07-25-2004, 07:31 PM

welcome to the downs...for a good look at being dead read my sig

ninlaith · 07-25-2004, 07:56 PM

Welcome to the Barrowdowns Lady Gamgee.

Everdawn · 07-26-2004, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lady Gamgee

Hi. I'm new, just joined today. Like everyone here, I'm a huge LOTR fan ... SamWise being my fav. character. I've watched the movies & am in the process of reading the books. Started with "The Hobbit", and am now in the "Two Towers" book. Anyhow, just wanted to introduce myself & I look forward to hangin' around the boards & talking with y'all! Have a good one!

Welcome, and have fun decomposing with the rest of us wayward souls!

Lady Gamgee · 07-27-2004, 11:38 AM

Thank you all for a warm welcome. I'm really enjoying it here so far

07-27-2004, 01:16 PM

hey i'm new and have been a fan of lotr since i was like 6. i'm thirteen now and really confused and yah. my fav is legolas and aragorn cause their pretty cool

Gil-Galad · 07-27-2004, 02:08 PM

Welcome Marien and Lady Gamgee...i'm sure you'll enjoy being dead, alot of bonuses to it! (look below in italics)

Bekah · 07-28-2004, 02:24 AM

Quote:

Bekah: Welcome back. I hope it hasn't been anything bad that's kept you away. If so, I'm very sorry, and if not, what have you been waiting for?

Oh, nothing terrible. I'm just really busy with school and everything else.

Morgy asked a question about PMs which is probably going to be asked again, so I'll answer it here.

Down at the bottom right-hand corner of the PM, there are two boxes: forward (which is bigger), and quote. Click on quote; if you don't want to keep the quote of the PM you're replying too, just delete it.

Does that make sense?

Anyway, a hugely warm welcome to everyone new.

Oh, and I'm going to try to get Alk to put up my pirate pic as well in the Downs Photo Gallery...

Congratulations, Morgy. PPCing is a noble career in the fanfiction world.

Lots of love to everybody,

~ Elentari II

Nuindacilien · 07-28-2004, 09:38 PM

Hello all! I'm new here. I have a question. How do you get the avatars to download? I tried putting one in, but it said the URL wasn't right, even though it was a jpeg.
I usually hang around at tolkienonline, but this place looked fun, too, so I decided to give it a try.

Anyway, I'll probably be back sometime tomorrow. Namarië!

~Nuinda

07-28-2004, 10:49 PM

Hello I'm new here, I just joined this afternoon, but I don't know how to work or do anything on here so if someone could tell me or somthing it would be GREAT!!! If you want to know more about me or anything, don't be shy, just ask!

Namarie
~Alakfaithien~

ninlaith · 07-29-2004, 01:04 PM

That's a pretty neat name Alakfaithien. Welcome to the Barrowdowns!

Nuindacilien · 07-29-2004, 10:01 PM

Can anyone help me, or are you just ignoring me?

I really have no idea what I'm doing here.

~Nuinda

07-30-2004, 12:10 AM

Thank you Linlaith. I tried to change it to Lalaithamin, ( My Laughter ) but I found out that I can't. Kind of a uh-duh thing, but who knows!

07-30-2004, 12:11 AM

Sorry I meant Ninlaith!

Thorongil · 07-30-2004, 12:16 AM

Well, Nuindacilien, what you're doing here is probably discuss Tolkien's works, enter some quiz & quote games or play an RPG. That's what we do here. Welcome to the Downs and have fun.

Imladris · 07-30-2004, 12:30 AM

I think what Nuindacilien was asking was how to change the avatar judging from this post:

Quote:

Hello all! I'm new here. I have a question. How do you get the avatars to download? I tried putting one in, but it said the URL wasn't right, even though it was a jpeg.

If it was a JPEG then it wasn't a true URL. There is an option that says to "Use Custom Avatar." Click that and then upload it in the bottom space. The space that says to upload avatar. It won't have the "http://" thing there either.

