The Barrow Downs Newspaper

[Pitchwife]

Truth to be told, that moustache looked ludicrous. Good riddance!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Come on! There can't be more news, can there? Well, turns out there can!!

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING (http://joelcornah.webs.com/)

We've now got a workable cast for the P&A animation! I'm going to put together a story board and take another stab at the script before contacting the actors for the first scene about doing a test!
Hopefully, in a week or two, we'll have something we can look at. :eek:

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

The worst thing about Mr. Bliss is that he keeps insisting he's me. I wasn't aware of such failure. He must be... mistaken.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

That Craig has been bothering me for some two-hundred years. I can't believe that anyone would doubt our claims that he will die with our hug. My hugs are the squeeziest. :D

[Galadriel55]

Who is the third hugger?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Bring your big eyes to the computer screen and feast your face on some news!

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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PHANTOM AND ALIEN
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I meant to work on the P&A script this weekend but I've been a little under the weather. But, I promise to try and get it done this week! Then I can send it back to our cast and we can start working on some test screenings! Won't that be exciting!?

[Blind Guardian]

These thieves are nuts -_-

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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PHANTOM AND ALIEN
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Apologies if the archive is a bit screwed up at the moment. I'm going to have to sort it out at some point. :(
In other news, I've redrafted the script for P&A and will soon be sending it off to the cast, and once everyone is happy with it we'll organise a read-through!! Exciting times, people! Exciting times.

[Blind Guardian]

I predict that these episodes aren't going to be out by Christmas

[Galadriel55]

Getting eggy? :p

[Hookbill the Goomba]

The inevitable news of news...

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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I'm going to try and organize some P&A read-through sessions in the next few weeks. I finally have some more free time, so, yay!

[Galadriel55]

OMG first picture! :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Bom Tombadillo]

Exprolentarinoquation. That's really all there is to say on the matter.

Also, orange juice isn't magical? NOOOOOOOOOO!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I am all caught up again on my Downers.

If Davem burnt all Tolkien books of all Downers, I think that we should rise up against him to revenge our poor lost books! Who's with me?!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Here's some news to fill your blues...

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Right, I think with regards to the P&A animation we can just go ahead with things. So, you guys who are in it, please send me recordings of the new lines and I'll get started on splicing them up for the animation.
Legate, you might want to tone your squeakiness down a bit, though. :D

[Galadriel55]

Oddwen smells like dwarves? :confused: Isn't that from the previous paper?

Oh, and btw, I didn't write that article.

And also - Oddwen should inclde herself in the list of popular Downers. :p

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I've come to expect a lot more from you, Hook. I was expecting meat, meat, meat, and cement in this week's paper, but there was none of that. I am terribly, terribly disappointed. I'll have my lawyers know about this.

[Oddwen]

As soon as I find the box I put my tally sheet in, I shall continue my Very Important Project that I totally am not wasting my time on! When I reveal my results, certain people are going Down!

Chocolate is a bean. Beans are vegetables. It's time to make a chocolate pizza salad.

And yes, my cloak smells like Dwarves. Can't imagine what they were doing with it, it's too big for them. Wait....ewwwwwwwwwwww.

I was expecting meat, meat, meat, and cement in this week's paper

Of course there's meat in the paper. It's just spelled "ODDWEN INVESTIGATES NEWSPAPER CORRUPTION". Also, my paper was delivered this morning wrapped around some meat. Though it may just be part of my payment...er, experiment.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Oddwen smells like dwarves? :confused: Isn't that from the previous paper?

Oh, and btw, I didn't write that article.

And also - Oddwen should inclde herself in the list of popular Downers. :p

Aaagh! Sorry, it was late at night.... :(

[Pitchwife]

It has come to this reader's mind that our esteemed Downer, although renowned far & wide for its investigative and creative journalism, still lacks one vital ingredient of a distinguished newspaper. It has its own comic strip, which has attracted a huge and growing fanbase over the years, but isn't there still something missing? Something something to do with words... something black... white... and chequered...

This reader holds that problems should be solved by those who notice them. He has therefore set to work immediately and is proud to present to you the first installment of the

BARROW-DOWNS CROSSWORD PUZZLE!

