Most Embarassing BD moment

[The Only Real Estel]

Have any of you guys had any really embarassing moments while here on the barrowdowns? You know, the one's where you just feel like posting an entire line or so of :o's ;)? Tell us all about it here! (A few of mine are posted further down in the thread ;))

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Shouldn't this be in the Barrowdowns forum? Seems a tad more appropriate methinks.

But anywho, I do have one (for now) of these moments to share. It was back in the day, on a cold and stormy night, when I made my worst ever decision on the Barrowdowns. I posted a thread concerning the family trees of selected members of the House of Finwe in which I asked a most ridiculous question, one which could easily have been answered had I only just read the chapter in the Silmarillion more closely. Worse still, it was in the Books forum. :rolleyes:

I was promptly beaten with sticks and locked in an underground place of security for 3 weeks, with only water and cram to survive on. Nevertheless, it was worth the punishment as I have become a far smarter member of the site for it. ;)

[The Only Real Estel]

Eomer: I figured it could go in either place, but this:
I was promptly beaten with sticks and locked in an underground place of security for 3 weeks, with only water and cram to survive on
is a good reason for it to go in Mirth ;).
One of my most embarassing (or unfortunate) moments was when my troublesome brother came on & decided to post that I had met Hugo Weaving, Viggo Mortensen, & others; & had gotten autographs of practically all the cast. Though I wish that was true, I had to spend almost a week explaining to all the people who wanted the details that I had not done any of the things that were mentioned. I promptly fed my brother to the Watcher in the nearby pond. :p

[Elennar Starfire]

My most embarrassing BD moment is far too embarrassing to point out. If ye look for it though, it's still there. With a second post about how embarrassed I am to have posted it. I'm a bit embarrassed by my first post, it consisting of "You guys are so funny! LOL!" Also the time I posted a new topic without thinking to see if it'd been posted already, and the B-W deleted it...

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Fea looks around for those whose wrath may still be fresh...

Dare I admit to the shame of it? I once... nay... twice!... resurrected a Balrog/Wing debate. I was very quickly shown the error of my ways. I then proceeded to make a valiant attempt to put a different spin on the debate (the worst reasons you've heard for peoples' beliefs, as opposed to the beliefs themselves) with a new thread, however... it didn't fly well with the posters. ;) They promptly decided to ignore my rules of engagement and rehash all of the old arguements. I was, yet again, shown the error of my ways.

Fea

**EDIT**: Fordim: Balrogs have wings just as conclusively as Aragorn does. Wingfoot, remember.

[Lhunardawen]

My most embarrassing BD moment is far too embarrassing to point out. If ye look for it though, it's still there.
Ditto.

*hangs head in shame*

[Lachwen]

My most embarrassing moment was in the Books forum, when I asked if the Seven Names of Gondolin were actually written down somewhere. It turned out that they are - in The Book of Lost Tales 2, which I own and had read not a month earlier! It seems I had turned more than one page at some point and missed the section. I felt quite the fool.

Feanor: that pun was terrible. Careful, or I'll get my friend Roger the Redundant to WOAW you. :)

[Meneltarmacil]

My most embarassing moment would have to be my very first post on the Downs. I hadn't read the rules for the Quiz Room and posted a question without answering the last one. (I went back and deleted it later though)

I think that might have been why they locked me in this gorilla cage...

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Dare I admit to the shame of it? I once... nay... twice!... resurrected a Balrog/Wing debate.

Now that is embarassing. . .particularly when the debate has been so firmly settled that they do, in fact, have wings! :p :p :p

[Saraphim]

My most embarassing moment? I'd need to change that noun to a plural. I can't count the times I've embarassed myself on this site.

I mostly made stupid mistakes when I was a newbie, but I still do things that make me want to flog myself over the head and throw myself bodily into that "underground place of security" of Eomer's.

[NightKnight]

Hmm, I must admit that I've made a few mistakes in the Quiz Room. Making stupid questions that there are no answers to, giving wrong answers (20 questions) etc.

[THE Ka]

Ah, great. Now i have to tell all. Well, ah, how do i say this? Everytime you see, when i post something, i always come in late or at the very end of the thread.(I have a job with unusual hours so, beare with me.) So, not everyone is on the forum at these times. I feel that i am "killing" the thread. because, i have to go back and read all the other posts, quote them because i will make no sense since i am sooo far away from their post, so i quote about six times. Then, two days later the thread is either put down or finally someone comes along and starts a new connecting post...

So, as you can see, i have to communicate over many voices. and i am rarely heard. Oh well, life suxs at times. :rolleyes:

[Elennar Starfire]

Poor Ka...*huggles*

[elronds_daughter]

Indeed. Poor Ka.

Hmm... So far I have taken care not to fall into any embarassing moments. Hooray for me! Unless, of course, you count the fact that I just recently got in on the RPG thing, and had no clear direction where I was taking my character. I've corrected that now, and thougt it out a bit more.

[Galadel Vinorel]

This is truly embarassing, and I haven't spoken about it until now, but oh well...might as well share it with you all.

It was on a dark and stormy night over two years ago. I was a young Barrowdowner then, a newbie, for it was only my second day on the site. I was very bored that night so I decided to create a new thread called, "Anyone want to chat?" I am sure by now you have seen the foolishness of my ways. Well, I was young and nieve and did not know any better. As soon as the barrowight saw what I had done he ran after me, picked me up and shook me like a dog, screaming, "Why did you do it!" He then threw me across the room and quickly closed the thread that I had just opened. Staring angirly at me he warned me never to do it again and stormed out of the room. Well, let's just say that I have certainly learned my lesson and have never again opened a thread without there being a good reason for its existence.

Well, that is my most embarrassing moment at at the Barrowdowns. Oh, my apologies to barrowight if I offended you. I have the upmost respect for you my good friend. :D

Cheerio!

[Maeggaladiel]

Ugh, I've got several. Sometimes I'm very glad of the fact that nobody knows the woman behind the keyboard when Maeggaladiel posts.

My first trip to the Green Dragon was somewhat... disasterous. I had just read the Red Book and promised to follow all the rules. What was the first thing I posted? Paragraphs single-spaced, indented with the TAB key. I had my Private Messages turned off, so Pio had to explain things to the stupid newbie right there in the Inn. In addition to that, I godmodded somebody. I almost posted a fight scene, until I remembered that fights weren't allowed in the inn. ALL IN ONE POST. Lastly, I named a character in an RP a name from Silms, and I hadn't realized that it was a name from Silm until Pio came over and told me so. Then I made the character use magic that Tolkien wouldn't have written into his stories. Again, Pio had to have a chat with me. Wow. I'm surprised that Pio didn't kick me out after all I did to her beautiful Shire. I'm better at that now. I haven't done anything like that since those first horrible posts. I promise.

I've also created threads that already existed, bringing upon myself the terrible wrath of the BW. He's scary.

In addition, I was briefly involved with the infamous Elrond's Guestbook fiasco from a few years ago. *hides from angry mods who have tried to forget that particular thread*

*puts bag over head and leaves the Barrow Downs Confessional*
MAEG

[Boromir88]

My most embarassing moment happened just recently, I think. In my thread "Saruman's ending (PJ's way)." We were talking about how Legolas supposedly shoots Grima from off the top of Orthanc and kills him. In my moment of brainfarts I said, "anyway wouldn't Saruman pull a Gandalf and deflect Legolas' arrow." Luckily, SpM, caught this mistake, and said "Wasn't Saruman already dead, before Legolas shot the arrow?" I think I'll just edit that post, and say, Grima will catch the Arrow before it reaches him :D .

[mark12_30]

Hmmm. I think the time I started a thread on Archery. It was supposed to be a thread about Tolkien fandom and archery, and whether being a LOTR fan (or an elf-fancier) would make one more apt to take up archery, and then it was supposed to segue into how all those archers (I assumed there would be many) made their archery as elvish as humanly possible.

Unfortunately for my ego all that lovely correlation to Tolkien and his elves was in my head, and not in the opening post. I blandly and bumblingly opened with something like, "Hey, how many other archers do we have here on the Downs?"

:eek:

The thread was immediately pounced on :mad: by several veterans as being completely and totally non-Tolkien related. I felt that I was being buried in an avalanche of laughter, indignation, and disgust from people I loved and respected-- who knew that I knew better.

:o

What could I say? My opening post had given them no other options. I begged the Wight to delete the thread and save me further embarassment. He graciously did so.

[The Only Real Estel]

I'm not the most proud of my first posts (first 10 actually) either. I came on at about midnight & immediately visited a thread in The Movies about 'inconsistencies' (mistakes). Unfortunately, I acted like a true newbie & didn't read the FAQ. Because of that, I did not know how to edit my posts, so I ended up copy-pasting things from pages back, quoting them, & then basically saying that somebody else's explaination was correct. Since I didn't know how to edit, somewhere in that thread there is a page with at least 10 posts in a row...all from me. And a few of those posts were just to address spelling errors! :o Fortunately, I recently tried to search for all of my posts to laugh at my oldest ones & it only had about the newest 500, so they can't be found the easy way. Besides, even if any diligent soul found them, they'd be so muddled with <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>'s that they'd be barely readable (fortunately). :D

Edit: Oh wow. Now that I've gone back & read some of my earliest posts, they're even more embarassing than before! :o

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

My most embarassing BD moment? Ok, here it is:

I'm not all that fond of the Silmarillion. In fact, I find it rather boring and not terribly well-written. Barely managed to finish it.

Or is this more appropriate to thread devoted to our "most self-destructive BD moment"?

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

There was that whole kilt fiasco which I enjoyed a little too much.... :rolleyes:

[Mithalwen]

Kilts I remember... but a fiasco not..... but I thought of you when I saw the picture of the soldiers with badger sporrans and the queen.....

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

If we are going by embarrassment for other people's actions, Eomer, I would have to say that mine was when some tom-fool-of-a-newbie decided to chime in about me on 101 Things No Barrowdowner Would Say. "I'm droolin'. what's your age chick?" Completely inappropriate and not even particularly intelligent sounding. I was just embarrassed that the fool thought that sort of comment would be welcome on such a family-friendly site as this.

[the phantom]

Yeah, right, Fea. You know you were walking on air after that "tom-fool-of-a-newbie" said that. You're just embarrassed that you liked such an inappropriate comment.

You can't fool your fellow members. We know your type- seedy, sordid, squalid, and everything in between.

:p

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Ah, I do remember that....unpleasantness.... :rolleyes:

That was a general embarrassing moment for everyone, I think.

[mark12_30]

Or is this more appropriate to thread devoted to our "most self-destructive BD moment"?

Oh, please don't start one of those, Fordie. I'd have to completely dominate it.

[the phantom]

I'm not all that fond of the Silmarillion.
Ack!! :eek:
In fact, I find it rather boring and not terribly well-written. Barely managed to finish it.
:mad:

You leave me no choice...

I am Gandalf the White, who has returned from death. You have no colour now, and I cast you from the order and from the Barrow-Downs.

Fordim Hedgethistle, your staff is broken!!

