In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Amanaduial the archer]

Well, I lay to rest:

Now Yannie's good yew bow is broken, and his good gaze hounds are slain, and he lies sleeping in the deep greenwood, with all his hunting done, done, with all his hunting done...

I loved that sig. It lasted for a fair while as well, and seemed vaguely fitting: both about death, and with a mention to the deep 'Greenwood'.

RIP siggy.

[HerenIstarion]

They can tak' oour lives, but they cannae tak' oour troousers!

[Fingolfin II]

Reward on earth is more dangerous for men than punishment.

-~- J.R.R. Tolkien

Wise words, Professor.

[Evisse the Blue]

"I am not now sure that the tendency to treat the whole thing as a kind of vast game is really good - certainly not for me who find that kind of thing only too fatally attractive."

J. R. R. Tolkien

Dear old Professor, he made game players of us all. My hat's off to him and his vast game! <-- the only smilie with a hat.

[vanwalossien]

I'm laying this brilliant quote to rest after long and faithful service, and switching to a piece of madness that a friend of mine once said. He feels very important when he is quoted

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence

[Bêthberry]

I put to rest this little gift:

Love, by memorial mould;
Birds, by the snow.

and turn to

So take, for joy's sake, this wild gift of mine

[Elennar Starfire]

Carbon made Found her at the end of a chain Time to race she said Race the downhill Behind crystalline irises Loons can dive Where the world bleeds white...

Switching my Tori Amos lyrics for a quote from Labyrinth...

[Fingolfin II]

Rest in peace, oh humorous sig-

'Coming, sir!' came the answer from far within, followed soon by Sam himself, wiping his mouth. He had been saying farewell to the beer-barrel in the cellar.

[Imladris]

I lay to rest my sig and Avvie:

Avvie:

Draco

And my sig:

Longbottom, if brains were gold you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

Aww, count on good old Malfoy to come up with an insult...What? Oh yeah..this is a Tolkien forum...*cough*

My new sig is:

Had the bo'sun good form without knowing it, which is the best form of all?

I also changed the image that it links to. :d

[Bêthberry]

I know I just changed my sig, but there's a magnetic poem that is too funny and must be commemorated in some way. I will return to Mandelstam's lilting line:

So take, for joy's sake, this wild gift of mine.

but for now I want to giggle over

"I am the platypus."

laughing pen indeed.

[ohtatyaro]

why waste time reading this silly signature? c'mon, you don't have so much time on your hands, do you?

Rest in peace. I mean, every time someone looks at my post, they inevitably read the sig asking them not to read it . Time to change that. I mean, we waste our time online anyway

[Lush]

The Smiths'

"All those people, all those lives where are they now? With loves, and hates, and passions just like mine, They were born and then they lived and then they died, Feels so unfair, And I want to cry."

Was very approrpiate there for a while. Until I felt like a change.

[the phantom]

the phantom has posted. This thread is now important.

I loved this sig dearly and kept it for quite a while, but I think it needs to rest for a bit.

Never fear- it will rise again.

[Oddwen]

I hereby retire:

...you may say I'm a drummer, but I'm not the only one...
:P ~Saraphim, John Lennon and A Perfect Circle, sort of.

I'm putting it here because it's something I want to remember. Of course.

[Orual]

"Her name was Eponine--her life was cold and dark, yet she was unafraid."

Farewell, 'Ponine:

Every word that he says is a dagger in me!
In my life, there's been no one like him anywhere...
--Eponine

And a big bonjour to Jean Valjean.

[The Saucepan Man]

I lay this to rest.

... the most improper job of any man ... is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
~JRR Tolkien ~

Alas it is too true, more so now than ever.

But it's time for a change,

[Imladris]

*buries avatar to rest*

Had the bo'sun good form without knowing it, which is the best form of all? ~ Hook

[Evisse the Blue]

Little tree, oh little green tree,
Please don't let your leaves rustle over me

A Vodka's on me for whoever knows where this is from.

[Imladris]

Which one Evisse? The old sig or the new sig? But...I think the old sig is from the peg legged dude from the comic strip BC?

As Halloween is over, I have a new avatar and a new sig.

Old avatar: Clicky

Old Sig:

And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King
Would give it all up if only he could.

Old Sig image:
Clickety click

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I have had this signature for quite some time, as it commemorates a great summer time, but as that summer is now only a memory, so too must be the quote.

Farewell to thee:

Ni

And welcome to the 'Downs must go to:

Out on the roof to inquire of the sky, the existance of ghosts in my life... who's to blame, you or I? No one would answer me, they just stared with the weight of the world I pretend not to feel.

Free and Invisible (yet highly coveted) Feanorian Bonus Points to whoever can tell me the origin of my newest signature.

Fea

[Amanaduial the archer]

They're song lyrics, aren't they? Song name...google.com is cheating, must resist the urge... "Ghosts"? Not a clue of the artist. Maybe half a FBP? (Feanorian Bonus Point, copyright 2004)

Farewell to my last siggy - it lasted just over a month, although seems longer for some reason.

Today we'll go witch-hunting, and tomorrow, we'll hide, and it'd be the witches' turn to find us...

It made me shiver when I first read it, although maybe that was just in context. It's from Terry Pratchett's 'Good Omens' - class book, very class. And if anyone can guess the origin of my new one, they get a free pint in the Green Dragon (ooh, fierce competition, Fea, fierce competition!) Hey, and no Google allowed!