A JPEG is an image shared on your computer, not an image on the web.

Cheers
Imladris

Thorongil · 07-30-2004, 12:37 AM

That's weird. How can she have written two posts, when her post count says 1? That tricked me.

ninlaith · 07-30-2004, 08:53 AM

It's ok Alakfaithien, I forgive you. Welcome to all newcomers.

Bungo Baggins · 07-30-2004, 02:32 PM

Hello all! I was looking at different LOTR forums and I think this one seems to be the coziest in my opinion.
-Bungo

Child of the 7th Age · 07-30-2004, 02:48 PM

Bungo,

Welcome to the Downs! We hope you enjoy your stay here. We are indeed the deadest and the cosiest sight on the net.

If you enjoy RPGs, come down and introduce yourself in character in the Green Dragon Inn, which is in the Shire, and take a look at the Red Book of Westmarch.

Hope to see you arrive.

Cami Goodchild (Shire Mod)/Child of the 7th Age

Gil-Galad · 07-30-2004, 11:25 PM

Welcome all and come over to the Quiz Room!...

Morgul Queen · 07-31-2004, 02:27 AM

Oh, I just realised something...My LO (Lust Object *winks*)...or rather, LO's...actually, I'll just put my main ones down, shall I?

OK, My (main) LO's are Denethor (of Gondor, not the one from the First Age), Feanor, Celebrimbor, Elu, Celeborn, Thranduil and Elrond.

Yes. There are actually many, many more than that, but as has been pointed out frequently, I am fickle. The above are the ones that I stick to no matter what.

Should probably add Figwit to that as well....

wilwarin538 · 07-31-2004, 12:31 PM

Welcome all newly dead. Hope you enjoy the Downs!!!

~Wilwa~

Gil-Galad · 07-31-2004, 01:19 PM

nice new pic Wilwa by the way...mine of course is original

Isowen · 07-31-2004, 01:34 PM

hey. Im Isowen (which is my name in elvish) and I've been on this site for ages but I've just joined the whole forum thingy. It looks like lotsa fun! I love everything to do with lotr, but particularly elves, as I think they're so interesting and magical and I think Galadriel is the most interesting elf i've ever heard of!

Gil-Galad · 07-31-2004, 01:37 PM

Welcome to the downs!!!

(for a idea of being dead read my sig in italics...nobody does anyway)

InklingElf · 07-31-2004, 02:56 PM

Welcome dearies!Rest assured that even if the Downs is full of weird conspicuous weirdos, Tolkienologists etc. etc. I'm sure you'll find it quite homey in here

Bekah · 07-31-2004, 03:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by InklingElf

Welcome dearies!Rest assured that even if the Downs is full of weird conspicuous weirdos, Tolkienologists etc. etc. I'm sure you'll find it quite homey in here

What she said.

Welcome everyone. If your question still wasn't asked satisfactorily, Nuindacilien, ask one of the mods, like Estelyn Telcontar. It probably was, because Immy usually knows what she's doing, but just in case.

Or you could try downloading the jpg to the net. I use www.villagephotos.com, but that's because I don't know anywhere better.

Cheers,

~ Elentari II

Nuindacilien · 07-31-2004, 04:08 PM

Thank you Immy and Elentari. I tried again, and it didn't work, so I'm just giving up. I can live without an avatar. It's not the end of the world.

Elentari, I tried the villagephotos thing, too, but it's not working yet either. I think my connection is slow (I still have dial-up).\
Thorongil: I was wondering the same thing. I don't know why it only shows that I've posted once. Maybe it will change after I post this.
Well, I'm off to try the avatar thing again!

~Nuinda

07-31-2004, 05:55 PM

my name is jesse, i'm new here and i really hate introducing myself. i have know idea what to say

okay that is good enough for me

Gil-Galad · 07-31-2004, 07:47 PM

just pretend its a AA meeting... "Hi my name is Gil-Galad and i've been an acholholic eversince my friend Celebrimbor got messed up and let Sauron into his land..."

Nuindacilien · 08-01-2004, 09:58 PM

Elentari: Thank you, I think I'll try that. I'll let you know if it works!

~Nuindacilien

Bekah · 08-02-2004, 02:36 AM

Welcome Marien, or Jesse, whichever you prefer. I'm sure you'll find your way around soon and feel like an oldie in no time! We're all pretty friendly, and if you're unsure about something feel free to PM me. I can't promise I'll be much help, but you can PM me all the same.

I'm actually fairly up-to-date atm, so I can call newcomers by their first names.

Because I think this is a recurring issue, if one wishes to reply to a PM click on the 'quote' button down at the bottom.

Cheers,

~ Elentari II

Witch-King · 08-02-2004, 02:53 AM

Greetings!

ohtatyaro · 08-02-2004, 09:14 AM

I'm the cheeky one - just welcomed a week ago, and now look at me! I'm welcoming ppl here

Welcome! Witch-King

07-24-2004, 03:47 PM	#401
Gil-Galad Psyche of Prince Immortal Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Above a Parapet Obvious exits are: North, South, and Dennis Posts: 4,734	meh...i guess the dead make good fighters, don't disobey commands, don't run away from dragons and they don't stop fighting after a random body part falls off __________________ Love doesn't blow up and get killed.

07-24-2004, 03:48 PM	#402
Thorongil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: The Elvenpath Posts: 780	Ok, Morgy, just a question: What's PPC? There you have it Gil-Galad. Death isn't so bad after all is it? __________________ To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ~Sun Tzu

07-24-2004, 03:51 PM	#403
Gil-Galad Psyche of Prince Immortal Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Above a Parapet Obvious exits are: North, South, and Dennis Posts: 4,734	yeah that last part comes in handy i guess... body projectiles!!! __________________ Love doesn't blow up and get killed. Last edited by Gil-Galad; 07-24-2004 at 03:59 PM.

07-24-2004, 07:18 PM	#405
Thorongil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: The Elvenpath Posts: 780	Seems like you're doing a most needed job. Keep up the good work! __________________ To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ~Sun Tzu

07-25-2004, 07:15 PM	#406
Lady Gamgee Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The Shire Posts: 30	Hi. I'm new, just joined today. Like everyone here, I'm a huge LOTR fan ... SamWise being my fav. character. I've watched the movies & am in the process of reading the books. Started with "The Hobbit", and am now in the "Two Towers" book. Anyhow, just wanted to introduce myself & I look forward to hangin' around the boards & talking with y'all! Have a good one! __________________ "....though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." ~~ Haldir

07-25-2004, 07:31 PM	#407
Gil-Galad Psyche of Prince Immortal Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Above a Parapet Obvious exits are: North, South, and Dennis Posts: 4,734	welcome to the downs...for a good look at being dead read my sig __________________ Love doesn't blow up and get killed.

07-25-2004, 07:56 PM	#408
ninlaith Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: in my hobbit hole Posts: 204	Welcome to the Barrowdowns Lady Gamgee. __________________ "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!"-Bilbo Baggins

07-27-2004, 11:38 AM	#410
Lady Gamgee Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The Shire Posts: 30	Thank you all for a warm welcome. I'm really enjoying it here so far __________________ "....though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." ~~ Haldir

07-27-2004, 01:16 PM	#411
Marien Guest Posts: n/a	i'm new hey i'm new and have been a fan of lotr since i was like 6. i'm thirteen now and really confused and yah. my fav is legolas and aragorn cause their pretty cool

07-27-2004, 02:08 PM	#412
Gil-Galad Psyche of Prince Immortal Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Above a Parapet Obvious exits are: North, South, and Dennis Posts: 4,734	Welcome Marien and Lady Gamgee...i'm sure you'll enjoy being dead, alot of bonuses to it! (look below in italics) __________________ Love doesn't blow up and get killed.

07-28-2004, 09:38 PM	#414
Nuindacilien Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 12	Hello all! I'm new here. I have a question. How do you get the avatars to download? I tried putting one in, but it said the URL wasn't right, even though it was a jpeg. I usually hang around at tolkienonline, but this place looked fun, too, so I decided to give it a try. Anyway, I'll probably be back sometime tomorrow. Namarië! ~Nuinda

07-28-2004, 10:49 PM	#415
Alakfaithien Guest Posts: n/a	Hello! Hello I'm new here, I just joined this afternoon, but I don't know how to work or do anything on here so if someone could tell me or somthing it would be GREAT!!! If you want to know more about me or anything, don't be shy, just ask! Namarie ~Alakfaithien~

07-29-2004, 01:04 PM	#416
ninlaith Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: in my hobbit hole Posts: 204	That's a pretty neat name Alakfaithien. Welcome to the Barrowdowns! __________________ "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!"-Bilbo Baggins

07-29-2004, 10:01 PM	#417
Nuindacilien Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 12	????? Can anyone help me, or are you just ignoring me? I really have no idea what I'm doing here. ~Nuinda

07-30-2004, 12:10 AM	#418
Alakfaithien Guest Posts: n/a	Thank you Linlaith. I tried to change it to Lalaithamin, ( My Laughter ) but I found out that I can't. Kind of a uh-duh thing, but who knows!

07-30-2004, 12:11 AM	#419
Alakfaithien Guest Posts: n/a	Sorry I meant Ninlaith!

07-30-2004, 12:16 AM	#420
Thorongil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: The Elvenpath Posts: 780	Well, Nuindacilien, what you're doing here is probably discuss Tolkien's works, enter some quiz & quote games or play an RPG. That's what we do here. Welcome to the Downs and have fun. __________________ To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ~Sun Tzu

07-30-2004, 12:37 AM	#422
Thorongil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: The Elvenpath Posts: 780	That's weird. How can she have written two posts, when her post count says 1? That tricked me. __________________ To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ~Sun Tzu

07-30-2004, 08:53 AM	#423
ninlaith Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: in my hobbit hole Posts: 204	It's ok Alakfaithien, I forgive you. Welcome to all newcomers. __________________ "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!"-Bilbo Baggins

07-30-2004, 02:32 PM	#424
Bungo Baggins Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The shire Posts: 32	Hello all! I was looking at different LOTR forums and I think this one seems to be the coziest in my opinion. -Bungo

07-30-2004, 02:48 PM	#425
Child of the 7th Age Spirit of the Lonely Star Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 5,133	Bungo, Welcome to the Downs! We hope you enjoy your stay here. We are indeed the deadest and the cosiest sight on the net. If you enjoy RPGs, come down and introduce yourself in character in the Green Dragon Inn, which is in the Shire, and take a look at the Red Book of Westmarch. Hope to see you arrive. Cami Goodchild (Shire Mod)/Child of the 7th Age __________________ Multitasking women are never too busy to vote.

07-30-2004, 11:25 PM	#426
Gil-Galad Psyche of Prince Immortal Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Above a Parapet Obvious exits are: North, South, and Dennis Posts: 4,734	Welcome all and come over to the Quiz Room!... __________________ Love doesn't blow up and get killed.

07-31-2004, 02:27 AM	#427
Morgul Queen Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Dontgonearthe Castle Posts: 414	Oh, I just realised something...My LO (Lust Object winks)...or rather, LO's...actually, I'll just put my main ones down, shall I? OK, My (main) LO's are Denethor (of Gondor, not the one from the First Age), Feanor, Celebrimbor, Elu, Celeborn, Thranduil and Elrond. Yes. There are actually many, many more than that, but as has been pointed out frequently, I am fickle. The above are the ones that I stick to no matter what. Should probably add Figwit to that as well.... __________________ Athrabeth is still doing the wave for Boromir the Disco-King Oh...and call me Morgy!