:p

[THE Ka]

My biggest embarassment? Just a minute ago when spelt Frodo ---> fordo in the LOTR Astrology project. I don't think i will edit it. Just for my amusement.

Don't know why but, it's a funny one!!!

*Ka snikkers :D

~Yet another Annoying Ka post~

[THE Ka]

Ah, I do remember that....unpleasantness.... :rolleyes:

That was a general embarrassing moment for everyone, I think.

I Laughed. :rolleyes:

Don't worry, I knew you didn't mean to say it in that way Fea. I really think it is the people who think of it that way as being sick... ;)

besides that, I missed it the first time. So, you have one un-believer.


~Compassionate Ka~

[THE Ka]

Indeed. Poor Ka.

Hmm... So far I have taken care not to fall into any embarassing moments. Hooray for me! Unless, of course, you count the fact that I just recently got in on the RPG thing, and had no clear direction where I was taking my character. I've corrected that now, and thougt it out a bit more.

Ah. i absolutely hate RPG... Same as on here, i come in too late. Plus i get lost, then people dich me in the middle of no where. Then someone might come along, but they slowly walk away because i'm soo bored that i'm talking to myself... Usually telling myself off for being such a dunce. Then i am kicked out for awhile. At least it gives me time to try to come in on time for RPG... :rolleyes:

Thanks for your concern. It really helps.


~Thankful half-jack Ka~

[THE Ka]

Now that is embarassing. . .particularly when the debate has been so firmly settled that they do, in fact, have wings! :p :p :p

HAH! So i have been right all along...

whoever knew?

[The Only Real Estel]

some tom-fool-of-a-newbie decided to chime in about me on How Do You Imagine Other Downers. "I'm droolin'. what's your age chick?"

Wow, somehow I managed to miss seeing that. Though from the sounds of it I guess I should be thankful. :eek:

[the phantom]

This one time I said "who" when I should've said "whom".

That was so embarrassing... I didn't post for days.

But then I thought "Boy, I'm really being stupid about this- I can just edit my post."

Yeah, I forgot about the edit option. That was embarrassing too.

But no one even noticed.

And actually, that's kind of embarrassing.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Wow, somehow I managed to miss seeing that. Though from the sounds of it I guess I should be thankful. :eek:
besides that, I missed it the first time. So, you have one un-believer.
Perhaps you missed it because I sited the wrong thread! How embarassing. :rolleyes: But all has been duly edited, and YES, I am aware already that I have paraphrased the correct title.

Fea

[Mad Baggins]

Embarassing moments. Ah, yes, I have an abundance of those. My first blunder was as a newbie, maybe my first week on the Downs. It was in the "LotR Dreams" thread and I posted about having dreamt about an actor and that he was "mm mm good." Gah! I shudder at the memory! I must be cleansed!

Another was in the Shire RPG forum. I created a character with a completely unlikely past and when I applied for an RPG I was berated (albeit kindly) about proper characters and realistic histories. I promptly ditched that character and created a better one. Ah, memories...they burn!

[Gil-Galad]

hello...i'm .....err is this mic on? hello... i'm Gil-Galad...or as the ladies like to call me, hey you behind those bushes... well my most embarrassing moent would be me getting really imaptient on a quiz room thread.... posting like 4 times after my anwser....oh Eru was it humiliating...

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

I once had to bow out completely ungraciously of the Tolkien's Letters thread in the quiz room. I solved a few anagrams, but every time I tried to write new ones I added extra letters or left out important ones. This must have happened five or six times in two weeks. I'm very careful about anagrams now ;).

My first RPing experiences were pretty bad too. I believe my first character was a Rohirrim woman who carried a sword, was half Gondorian, and had fled to the Shire because she was running away from the dark memories of her haunted past. She could almost have been a character in the Entish Bow :o.

Sophia

[Mad Baggins]

Oh dear...I was flipping through some old threads and reading my old posts...I was a monster!

Another embarassing BD moment was when I posted a thread asking about a certain event in a movie and why it was so, but then when I watched the movie again the reason was obvious. I was lucky, though, because nobody caught it and now, being unspecific, nobody will catch it again! Haha! Why am I so clever?...

[Assasin]

I thought this dude was a girl, more embarrassing for him than me, though.

[Ainaserkewen]

I think it's best never to assume the gender of a fellow Downer if they have not been specific. You'd be amazed people...

Do you ever go read your oldest posts and cringe? I'm embarrased about being so open about certain infatuations on this forum way back when I first joined. No wonder no one talked to me...

[The Only Real Estel]

Do you ever go read your oldest posts and cringe?

Three words: All the time. I hate reading some of my own posts where I was so harshly critical of not only the LotR changes, but also some pretty nasty lash-outs at other BDers :eek:. Ever time I read a post like that, my face goes red... :o.
p.s. dispite the embarrassing posts, I rarely delete them (unless they're offensive & should've been deleted long ago), because they serve as good reminders...

[Assasin]

I had one post that I wrote, like, at 3 in the morning and I was really tired. It was pretty bad. I was really snappy. What was even worse was, people commented on it. (Bad comments.) :o

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Ah embarrassment... It happens so often. My most recent public one was here (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=370797&postcount=532), when I was overly-cocky and got put in my place mighty quickly by The Saucepan Man. It was then followed by a private semi-embarrassment when I tried to get the phantom to pity me and he told me not to expect any pity because I was cocky and deserved what I got. Haha. But since my ego got out of control and needed flicking down, I didn't even delete the post. Feel free to laugh at me. :D

Fea

[Assasin]

I can't laugh at you when I've done worse. :rolleyes:

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Yeah, but Assasin... you read his response, right? :rolleyes: Wow... I got a square kick right to the ego.

