For Those Who Died Today... Happy Deathday! - Page 20 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Alkanoonion · 05-13-2015, 05:25 PM

belated happy deadthday

Galadriel55 · 05-19-2015, 09:47 PM

Happy deathday Guinevere!

Mithalwen · 05-22-2015, 10:18 AM

Not quite eleventy one but eleven years and one day since I joined the Downs. So glad it is still here

Kuruharan · 05-22-2015, 10:48 AM

Hooray Mithalwen! Happy Deathday!

Galadriel55 · 05-22-2015, 11:30 AM

A decade and a year and a day! Woot!

Happy deathday, Mama Wolf!

Guinevere · 05-23-2015, 03:53 PM

Belated Happy Deathday to Mithalwen!
And thank you Galadriel for congratulating me on mine!!

Morthoron · 07-23-2015, 10:11 AM

Hey, I just noticed I have been dead for eight years as of last month. I've kept myself up remarkably well, obviously the effects of formaldehyde and Viagra.

Galadriel55 · 07-23-2015, 02:13 PM

Congratulations, Morth, although they're a bit late.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 08-03-2015, 05:57 PM

It occurs to me that I have been dead eight years as of yesterday. I have been here for almost a decade. Where has the time gone!

Galadriel55 · 08-03-2015, 08:53 PM

You're almost as dead as my siblings are old!

Congrats!

Pitchwife · 08-04-2015, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Galadriel55

You're almost as dead as my siblings are old!

I adore this sentence and how it makes perfect sense on this forum, if nowhere else.

Happy deathday, TGEW! And Morth, too, with apologies for being two weeks late

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HerenIstarion · 09-22-2015, 05:01 AM

Actually, it's tomorrow, but I'm not sure about my net access tomorrow, so let it be today

So, 15 years (bar a day) ago yours truly joined this place

Admittedly, I've been somewhat idle for the latter half of that span, but verily active for the first half of it, and I used to know half of you that used to frequent the place back then much better than I know the other half of you frequenting the place now, but still, I'm thankful for the time spent here

And ya hey to Mr. Barrow-Wight, doubly so for establishing the place in the first half of my span here and for restoring it to life near the end of the my second half again

Not much of a bi...deathday speech, but at least I've tried to follow the lead of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, esquire, whose birthday we are also celebrating today

Cheers

Inziladun · 09-22-2015, 06:52 AM

Cheers indeed, sir! Happy Deathday!

Galadriel55 · 09-22-2015, 12:54 PM

Hear hear! Congratulations, Heren!

Rune Son of Bjarne · 11-02-2015, 10:50 AM

I seem to have missed my own 10 year anniversary... well done me!

Inziladun · 11-02-2015, 01:44 PM

Congratulations, Rune! Tempus fugit, eh?

Galadriel55 · 11-02-2015, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

I seem to have missed my own 10 year anniversary... well done me!

Oh my! Congratulations! Dead in the double digits!

...And I just realized that I missed my 5th anniversary last month.

Somehow I think that the deader I get the less anniversaries I actually remember.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 11-04-2015, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Inziladun

Congratulations, Rune! Tempus fugit, eh?

Yeah, Sic semper tyrannis.
Sorry I don't know much latin.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Oh my! Congratulations! Dead in the double digits!

...And I just realized that I missed my 5th anniversary last month.

Somehow I think that the deader I get the less anniversaries I actually remember.

It all becomes routine with time.

satansaloser2005 · 11-05-2015, 06:34 AM

Dead eight years today and loving it! It's been so lovely getting to know all of you fabulous nerds.

I wouldn't change a thing. Well, almost. *waggles eyebrows*

Galadriel55 · 11-05-2015, 07:03 AM

Happy deathday, sally! You might be the only one in several years to actually remember your deathday on your deathday.

Formendacil · 01-06-2016, 04:12 PM

A year ago today, the Barrow-downs had been down for about two days--I know that because it was the very beginning of what would be a four-to-five month hiatus for the site, a hiatus that would leave many of us fearful whether it would come back or not, and the reason I know it started a couple days before Jan. 6th last year was that I was waiting to celebrate my 10 year Death Date, and the site had just gone down. I was peeved that what I thought would be a three or four day outage would be timed just so as to obscure my one decade mark.