07-31-2004, 12:31 PM	#428
wilwarin538 Fluttering Enchantment Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 2,508	Welcome all newly dead. Hope you enjoy the Downs!!! ~Wilwa~ __________________ Comme une étoile amarante Comme un papillon de nuit C'est la lumière qui m'attire La flamme qui m'éblouit Fenris Muffin

07-31-2004, 01:19 PM	#429
Gil-Galad Psyche of Prince Immortal Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Above a Parapet Obvious exits are: North, South, and Dennis Posts: 4,734	nice new pic Wilwa by the way...mine of course is original __________________ Love doesn't blow up and get killed.

07-31-2004, 01:34 PM	#430
Isowen Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The blackened depths Posts: 86	hey. Im Isowen (which is my name in elvish) and I've been on this site for ages but I've just joined the whole forum thingy. It looks like lotsa fun! I love everything to do with lotr, but particularly elves, as I think they're so interesting and magical and I think Galadriel is the most interesting elf i've ever heard of!

07-31-2004, 01:37 PM	#431
Gil-Galad Psyche of Prince Immortal Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Above a Parapet Obvious exits are: North, South, and Dennis Posts: 4,734	Welcome to the downs!!! (for a idea of being dead read my sig in italics...nobody does anyway) __________________ Love doesn't blow up and get killed.

07-31-2004, 02:56 PM	#432
InklingElf Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 402	Welcome dearies!Rest assured that even if the Downs is full of weird conspicuous weirdos, Tolkienologists etc. etc. I'm sure you'll find it quite homey in here

07-31-2004, 04:08 PM	#434
Nuindacilien Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 12	Thank you Immy and Elentari. I tried again, and it didn't work, so I'm just giving up. I can live without an avatar. It's not the end of the world. Elentari, I tried the villagephotos thing, too, but it's not working yet either. I think my connection is slow (I still have dial-up).\ Thorongil: I was wondering the same thing. I don't know why it only shows that I've posted once. Maybe it will change after I post this. Well, I'm off to try the avatar thing again! ~Nuinda __________________ I have nothing profound to say here, so I'll just ramble on for a bit.....

07-31-2004, 05:55 PM	#435
Marien Guest Posts: n/a	hi my name is jesse, i'm new here and i really hate introducing myself. i have know idea what to say okay that is good enough for me

07-31-2004, 07:47 PM	#436
Gil-Galad Psyche of Prince Immortal Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Above a Parapet Obvious exits are: North, South, and Dennis Posts: 4,734	just pretend its a AA meeting... "Hi my name is Gil-Galad and i've been an acholholic eversince my friend Celebrimbor got messed up and let Sauron into his land..." __________________ Love doesn't blow up and get killed.

08-01-2004, 09:58 PM	#437
Nuindacilien Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 12	Elentari: Thank you, I think I'll try that. I'll let you know if it works! ~Nuindacilien __________________ I have nothing profound to say here, so I'll just ramble on for a bit.....

08-02-2004, 02:36 AM	#438
Bekah Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Several miles over the madness horizon and accelerating Posts: 431	Welcome Marien, or Jesse, whichever you prefer. I'm sure you'll find your way around soon and feel like an oldie in no time! We're all pretty friendly, and if you're unsure about something feel free to PM me. I can't promise I'll be much help, but you can PM me all the same. I'm actually fairly up-to-date atm, so I can call newcomers by their first names. Because I think this is a recurring issue, if one wishes to reply to a PM click on the 'quote' button down at the bottom. Cheers, ~ Elentari II __________________ Vocatus Atque Non Vocatus Deus Aderit ------------~~~~~~~~~~~~~------------ A laita Atar, ar Yondo, ar Ainasule. Ve nes i yessesse na sin, ar yeva tennoio. Nasie.

08-02-2004, 02:53 AM	#439
Witch-King Animated Skeleton Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Minas Morgul Posts: 38	Greetings!

08-02-2004, 09:14 AM	#440
ohtatyaro Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: here, there, everywhere... Posts: 121	I'm the cheeky one - just welcomed a week ago, and now look at me! I'm welcoming ppl here Welcome! Witch-King __________________ Reading this sig costs three Galleons, nine Sickles, and a Knut. Pay up!