[Encaitare]

That's not so bad, Fea... at least you dared to hazard a guess in that thread and provided a decent explanation, whereas I just stare blankly and wish I could figure out the cryptic clue. :rolleyes:

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Ah, but Encai, at least I can get some revenge with the screen name quiz. The phantom and I seem to be dominating currently. Some of those names are just plain mean. I just wish I hadn't been quite so full of myself...

[Lathriel]

Most of the embarrasing moments that were made were back in the day when we were Newbies.
So of course I made a mistake in one of my first few posts.
Since I was still learning about the LOTR actors and other trivia about the movies I wasn't fully informed about some facts.
I don't remember completely what the subject was, but it was something along the lines of which actor is the worst? Or which actor didn't fit in the movie.
I incorecctly stated that Hugo weaving looked like an American lost in ME. One of the senior members immediatly pointed out to me that he was Australian. I remember feeling VERY embarrased because I had been so confident when I had made the statement. Even now I feel extremely embarrassed.
So I made a policy, don't revisit your old posts cause you know you'll cringe. :(

[Gil-Galad]

aye...newbies...but now i'm the slick Gil-Galad

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I remember when someone had started yet another 'Who were the Istari?' thread and I actually tried to give a good answer instead of ignoring it and waiting for it to be closed and deleted. I felt rather idiotic afterwards.

Come to think of it, judging by the quality of my early contribution, it would have surprised a couple of established Downers to see into the future and note that this newbie would last so long. :rolleyes: How did he manage it?

Captions and bribes. :smokin:

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Being an interesting conversationalist must help a little, Eomer. :p

Thought you guys might be interested in learning about Sophia's newest self-humiliation. Or rather, what might be called a continuation of the old: See posts 441-444 (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?p=374051#post374051).

Almost three years dead and I still can't do anagrams!*blush*

Sophia

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Lashings with the Cat O' Nine Tails for all of us....

[Morgul Queen]

*blushes* I got slightly drunk one night and posted the 23794629.98th Balrog Wing thread...in the Books forum.

I still feel really stupid about that...

Edit: Encaitare, I'm loving your avatar. I use those pictures of Hugo Weaving on MSN to make Luthien cringe. Try it, it's amusing!

BTW, did you know that one of the Priscilla guys is in Electra? I'm not saying who because it'll ruin the surprise.

[Encaitare]

Thanks, Morgy! No, I did not know that.. I have no plans to see Electra however, so I'll just look it up on the IMDb (us.imdb.com). ;)

To stay on topic.... yeeeeeaaahhh, about some of those older posts.... wow.

And this one time I kind of mixed up these dates, forgetting to convert to Shire-Reckoning or Not Shire-Reckoning, or something, and was corrected by Esty. Not at all meanly, of course, but I did feel rather silly. :rolleyes:

People seem to think I have my uses now, though. *prods shiny jewel*

[DarkRose]

Oh dear. There've been many embarassing moments for me during my stay at the Downs, some more memorable than others..

When I was just a wee newb, I tried to go around pointing out details and bits of info and answering questions when I really wasn't even sure of the answers. :P One such incident was when I mistakenly (and smugly) told someone that Gandalf does not touch the Ring when he throws it into the fire, but rather swats the envelope containing the Ring in. Well, the discussion was about the books and not the movie, and Estelyn graciously pointed out my error. It was embarrassing, but I learned not to answer others so brashly!

Also, one of my first posts on the 'Downs was titled "SHELOB!??!" with content something like "OMG, lyke, is Shelob gunna be in TTT or NoT?!!?!" Needless to say, it wasn't exactly the best way to make a good first impression. Oi vey. The shame!

In retrospect, I see that I've made many moronic posts and generally acted idiotically in some instances, but I can only learn from past embarrassments and act properly from here on out. :P

[Assasin]

Ouch, Feanor! I just read the reply, at least you covered up for it fairly well..... I would probably have just ignored the thread.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I would probably have just ignored the thread.
Ah, but what you fail to realize is that even though I've looked in on the thread, I'm generally terrified to try again. Haha. My ego, although stronger than most, can only take so much bruising. :p

Fea

[The Only Real Estel]

Originally posted by Fea:
Ah, but what you fail to realize is that even though I've looked in on the thread, I'm generally terrified to try again. Haha. My ego, although stronger than most, can only take so much bruising

Lol, if I did that I think I'd be only looking in & not posting on pretty much the entire forum! :D

[Milord Aldagrim]

I remember one time, when I was here a few years ago as Aldagrim Proudfoot, I responded to the wrong person. They had similar names and I think they were married, but I think I insulted her.

[the phantom]

I believe that a certain false report which was corrected today takes the top prize as the most embarrassing moment for BDers in general.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I think you might be right, phantom.

[Bêthberry]

I don't think that anyone who responded to that story with a good heart and honest intentions should be embarassed about his or her part.

[mark12_30]

I remember when someone had started yet another 'Who were the Istari?' thread and I actually tried to give a good answer instead of ignoring it and waiting for it to be closed and deleted. I felt rather idiotic afterwards.

Come to think of it, judging by the quality of my early contribution, it would have surprised a couple of established Downers to see into the future and note that this newbie would last so long. :rolleyes: How did he manage it?

Captions and bribes. :smokin:

Eomer, sometimes I check out those 'answers to obvious questions' just because it's interesting to see what the newbies who respond, do say. Sometimes it's a pretty quick indicator of whether they are on the ball or not, whether they know M-E or not.

My vague impression was that you got off to a pretty fair start.

[Rilwen Gamgee]

My most embarrassing B-Ds moment(s)? Read my first few...50 posts or so, and you won't have much trouble finding them; most of which were posted in the You Know You're Obsessed with LotR When... topics. (I don't bother deleting them, because some of them are somewhat amusing to read! :rolleyes: ) It was in one of them that I posted a comment that has haunted me for about a year.

In some random post of mine, I wrote that my mom wanted to make a "SAVE THE ENTS!" t-shirt; Ainaserkwen posted that she already made some and attatched pictures of them to her post. Out of plain-and-simple newbie-confusion, I replied by stating that I had not asked to see the pictures, but that I liked them anyway (which I did, and still do; they were quite nifty). I soon realized the rather rudeness of my post. So, I would like to apologize for my actions: I'm sorry, Aina. :( :)

I believe that a certain false report which was corrected today takes the top prize as the most embarrassing moment for BDers in general.

I don't think that anyone who responded to that story with a good heart and honest intentions should be embarassed about his or her part.

Can't we simply be glad that she is now alive, indeed? Why would we be embarrassed if we should be relieved? I, for one, am certainly not embarrassed.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Not necessarily for us, but more for Crystal Heart. It has to be rather shocking to come back and learn that you're dead.

[the phantom]

Not necessarily for us, but more for Crystal Heart.
Bingo. That's what I meant.

The poor dear definitely has us beat in the embarrassment department.

I hope the nice "eulogies" people wrote for her are helping her get over it. :p

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Thanks Helen! *wipes away tear* :D So kind.

But I think I still have embarrassing moments all the time. Like when I go off on an absurd tangent (usually with Mithalwen :rolleyes: - bad influences on each other) and get told off by a moderator. A ridiculous 'newbie' thing to do, of course.

There are times, though, when you just feel embarrassed for other people. Like when you're reading an old thread and smack in the middle of it you'll come across a post that goes something like "Legolas was WAY better than Aragorn LOLOL!!!!!" That's just a terrible thing to face.

[mark12_30]

There are times, though, when you just feel embarrassed for other people. Like when you're reading an old thread and smack in the middle of it you'll come across a post that goes something like "Legolas was WAY better than Aragorn LOLOL!!!!!" That's just a terrible thing to face.

You're right, that IS terribly embarassing. Truly cringe-worthy. I mean, come ON ppl, anybody with half a CLUE would know for a fact that Roggie of Morgoth was the hottest of all. Sheesh.

[Lalwendë]

But I think I still have embarrassing moments all the time. Like when I go off on an absurd tangent (usually with Mithalwen - bad influences on each other) and get told off by a moderator. A ridiculous 'newbie' thing to do, of course.

Meh. I do this all the time too. And let me tell you, it makes me feel embarrassed, and then I go and do it again. :o

But anything anyone posts in their early days is more likely to be slightly embarrassing, so in my eyes, it's not really embarrassing at all. That's why I'm particularly impressed when new members make amazing posts. :)

[Lhunardawen]

I feel embarrassed that I felt embarrassed for (privately) falling for the Crystal Heart joke. And even telling my brother Nilpydude about it.

Didn't get it? Read again.

[Mithalwen]

But I think I still have embarrassing moments all the time. Like when I go off on an absurd tangent (usually with Mithalwen :rolleyes: - bad influences on each other) and get told off by a moderator. A ridiculous 'newbie' thing to do, of course.



Should I be embarrassed because I am not embarrassed by going of at a tangent? I get annoyed when I go widely OFF TOPIC - especially if it is because I have let someone wind me up, but I have no shame regarding Tolkien related flights of fancy eg "Did Bill Ferny die?" and the digressions on Isildur's hair/Hare.. sometimes you come across these quirky little threads that need to be a chance to stretch their wings .... and I think it is a shame we have had our wrist slapped for taking our designations too literally in "Reputations". While, I know I err on the side of froth and bubble, and feel I should make more effort with the serious stuff, ~ I would not come so much, if at all if it were all deadly serious. And with that I am off to change my sig.

[The Saucepan Man]

... and I think it is a shame we have had our wrist slapped for taking our designations too literally in "Reputations" ... I would not come so much, if at all if it were all deadly serious. The way I see it, there is a big difference between humorous on-topic posts and banter which reduces threads to little more than an excuse to chat. The Reputations thread, which was originally intended as a place where people could raise questions about the Rep system, descended quite significantly into the latter. I have no problem with the occasional "off the cuff" post, but moderators would not be doing their duty if they did not step in when this becomes execessive. Without the guidelines which have been established here being observed, the on-topic humour and serious discussion would be lost amidst the "froth and bubble" of chat.

[Mithalwen]

Well, OK , but, it is not helpful to be told to run along to the chatroom when timezones provide an insurmountable issue. The Coming of Age club is a more gossipy environment but effectively it means that you can only be sociable with those of your own generation. And so it is harder not to stray. And so once again I go off topic............... Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Estelyn Telcontar]

There are plenty of other members in or near your time zone, Mithalwen - and some of them are in the chat room... :)

[Mithalwen]

There are plenty of other members in or near your time zone, Mithalwen - and some of them are in the chat room... :)

I went there once and they were listing vegetables...I swear.... and it is not really a conscious desire to chat as ....... oh never mind.... I have "a glib tongue which will talk ...(me) to the gallows.." .. I am going to go before I really get embarrassed.....

[Bêthberry]

Mithalwen, the chat room is "open" 24/7. There are many Europeans who hang out there; some younger than you; some older. Do you want to chat during work hours or in the evening? Or are you a nightowl? I'm sure you can find people there. Sauce manages to be there at the most amazing hours. ;) Chat ebbs and flows, but try it out.

