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03-08-2005, 04:47 PM
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Illustrious Ulair
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties
Posts: 4,240
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Lalwende & davem wish to announce their engagement
Yes, its true. Lalwende has agreed to make an honest man of me.
For those who are interested, we met up in December after pm'ing each other for a few months & discovering we only lived 20 miles from each other. We got engaged on Sunday & are both very happy. We're now hoping all our rep points can be amalgamated so that no-one has a hope in hell of beating us 
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03-08-2005, 05:38 PM
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Illusionary Holbytla
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 7,547
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Congrats!
Wow, cool. Best wishes to you both!
The BD's must be the first ever Tolkien match-maker website...  
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03-08-2005, 05:45 PM
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Corpus Cacophonous
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A green and pleasant land
Posts: 8,390
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Congratulations!
Wow! I thought you two were getting on well together.
I am very happy for you both and may I wish you every happiness together. Marriage is certainly something that I can heartily recommend.  Will it be a Tolkien-themed wedding, perhaps? I can well imagine Hobbit page-boys and bridesmaids and a wing-crowned davem and Elven-gowned Lalwende walking back down the aisle together ...  Goodness gracious me! That's two enagements announced on the Downs in the space of a month or so! I shall have to buy a new Saucepan hat.
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03-08-2005, 05:48 PM
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Drummer in the Deep
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Next Sunday A.D.
Posts: 2,145
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Congratulations to you both! Provided, of course, it's not another Crystal Heart type fiasco...
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03-08-2005, 05:50 PM
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Raffish Rapscallion
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Far from the 'Downs, it seems :-(
Posts: 2,835
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Congrats and may you two have many happy rep-gathering years together.
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03-08-2005, 06:39 PM
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: perpetual uncertainty
Posts: 5,517
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My congratulations are being mentally (oh look! AND visually) sent to you.
I wish you all the happiness and that good stuff. Having never been married, I can offer no good advice, but will this shindig involve mathoms?*Fea has thought* Now wouldn't it be fun if Lal and davem had an RP wedding with all the members involved? Kinda like the birthday parties. Fea
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03-08-2005, 06:59 PM
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World's Tallest Hobbit
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Where the view is long
Posts: 2,117
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Congratulations!
Aww, that's so cool. You'll be having a marvelously long courtship to get things worked out, so it's probably too soon to know if you've got a date set, I hope.
After all you two have been together only as long as my leg has been broken... now that's odd.  Good luck to you both!
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03-08-2005, 07:07 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: As with the flygja
Posts: 1,403
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Congratulations!
Oh wow!
Well, Blessed be you both! I wish you both that it will be great on both of your parts! ************************************************ To think the BD's will become a match making paradise for Tolkien fans... Hmm... This will be interesting! Anyways, I wish you both a wonderful relationship. ~ A blessing Ka
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03-08-2005, 07:32 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Roaming the plains of Middle Earth
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Congratulations and may you both be eternally happy.
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03-08-2005, 08:46 PM
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Tears of the Phoenix
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Putting dimes in the jukebox baby.
Posts: 1,453
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Congratulations to you both.
May your marriage be happy and not founder as so many marriages seem to do these days.
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03-08-2005, 08:57 PM
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Beloved Shadow
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The Stadium
Posts: 5,971
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 Holy moley!! That definitely put me over my shock quota for the day. Wow. I suppose this means you'll be getting a joint Barrow-Downs account? May you have good times and smooth sailing.
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03-08-2005, 09:31 PM
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Bittersweet Symphony
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise
Posts: 1,814
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*dies from the loveliness of it all*
How perfectly wonderful! Congratulations, Lal and davem -- much happiness to you.
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03-08-2005, 10:41 PM
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Speaker of the Dead
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Superbia
Posts: 868
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Congratulations!
May you have many, many happy years together.
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03-08-2005, 10:56 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Where you want me to be
Posts: 1,036
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Congratulations davem and Lalwende! As all the jokes seem to have already been made, I'll just wish you all the best. So- all the best.
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03-08-2005, 11:31 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Washington, D. C., USA
Posts: 299
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Congragulations! Best wishes for all your future happiness.
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03-08-2005, 11:44 PM
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Haunted Halfling
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules
Posts: 841
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More Cheers!
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I'm raising my glass to you both as I speak (no mean feat, as I have to type this as well!). Unfortunately, although the beverage is solidly alcoholic, it is but a salve to a sore throat and nagging cough...anyway "thag you very buch" for sharing the great news!Cheers and sniffles, Lyta
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03-09-2005, 12:11 AM
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Dead Serious
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers.
Posts: 3,326
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Congratulations!
I only hope that this relationship works out well, and is of as much joy to the two of you as the relationships of Tolkien's couples were. Wait... Tarannon&Beruthiel Aldarion&Erendis Denethor&Finduilas (ended in tragedy, if naught else) Turambar&Niniel (ewww!!!) Aredhel&Eol Okay... maybe not all of Tolkien's couples. May the blessing of Sam and Rosie be upon you! Wait again! That might not work either.... Okay, we can't go wrong with the Master's own allegory: Beren and Luthien. May your lives be full of happiness, and your spirits be entwined beyond the ending of this life.