Well, it ended up obscuring quite a few Death Dates last year, but, happily, the community rallied together to fund a revival and the Barrow-downs is back. The past eleven years would not have been the same for me without it.

Encaitare · 01-06-2016, 04:43 PM

Eleven years? Psh, come back when it's eleventy-one.

Galadriel55 · 01-08-2016, 06:25 AM

Well, as a palindrome, 11 may even be a better number to celebrate than ten. It's also prime. It's just more interesting. So happy 11th!

Mithalwen · 05-21-2016, 10:24 AM

Twelve years dead today and I am afraid I have become treeish for various reasons. Hopefully Merry and Pippin will be along shortly to stir my stumps.

Inziladun · 05-21-2016, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Twelve years dead today and I am afraid I have become treeish for various reasons.

Happy D-Day!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Hopefully Merry and Pippin will be along shortly to stir my stumps.

They can handle it.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 08-02-2016, 09:05 PM

I have been rotting here for nine years today. Happy deathday to me!

Mithalwen · 09-02-2016, 05:50 AM

Raise a glass or a teacup and remember Tolkien on the anniversary of his death.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 09-02-2016, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Raise a glass or a teacup and remember Tolkien on the anniversary of his death.

One day late, but here's to you, Professor!

Rune Son of Bjarne · 09-13-2016, 01:40 PM

I believe I have managed to miss my own deathday again.

TheGreatElvenWarrior · 09-13-2016, 07:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

I believe I have managed to miss my own deathday again.

I hate it when that happens!

Aganzir · 10-03-2016, 02:01 AM

My dear people! My dear Wights and Animated Skeletons, and my dear Shades of Carn Dûm and Piles O'Bones, and Haunting Spirits, and Ghost Princes of Cardolan, and Newly Deceaseds.

("Newly Deceased!")

Today is my tenth deathday: I am ten years dead today!

I am immensely fond of you all, and ten years is too short a time to be dead among such excellent and admirable corpses. ♥

I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT. I'm going to celebrate these ten years tonight (say, between 6-9 pm GMT) on skype, and you're all welcome to join me. We could do a Tolkien reading (or rather, I challenge you to read your favourite dwarf-related passage

) or play Cards Against Humanity, or both! While it's more fun that way, you don't necessarily need skype to play CAH, just in case you non-Europeans stuck at work would like to join.

But in any case, my skype is scavengerlikeme, feel free to add me!

Galadriel55 · 10-03-2016, 05:32 AM

Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!

Congratulations, Agan!

Inziladun · 10-03-2016, 08:17 AM

Huzzah, Agan! Here's to the next ten!

Aganzir · 10-03-2016, 11:48 AM

Thank you!

If you'd like to join Lommy and me for a game of Cards Against Humanity (with a strong Tolkien twist), here's the link: http://pyx-1.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/game.jsp#game=13 (password: bagginshield). We'll start when we have a few more people.

Mithalwen · 10-03-2016, 02:37 PM

Happy Deathday

Aganzir · 10-04-2016, 02:49 AM

Thanks Mith!

Galadriel55 · 11-05-2016, 08:01 PM

Happy deathday sallycakes!

And I completely forgot mine this year. Ich.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 11-06-2016, 05:04 AM

Ha! I see, happy deathday to sally. And belatedly to you, G55, and also to Nerwen, as I just noticed!

Galadriel55 · 11-06-2016, 08:00 AM

Thank'ee!

And seconded, happy deathday to Nerwen!

Legate of Amon Lanc · 11-15-2016, 05:12 AM

I vaguely remember the time when I was imagining what it would be like once I have been on the 'Downs for ten years. Back then, even the oldest members were not that old.

But here it is. It's been ten years. And the 'Downs, and you Downers, have had such a significant impact on my life, that... probably half of you don't know half as much how much, and more than half of you will never even know. I at least hope I have been able to return the favour in some way.

If I may be allowed to recount a bit of that ancient history, I believe I haven't mentioned to very many of you how exactly did I end up here. The undisputable fact is, that I am here I owe to the Holy Spirit. That is an absolute claim I can make with certainty.

Here is how it went: About a month before my actual Death, I had heard somewhere about the idea that the "Flame of Anor" (mentioned by Gandalf in The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm) was supposed to be a reference to the Holy Spirit. I thought it to be a fairly daring claim, which could probably be successfully defended, nonetheless obviously not something that would be the primal intention of the author.

