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Shade of Carn Dűm
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: The Elvenking's Halls
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When you come on here to tell people you just got the Return of the King soundtrack from the library before bothering to tell people on Facebook. (I also got Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian. Yes, it's a kids' book, but give me a break. I've been waiting for it for AGES, and I've been reading the series since the fourth one came out!)
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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When you crack up at a Hobbit meme that has Thorin (totally just typed that as Thranduil though) hugging Bilbo because you've come up with about fifty related jokes about them during a short Barrow-Downs moot you've been having.
My heart will go on.
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Psyche of Prince Immortal
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Though I am far and few between posts, I still know the various going on's in the Downs thanks to fanatical stalking of Hookbill's Facebook.
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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When, upon seeing the words legate and squatter, you automatically add of Amon Lanc and of Amon Rudh to them (and then wonder what the hell those mountains have to do with the context...), capitalize those words, and bold them.
When you think of Lommy when seeing a penguin, and of Agan when seeing a lion. When Nogrod is no longer a place, nor Anguirel a blade, nor Firefoot a horse, nor Heren Istarion an order.
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Mighty Quill
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Walking off to look for America
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My almost twelve-year-old brother says that he has a friend at school who is a member of the Barrow-Downs. When I asked him about it, he told me he doesn't know what his friend's username is, but he swears that he is a Downer. I look forward to having the mystery solved.
My brother has been talking a lot recently about the Downs, actually. After giving a report on Downs-happenings to my family the other day, our house has just been full of Downs-talk. Brother has been talking about the Hobbit movie and joining the Downs. We have had this talk before, of course. My answer was the same to him today as it always has been "you need to read LotR before you join the Barrow-Downs, otherwise you will be confused." I quite expect that once he has read Lord of the Rings in its entirety that he will join the ranks of the dead not long after. My addiction to the Barrow-Downs has manifested itself in my brother. I'm so proud! ![]()
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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When you stay up till five on the Barrow-Downs instead of Facebook or Tumblr or other such venues. You can't believe how happy this makes me for a change.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2004
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Overheard someone talking about "the Hobbit" and first thought was to post it here.
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
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When you realize that the author of a book you read has the same first name as a Downer, and lives more or less in the same area, and even looks somewhat alike - and you get all excited and are about to send the said Downer a PM full of (truthful) praises of that book. Unfortunately, I just checked and the dates of birth don't match. Well bother.
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Deadnight Chanter
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You're addicted to BD...
...when you look at your own join date and realize you're still here
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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When you can't read about the Nandor and their leader Dan without thinking of a fellow Downer.
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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I do some volunteering at a patient registration area in a local hospital, and every once in a while someone with a weird name/background comes in and provides some entertaining change to the routine. Today I was half-listening to some lady answering the routine questions, and I choked a bit when she said her last name was Shasta. The funny part was: I was sure something's not quite right, but it was the fact that Shasta is not female and not that he is miles away from here, which just goes to show that I will not be surprised if any of you spontaneously appear on my doorstep (but hopefully not in the hospital!).
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
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When you cheer more for the TIG team most recent victory in the Arda Cup than for real sports events.
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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It could also have been Gandalf or Saruman though!
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
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When, while discussing Hamlet (if the King knows that Hamlet realizes that the King thinks Hamlet suspects him...) you think: Hamlet would already be a pro at this if he only played Werewolf.
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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When your first thought upon seeing your physics TA is that he looks like Legate!!!
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Wight
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Armenelos, Númenor
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When you spend valuable imgur time on the Barrow Downs instead.
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
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When you go here at ungodly hours, when you have so many readings and assignments that you don't even have time to check your email for VERY important messages... My priorities are in the right place.
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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For the record, I'm only ever good if I'm a villain. If I'm innocent, I play as if I were a wolf and pick a random suspect to attack. I'm personally aware of some minor inconsistencies in my arguments but I'm usually very convincing - aggressive and convincing - nonetheless. This is how I got the top grade for my bachelor's thesis.