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03-09-2005, 01:25 AM
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Scent of Simbelmynë
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Aboard Highwind, bound for Traverse Town
Posts: 1,780
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*is boggled*
Congrats to both of you! Goodness you're good at keeping secrets. -Sophia
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03-09-2005, 01:41 AM
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Spirit of the Lonely Star
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 5,133
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Davem & Lalwende -
My fairest greetings to you both! Child |
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03-09-2005, 03:06 AM
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Scion of The Faithful
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: The brink, where hope and despair are akin. [The Philippines]
Posts: 5,312
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A hearty congratulations.
I just wonder: how many boxes would that be?
Would you then be Eru's right-hand . . . errrr . . . pair?
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03-09-2005, 03:11 AM
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Desultory Dwimmerlaik
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat.....
Posts: 7,779
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A wish for the both of you:
Walls for the wind And a roof for the rain, And drinks beside the fire. Laughter to cheer you And those you love near you. And all that your heart may desire. ~*~ Pio
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03-09-2005, 03:29 AM
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
Posts: 4,737
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Well what can I say?
I shall start with a big thank you for all the lovely messages! I have a big smile from reading them all. But I have made sure to save one special smile for davem, because he's the one who brought me all this happiness in the first place!
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03-09-2005, 03:32 AM
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Illustrious Ulair
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties
Posts: 4,240
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Thanks all. I don't know what to say. I suppose main thanks have to go to our beloved BW as without this site L & I would never have met. 'Strange are the turns of fate' as someone once said...
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03-09-2005, 04:11 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 am absolutely delighted for both of you, Lalwendë and davem! You've been walking hand-in-hand on the reputation list for awhile now, so to have you find each other in real life is a wonderful continuation. What is it they say about life imitating art (or was that the other way around?
)... I wish you all the very best - and this gives me just one more reason to look forward to meeting the two of you at "Tolkien 2005" this summer!
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03-09-2005, 09:09 AM
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Auspicious Wraith
Join Date: May 2002
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 4,859
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Wonderful. Best wishes to the both of you.
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03-09-2005, 09:42 AM
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Stormdancer of Doom
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars
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ps. For future reference: We want pictures.
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03-09-2005, 09:43 AM
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Wight
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: The frigid white wilderness of the Midwest
Posts: 235
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Seems most things have been said, so I'll just add my hearty congratulations!
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03-09-2005, 10:52 AM
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Memento Mori
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Past The Point Of No Return
Posts: 1,117
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Congratulations Lalwendë and davem. It is an institution that I too can thoroughly recommend (even after 28 years!!) Best wishes to you both
I'd like to share the following good advice, from Ogden Nash: To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up! I second the request for photographs of the Happy Event, when it occurs
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03-09-2005, 11:06 AM
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Doubting Dwimmerlaik
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Heaven's basement
Posts: 2,466
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Congratulations! May your life together be filled with moments of bliss. Note that, from experience, the only thing better than finding your love with whom to share your life is to create a family with the same.
And I assume that you both are on the same side of the 'Balrog's wings' debate, surely, and if not, then there's a plan to resolve the issue before the big day? Best wishes! |
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03-09-2005, 11:20 AM
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Relic of Wandering Days
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: You'll See Perpetual Change.
Posts: 1,480
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I am so happy for you both! But not nearly half as happy as you two are, I'll wager. Many thanks for sharing the good news and best wishes. You've made my day a rather pleasant one.
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03-09-2005, 12:00 PM
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Animated Skeleton
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Gama Quadrant
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That's so great!!!! Happy weddingness!!!! ~EF
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03-09-2005, 05:08 PM
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Sage & Onions
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Britain
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Many congratulations Lalwende and davem
(davem, I hope you had an easier time getting hold of a suitable Silmaril for the lady than old Beren had!)
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03-09-2005, 05:15 PM
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Gibbering Gibbet
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Beyond cloud nine
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Wow. . .and. . .
Wow. . . That's wonderful news! Best I've heard in a long time. (But don't think for a moment that I will stand idly by and allow you to combine your reps!) There absolutely must be some role or part for us of the BDs in the ceremony. At my own wedding, those who could not attend sent 'telegrams' (emails) that were read out at the reception -- any chance of the same?? Failing that, at the very least, maybe we could entice the happy couple into their first RPG: The Wedding of Lord Davem and the Lady Lalwende! It could be like the annual Birthday Party for the Downs and everyone could come in their BD character to wish the couple well. But where would it be set? The Shire? Rivendell? Lorien? Minas Tirith? Mordor? "Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undomiel daughter of Elrond."
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03-09-2005, 05:57 PM
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Vice of Twilight
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: on a mountain
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As Chesterton says... "Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline."
My heartiest congratulations to the both of you! My joyful prayers will certainly be with the two of you. May the sweetness of marriage bring its sweetest of sweetness to you. And may I second Helen's request for pictures?
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03-09-2005, 06:31 PM
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Fair and Cold
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: the big onion
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Awwwww!
Congratulations, best wishes, and lots and lots of kisses. I hope wedded bliss won't take you away from the BD for too long. Both of you are such pleasurable company. Mnogaya leta. As we sing in Ukraine on joyous occasions such as this one. Good luck to you, guys. Imagine, you already have a great how-we-met story to tell. I wish you all the best. Hugs and a Few Stray Tears, Natalia.
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03-09-2005, 08:01 PM
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Fluttering Enchantment
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Canada
Posts: 2,508
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Weddings? I love Weddings! Drinks all around!
This is the cutest thing I have EVER read. Its all thanks to Mister Tolkien! This is amazing! Congrats to you both. I hope you have a long and happy life together(and as many children as Sam and Rosie
) XOXOXOX ~*Willy*~
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Bittersweet Symphony
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise
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