[piosenniel]

Aman

Make it a glass of good, dark stout, if you will, lass . . .

One of my faves from a later part of 'The Song of Solomon' -

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

They're song lyrics, aren't they? Song name...google.com is cheating, must resist the urge... "Ghosts"? Not a clue of the artist. Maybe half a FBP? (Feanorian Bonus Point, copyright 2004)

Half an FBP goes to Aman! The name of the song is indeed "Ghosts". Anyone who can tell me (without using the bane of my trivia spouting existence, google) who sings it gets the other 2/3.

Slightly more on topic, I really do love your new siggie, Aman. Very pretty.

Fea

[Amanaduial the archer]

Originally Posted by piosenniel

Aman

Make it a glass of good, dark stout, if you will, lass . . .

One of my faves from a later part of 'The Song of Solomon' -

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.

Ah, such a scholar will well be welcome in the 'Dragon, Bethberry, a stout it is Song of Solomon, a favourite of weddings (I do alot of weddings, because I sing in the Church Choir, and it comes up at all of them. Really. All.), but that particular passage, I think, is so good in it's entirety: I couldn't find a way to cut it down and not leave my siggy feeling unfinished. So I looked further. It's one of the lovely songs of the Bible.

[HerenIstarion]

The ability to edit your posts is a privilege, not a right -- Sharkû
Ask yourself if you are on-topic, off-topic, or on Mars -- BW

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I enjoyed those two Heren. I had once considered placing a quote from The Squatter into my signature but I didn't for fear of being labelled a stalker.

Somewhat belatedly, I will place my now old signature into the thread, that being Green Ideas Sleep Furiously. Unfortunately, though I tried, I never could find a green idea that slept furiously. The closest I came was finding a green idea that snoozed in a somewhat surly manner. And it was most uninviting when it woke up to find me gawping at it...

[Orual]

It hasn't been long, but Jean Valjean was making me kind of sad, so I'm switching to another quote that...makes me...kind of sad...it's from a beautiful song in Seussical! the Musical, as it says.

So goodbye to Jean:

She was never mine to keep. She is youthful, she is free.
Love is the garden of the young. Let it be...--Jean Valjean

and hello to Mr. Mayor, Mrs. Mayor, and Jojo.

[Rimbaud]

I have now abandoned the Guy Debord quote on quotations, in favour of something punchier.

Farewell: Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

~Rimsky

[Elennar Starfire]

I have loved it well, but 'tis time to say farewell...

So much trouble over such a little thing! But not for long.
~Jareth, The Goblin King (Labyrinth)
Sound familiar?

Now for a bit of my own poetry...I'm in a poetic mood...

[HerenIstarion]

I have been reading of Schrödinger's cat
But none of my cats are at all like that.

Grew tired of it pretty soon

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I performed magic, I'm going to leave you here with the story that justifies you.

I was making myself a cup of tea, as I am wont to do, and everything was going quite unspectacularly up until a certain point. Bear with me, it's a good story. I put some water in the kettle and left it to boil. I then placed a mug on the counter next to the kettle, and put a teabag into said mug. I then (and this is crucial so pay close attention) took a teaspoon from the drawer and put it into the mug. Unremarkable? I think so.

I turned towards the fridge and retrieved the milk. As I turned around, my mind probably filled with moderately pleasant and unworrisome thoughts, I ventured to perceive the mug. And lo and behold! there was not one, but two teaspoons in the mug.

I conjured a teaspoon.

I performed magic.

[Elennar Starfire]

*dies of helpless laughter*

That was the last thing I expected!

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

You keep conjuring teaspoons and selling it, you'll make a heap from absolutely nothing!

Is that possible.

I think. I've seen some make their fortunes from far less.

[Lhunardawen]

Finally, one of The Barrowdowns greatest mysteries has been revealed! Now I can sleep...but not until I put this Biology-class-spur-of-the-moment-insanity-of-a-signature to rest:

You are what you eat...but what if you don't have the enzymes to break iy down?

*zzzzzz*

[Evisse the Blue]

Wow, Eomer the teaspoon conjurer! Is it to late to go to Hogwarts now that you discovered your true calling?

On topic now, I say farewell to:
"Rabbi, what can we learn from a telephone?
My shiksa daughter, your faith, your faith
That what we say here is heard there"
That's a nice faith to have, right?

[Estelyn Telcontar]

...burying my long-time Arwen quote, since it was too lengthy and I wanted to add a link to my fan fiction.

Arwen remained in Rivendell, and when Aragorn was abroad, from afar she watched over him in thought; and in hope she made for him a great and kingly standard, such as only one might display who claimed the lordship of the Númenoreans and the inheritance of Elendil.

[Orual]

I lay to rest a verse from Solla Sollew.

They say breezes are warm there...
And people are kind...
Maybe it's something like heaven...
Seussical! the Musical, Solla Sollew

[Lhunardawen]

Esty, I never thought you would change your signature...please don't say you will have an avatar makeover soon.

[Rimbaud]

Did you see the stylish kids in the riot?

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Oh, I've had several signature changes - after all, I'm the one who started this thread! For a very long time, my signatures have all come from the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen, though this is the first in awhile that doesn't echo the "hope" theme of my nick. As to an avatar change, I've considered it, but need to solve the technical side of it first...