However, out of curiosity, I googled something along the lines of "Flame of Anor - Holy Spirit". The first thing that came up was the 'Downs. I started reading a thread, then another. The interesting thing is I didn't register at that point. Only much later, when I had a different question of my own, I started thinking whom to ask - and remembered the Barrow-Downs. That question became my very first post, already showing some of my signature traits - namely, it was fairly long, and I got several reps for it in that sense (but positive). You would be able to look it up fairly easily, I believe, it was the very first thread I ever started and it concerned my favourite character, Saruman.

Ten years later, here I am. And the small act of joining the Barrow-Downs that long time ago has influenced my life in such a profound way that, if I should leave here some memento for future generations of 'Downers, it would be this:

Quote:

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, making a post. You thank for a rep, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."

05-13-2015, 05:25 PM	#761
Alkanoonion Spirit in Eriador Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Adelaide Posts: 392	belated happy deadthday belated happy deadthday __________________ In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

05-19-2015, 09:47 PM	#762
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,376	Happy deathday Guinevere! __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

05-22-2015, 10:18 AM	#763
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,455	Not quite eleventy one but eleven years and one day since I joined the Downs. So glad it is still here __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

05-22-2015, 10:48 AM	#764
Kuruharan Regal Dwarven Shade Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold Posts: 3,589	Hooray Mithalwen! Happy Deathday! __________________ ...finding a path that cannot be found, walking a road that cannot be seen, climbing a ladder that was never placed, or reading a paragraph that has no...

05-22-2015, 11:30 AM	#765
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,376	A decade and a year and a day! Woot! Happy deathday, Mama Wolf! __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

05-23-2015, 03:53 PM	#766
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,830	Belated Happy Deathday to Mithalwen! And thank you Galadriel for congratulating me on mine!! __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

07-23-2015, 10:11 AM	#767
Morthoron Curmudgeonly Wordwraith Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits Posts: 2,508	Hey, I just noticed I have been dead for eight years as of last month. I've kept myself up remarkably well, obviously the effects of formaldehyde and Viagra. __________________ And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision.

07-23-2015, 02:13 PM	#768
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,376	Congratulations, Morth, although they're a bit late. __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

08-03-2015, 05:57 PM	#769
TheGreatElvenWarrior Mighty Quill Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walking off to look for America Posts: 2,230	It occurs to me that I have been dead eight years as of yesterday. I have been here for almost a decade. Where has the time gone! __________________ The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.

08-03-2015, 08:53 PM	#770
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,376	You're almost as dead as my siblings are old! Congrats! __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

09-22-2015, 05:01 AM	#772
HerenIstarion Deadnight Chanter Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,244	Actually, it's tomorrow, but I'm not sure about my net access tomorrow, so let it be today So, 15 years (bar a day) ago yours truly joined this place Admittedly, I've been somewhat idle for the latter half of that span, but verily active for the first half of it, and I used to know half of you that used to frequent the place back then much better than I know the other half of you frequenting the place now, but still, I'm thankful for the time spent here And ya hey to Mr. Barrow-Wight, doubly so for establishing the place in the first half of my span here and for restoring it to life near the end of the my second half again Not much of a bi...deathday speech, but at least I've tried to follow the lead of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, esquire, whose birthday we are also celebrating today Cheers __________________ Egroeg Ihkhsal - Would you believe in the love at first sight? - Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time!

09-22-2015, 06:52 AM	#773
Inziladun Gruesome Spectre Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Heaven's doorstep Posts: 8,037	Cheers indeed, sir! Happy Deathday! __________________ Music alone proves the existence of God.

09-22-2015, 12:54 PM	#774
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,376	Hear hear! Congratulations, Heren! __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

11-02-2015, 01:44 PM	#776
Inziladun Gruesome Spectre Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Heaven's doorstep Posts: 8,037	Congratulations, Rune! Tempus fugit, eh? __________________ Music alone proves the existence of God.

11-05-2015, 06:34 AM	#779
satansaloser2005 The Sweetest Spoiler Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: from beneath you it giggles incessantly Posts: 5,789	Dead eight years today and loving it! It's been so lovely getting to know all of you fabulous nerds. I wouldn't change a thing. Well, almost. waggles eyebrows __________________ "My heart always cowers behind the defense of my wit." Friendship is two pals munching on a well-cooked face together. Fenris bookworm. Last edited by satansaloser2005; 11-05-2015 at 07:06 AM.