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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When the company you work for has a clent ref SPM and it is such a struggle to say S******* P**** Management rather than Saucepan Man
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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You know, I think it wasn't so much Werewolf for me as all the other threads, where things are based less on interactions and Freud and reverse psychology, but rather on the arguments itself. Just posting a mini essay (or even a paragraph) in the Books / N&N forum (occasionally others... I recall a deep philosophical discussion going on during a game of Taters to Taters in Mirth) makes good practice for writing well from the first try. When I first joined, I used to just not be able to write well. I wonder why that changed. Suuuure, I had some good instruction. Riiiiiight.
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
Posts: 4,511
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I want to talk about something.
Emojis. The Downs smilies are, to me, the ultimate emojis. They cover a wide range of expressions that a lot of emoji sets lack. Most of all, when typing on my phone's Google keyboard or on facebook, I miss ![]() Then there's ![]() ![]() (cont.)
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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Speaking of confusion, never have I seen as good a smilie as
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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Finally,
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Odinic Wanderer
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Okay, I am with you on this one!
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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Totally seconded! I believe I've actually saved the rolleyes image on my old computer to use elsewhere...
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Wight of the Old Forest
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall
Posts: 3,329
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When the site is down for 24 hours and in spite of not having posted anything of substance for months you feel like your hometown has just been bombed.
Since Agan, Rune and Lommy talked about emojis above (what a newfangled word; when did we stop calling them smileys?) I'd like to say a few things about message icons, which are another nice way of nonverbal communicarion and come handy for indicating the tone of the following post. I mostly use Thumbs up (signing approval, obviously, e.g. in cases when I can't rep somebody right now) and 1420! (the tankard - for festive occasions, like birthday felicitations in the rare case that I remember to post them) and sometimes the Pipe (which has a somewhat scholarly air for me as well as an almost Legate-like smugness); also the Silmaril instead of a light bulb for sudden insight. Sting, the Eye and the Arrow (strangely mislabeled Eye as well) have their uses as Gifted hints in Werewolf. What are your favourite ones?
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,359
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I couldn't agree more about the smileys (and also about the words emojis
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Wight of the Old Forest
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall
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So true! I just found myself using *merisu* in a Facebook comment, lacking an appropriate smiley (fortunately to a Downer, who'll understand).
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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You keep coming back.
I wasn't going to have a two-year hiatus. I was just a bit busy at work. But you know how it goes with this thing that all things devours; birds, beasts, trees, flowers... Anyway, here I am.
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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I have definitely become treeish, but this is still a vital piece of home on the internet for me. There are Downs-specific things that splash over into other areas - still being amused over funny pics of skwerlz, for example, or missing the : rolleyes : smiley...
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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Fun fact: last year as the creative component of an application, I had to describe my favourite emoji. So I screenshotted the Down's emoji panel for them to see and wrote an essay on the Merisu smiley, with Rolleyes and Eek as runners up. Needless to say, I got the position.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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It's been several years since you last posted, yet you still have the old habit of lurking through the threads reading and simply enjoying every last bit.
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Gruesome Spectre
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Heaven's doorstep
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Odinic Wanderer
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I think it would be awesome if some of the ancient wights would start to haunt the barrows again. Just on a semi-regular basis.
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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But indeed, I second what has been said. And would certainly support the notion that Entish is better than treeish. At least from this particular perspective - nothing against trees otherwise (right, Ungoliant).
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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You're addicted to the Downs when classmates ask you about that black site with the sword at the top.
Also, the two hours of intense posting activity today were the happiest two hours in a long time (and quite possibly raised the average posts/day of involved Downers by a couple decimal points. ![]()
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2004
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The length Your membership on the downs has bypassed the amount of time since you last talked to your father. Too Dark?
Your membership on the downs is old enough to drive.
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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Ugh, that is a terrifying way to put it. Thankfully it isn't there for me yet, but it could start preparing for attending a driving school.
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