Oh, and introduce yourself to me when you come (in case you change your nick). I'm the Op called Bethberry. :D

[Lalwendë]

Like Mithalwen I'm a bit known for going off topic too, (I have to add, I've always been the same, many hours spent in library corner at primary school for excesive chatter only delighted me as I got to read more books). So, the other day I had a 'nose' at this chat room thingy, but it did not seem to have any conversation going at all. So, not just for my sake but for the sake of staying on-topic in future, was I doing something wrong when it came up with just a list saying license type stuff? And do I need to use my screen name? New fangled things like that scare me when they dont seem to work right :eek: . I hope that makes sense, I'm heavily dosed up right now - I have a bad ear infection so am truly like a bear with a sore head. :( davem has dared me to say exactly what symptoms I have but that would be going off-topic again... :rolleyes:

[the guy who be short]

The shame... The shame...

Ahem. Well. Er. How to say this...

This was in a Tolkien and Racism thread and I... er... misguidedly pointed out how I thought everybody evil came from the South or East. I was sent on a one way trip to Angmar and Thangorodrim (in two pieces) for my folly. :p

[Holbytlass]

As my original self, Hobbitlass, I had posted in One thing in common thread which is a game. I didn't know that players had 10 days to give answers, I was so annoyed that I gave the answer after only a couple of days. Rightly, people were annoyed and nicely let me know. Quite a shame really, it was one of my (very few) rather clever questions.

[Durelin]

Something called 'TTT Movie Lovers Club'...

*crawls under a nice big rock*

[The Only Real Estel]

Another moment of mine that I posted recently somewhere else:

Back in the newbier days of my life on the 'downs I got to wondering if anyone else was from Kansas. Being entirely unlogical I decided it would be a 'good' idea to create a thread asking if there were any BDers from Kansas. The only surprise that came from that thread was that there was actually one post on it before the B-W found it & understandable smashed it with a sledgehammer.

[Gurthang]

My most recent blunder would easily be my try at 'Barrowdowns Tag'. Needless to say, it was closed and deleted. It really didn't have anything to do with Tolkien, and that hadn't crossed my mind until someone mentioned it. At that moment, I knew the thread was doomed. (Actually, I kind of had that hunch in the first place, but posted the game anyway. Huh, maybe I should follow my gut and not do stupid stuff. ;) )

Anyway, my new avatar might cause some embarrassment...

[solarisa]

still a n00b...*sighs ... .... my embarassing moment(s) is a lesson to all: never use msn messenger style posts. unless you want a mod. messaging you. *throws self in cramped cells, where numerous other embarassed people are :o )

[Lhunardawen]

My most embarassing moments: Werewolf VII.

:o

I am crawling under the pile of school readings I have not touched throughout the entirety of my life in Loveland, never to set foot into a Werewolf game again.

[Amanaduial the archer]

Paragraphs single-spaced, indented with the TAB key. I had my Private Messages turned off, so Pio had to explain things to the stupid newbie right there in the Inn. In addition to that, I godmodded somebody. I almost posted a fight scene, until I remembered that fights weren't allowed in the inn. ALL IN ONE POST. Lastly, I named a character in an RP a name from Silms, and I hadn't realized that it was a name from Silm until Pio came over and told me so. Then I made the character use magic that Tolkien wouldn't have written into his stories It...could have been worse. I mean, you'd be at a push, but hey, it could have been worse ;)

You want to know how it could have been worse? Hey, this (http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=1521) is how:


ok has ne1 else tried to read the silmarillion?????its soooooooooooo much duller than the hobbit or lotr!i mean ive read like 20 pages and im utterly confused and cant make head or tail of it!is the silmarillion a jewel?*sigh*
lol amanaduial

That...I....there...hmm. There simply are no words. Fordim, I'm in the same boat as you, but hey - at least your crew has discovered capslock. Mine have some kind of grammar-scurvy...

And to cap it all: yes, yes I did start an entire thread just to throw out that little gem of wisdom.

I take the crown.

Shoot me.

[Encaitare]

Don't feel too bad, Aman. I'd say the majority of us look back on our younger days with a shudder or two... I do. ;) :rolleyes:

[wilwarin538]

My worst was when I had only been here for a month or so and I started this (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=10869) thread. When people pointed out other threads that had discussed the issue I was terribly embarrased. :eek: Luckly, thanks to Squatter, it turned into a great Mirth thread. ;)

Also, before I had this user name I had signed up as Wilwarin Bluemoon, but had forgotten the user name I used so I just signed up again. But a post I made under that name was just horrible:

Actually Lost One there was a friendship between Legolas and Aragorn before the 3018TA because its says somewhere in the books that Aragorn gave Legolas his daggers as a gift long before.

Obviously the part about Aragorn giving Legolas his daggers isn't true. I later realised that I had gotten that idea in my head from a fan fiction I had read on another site. :rolleyes:

[wilwarin538]

Oh yeah, my Wilwarin Bluemoon introduction:

smilies/wink.gif Hey everybody my real name is VANESSA wich means BUTTERFLY wich is WILWARIN in elf quenya, so thats how I got that name and i just thought Bluemoon sounded cool. You can call me wilwarin or wilwa wich ever you like.I love LOTR!!! smilies/smile.gif smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/tongue.gif smilies/cool.gif

Haha, this is so much fun. :D

[WaynetheGoblin]

Man you were exciteed when you did that. :D

[Glirdan]

To manyof my moments are embarassing. But I'd have to say the ones that I'm most embarassed of (yet proud of :D ) Would be my "Crazy Caption" posts. I don't know why, but I started a little thing of my own, kind of like the Gandalf uncloaked ( :eek: ) thing. It started with the picture of Bilbo about to make his speech at his 111 birthday celebration. Here's what my post was:

Bilbo: Ten! READY OR NOT! HERE I COME!

That's all it was! Now, I continue with that and so far, all of the my posts for the next few pictures had something to do with that. It's embarassing, but fun!!!

[Valesse]

hmm. Not that I'm, like, an old timer here or anything, but so far I think it was when I found myself totally thwated by the idea that the "Warg and Warg Rider Application thread" did NOT have an application on it, and I was bound, set, and determined to complain. Fortunately I deleted it soon after.

Every single time I see that thread I get mad...Even still. It's sick. Sick, sick, sick, I tell you, and by Eru I will make a Warg and Warg Rider application out of my "Melkorian" misery.

[Glirdan]

I've recetnly had some embarassing moments. Some in the "New Members Introduce Yourself Here" thread and the "Tol-inGaurhoth" thread. They are all due mainly because of me getting lynched in WW. After I got lynched, I went insane, not that I wasn't pretty much alerady there. ;) I don't know, I just lost control. So here also is an apology for my recent stupidity. Hope you can forgive me.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

You'll just have to live with thy frustration, Valesse. The Warg and Warg Rider Appreciation Thread is perfect. Interesting admission, though. :)

I had another one of those bear moments in a recent PM to Fea. It wasn't quite as bad as the first one but still. When will I learn…

[Thinlómien]

I've got a few, but the most embarassing was when I started the About Dwarf Women-thread and Saucie posted It is a little know fact that, unbeknownst to Bilbo, four of Thorin's company were in fact female. ;) and I, as a newbie, thought that he was serious and sent him a PM which said something like "I don't doubt you, but where's that mentioned. Who were they of the 13?". Having him replying: "It was a joke... ;) = joke" was quite embarrasing...

[Gurthang]

Well, I have a new one. :o

My recent thread that was supposed to analyze Boromir's weekly questions about 'What Would Elrond Do' was snipped by The Barrow-Wight. It's kind of embarassing (but a little funny) to have one's thread publicly stamped 'dumbest of the week' by the creator of the Downs. :rolleyes: I feel like an idiot.

Well, I simply wanted to see what other's thought about the question. But, maybe it wasn't the best choice after all...

[Neurion]

Finding out my name is Quenya, not Sindarin. :rolleyes:

[Kitanna]

Well, I have a new one. :o

My recent thread that was supposed to analyze Boromir's weekly questions about 'What Would Elrond Do' was snipped by The Barrow-Wight. It's kind of embarassing (but a little funny) to have one's thread publicly stamped 'dumbest of the week' by the creator of the Downs. :rolleyes: I feel like an idiot.

Well, I simply wanted to see what other's thought about the question. But, maybe it wasn't the best choice after all...

Yeah I felt bad when the Barrow Down came in and stamped your thread out. I thought it was rather funny myself.

[The Perky Ent]

Definitly not my worse, but certainly most recent:


Well, for starters we know that Peter Jackson really didn't like The Scouring of the Shire, and didn't include it in the movie.





Jackson is on record as saying that the Scouring is one of his favourite chapters. He did not include it in the films because he did not believe that it would work from a pacing point of view. I tend to agree with him.

:( Don't know why, but I died a little inside :( Good think I'm an ent, and I can just drink til i'm healthy!

[Anguirel]

Don't feel bad, Perky. I was also under the impression that PJ actually disliked the Scouring...

[Glirdan]

Well, I have a new one.

My recent thread that was supposed to analyze Boromir's weekly questions about 'What Would Elrond Do' was snipped by The Barrow-Wight. It's kind of embarassing (but a little funny) to have one's thread publicly stamped 'dumbest of the week' by the creator of the Downs. I feel like an idiot.

Well, I simply wanted to see what other's thought about the question. But, maybe it wasn't the best choice after all...

I rather liked that idea Gurthang. I felt sorry that B-W closed it. At leasat we'll have the Boro's sig to remind us.....

[The Only Real Estel]

A more recent incident for me was when I mistook Oddwen's avatar of her dog for a wolf avatar. :rolleyes: :o

[the guy who be short]

Misjudging everybody's ages is pretty embarrassing...

[Kath]

And getting a persons gender wrong, especially when you're so certain about it!

[The Perky Ent]

I confuse Boromir88 and Eomer a lot!!! :mad: I'm so mad at myself for doing it so much!

[Amanaduial the archer]

Misjudging everybody's ages is pretty embarrassing... Often rather flattering though - I was judged to be nineteen or twenty when I was around thirteen or fourteen. Took it as a compliment anyway :D

[Glirdan]

Try this one. I started the WWJ I thread in the "Quotable Quotes" section!!!! Thanks to Perky, I was able to correct that and BW deleted the thread. Thanks to both of you!!!

[The Only Real Estel]

Not my most embarrassing moment but I did pull a blusher (though I didn't) in Werewolf Junior 1.

Fea, the ranger, & I, the seer, had a nice ruse going in which Fea was the "seer" & had "dreamed" that I was the "ranger." The wolves didn't suspect me of being the seer at all & Fea was set to protect me night four (I believe) before I forgot that Fea had "dreamed" of me & brought up the possibility that I was not the ranger. :rolleyes: This caused Fea to become suspicious of me & not protect me, causing me to be brutally slain by the wolves that NIGHT.

Fortunately, the remaining villagers puzzled things out on their own & defeated the wolves, otherwise my blunder would be even harder to live down. :o

[the phantom]

Don't be silly, Estel. You did nothing to be ashamed of.

The whole thing was, without a doubt, Fea's fault. She didn't leave you unprotected because you confused her, though that's what she claimed- she actually did it on purpose just to be cruel. She has a mean streak in her, you know. All of those east-coast girls do.

Just you watch. Fea will pop onto this thread and say something horribly mean to me within the next day or two. Either that or she'll send me an insulting pm.

Don't blame yourself, TORE. The situation was out of your control.

[Gothmog]

Well, I voted for the Feanor in the ongoing Silmarillion Survivor. What I hadn't noticed was that "feanor was burnt to a crisp by Gothmog" the day before.

How could I miss that??? It was after all me who killed him...

[Boromir88]

I think my most embarassing moment(s)>>>plural because I've been doing this for so long, and that still haunts me to this day<<< would have to be calling Mr. Hedgethistle Fordhim, instead of Fordim, for practically the past year until I realized it was wrong.

OR

In WWXII announcing Saucepan as a suspect and he wasn't even a player. That definitely wasn't intentional, though I laugh at this one.

[The Only Real Estel]

In WWXII announcing Saucepan as a suspect and he wasn't even a player. That definitely wasn't intentional, though I laugh at this one.

Apparently I'm rubbing off on some people. ;) Seriously though, great moment Boro! :D

[Lhunardawen]

I think my most embarassing moment(s)>>>plural because I've been doing this for so long, and that still haunts me to this day<<< would have to be calling Mr. Hedgethistle Fordhim, instead of Fordim, for practically the past year until I realized it was wrong. Fret not, Boro...the mistake was the inspiration for Durelin's amusing thread here (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=12060). Besides, there now exists a Formendhacil (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=400787&postcount=26) and a Nilpaurion Felagundh (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=401737&postcount=57) to keep Fordhim company. ;)

[Valesse]

Oh sweet Eru I was just reading B88's barrow-confession when I noticed how he spelt Ithillien.

Ithillien! I've been saying "Ilithien" for five years now! I've been writing and posting it that way for almost 100 posts now :eek: ! Ooooh if you could see my face at the moment you might decribe it as a peach (as I'm fair skinned, so peach is actually pretty red.) I guess I get stressed out easily (or I'm just so obsessed about LotRs that I let something like this bother me) but my stomach is hurting from all this. *Edits posts*

To make matters worse I was just about to post this entire bit in "The Future of the Downs". All is not well in Val-Land.

[the guy who be short]

*Tentatively approaches thread*

It's Ithilien by the way. And hey, it's an easy mistake. I kept calling Imladris Ilmadris, before I made up the helpful phrase "nothing goes Ill in Imladris."

And, not really a BD moment, but I guess it's quite embarassing that I only just realised that Ithilien would probably translate as "Moon-land" or some such thing. I do love how things like this suddenly jump out at you, even after years of Tolkien obsession. :)

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Just found a particularly bad one.

I once started a thread asking what Maia were. My next post on the thread was: "Balrogs were Maia?" It was in The Books section.

:o

[the guy who be short]

I just posted an RPG post with a signature... wait for it... twice. Despite having read the Rules about twice. Thankfully nobody seemed to notice.

And for heaps of fun, just find "all threads started by user" for anybody and go to the earliest ones. I have some that are particularly cringeworthy and poorly written.

[Mithalwen]

OR

In WWXII announcing Saucepan as a suspect and he wasn't even a player. That definitely wasn't intentional, though I laugh at this one.

and no where neara s bad as the person who wanted to lynch me eventhough I wasn't a player.... :rolleyes:

[Holbytlass]

Boromir: In WWXII announcing Saucepan as a suspect and he wasn't even a player.

Along the same lines, I sometimes demand information from a player when they have/haven't done something and they're dead, definitely cringeworthy.

[Mithalwen]

Maybe this second... the reason this is an edit is becausee it was meant to be a rep... :o

[the phantom]

And for heaps of fun, just find "all threads started by user" for anybody and go to the earliest ones.
Quite right, guy.

Most of us did not take as much pride in our posts when we were young wights. It was before we found out how great the Downs was- a site worthy of our best efforts.

[The Only Real Estel]

And for heaps of fun, just find "all threads started by user" for anybody and go to the earliest ones. I have some that are particularly cringeworthy and poorly written.

Oh please, don't suggest that! :eek: I'm going to be awakened in the middle of the night now by a violent spasm of cringing. (*cringe*)

Most of us did not take as much pride in our posts when we were young wights. It was before we found out how great the Downs was- a site worthy of our best efforts.

Yes, that has to be a part of it. But another factor, in my case at least, was that I just grew the hell up. Some at least. :p

[Boromir88]

I actually think I degressed. I was going back to some of my first posts (for example on Fordim's The Road and the Ring) and the CBC threads and all these other analyzing posts. Now I'm like strictly Crazy Captions and Werewolf...they sure take up your time I'll tell you. :p

[Gurthang]

Now I'm like strictly Crazy Captions and Werewolf...they sure take up your time I'll tell you. :p

True. They gobble up time than I will food this Thanksgiving. (Well, maybe not that much.)

You guys are right. When I was a newer member, I didn't really understand what was going on, and didn't care what I said near so much. I can definitely say I've matured(Not sure that just saying it makes it true though. ;) ). Although, I must say that I think I post a lot less 'deep' posts now , and can be found in Mirth more often than not. I'd really like to put in more Books posts, but it's sometimes difficult to get involved in those(when you haven't read the books in a while), and especially when you're addicted to Werewolf! :D

[Lhunardawen]

I actually think I degressed. I was going back to some of my first posts (for example on Fordim's The Road and the Ring) and the CBC threads and all these other analyzing posts. Now I'm like strictly Crazy Captions and Werewolf...they sure take up your time I'll tell you. :pOuch. *cringe*