11-05-2015, 07:03 AM	#780
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,376	Happy deathday, sally! You might be the only one in several years to actually remember your deathday on your deathday. __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

01-06-2016, 04:12 PM	#781
Formendacil Dead Serious Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers. Posts: 3,326	A year ago today, the Barrow-downs had been down for about two days--I know that because it was the very beginning of what would be a four-to-five month hiatus for the site, a hiatus that would leave many of us fearful whether it would come back or not, and the reason I know it started a couple days before Jan. 6th last year was that I was waiting to celebrate my 10 year Death Date, and the site had just gone down. I was peeved that what I thought would be a three or four day outage would be timed just so as to obscure my one decade mark. Well, it ended up obscuring quite a few Death Dates last year, but, happily, the community rallied together to fund a revival and the Barrow-downs is back. The past eleven years would not have been the same for me without it. __________________ I prefer history, true or feigned.

01-06-2016, 04:43 PM	#782
Encaitare Bittersweet Symphony Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise Posts: 1,814	Happy Deathday, Formy! Eleven years? Psh, come back when it's eleventy-one.

01-08-2016, 06:25 AM	#783
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,376	Well, as a palindrome, 11 may even be a better number to celebrate than ten. It's also prime. It's just more interesting. So happy 11th! __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

05-21-2016, 10:24 AM	#784
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,455	Twelve years dead today and I am afraid I have become treeish for various reasons. Hopefully Merry and Pippin will be along shortly to stir my stumps. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

08-02-2016, 09:05 PM	#786
TheGreatElvenWarrior Mighty Quill Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Walking off to look for America Posts: 2,230	I have been rotting here for nine years today. Happy deathday to me! __________________ The Party Doesn't Start Until You're Dead.

09-02-2016, 05:50 AM	#787
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,455	The Professor. Raise a glass or a teacup and remember Tolkien on the anniversary of his death. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

10-03-2016, 02:01 AM	#791
Aganzir Woman of Secret Shadow Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells Posts: 4,511	My dear people! My dear Wights and Animated Skeletons, and my dear Shades of Carn Dûm and Piles O'Bones, and Haunting Spirits, and Ghost Princes of Cardolan, and Newly Deceaseds. ("Newly Deceased!") Today is my tenth deathday: I am ten years dead today! I am immensely fond of you all, and ten years is too short a time to be dead among such excellent and admirable corpses. ♥ I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT. I'm going to celebrate these ten years tonight (say, between 6-9 pm GMT) on skype, and you're all welcome to join me. We could do a Tolkien reading (or rather, I challenge you to read your favourite dwarf-related passage ) or play Cards Against Humanity, or both! While it's more fun that way, you don't necessarily need skype to play CAH, just in case you non-Europeans stuck at work would like to join. But in any case, my skype is scavengerlikeme, feel free to add me! __________________ He bit me, and I was not gentle.

10-03-2016, 05:32 AM	#792
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,376	Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu! Congratulations, Agan! __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

10-03-2016, 08:17 AM	#793
Inziladun Gruesome Spectre Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Heaven's doorstep Posts: 8,037	Huzzah, Agan! Here's to the next ten! __________________ Music alone proves the existence of God.

10-03-2016, 11:48 AM	#794
Aganzir Woman of Secret Shadow Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells Posts: 4,511	Thank you! If you'd like to join Lommy and me for a game of Cards Against Humanity (with a strong Tolkien twist), here's the link: http://pyx-1.pretendyoure.xyz/zy/game.jsp#game=13 (password: bagginshield). We'll start when we have a few more people. __________________ He bit me, and I was not gentle.

10-03-2016, 02:37 PM	#795
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,455	Happy Deathday __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

10-04-2016, 02:49 AM	#796
Aganzir Woman of Secret Shadow Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells Posts: 4,511	Thanks Mith! __________________ He bit me, and I was not gentle.

11-05-2016, 08:01 PM	#797
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,376	Happy deathday sallycakes! And I completely forgot mine this year. Ich. __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

11-06-2016, 05:04 AM	#798
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Ha! I see, happy deathday to sally. And belatedly to you, G55, and also to Nerwen, as I just noticed! __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

11-06-2016, 08:00 AM	#799
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,376	Thank'ee! And seconded, happy deathday to Nerwen! __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera