For Those Who Died Today... Happy Deathday!

[Eönwë]

7 years. That's impressive, Eomer. Congratulations! *insert clever Scottish Gaelic proverb*

edit: though "Na abair do sheanfhacal gus an toir thu do long gu caladh." (Ah, the wonders of the internet)

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Thanks. :cool: And that ship just stays in the harbour now, Eönwë. Too old for anything else. :D

[Brinniel]

Yes! For the first time ever I've managed to catch my deathday on time. Every year I think about it, then forget until too late. It might be partly because I keep thinking I joined on the 7th, not the 6th...though I'm not sure why I think that...
Okay, I was so sure that my deathday was yesterday, but when I checked I saw it was on the 7th instead. Then I look back at my post from last year and see I mixed it up the other way. How weird is that? My deathday seems to change by the year...could it be because of timezone differences? Because if I joined say 11pm MST on the 6th then technically I joined on the 7th EST (at 1am), which is what my time zone is currently set to..

So I'm no longer actually sure when my deathday is. But either way, it doesn't change that I've now been a Barrow Downer for seven years. Geez, that's a long time. I think back to when I was this 13 year old kid who was introduced to this site by a friend, and boy have things changed since then. Both me and the website. Funny to think that I've been here long enough to watch fellow Downers grow up and change with me. It's rather awesome, really. And just wait until another seven years pass... :cool:

It seems appropriate that out of all days, today will be the day I put up the admin thread for my game (yes, it'll be up sometime tonight).

[Morthoron]

Congrats, Brin.

I just noticed I also passed my two-year anniversary a few days ago. Alas, that I can continue on this board for another ten years and still be considered a junior member with the likes of Brin having posted for most of this century!

[Thinlómien]

Belated congrats, Brinn and Morth. :)

[Eönwë]

Congratulations to TGEW on her second deathday! :D

[Hakon]

Happy second death day TGEW.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Now I feel old... Well, not really.:p

[Thinlómien]

Belated congrats, TGEW. ;)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Oh, belated happy deathday, TGEW (so now you can slowly start to consider yourself a senior member! Want a walking stick yet?), and to Brinn too! Shame I kept missing everybody's deathdays, but well, people do it themselves ;) (not that it's an excuse)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Oh, belated happy deathday, TGEW (so now you can slowly start to consider yourself a senior member! Want a walking stick yet?)No, maybe a couple more years before I need one.:p

[Macalaure]

Happy (belated) Deathday, Rikae!

[Thinlómien]

Seconded - congrats. :)

[Pitchwife]

Thirded! All the best and a long afterlife!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Fourthed! :) Enjoy another year among us, Rikae!

[Hakon]

Fifthed. Happy deathday Rikae.

[Eönwë]

Ooh, a belated Happy Deathday to Rikae! :) Enjoy this year on the 'Downs and hopefully the many more to come!

[Rikae]

Thanks, everyone! :)

[HerenIstarion]

9.... ominous number, that...

[Eönwë]

Happy belated deathday, HI!

Wow... 9. Makes me feel like even more of a newbie than usual.

[Hakon]

Happy deathday.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Wow... 9. Makes me feel like even more of a newbie than usual.
Yeah really. Two years seems like only a fraction of childhood compared to nine! Wow!
Happy Belated Deathday to you, HI!

[Durelin]

Oh wow, my 7th was almost a month ago.

*group hug*!

[satansaloser2005]

Oh noes, I missed mine. It was on the 5th. I was gonna have worms and dirt cake and everything. :(

:p

Also, congratulations on the anniversary of your death, Durelin. :)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Oh wow, my 7th was almost a month ago.

*group hug*!
Whoops, oh my!
Oh noes, I missed mine. It was on the 5th. I was gonna have worms and dirt cake and everything. :(
Ah, but don't be too sad. Pehaps next time.

Belated wishes to ye both :)

[HerenIstarion]

huggers +2 :)

[Thinlómien]

Belated congrats, Durelin and Sally :)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

And I just discovered today that I have also missed my deathday, which was like, what, two days ago. How typical, and I am surely not alone in this one: I was well aware of it some days ago, then again reminded of it by this thread, and then when it actually happened, completely left it out...

[Eönwë]

Well, Happy (very belated) Deathday, Legate.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Thanks, Eönwë :)

[Eönwë]

I remembered a few days ago and then I suddenly forgot it again.

My second deathday was yesterday. Woo! :D

[Formendacil]

I remembered a few days ago and then I suddenly forgot it again.

My second deathday was yesterday. Woo! :D

You've got to be kidding! You've only been here two years? And a day?

Blimey!

Well, congratulations, then, on solidifying your spot in that time.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I remembered a few days ago and then I suddenly forgot it again.

My second deathday was yesterday. Woo!

Well I could return the wishes and wish you a belated happy deathday too :) But hey, two years is a long time... I remember when I... uh. And here I thought how "young" I am here, but at the same time that I am already quite "old" here... well, for example thinking that it seems to me like yesterday when you joined, Eönwë. And hey - it was yesterday - only a few years ago already :D But in any case, you have made yourself quite "home" here... good to have you dead :)

[Eönwë]

You've got to be kidding! You've only been here two years? And a day?
I am but a mere hatchling.

good to have you dead :)
Thank you. :D (or is it :eek:)

[Hakon]

Happy deathday Eonwe. Where have you been on skype these past few weeks?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I think it's the time to wish a happy deathday to Lommy... :)

[Eönwë]

I think it's the time to wish a happy deathday to Lommy...

Yes it is. I would like to wish you a very happy deathday Lommy, and I hope that you will have many more among us here on the Barrow-Downs. :)

[Pitchwife]

What they said - happy deathday and many happy returns, Lommy!

[The Might]

Happy Deathday, Thinlómien!
May your Penguishness forever haunt these halls! :)

[Hakon]

Happy deathday Lommie. I have decided to start spelling Lommie this new way just to be different since I am getting bored lately. Once again Happy Deathday.

[Loslote]

Happy death-day, Lommy! :D

[Valier]

Ah it looks like I missed my own deathday again...:rolleyes: Ah well happy belated deathday to me!!
I can't believe I've been here for that long

wow gooooooooo me!!!

[Thinlómien]

Thanks everybody. :) I feel slightly old now, though - I've been here now for five years, and that's more or less one fourth of my life. :eek: It's so weird to think I was a silly teenager few months short of 15 when I joined, and now I'm still almost as silly and a few months short of 20 which starts with the number 2 and is thus unavoidably "adult" age... (Not meaning 20 is very grown up, but you can't really pull the "I'm a kid" card anymore, and besides, it's not anything "-teen" anymore. I'm going to be happy about that. :cool: )

Belated congrats to you, Val. *hugs*

[Eönwë]

I've just had a thought that currently, with the age of the 'Downs as it is, if you multiply the number of years you've been on here by 9, you get your 'Downs age equivalent in human years.

[Hakon]

You just want to be able to say you are 18. Where as I am barely 9 according to that.

[Inziladun]

I've just had a thought that currently, with the age of the 'Downs as it is, if you multiply the number of years you've been on here by 9, you get your 'Downs age equivalent in human years.

So I'm 81? I don't feel like it.... ;)

[Hakon]

I feel more like 45 then I do 9 or my real age of 15.

[Eönwë]

You just want to be able to say you are 18.
Well obviously the true "Coming of Age" varies for each 'Downer, and is when you get a personal title, but I think now I'm maybe starting to lose a little of my newbie "not-properly-rotten-yet"ness. Just a little, mind you.

So I'm 81? I don't feel like it.... ;)
Well you are one of the "venerated elders" from the "Early Days" of the 'Downs, even though you haven't been around all that time. Anyway, Wights are like Numenoreans at their peak, so even though you may look old in normal human years, you've barely started your 'Downs career. ;)

[Hakon]

Wait so how do you get those personal titles? I know the admins and I think mods too give them to you but what do you have to do to get them?

Eonwe, as I stated before I feel more like 45 then I do 9 or 15 or the 18 I will be in 2011 on this site.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Wait so how do you get those personal titles?

Here's a brief information: Barrow-Downs FAQ thread (http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=6010)

Practically speaking: Once a year or so, The Barrow-Wight chooses a list of members who receive a personal title. The requirements:

1) A minimum of 500 posts
2) Positive contribution to the forum

Several factors contribute to this, including recommendations by moderators and administrators, and reputation status. If you are chosen, you will receive a PM and can then choose an appropriate title.

[Laurinquë]

Happy deathday Lommy and Eönwë! It appears that I have once more forgot my very own deathday until a few days after the fact. 13 December people! It just so happens that late December is the busiest time of the year for me with school and such; though it is still no excuse for forgetting the day you died. Maybe this is because I had such an uninteresting death though, who knows.

[Eönwë]

Happy Deathday Lauri! :D

Also, liking the avvie colour tweak.

[Laurinquë]

Happy Deathday Lauri! :D

Also, liking the avvie colour tweak.


Thank you! I'm not a prolific Downer but thanks all the same. You'll probably notice I changed my avvie again, perhaps I should have left it up for the 12 days of Christmas.

[Loslote]

Happy deathday, Lauri!

[Lush]

I have been around here for 8 years now, people. What in the Hades! :D

[Nogrod]

I have been around here for 8 years now, people.So only eternity minus 8 years left! Wait... eternity minus eight years is... eternity. :D

[Thinlómien]

Congrats, Lauri and Lush. :)

[Pitchwife]

Belated congratulations to Lauri, Lush and Eönwë!
And I just noticed - I've been dead for a year and five days now. Feels much longer...

[Formendacil]

As I believe I mentioned in my DeathDay post last year, January 6th is the Solemnity of the Epiphany on the calendar of my religion--albeit in my jurisdiction and others we moved it to Sunday this year as most--and it also happens to be the solemn anniversary of a personal epiphany--the day I joined the Barrow-downs in 2005, at the tender age of not-quite-18.

Given that, only just 2 days ago, I was at the biggest Barrow-downer gathering of all time, and had what I can genuinely call the best, and craziest, holiday of my life--not to mention the only real New Year's Party I would ever say I attended--given all that, I am considering my DeathDay a rather significant event in my life... and as the fallout from Bostonmoot (but more on that in the appropriate thread) begins to slowly get sorted and filed, I think it's only going to become more apparent how much of an impact this site has made on my life.

So I thank you all once again, on this annual celebration, for the wonderful presence you have all been--and are--in my life.

[Glirdan]

Happy Deathday Formy!! I miss you all so much already and will agree with you on just how much of an impact this site has made on me. I think, if we all leave a gathering like that with tearful or sorrowful goodbyes, we have all been touched by this site and by the amazing people who are a part of it.

And so I would like to say again, Happy Deathday Formendacil! It was a pleasure and an honor to have spent all of last week leading up to your Deathday with you!! :D

[Eönwë]

Happy Deathday Pitchwife! You definitely seem like you've been here longer than just a year!

And Happy Deathday Formy! May you stay for many more years to come!

[Estelyn Telcontar]

January 12 was my eighth Downs anniversary - that's like an eternity in these fast-paced internet times!

[Inziladun]

January 12 was my eighth Downs anniversary - that's like an eternity in these fast-paced internet times!

Happy belated Deathday! I missed my own in December.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Inzil, you were basically a legend from the beginnings by the time I came here - I'm delighted that you came back and are active again!

[Inziladun]

Inzil, you were basically a legend from the beginnings by the time I came here - I'm delighted that you came back and are active again!

Thank you, Esty. You're very kind.
You have to be careful feeding my ego, though. I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord ( the phantom ) himself. :)

[Pitchwife]

Hey, you're both legends in my eyes! Happy belated deathdays!

[Glirdan]

Well I am in total agreement with Esty on your return Zil for I do believe you were gone when I first joined. So I am glad that you have returned to us and we can share many more Werewolf games and discussions! Happy Belated Deathday to you!

And of course a Happy Belated Deathday to our dearest Esty! May you enjoy many more with us here!! :D

[Inziladun]

Thanks, Pitch and Glirdan. :)

[Eönwë]

Yes, Happy Deathday to the Great Skwerlèd Princess of Mods, Esty!

And Happy Deathday to Inzil, one of those who have returned to our great barrows from the Days of Old!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Happy deathdays to two esteemed Downers, Esty and Inziladun! May the rest of your deaths be happy.

[Glirdan]

Wow....hard to believe that it has already been four years that I have been a member on this site. Granted, approximately two of them were spent on hiatus(...uh....I mean...leave of absence :p) but they were wonderful two years spent here...when I was merely fifteen years of age. I am quite glad that I have decided to come back and start chatting with all of you again, and Bostonmoot reiterated how much I have missed this and all of you. Meeting that many Downer's with my best friend of life and ringing in the New Year with all of you was the best thing that has ever happened to me for you are all wonderfully intelligent, amazing, people.

And a giant thank you must go out to a few people. First and foremost, my dearest Wilwa for first introducing me to this site all those years ago. Second, to Nienna and Brinn for letting me go to Bostonmoot even though I had been gone for so long. And third, to everyone for making this the best site there is and making me (under threat of physical violence by Mira and puppy dog eyes from Boro and everyone else who attended Bostonmoot yelling at me to get my rear end in gear and post already :p) return. I am happy I did and cannot wait to share in more memories with all of you!

[Nienna]

Aww Glirdan well Happy Deathday! We are very happy to have you back and you are always welcome in Boston. :D *hugs*

[Boromir88]

How can I not wish a happy death day to Glirdan! (especially after saying I have puppy dog eyes! :p You're going to make me start tearing up again!) I regret that since Bostonmoot, it seems like you return to more activity, just as real life is sucking the life out of me. *sigh*

[wilwarin538]

*loves dearly that Glirdan is already pro at speeches, and looks forward to getting lots of credit in any Oscar wins he will get someday*

:D

Happy Deathday! ♥

[Eönwë]

Even though it's gone in my timezone, I wish Glirdan a very happy deathday!

[Oddwen]

Welp, I've been here for seven years. I now feel a proper zombie.

[Inziladun]

Happy Deathday, Oddwen!

[Eönwë]

Welp, I've been here for seven years. I now feel a proper zombie.

You are. :p

Happy Deathday!

[Glirdan]

Happy Deathday Oddwen!! :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

A happy deathday to Oddwen! May your corpse always have a fresh scent of rot!

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

As happens every single year, I forgot my deathday. 7th of May, I believe it was. Anyway, to maintain the percentage of my posts which are solely self-congratulatory (around 60%) here's to eight years! :smokin:

[Eönwë]

As happens every single year, I forgot my deathday. 7th of May, I believe it was. Anyway, to maintain the percentage of my posts which are solely self-congratulatory (around 60%) here's to eight years! :smokin:

Happy (belated) Deathday, Eomer! May the next years be even better than the last! :D

[The Might]

Congratulations on eight years!

It's strange how time flies so quickly, I still find interesting threads I then want to respond to, only to notice that I already have some 3 years ago.

[Mithalwen]

Six years dead today - and I contra my time dead against my time alive so I never age (in my own delusional mind of course). Still trying to work out just what I did with my time in earlier years...

[Eönwë]

Wow. Happy Deathday Mithalwen! Hope you never stop enjoying your time in these Barrows!

[Mithalwen]

Well I am trying to do other stuff as well more but yes it hasn't lost its hold on me yet. :D Still feel like a newcomer compared to Eomer and co though :D and miss the people who were around then but not now or not so much... HI, Fordim, Child... It took me ages to actually post (certainly other than in the quiz room) so daunted was I. I still haven't plucked up the courage to read canonicity let alone comment!

[Loslote]

Happy Deathday, O Great Grey Queen!:D

[Pitchwife]

R.I.P. (Rejoice in Posting?) Mith and Eomer!

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

It feels somehow wrong to say this, Mith, but you SPM, Lal and davem are still all n00bs to me. :p

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

While to me, Eomer, both you and Mith are venerable ancient members :) Shows one great feature of this site, we have virtually generations and generations of 'Downers who are still present even when the new people come...

Happy deathday (belated) to both of you!

[Mithalwen]

It feels somehow wrong to say this, Mith, but you SPM, Lal and davem are still all n00bs to me. :p

Actually it feels right to me... :D Even though there are so many who came after, I still feel an aftercomer... not of the first born. Even though some people *glares* seem to think we should be handed over to the National Trust. Ancient.. how rude! I'm still a teen ager in elf years... And Eomer is only in his tweens...

[Lalaith]

It feels somehow wrong to say this, Mith, but you SPM, Lal and davem are still all n00bs to me
Eomer, don't you think it's c00l when someone posts who has an even earlier deathday than you, but a really low post number?
It's like Ordodreth or Amarie or some such...a really cool but fairly obscure elf making an appearance...

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Happy death day to those who have been in the barrow far longer than I! My own death day was back in January (it's only a couple of years, so the body is relatively fresh). Today, though, I feel like the unquiet grave, as Montezuma's Revenge is making a miserably hot and humid day that much more miserable. Can a non-Elven person die twice? I may have an answer if this keeps up.

May all your barrows be cool and restful....

[Morthoron]

Hey! Three years and I haven't been banned for being belligerent! I must be mellowing into senile grumpitude. Bah!

[Inziladun]

Happy Deathday, Morthoron.

I wasn't here much when you joined up, but I've since had ample opportunity to appreciate your singular thought processes. ;)

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Morth, it seems to me that if you want to be banned, you have to come up with a way to tell us obvious 'secrets' for how to use our iPods or computers, or make us an offer we can't resist on stuff we either already have or don't want (but can get SO cheap from you because it's pirated). And wasn't there someone through here recently that was trolling for a woman in his sig file...? :D

Happy death day, regardless.

[Morthoron]

Morth, it seems to me that if you want to be banned, you have to come up with a way to tell us obvious 'secrets' for how to use our iPods or computers...

Happy death day, regardless.

Hmmm...become a spam-bot? Novel idea. New career move, perhaps. I will have to unlearn grammar, syntax and spelling, which may prove problematic.

In any case, thank you and thank you Inziladun as well.

[Eönwë]

Happy Deathday, Morth!

[Pitchwife]

I've since had ample opportunity to appreciate your singular thought processes. ;)
... and even more singular style of phrasing them:D. Happy deathday Morth!

[Brinniel]

I almost forgot...it's my deathday! Eight years ago today I became a member of the Barrow-Downs and since then, never has anything made so much of an impact on my life. You wouldn't think that something so simple as signing up for a website would have such an effect, but it has. :smokin:

[Inziladun]

Congratulations, Brinn!

Here's to at least eight more. :)

[Morthoron]

Congrats, Brinniel!

[Loslote]

Ooh, yay for Brinn! Zil, only eight more? Really? I was thinking somewhere in the vicinity of, I don't know, eternity. :p

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Happy deathday, Brinn! :) That's wonderful - such a long time, the 'Downs are really an inseparable part of your life now. :) Many more!!

[Pitchwife]

Happy deathday, Brinn! Many happy returns!

[Thinlómien]

Happy deathday, Brinn! :) *hugs*

[Inziladun]

Ooh, yay for Brinn! Zil, only eight more? Really? I was thinking somewhere in the vicinity of, I don't know, eternity. :p

Assuming we're all still here after 2012 and the internet hasn't imploded. ;)

[Eönwë]

Happy Deathday Brinn! :D


Assuming we're all still here after 2012 and the internet hasn't imploded. ;)
Well, I know that alatar will be getting on here from his secret underground bunker... (see this thread (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?p=560959)) :p

[wilwarin538]

Just realised my deathday has come and gone! Well happy belated deathday to me I guess, haha. :D

[Kath]

Then happy belated deathday wilwa!

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

I still haven't plucked up the courage to read canonicity let alone comment!

The day you do both, I shall be happy to return to the Downs and take up the battle once more.

[Mithalwen]

Prepare to return oh Fordim for that post has made me feel young as I have not done since all these children turned up... and certain rash words concerning the Prince of Ithilien still lie between us...

So a flibbertigibbert has to do what a flibbertigibbert has to do....

Don't hold your breath but it shall be done...

[satansaloser2005]

I've been dead three years now. I'm pretty spry for a corpse. :rolleyes:

[Thinlómien]

Congrats Sally! :)

[The Might]

HAPPY DEATHDAY TO THE ONE AND ONLY LEGATE OF AMON LANC!!!


http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/67/Cthulhu_and_R_lyeh.jpg


FROM THE MIGHT AND CTHULHU

[Pitchwife]

Iä! W'grlhYog-Leggath dethdai blmfglgggh!

[Eönwë]

Happy Deathday Legate!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Hey, amazing, folks, thanks so much, especially for such original wishes!!! I almost forgot my deathday myself, and was not around to receive your wishes on the day, but at least belatedly, let me say that the years I have spent here are too little among such amazing dead... so I should probably just add...

That is not dead which can eternal lie/and with strange aeons even death may die

In which case I hope to remain here for aeons at the least :)

[Valier]

Well I've been lurking lately....just had a baby and things are starting to settle down. Just having a peek and noticed...I missed my deathday!! I've been dead for 5 years now!! Oh how time flies:smokin:

[Eönwë]

Happy Deathday and congratulations Valier!

[Eönwë]

It seems I've missed my Deathday this year, after waiting for it for almost a month.

Wow, three years already...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Hey, belated happy Deathday, Eönwë! :) I think missing Deathdays is something like a habit, it should really be shown at the birthday list as well...

And belated happy Deathday to Valier, too!

[Inziladun]

And today marks 10 years to the day that I stumbled upon this forum, mired in the myriad EZ Board Tolkien forums that each had a different theme.
A lot has changed for me in RL since then, but it's honestly been very comforting over the years to know this place is still here, and is still very much the same as when I first found it. :)

[Pitchwife]

Happy deathday, Zil! You make me feel so young (in Barrow-Downs years, that is;))!
Without any flattery, I feel you've been playing a substantial part in making and keeping this place what it is. I can't imagine the Books section without your omnipresent thoughtfulness... and a Werewolf game of course wouldn't be quite complete without you.
So here's to you, and the next ten!

[Thinlómien]

Ooh, happy deathday Zil. It's comforting to know there are people who have been addicted for longer than me. ;) Belated congrats to Valier and Eönwë too. :)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Happy deathday, Inzil! Wouldn't it need some sort of special celebration? After all, 10 years is really quite a feat! In any case, all the best for the next 10 years! :)

[Inziladun]

Many thanks for the kind words, friends.
It's been said before, but what really "makes" this place is the quality of the people who frequent it. I'm not much of a forum haunter, really, just this place; there's certainly a reason why that is so. :)

[Eönwë]

A very Happy (belated) Deathday to Inzil!

[Inziladun]

Thanks, steve. ;)

[Glirdan]

Wow...I can't believe it's been six years (no I am not counting my hiatus so shush :P ) that I've been among such wonderful people. You're all absolutely amazing and I am quite glad that Ms. Wilwa got me to go to the Bostonmoot last year, thus making me come back amongst the wonderful dead :D Thanks for all the fun times everyone!! Can't wait to spend more with all of you!!

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Ha! I actually remembered my deathday this year (it was yesterday). Nine years in the barrow, and feeling dead as ever. ;)

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday, Eomer!

[Pitchwife]

Happy deathday and many happy returns, o Champion of the Warg!

[Blind Guardian]

Hey, look! I died last month! Awesome!

Actually, it was only 11 days ago.

[Inziladun]

Happy Deathday Eomer, and belatedly for BG.

[Eönwë]

Happy Deathday Eomer, and BG as well!

[Lhunardawen]

Ha! I actually remembered my deathday this year (it was yesterday). Nine years in the barrow, and feeling dead as ever. ;) It doesn't feel to me that you've aged a bit. :p

Belated happy deathday, Eomer. :)

[Mithalwen]

Ah well Lhuna, my theory is that I can contra my years dead against my time alive and never age at all.... Maybe Eomer does the same :D

[Thinlómien]

Belated congrats, Eomer and BG. :)

[Galadriel55]

Happy belated deathday, BG!

[Blind Guardian]

Thanks!

[Mithalwen]

Seven years dead as of yesterday......

[Galadriel55]

Happy (belated) deathday, Mith! Seven is just the number - can't say it's lucky, but it's special. :D

[Mithalwen]

Thank you. Seven comes from the Hebrew word for completeness. Not that I plan going anywhere (though RL enforced a degree of sabbatical last year)..yes...seven stars and seven stones and one white tree...

[Galadriel55]

Thank you. Seven comes from the Hebrew word for completeness.

Well, your time on the Downs is far from complete! :D ;)

[Mithalwen]

I hope that is the case!

[Thinlómien]

Hope you had a fun deathday, Mith. :D

[Inziladun]

Happy Deathday, Mith!

[Mithalwen]

I did I went to Brighton with my cousins and met my sister who lives there and we went to a talk (very funny) on gin in literature and drank an assortment of cocktails and had a splendid time. Not for nothing is my nom de plume elsewhere ginslinger:Merisu:

http://www.hendrickshorselesscarriage.com/

[Pitchwife]

Happy Deathday, Mith, and seven times seven more years!

http://www.hendrickshorselesscarriage.com/
For a moment there, I thought your account had been hacked by a spambot...;)

[Mithalwen]

Only a gin bot(tle).. seven times seven may be a bit optimistic....but as the judge instructed, I'll do as many as I can....

[Eönwë]

Happy Deathday, Mithalwen! :D

[Lhunardawen]

Belated happy deathday, Mother dear! :)

[Morthoron]

Hmmm...it seems I died in June four years ago. I hadn't noticed. Now where's this white light everyone mentions?

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday, Morth! The white light is for regular people; we have wight light! :p

[Rikae]

A very happy deathday to Volo! Five years, right?

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday, Volo!

On birthdays it's like we are born again. So we die again every deathday? Or, we simply rot a little more... :D

[Galadriel55]

This day, exactly a year ago, was a turning point for the world: the Downs gained one new member called Galadriel55. :D:D:D

[Durelin]

Seeing the thread posted to reminded me, I missed my Deathday on Friday the 14th. 9 years... :eek:

And congrats, G55, it gained an excellent member indeed!

[Galadriel55]

Conratulations, Dury! Yeah, 9 years seems a lot!

And thanks! :D

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Belated happy deathday to both of you, G55 (has it been already a year!) and Dury! (And to all whomever else's deathday might have been in the course of the past weeks but who have not reminded us of that yet.) It's nice to have you around here both :)

[Galadriel55]

Thanks Legate!

[hubesiagosa67]

What! I have never heard of that, anyway I wish you die today maybe it could be a better taste for you, happy death day in advance.:mad:

[Galadriel55]

What! I have never heard of that, anyway I wish you die today maybe it could be a better taste for you, happy death day in advance.:mad:

Hey, hey, what are you so mad about? It's the forum theme. ;) Those who read Fellowship of the Ring know that the Barrow Downs are located between Bree and the Old Forest, and that they are "haunted" by Barrow Wights. Anyone who dares to cross the Downs at night is "killed" by them and joins the ranks of the undead.

For me joining this forum was certainly a change for the better, and I think I speak for the majority here as well. The "deathday" is like a birthday on this forum. :)

[Meela]

Just popped over here by chance and then suddenly remembered October's just been... An entire decade has now passed since I began haunting the site. How the time flies. I took up permanent residency as Meela a year and a bit after I actually came to the site and the forum, so it's nine years of continuous posting, but ten years now overall. I might even bake a cake to celebrate.

(Update) On second thoughts, scrap the cake. Have decided on a fitting way to celebrate ten years of talking, thinking, watching, living, breathing LotR. I am going to read the Lord of the Rings for the first time ever.

[Galadriel55]

Wow, what a date! Congratulations!

[The Might]

Congrats, G55! One year, but it feels like you've been haunting this place for much longer.

Also congrats to Durelin and Meela, celebratory cakes are definitely necessary!

[Galadriel55]

Thanks, Miggy!

One year, but it feels like you've been haunting this place for much longer.

Must be the predominating quantity over quality of posts.... :cool:

[Mithalwen]

Happy deathday little wolf cub ;)

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday little wolf cub ;)

Thank you, Mama Wolf. :Merisu:

(quite coincidentally ironical, your congratulation, with my recent WW death... :p)

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday, sally! May many more come yet!

[The Might]

In only 5 years you found not only interesting discussions and quizzes in these deathly halls, but a soulmate to rot together with as well! Here's to the next 5 years, Legate!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6WpGAsA59OU/TfLGyq8uATI/AAAAAAAAAJo/WnhFY17bpLM/s1600/skyrim-logo-dragon.jpg

PS: Not sure if you are a TES fan, but it was just too tempting to use the Skyrim logo for a "V" :)

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday Legate!

Here's to the next 5 years

Only five? More like five times fifty-five! :)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

PS: Not sure if you are a TES fan, but it was just too tempting to use the Skyrim logo for a "V" :)
Well, I am not, so in fact I have no idea what it is about, but that does not matter, I can at least just take it as it is, and it's nice :)

Thank you both for remembering me! It's rather amazing thing... five years sounds incredibly creepy. I mean, by the time I joined, "five years dead" people were the ones who have joined the 'Downs basically after it came to existence...

Only five? More like five times fifty-five!
I certainly hope for as much :)

[Lindolirian]

My goodness. Though I am not as active as I once was in this forum, I still haunt and read now and then. But it has been an entire decade! I was unaware the internet was even that old... ;) How things have changed since I was a wee 14 year old bopping my way around the Quiz Room. :)

[The Might]

Happy Deathday, Lindorilian!
It's always nice to see "old-timers" find their way back to the Downs! :)

[Pitchwife]

Happy birthday, Lindolirian, and belatedly to Legate, sally, G55 and all you other beloved corpses I've missed lately!

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday Lindolirian!

I feel such a new-caught hobbit compared to all you old-timers...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Happy deathday Lindolirian!

I feel such a new-caught hobbit compared to all you old-timers...

No, that's just exactly what I was talking about - that's how I felt as compared to those like Lindolirian, yet now the difference between me and you is the same as it was between the two of us. Before you know it, you'll be there as well.

Belated happy deathday to Lindolirian, too! And I think it is really nice to have the true "most ancient 'Downers" still being with us and coming back! The 'Downs is truly a magnetic site - should I say, the world of magnets and miracles :)

[Eönwë]

I almost forgot, but today marks my fourth year on the 'Downs. It definitely doesn't feel as long.

[Pitchwife]

As on Skype, thus on the Downs: happy dëathdäy, Eönwë!

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday Eonwe! I wish you to rot soundly on! :p

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Last week was my 10th anniversary on the Downs - and we have a new film to look forward to this year, so no end is in sight!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Last week was my 10th anniversary on the Downs - and we have a new film to look forward to this year, so no end is in sight!

Oh my! Ten years, that is absolutely incredible! Ugh, I only now realised that the 'Downs is already over 10 years old... all the time I keep thinking that it is still "just the 2000's", while it's already the 2010's...
And that is scary, too. But then again, aren't Barrow-Downs supposed to be scary?

Happy deathday, Esty! :)

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday Esty! 10 years is quite a date - and as you said yourself, will not be the last one. Here's for 10 more!

Oh my! Ten years, that is absolutely incredible!

Seconded!

Ugh, I only now realised that the 'Downs is already over 10 years old...

We're ancient. :cool: Another couple decades and we'll reach the hobbit age of maturity... :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Last week was my 10th anniversary on the Downs - and we have a new film to look forward to this year, so no end is in sight!

Congratulations, quite an achievement.

Do you think the new film, will result in a host of new members and perhaps a revitalization of the forum?

[Oddwen]

Last week was my 10th anniversary on the Downs - and we have a new film to look forward to this year, so no end is in sight!


Happy Day of Death, Esty! May you rot for decades to come. :D

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Thanks, ya'll! To speculate on Rune's question (only Malbeth could *answer* it), I hope so! I know that numerous book fans got together online after the LotR movies came into the theatres, and I think there may be people who see the Hobbit movies and want to discuss them (and subsequently the books) with others.

[HerenIstarion]

Last week was my 10th anniversary on the Downs - and we have a new film to look forward to this year, so no end is in sight!

Grats a bunch to be sure :)

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Last week was my 10th anniversary on the Downs - and we have a new film to look forward to this year, so no end is in sight!

That must mean that it was mine too. Happy deathday to both of us. In celebration I've gone back to my original avatar and as much of my original signature as the forum will still allow. Oh, and the sword that I used to use because it was the default post icon. :smokin:

[satansaloser2005]

Last week was my 10th anniversary on the Downs - and we have a new film to look forward to this year, so no end is in sight!

Wowsers, Esty! Felicitations and cake! :)

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday Squatter!

I just thought... it's a scary coincidence (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=666461&postcount=1864) that you seemed to die again just, well, now... :eek:

[Blind Guardian]

Two days late, but whatever: I'M DEAD! Oh, the horror...

[Inziladun]

Happy Deathday, BG!

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday BeiGei!

[Mithalwen]

Eight years dead today..whatever did I do before?...anyway there will be cake later.... :D

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday Mith! Eight whole years of dedicated posting! You've made every single post count! :)

(And that's with almost a thousand posts per year, so that's a lot of counting! :p)

During those eight years that you've been dead you've added so much to the Downs with your cheerful personality - and let us not forget the post-count :P. It would not be the same without this wonderful wight. Blessed is this day, eight years ago, that you've joined this forum!

*presents Mith with a virtual cake*

[Mithalwen]

Lol cheerfully embracing grumpy old bagdom maybe. Bit worried about the post count actually since I don't want to be the one to displace the Pan Man. Nor am I sure about the quality -for a long time my most repped post ever boiled down to "I like cats":rolleyes: Does occur that maybe I should mark the occasion by finally posting on Canonicity.... I may be gone some time...

[Meneltarmacil]

As of today, I have been dead for nine years.

[Mithalwen]

Congratulations on your ninth death day....

[Galadriel55]

Congrats, Menel!

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Feeling old reading this page. Congratulations all. I, as is tradition, forgot my deathday again this year - and it was the big 1-0. :D

Who would have guessed that teenaged imbecile would still be hanging around so far into the future?

[Galadriel55]

Congrats, Eomer! Happy anniversary? :D

I feel so new reading this page. ;)

[Morthoron]

Five years, and I'm still not a veteran. :eek:
Congrats on your decrepitude, Eomer!

[Galadriel55]

Not a veteran? Well, depends to whom, I guess. Congratulations, Morth!

[Morthoron]

Not a veteran? Well, depends to whom, I guess. Congratulations, Morth!

Thanks, G55, but you have to understand, there are some wights here nearly from the previous century. :D

That's some really moldering cadavers!

[Kuruharan]

*checks watch*

Six months late on my original intention of my making some mention of my own crossing into the ranks of those who have been posting here ten years because I...sort of forgot.

Oh well, I suppose such slips are permitted (unavoidable even) to those who have reached my age and...eccentricity.

Still its kinda weird thinking its been ten years since I signed up to the Downs.

I mean, it can't really have been that long...can it..? :eek:

[Galadriel55]

You're ancient, Kuru! ;):p Congratulations! :D

[Kuruharan]

Thanks! :D

Err...wait a minute...

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

As melodramatic as it might be to say: I died on August second 2007 and my life has never been the same. These past five years have been the most eventful and important years of my life. I have discovered more and more bits about my personality and that is at least partially because of the 'Downs. I haven't posted a lot for a year or two, but I still love it here.
... I just can't believe it has been this long and I am only eighteen years old.

[Galadriel55]

Happy anniversary, TeaGEW! We all love you despite your low participation lately! :)

...When I'm going to be rotting for five years I'll also be eighteen. I wonder if I'm going to feel the same way.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Happy anniversary, TeaGEW! We all love you despite your low participation lately! :)

...When I'm going to be rotting for five years I'll also be eighteen. I wonder if I'm going to feel the same way.
Thanks. There really hasn't been a whole lot happening on the Downs recently, except for WW, which I am really not all that interested in (please don't lynch me :p). I can't say that I really miss the days where I posted more, after all, I have said some pretty silly things.

It is such an odd feeling having the Downs in my life for so long, but only being my age. I do still feel like I am literally sixteen years old (yes, I really mean "literally", not "figuratively"). I should really post more because the Barrow-Downs makes me so happy, but I guess I'll have to start making the effort again.

[Galadriel55]

I just realized that I missed my 2nd deathday! It's been over a month ago!

It's because whenever I'm on the Downs it feels like I've been here forever and I'll be here forever and it doesn't matter if I go one for another day or two...or year or two.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I just realized that I missed my 2nd deathday! It's been over a month ago!

It's because whenever I'm on the Downs it feels like I've been here forever and I'll be here forever and it doesn't matter if I go one for another day or two...or year or two.

Only 2nd? Because really, it feels as if you've been around much longer! Amazing, in any case, belated happy deathday :)

Actually, my deathday was 10 days ago, but it's so scary and I refuse to count anymore how manieth it is... I am sure I don't want to know, because I am probably already as "old" as the oldest members were when I joined the 'Downs, and that is something I refuse to accept. *Walks away, whistling "Forever Young"*

[Galadriel55]

Only 2nd? Because really, it feels as if you've been around much longer! Amazing, in any case, belated happy deathday :)

Thanks! Sometimes I feel like an "old-timer" too, but when people from, like, 2002 start talking I feel so new still.

Actually, my deathday was 10 days ago, but it's so scary and I refuse to count anymore how manieth it is... I am sure I don't want to know, because I am probably already as "old" as the oldest members were when I joined the 'Downs, and that is something I refuse to accept.

You are, actually. :eek: But it only happens once in a deathtime. I think the occurence is quite special. Mine will only be in 2020.

Anyways, happy deathday!

[Gil-Galad]

Just decided to look at my deathdate, and it is Feb 13th 2003. What chance!

Already in the double digits for me...

[Galadriel55]

Happy 10th anniversary, Gil!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I missed my 10th deathday!! I think I read the date as the 1st of July, rather than the 7th of January. Oops!

Anyway, thank you all for being such excellent and admirable Wights. You've put up with my nonsense and stupidity for ten years, here's to another ten! *gets shot in the face by the BWH*

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday, Hook!

Anyway, thank you all for being such excellent and admirable Wights. You've put up with my nonsense and stupidity for ten years, here's to another ten! *gets shot in the face by the BWH*

If that's what you get shot for...







...may the BWH have many more reasons to do it again (but pardon you every time)! :p

[Mithalwen]

Oh dear another year gone and not even the foothills of canonicity tackled.. really must do something about that... don't like to welch on a deal. So missed the official anniversary on Tuesday because all I could see of the downs was a load of grids but its restoration to health a source of great joy given how much of the past nine years I have spent here. :cool:

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday Mamawolf! Here's to many more! :D

[Mithalwen]

Thank you my dear little cub.

[Mithalwen]

Raising a glass to the Prof who died forty years ago today.

Lands there are to west of West
Where nights are quiet and sleep is rest..

[Galadriel55]

When I became a full time Downer, I promised myself that I will be a proper Downer and never forget my deathday (it's like forgetting New Year! :rolleyes:). Took me only 3 years to break that promise. :D

[Estelyn Telcontar]

My twelfth deathday was this past week. I am immensely fond of you all, and twelve years is too short a time to be dead among such excellent and admirable wights.

[Inziladun]

My twelfth deathday was this past week. I am immensely fond of you all, and twelve years is too short a time to be dead among such excellent and admirable wights.

Congratulations! Your voice of insightful reason and (sometimes) discrete refereeing is much appreciated.

[Galadriel55]

Congratulations Esty! Happy dozenth deathday!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

My twelfth deathday was this past week. I am immensely fond of you all, and twelve years is too short a time to be dead among such excellent and admirable wights.

Indeed! So if this was the twelfth, here's to one Gross! :) We are happy to have you around, in fact, what would we do without you?

[Kuruharan]

If Estelyn is at 12, then I must be too.

Gackh! :eek:

(Technically it is on the 23rd, but being up in years at this point, who knows if I will remember.)

[HerenIstarion]

If Estelyn is at 12, then I must be too.

Gackh! :eek:

(Technically it is on the 23rd, but being up in years at this point, who knows if I will remember.)

Happy deathday, and Estelyn too :)

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday Kuru!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

It's been nearly three weeks, but I recently passed 11 years on the Downs!! How did this even happen!?!?
I'm so glad to have met you all. You guys are the best people in my life right now. :)

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday Hooky! *sends hugs*

[Mithalwen]

A decade ago today I joined the Downs and started to contra my time dead against time alive so I stopped ageing (ha, I wish)... really wonder what I did before...

[Galadriel55]

Woot! Into the double digits! Happy deathday, MamaMith!

[tom the eldest]

Whats a deathday?

[Mithalwen]

Anniversary of date joining the Barrow Downs. Since the Barrows housed wights and as a new members first. Post count related title is "newly deceased", we say we died when we joined. And in the busy old days it really could take over your life

[Morthoron]

Happy Dd, Mith. Mine is just around the corner.

[HerenIstarion]

Happy D-Day, Mith :)

[HerenIstarion]

Well I have only been fourmonths dead ... so I am still cutting my teeth.......

Just went to see how it all started

Somewhat nostalgic, to read this and think about 10 years that passed :)

[wilwarin538]

Just realized that the 15th was my 10 year deathday! Can't believe it's been that long :cool:

[Galadriel55]

Wilwa! Double digits! Happy deathday muffin!!!

[Galadriel55]

When I scrolled to the bottom of the page, I saw that it's morm's birthday, and I felt funny, because I was sure I've wished him happy birthday recently. To test my sanity, I skimmed through the last few months of the birthday thread to see if I mistakenly thought that someone with a similar username was morm, but no, I did not post that anytime recent. I decided that time flies, and then realized that I once again missed my deathday, and if it wasn't for morm's birthday, I would miss it completely. :o

[mormegil]

When I scrolled to the bottom of the page, I saw that it's morm's birthday, and I felt funny, because I was sure I've wished him happy birthday recently. To test my sanity, I skimmed through the last few months of the birthday thread to see if I mistakenly thought that someone with a similar username was morm, but no, I did not post that anytime recent. I decided that time flies, and then realized that I once again missed my deathday, and if it wasn't for morm's birthday, I would miss it completely. :o

Well happy deathday!

[Galadriel55]

Well happy deathday!

Thank 'ee kindly, sir!

[satansaloser2005]

I seem to miss my death day every year, possibly because my brain is seven years rotted and can no longer keep time. Here's to knowing you fine corpses for many years to come!

[Tar-Jêx]

I seem to miss my death day every year, possibly because my brain is seven years rotted and can no longer keep time. Here's to knowing you fine corpses for many years to come!

Luckily, I have a memorable death day. The 1st of September. However, I can't guarantee that I will remember it when it comes around.

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday sally! I think you're not in too much trouble; last year I almost forgot my birthday. :rolleyes:

Luckily, I have a memorable death day. The 1st of September. However, I can't guarantee that I will remember it when it comes around.

I remember the date of my deathday, but I believe I only actually remembered to commemorate it on the day itself once. I think most people here remember the day, or at least month, or their deathday, but it just kinda floats by without you noticing.

[Eönwë]

Looks like I missed number seven. Has it really been that long?

[Galadriel55]

Happy deathday, Eonwe! Here's to the next seven! :D