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Across
1. Nemesis of 5 down
4. Not the wheel, but the stone
9. Little Carcharoth
13. Not north nor south, but in Volume 3
15. Green rodent, preys on chatters
17. ... was an elven king
18. Princess of 15 across
20. Tolkien's initials
21. Champion of 9 across
23. German word for sausage
26. Didn't kill 9 across (whatever 21 across may say)
28. "The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of ... !"
30. Greek goddess of fan fiction (short)
31. Former foster-father of 1 across, later Soap Pope
32. Numenorean police inspector

Down
2. Dwarven city in Finland
3. Czech Downer, Werewolf player (not 16 down, the other one)
5. Awesomest Downer ever
6. Hobbit in Westron
7. Time of day at which 8 downs are most active
8. Mobile home for wights
10. "Ash nazg ..." (to rule them all)
11. 1 across's original given name
12. New dog, former bus driver
14. Lommy's favourite animal
16. Inventor of the 180
19. Mountain of poultry
22. Goblin king, victim of newly invented sport
24. Producer of quality 11 down
25. Jungle cat - electromagnetic radiation = lycanthropic island
27. Original owner of Squatter's abode
29. Werewolf lynched on Day 1

The letters in the green squares, arranged in the correct order, spell out a section of the Downs where no servant of Morgoth dare set his foot.

The solution will be revealed next week. The first Downer to PM me with a complete correct solution before then wins a 100% vegetable cement pizza autographed by RoboTolkien himself. With meat.

PS. Staff of The Downer are of course hors concours. Sorry.

[Eönwë]

Pitch, this is amazing.

[Galadriel55]

Pitch, this is amazing.

Seconded! Wow! Gotta do this!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Incredible! I can't rep you now, Pitch, but you definitely deserve one for this. Brilliant! Gotta do this, too :)

Edit: Several minutes later - great :) But I still have a couple of places where it's more or less totally blind spots. Okay, continuing later! :)

[Galadriel55]

I think I got the section of the Downs! :D Though only about half the "regular" words...:o

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I think I got the section of the Downs! :D Though only about half the "regular" words...:o

Well I got that, too - but I am still lacking like five of the letters, and I want to finish that!

[Galadriel55]

Well I got that, too - but I am still lacking like five of the letters, and I want to finish that!

It's gonna bother me until I find out the answers! There are some words that I just can't figure out! I think I've scrunitised like the whole Downs in search of them. It's frustrating!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

It's gonna bother me until I find out the answers! There are some words that I just can't figure out! I think I've scrunitised like the whole Downs in search of them. It's frustrating!

Random: one of the "blank spots" I had there was "Dwarven city in Finland". Okay, I haven't really stopped to think about that; when I could not think of the answer immediately, I just brushed it aside with "I'll return to it when I actually start solving the problematic ones". Of course now it suddenly totally randomly dawned upon me what is the answer. I think somebody should beat me with a shovel or something. How stupid can one be? *facepalm* :o :rolleyes:

[Galadriel55]

Random: one of the "blank spots" I had there was "Dwarven city in Finland". Okay, I haven't really stopped to think about that; when I could not think of the answer immediately, I just brushed it aside with "I'll return to it when I actually start solving the problematic ones". Of course now it suddenly totally randomly dawned upon me what is the answer. I think somebody should beat me with a shovel or something. How stupid can one be? *facepalm*

OMG! I couldn't get that one either (I even skimmed through the Finlandmoot posts in hopes of finding something fitting), and just when I read your post something went click! :eek::D

Ekh, all riddles are easy once answered.

I'm sure you got 16 Down, though. :p

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I'm sure you got 16 Down, though. :p

Are you implying something? ;)

But yes, well. Let's maybe stop this before we spoil the sport for the others :)

[Galadriel55]

Are you implying something? ;)

Oh no, not at all. :Merisu:

But yes, well. Let's maybe stop this before we spoil the sport for the others :)

You're probably right, however tempting it is to talk about the more recent *facepalms*...

[Pitchwife]

Haha, you two are funny.:D

But yes, no thinking aloud, please. If you wish to speculate, compare notes or vent your confusion, take it to PMs. (And no, I'm not giving any hints.:smokin:)

[Aganzir]

*beats Legate and Gal with a shovel*

Pitch, I must say I am disappointed. Number 5 is all wrong. (Yes, I still need five letters too. Grumble grumble. Edit: No, four! Ha!)

[Aganzir]

So I've been hanging on Skype with Legate (and Pitch, except he hasn't been very helpful ;)) for hours trying to decipher it, and I still have one to go! Grr!

[Pitchwife]

and Pitch, except he hasn't been very helpful ;)
Rather making a studious effort not to be helpful. It's a great exercise in self control. (But it's highly entertaining to hear you people think.)

[Galadriel55]

So I've been hanging on Skype with Legate (and Pitch, except he hasn't been very helpful ;)) for hours trying to decipher it, and I still have one to go! Grr!

Only one?! I still have four words (though only 2 letters)!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Only one?! I still have four words (though only 2 letters)!

I also have four (I think)... don't worry. :) But I also have 4 letters still!

[Galadriel55]

I also have four (I think)... don't worry. :) But I also have 4 letters still!

The most annoying thing is that I know what the remaining letters are, and can even make an educated guess as to which one's in which word. But I still don't have the words! Though it must be different words that yours...

[Aganzir]

I just came up with an alternative approach to the one I don't have, but it carries me only so far. I still have to guess the rest of the word... assuming I'm on the right tracks, which I'm not all that certain about.

[Galadriel55]

I just came up with an alternative approach to the one I don't have, but it carries me only so far. I still have to guess the rest of the word... assuming I'm on the right tracks, which I'm not all that certain about.

I have two such words, half-guessed... and one that I know is absurd, and two that I have no clue about... So I actually have 5 unsolved things...

You don't need to gloat, you know. :D ;)

[Pitchwife]

It seems 13 across is aptly numbered.:smokin:

[Galadriel55]

It seems 13 across is aptly numbered.:smokin:

You say! :( I'm not gonna tell you what I searched for, but I spent like an hour at the computer trying to find a fitting term! And I still haven't!

[Pitchwife]

You know, like I've said repeatedly I won't give hints, but I will confirm whether what you've got so far is correct or not, if you like to PM me.

[Galadriel55]

You know, like I've said repeatedly I won't give hints, but I will confirm whether what you've got so far is correct or not, if you like to PM me.

Thanks for the offer, Pitch, but I think it's unnecessary if you really aren't giving out hints. The words that I got I know I got them, and the ones that I didn't I can't confirm with you since I didn't get them. :) (Now if that wasn't worse than Bilbo's more than half, less than half ... :rolleyes:)

[Oddwen]

Right then. Week #270's headline story was based on a true story. For the past week I've been bored between supposed to be doing things and have been satisfying my curiosity by going through each and every Paper counting how many times each person has been mentioned.

Two hundred and seventy papers. One hundred and fifteen separate people.

I counted any appearance in a single paper as one appearance. I did not count you if you were not mentioned or referred to by name. There were a few unlabeled pictures of Rune, a couple of Kath, one of Esgallhugwen, Rikae, Mac, Lhuna, me, and Valier, and multiple mentions of an "Editor" in the mix if you want to be 100% perfect like the Downer always is. It is possible that Lhuna and Lommy may be slightly inaccurate because I can't read my own writing sometimes.


The Barrow Wight 228
Davem 102
The Saucepan Man 81
the phantom 80
Lalwende 73
Rune son of Bjarne 54
Thinlomien 46
Mr. Underhill 46
Aganzir 40
Legate of Amon Lanc 39
Estelyn Telcontar 32
Oddwen 32
Hookbill the Goomba 30
The Great Elven Warrior 29
Eomer of the Rohirrim 27
Formendacil 26
A Little Green 26
Volo 26
Gil Galad 25
Nogrod 25
mormegil 22
Kath 19
littlemanpoet 19
Diamond18 18
THE Ka 17
narfforc 17
the guy who be short 16
Laurinque 16
Boromir88 15
Morthoron 15
Loslote 13
Squatter of Amon Rudh 13
Bethberry 12
dancing spawn of ungoliant 12
Groin Redbeard 12
Pitchwife 12
Eonwe 11
Mithalwen 11
Alatar 10
Glirdan 9
Feanor of the Peredhil 8
Lhunardawen 8
Macalure 8
Nilpaurion Felagund 8
Raynor 8
McCaber 7
nerwen 7
Brinniel 6
Inziladun 6
Lindale 6
Rikae 5
skip spence 5
The Might 5
Mnemosyne 5
Morsul the Dark 5
Anguirel 4
Fordim Hedgethistle 4
Ibriniblibliblibi 4
Galadriel55 4
Gwathagor 4
Mithadan 4
Sharku 4
sleepyranger 4
Faramir Jones 3
Firefoot 3
Finduilas 3
Folwren 3
Heren Istarion 3
Kuruharan 3
Meneltarmacil 3
satansaloser2005 3
Snowdog 3
Thenamir 3
Tuor in Gondolin 3
Valesse 3
Wilwarin536 3
Beregond 2
The Elf-Warrior 2
Encaitare 2
Gordis 2
Matthew M 2
Morai 2
Maedhros the Tall 2
The Only Real Estel 2
Rhod the Red 2
Shelob 2
Gurthang 1
Gothmog 1
Child of the Seventh Age 1
Holbytlass 1
Cailin 1
Esgallhugwen 1
Lush 1
Tigerlily Gamgee 1
Burrahobbit 1
Valier 1
knight of gondor 1
Farael 1
obloquy 1
Durelin 1
Andisigil 1
lord of dor lomin 1
Ilya 1
Rumil 1
Hakon 1
Kitanna 1
Boo Radley 1
Lastande Took 1
Blind Guardian 1
Celuien 1
Mirandir 1
Lalaith 1
legolas 1
Tom Bombadillo 1
LadyBrooke 1
00ArwenUndomiel00 1
Aaront96 1
Shastanis Alethdruin 1
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay, fun times.

[Galadriel55]

:eek:

That is all I can say. Except that you have waaaaaaaay too much time between supposed-to-be-doing-things. :p (But really, that was a ginormous list!)

Are you counting every single time a name appears or just the number of stories/"also in the news this week"s that mention the person?

[Oddwen]

Tell me about it. It was fun though. :D

I counted any mention of a name at all, whether in the sidebar, full article, or headline. I only counted names once per Edition.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Good golly! There certainly are a lot of Downers in the paper. From this data, we can deduce that Hookbill's most favourite Downer of them all is the BWH and that Oddwen is ridiculous.

But I'm seriously surprised about the amount of times I've been in the paper. :eek:

[Aganzir]

It seems 13 across is aptly numbered.:smokin:
I am now rereading the Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket in the vain hope that it will give me any clues.

Malice Manflesh, you're mad. http://forum.barrowdowns.com/ubb/icons/icon14.gif

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I am now rereading the Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket in the vain hope that it will give me any clues.

Malice Manflesh, you're mad. http://forum.barrowdowns.com/ubb/icons/icon14.gif

Do you think that Volume 3 means volume three of LotR?

[Aganzir]

Do you think that Volume 3 means volume three of LotR?
Well I spent a night going through the indexes of both LotR and HoME III with little avail...

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Well I spent a night going through the indexes of both LotR and HoME III with little avail...

Huh. What other 'Volume 3's do we know of?

[Aganzir]

Huh. What other 'Volume 3's do we know of?
REB III (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=13685)? :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

REB III (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=13685)? :D
Agk! :eek: Another part of the Downs that I know literally nothing about.

Why are there questions related to WW on this thing? D: There are some Downers who still refuse to play WW.

[Aganzir]

Why are there questions related to WW on this thing? D: There are some Downers who still refuse to play WW.
But only a few of them. :p I don't think they're too obscure, #3 maybe the most so but you won't really need it. You can get #16 pretty easily just reading this thread after Pitch posted the puzzle.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

But only a few of them. :p I don't think they're too obscure, #3 maybe the most so but you won't really need it. You can get #16 pretty easily just reading this thread after Pitch posted the puzzle.
I now have 16. :D

It just struck me what 2 down was. It was so easy when I had the first letter.

[Pitchwife]

... or rather, we have two. It was a tight race, and in the end, the first two correct solutions arrived within 2 minutes of each other. I have therefore, after consulting with the two candidates and with their agreement, made the salomonic decision to split the cement pizza in half between...

*drumroll*




*more drumroll*





EÖNWË
and
LEGATE OF AMON LANC.

*fanfare*

Congratulations, you two, well done! Your pizza halves will be delivered shortly.

For the rest of you, there's still silver, bronze and honorary mentions (or in terms of pizza, quarters and wedges), so don't give up yet. You have until next Monday midnight GMT.

Also, be sure to send me a complete solution = all the answers + the word from the green squares.

Happy riddling!

[Galadriel55]

Bravo!

[Galadriel55]

Just like Agan I've searched ROTK and googled HOME3, and read through the P&A (experts say such amount of craziness at once not good for sanity), and I used the search function in REB to possibly use some known letters, but that didn't yield anything either. I have a feeling I'm missing something obvious...

REB III (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=13685)?

If it's something as obscure as that (and by "that" I mean that as far as I know every name in REB has like 10 different parody names, so it's pretty much impossible to find anything there) I'd either kill Pitch or myself. :D

Hmm, if we're already dead...



But I've made progress with another word. And I had a great idea for 19 down, just to find that it's 2 letters too long. :/


Eonwe, I didn't know you were doing this at all! :) And Legate - I think this was to be expected... ;)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I have a lot of it done, and I only started it today. I wasn't expecting to finish first by a long shot. I am really very anxious to see what the answers are for this are, but I suppose that we'll have to just wait until Monday...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

If it's something as obscure as that (and by "that" I mean that as far as I know every name in REB has like 10 different parody names, so it's pretty much impossible to find anything there) I'd either kill Pitch or myself.
It isn't really so very obscure in the end, in fact, it is about as obscure as anything else. Like with all things, once you get it, you will be like: "d'uh! So obvious! I am so stupid!" (No joking. You will say that. I can tell you that with 100% certainity. I have done that myself :) )

Eonwe, I didn't know you were doing this at all! :) And Legate - I think this was to be expected... ;)

Not really. I mean, I had serious problems with 7. For a long long time, I had no freaking idea what it was referring to, even after I managed to guess the word based on pure logic. I could have very well still have been out here and not knowing anything, had I not been able to conjecture the word in the first place.

[Galadriel55]

It isn't really so very obscure in the end, in fact, it is about as obscure as anything else. Like with all things, once you get it, you will be like: "d'uh! So obvious! I am so stupid!" (No joking. You will say that. I can tell you that with 100% certainity. I have done that myself )

Yeah... you're right... (no sarcasm intended)

Not really.

Yes really. (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=10582) :p

I mean, I had serious problems with 7. For a long long time, I had no freaking idea what it was referring to, even after I managed to guess the word based on pure logic. I could have very well still have been out here and not knowing anything, had I not been able to conjecture the word in the first place.

I guessed that one yesterday! I feel so clever. :p After flipping through all kinds of nonesense solutions I finally had the sense to open a thesaurus that gave me the right answer at a glance. :) I'm having serious trouble with 13, 8, and 19 though. Ugh.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I guessed that one yesterday! I feel so clever. :p After flipping through all kinds of nonesense solutions I finally had the sense to open a thesaurus that gave me the right answer at a glance. :) I'm having serious trouble with 13, 8, and 19 though. Ugh.

You don't have 8? I wonder how did you interpretate 7, then.

But this is maybe time for some short feedback for Pitch - actually, I did not understand the question at "7" properly in the first place, to me, it was formulated in a really unclear way. That said, of course I had problems guessing the answer anyway, but I was not able to figure out what actually the question says in the first place. I thought that "time of day when 8 downs are the most active" refers to some time of the day, when some eight 'Downs are most active (as in: there are eight Barrow-mounds somewhere, and they are active only at some part of the day). It did not really connect to me with the other examples being all around. It seemed really confusing to me, not sure how it seemed to others, but given what G55 just said... it is obvious how you meant it when looking back, but not sure how well formulated it is in the beginning. Well, that's probably the only thing that really did not 100% "click in" after I had learned the answer :)

[Aganzir]

I got it. Before any of you others.

However, I used a word on #6 that's basically a synonym to the correct answer. They were equally long and ended with the same letter. Only the letter in green was different. Which means I lost my cement pizza to two upstarts. Grrr!

[Eönwë]

Eonwe, I didn't know you were doing this at all! :)
Really? I was the first to comment on it.

But yeah, I suppose. I only gave it a quick glance until yesterday, when I decided to actually do it properly. Which is lucky, considering Legate's timing.


edit: x-ed with an indignant lion. Sorry Agan. :p

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I got it. Before any of you others.

However, I used a word on #6 that's basically a synonym to the correct answer. They were equally long and ended with the same letter. Only the letter in green was different. Which means I lost my cement pizza to two upstarts. Grrr!
I was wondering why wouldn't you get the prize since you said you had it. But then that makes me wonder what other word could you have used instead of the real one. (But, let's not maybe spoil that for those who are still working on it. Also so that they can make the same mistake as you did or something ;) ) But hey, you can still get a cement... cookie, or whatnot. I can share a bit of my pizza, if it came to that, to be fair.

But yeah, I suppose. I only gave it a quick glance until yesterday, when I decided to actually do it properly. Which is lucky, considering Legate's timing.
I wouldn't have worked on that yesterday had you not been out there and telling me that you were working on it. So, whichever way :)

[Galadriel55]

Really? I was the first to comment on it.

Sorry, I forgot about that. It's just that unlike Legate, Agan, TGEW, and myself you didn't talk about it that much. :)

You don't have 8? I wonder how did you interpretate 7, then.

Well, at first I also thought that it refers to eight barrows that are active at a certain point of day. But then....

And, knowing the question for 8 and having some ideas about at least the end of the word (though I'm not at all certain that it is correct thinking)... and then, there aren't that many "times of day" that fit. Elimination from there.

However, now that you asked me, I started doubting my answer again...

(If you're curious about what my answer is, I can PM it to you, since you know it anyways... :))

But I have to disagree with what you said to Pitch. I like that clue, even though I'm not sure about the answer.

However, I used a word on #6 that's basically a synonym to the correct answer. They were equally long and ended with the same letter. Only the letter in green was different. Which means I lost my cement pizza to two upstarts. Grrr!

The same thing happened to me, before I realised that I need the letter elsewhere!

[Pitchwife]

I got it. Before any of you others.

Yes, you did... almost. Now claim your quarter before you get ninja'd by yet another one.


If it's something as obscure as that (and by "that" I mean that as far as I know every name in REB has like 10 different parody names, so it's pretty much impossible to find anything there) I'd either kill Pitch or myself.

Obscure? REB? That classic of BD Roleplaying, that timeless masterpiece of parodistic writing, obscure? *harrumph* You need to broaden your literary education, young lady.

It isn't really so very obscure in the end, in fact, it is about as obscure as anything else.

Indeed, once you've figured out where to look, it should jump at you right off the page.


But this is maybe time for some short feedback for Pitch - actually, I did not understand the question at "7" properly in the first place, to me, it was formulated in a really unclear way. That said, of course I had problems guessing the answer anyway, but I was not able to figure out what actually the question says in the first place. I thought that "time of day when 8 downs are the most active" refers to some time of the day, when some eight 'Downs are most active (as in: there are eight Barrow-mounds somewhere, and they are active only at some part of the day). It did not really connect to me with the other examples being all around. It seemed really confusing to me, not sure how it seemed to others, but given what G55 just said... it is obvious how you meant it when looking back, but not sure how well formulated it is in the beginning. Well, that's probably the only thing that really did not 100% "click in" after I had learned the answer
Feedback appreciated. Honestly, with all the other cross-references to "across" and "down" in the clues, it didn't occur to me that somebody might read "8 downs" as "8 barrow-mounds" in this case rather than "plural of the word in vertical column No.8" - I would think that's standard usage in English crossword puzzles. But I'm interested in hearing other peoples' opinion on that - preferably after I've posted the solution, when everyone's on the same page.

Agk! :eek: Another part of the Downs that I know literally nothing about.

Why are there questions related to WW on this thing? D: There are some Downers who still refuse to play WW.
You know, hard as it may seem to believe, there is a world out there beyond the pages of The Downer.;) (That said, a thorough perusal of the works of our esteemed editor is always time well spent.)
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EDIT: x-ed with G55

EDITEDIT:

AGANZIR

has come in third and won the first quarter of the remaining pizza. (About time!)
She also gets bonus points for being the first to guess the mysterious 13 across, and for the creative audacity of suggesting MORSHUL as the answer to 19 down. (Explain that yourself, if you dare.)

[Galadriel55]

Obscure? REB? That classic of BD Roleplaying, that timeless masterpiece of parodistic writing, obscure? *harrumph* You need to broaden your literary education, young lady.

No, no, I meant an obscure name from REB. Unlike searching for Tolkien terms, searching REB terms is much harder.

Feedback appreciated. Honestly, with all the other cross-references to "across" and "down" in the clues, it didn't occur to me that somebody might read "8 downs" as "8 barrow-mounds" in this case rather than "plural of the word in vertical column No.8" - I would think that's standard usage in English crossword puzzles.

Aw, I liked the clue much better as a trick-clue... and it turns out that I only imagined the trick. :/

Edit: xed with the EDITEDIT. Well done, Agan!

[Galadriel55]

These are the answers, regardless of what Pitch and his crossword say: 8 down - laptop. 19 down - Amon Fridge. 13 across - East-west corner of the 3rd map. There!



Edit: I think I got 13... even though I don't get how it works, it's the only one that fits...And yeah, I could have though of that earlier....

But the answer is still the east-west corner! XD

Edit2: and 19 down!... is today my lucky day or something? :eek::confused:

[Bom Tombadillo]

Blurgh. I'm obviously not spending enough time on the 'Downs/perusing Tolkien's works - far too many of these questions seem obscure to me! That said, I felt like a total idiot for not getting Little Carcharoth the instant I saw it. :D

[Galadriel55]

That said, I felt like a total idiot for not getting Little Carcharoth the instant I saw it.

Little Carcharoth will not like that. Oi. :D

And I also had to pursue various sources of information to find the answers to many questions since I couldn't get them off the top of my head. I'm still rolling my eyes about the Dwarven City. I racked half the Downs in search of the answer before reading Legate's mind. :D (you know, maybe if you use your singing powers, he'll tell you all and everything... :p ;-))

[Oddwen]

Okay, I give up because I can't fit mountzoom into 8 Down...heh.

It was hard to explain to my coworkers just why I was laughing so hard when filling in the Little Carcharoth answers. :D

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Okay, I give up because I can't fit mountzoom into 8 Down...heh.

That was the first thing I was trying to do, too :)

[Eönwë]

Okay, I give up because I can't fit mountzoom into 8 Down...heh.
That's all I could think of for that one for a long time.

edit: x-ed with Legate, who shared the same fate.

[Galadriel55]

Okay, I give up because I can't fit mountzoom into 8 Down...heh.

:D I couldn't think of anything that fit, so I put the first legible thing down, no matter that it doesn't really make sense. But it's the only thing that I came up with that fits. I would be very surprised if it's the right answer. :rolleyes:

[Pitchwife]

Okay, I give up because I can't fit mountzoom into 8 Down...heh.
*kicks himself for not thinking of that and makes a note to include it in a future puzzle*

[Blind Guardian]

Soo...what are the answers?

[satansaloser2005]

Soo...what are the answers?

I don't believe it's time yet. :Merisu:

[Pitchwife]

sally's right. Another 24 hours to go. Want to try your luck, BG?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

While you're all caught in the vortex of Pitchwife's mysterious mystery, the news will distract you long enough for me to hack into his computer and grab the answers!

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING (http://joelcornah.webs.com/)

As for you P&A voice folks, please send your talents in! I'm going to be recording my Alien voices some time the week and I'll hope to get the Peter ones done too if my brother will comply. Exciting times, don't you think?

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Legate Barrow-walker and Darth Volo? :D

[Blind Guardian]

Star Wars rule! And I just watched all of them. :D

EDIT: I'm not going to do those crosswords. I never have. I was just curious what the answers were and though it was last Monday.

[Aganzir]

AGANZIR

has come in third and won the first quarter of the remaining pizza. (About time!)
She also gets bonus points for being the first to guess the mysterious 13 across, and for the creative audacity of suggesting MORSHUL as the answer to 19 down. (Explain that yourself, if you dare.)
Obviously because his P&A self looks like a mountain of poultry manure. ;)

I still consider myself the winner though, even if not in name. ;)

[Pitchwife]

Since no more complete correct solutions to the crossword puzzle have been offered,

GALADRIEL55

wins a pizza wedge for the most nearly correct solution, having got all but two words right; also bonus points for creative thinking in her post #3069.

And now
for all of you who are still in the dark
TEH SOLUTION!

*drumroll*



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If you didn't win any part of the cement pizza and are curious what you've missed, the whole thing in all its hideous glory can be viewed here (http://i951.photobucket.com/albums/ad352/pitchwife/Cementpizza.jpg).

Thank you for playing, everybody! I hope this was as much fun for you as it was for me.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Legate Barrow-walker and Darth Volo? :D

How comes I knew that this will find its way to 'The Downer. No surprise. :rolleyes: All too easy. I have foreseen it.

Thank you for playing, everybody! I hope this was as much fun for you as it was for me.

Oh it certainly was, Mr. McBrain!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

13 Across makes all the sense in the world now!

[Galadriel55]

"Dawn" was my original answer to 7..... And then I decided that it makes no sense whatsoever, because barrows are active at night, so I wrote "dark". Bugger. :D

[Pitchwife]

May you walk in the dark no longer, G55. Behold (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=16940&highlight=wheelbarrows+dawn)!

[Galadriel55]

May you walk in the dark no longer, G55. Behold (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=16940&highlight=wheelbarrows+dawn)!

I feel very unclever. I saw this thread before. :/

Question. What do wheels have to do with palantirs? I get that it's a Seeing Stone, but why wheels?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Question. What do wheels have to do with palantirs? I get that it's a Seeing Stone, but why wheels?

Palantír of Fortune... :)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Sorry it's a tad late. Not feeling well.

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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PHANTOM AND ALIEN
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to hunt down some P&A voice artists!! :mad:

[Oddwen]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Oddwen/downsstuff/mustache.jpg

[Blind Guardian]

You're odd....oh wait, you are. -_-

[Pitchwife]

Oddwen: Ouch.
BG: Ouch!!!
P&A: On an occasion where a flamethrower would come in really handy, trust Alien to come up with something like this. Love it.

[Galadriel55]

Pass 'em the possum! :D

[Bom Tombadillo]

:D I think I need to find some way to automatically rep Oddwen when she makes a post.

A tax on taxies is better than a tax on taxes, don't you think? That would be most taxing. :cool:

[Aganzir]

Oddkins, have I ever told you that I adore you? (And you too, Hookbilly.)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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We may not get the full animation done by Christmas - sorry everyone - but we'll get a trailer out! Just you voice actors get your voices to me sharpish! :)

[Galadriel55]

Those two useless hobbits have a use?! :D

[Aganzir]

Those two useless hobbits have a use?! :D
Incidentally, I saw the Phantom & Alien strip first and thought you were referring to Lal & davem. ;)

[Galadriel55]

Incidentally, I saw the Phantom & Alien strip first and thought you were referring to Lal & davem. ;)

:eek::D

[Blind Guardian]

I wonder when Death is going to notice his watch is missing...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Work on the P&A animation is fully on the way now that we have all the voices! We'll be releasing a trailer on Christmas day for you to feast your eyes on! Hopefully the full episode will be done some time in January. Then we'll see if we feel like doing a full series or something.
What fun!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

A festive special picture for you P&A fans...

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[Galadriel55]

:eek::D

Poor Father Formy...

[Aganzir]

I'm starting to believe Hammond the Skull has a thing for facial hair, seeing how often it has appeared in the last issues.

The festive picture is awesome, except I'm creeped out by the bare toes.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Grab onto your faces, people, it's time to get all excited and hot under the collar.
If you thought The Hobbit Trailer was good, wait until you see the very cool, very exclusive, very cheap and very rushed...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN ANIMATED SERIES TRAILER!! (http://youtu.be/M6cMJKQ2kUE)

It will have all your favourite characters and your least favourite ones, too!
Work on the actual episode is going well and it should be finished some time in the New Year. So... Look forward to it, peoples!!

[Galadriel55]

If you thought The Hobbit Trailer was good...

Someone really thought it was good? :p :D

/Nevermind.

This one's better anyways. I can't wait for the actual thing!

[Pitchwife]

This made my Christmas evening! The music is smashing, Peter looks great (the drawing style is a little different, but works well with animation I think), and there were lots of lovely moments packed tight in these 1:07 - Alien's name being corrected, Lommy blazing away with her gun, John Fillis morphing (!!!), Father Formy drenched in soap and his apprehensive look toward the end... Great work, keep it going!

Btw the festive special pic is gorgeous too, and bonus points for posting it on the winter solstice.;)
The festive picture is awesome, except I'm creeped out by the bare toes.
Indeed, I think all that picture misses is a little sign pointing at Morsul's foot and saying NUDITY!!!

[Oddwen]

KALIMAC CHRISTMAS, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT




Of late, Yule time is not always a happy time in the four farthings of The Shire. Traditional Hobbit traditions dictate that the tiny hobbit children stay up all night with clubs to keep the legendary figure known as Sando Clausefoot from eating their Yule Breakfast. Most hobbit children fall asleep early on, while parents leave nibble marks in all of the puddings to teach their children some sort of lesson in home security. All this has changed with the arrival of a Big Person calling himself "Sharkey Clause". He is said to send his elves out in wagons to cut down trees and collect toys from all the good boys and girls.

We tried to get a statement from one of his elves, but were spat on and told to stop asking questions as it was on the List as "not allowed". This was ridiculous, as we had checked the List beforehand to make sure. Upon a second checking, the rule was indeed there, sloppily written in pencil. We then tried to get a statement from Sharkey Clause himself, but were chased away while the old man screamed out "Yule Pay!" at our fleeing forms.

"I just can't understand it," says local character Gaffer Gamgee. "Maybe his weskit is two sizes too small."

[Hookbill the Goomba]

The Downer would like to assure its readers that we have a very good explanation for the past two weeks hiatus. So here are the reasons our staff haven't been putting out new content;
We got freaked out by last year's solar eclipse, and barricaded ourselves in an underground bunker, where to this day we await the end of the world.
Either that, or we're trapped beneath a pile of unsold P&A t-shirts.
But then we discovered that the Downer was just a figment of our imagination - an imagination long since shredded by our chronic twin addictions to strong alcohol and horse painkillers.
We'd written the instructions on how to update the site on a marzipan wafer, which was erroneously swallowed by a clown.
Then the rozzers discovered our illegal whale ovary removing factory, and dragged us off to the cells.

So, without further delay, here is the newest issue of the Downer. With a brand new look to hide the fact that we have no new content.

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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PHANTOM AND ALIEN
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The Downer will be back next week. We promise. And also, Hookbill promises that he will no longer imagine that The Downer has any staff.

[Blind Guardian]

Oh dear God...the alien is such an idiot...

[Galadriel55]

I have been taken to hospital? Cool. :D

Bugger Denethor.

Yay for the new looks! And news don't actually have to be new... just old enough not to be remembered anymore! :D

[Morthoron]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

To whom it may consume:

I have been told that your tabloid has a "new look". Well, I actually haven't been told of this "new look", but I did manage to read the previous post that indicated this was the case. But I am not writing to complain about this alleged "new look"; on the contrary, I have an issue with the "old look".

Since I cannot even recall what the "old look" looked like with any specificity, how then do I know that this "new look" isn't just the "old look", or merely a look that was, in fact, around previous to the supposed "old look" -- a "recycled older look", if you will?

Speaking metaphysically, what is a "look" anyway? Since appearances can be deceiving, and since your paper has never had any depth in the first place, I do not see the point of renaming a skimpy veneer covering an empty shell. Replacing a blank facade does not alter empty air.

In conclusion, I strongly suggest you eliminate the "new look" as well as the "old look", and opt for a "don't look now". That way, I will not have to concern myself with changes I know nothing about regarding a tabloid I never read. I do not like to think of things that I do not think about!

Thank you in advance for doing nothing previously,
Mrs. Blithe Spacey
Heedless, Muddlesworth, Bewildershire

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

It's nice to see that The Downer is still with us. Nice new layout, it seems thatHookbill has found some exciting new fonts to play with.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Thanks to a very ODD mysterious contributor for the second story this week. It's very odd indeed.

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Alien is always at his best when he is destroying things, isn't he?
Anyway, we should be seeing some progress on the P&A animation in the next few weeks. The whole Christmas and New Year thing got in the way and my brother has only just gone back to collage, but work will continue, and no mistake!

[Galadriel55]

Are we going to get Dinosaur's Quality Dinosaur now?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I forgot to thank Oddwen for her stories last week and this week.
They've been in the back catalogue for a while, but they're still as relevant as ever! EVER! ... ... EVER!!

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I'm seriously going to update the P&A website at some point this week... I hope. It's just such a pain in the backside to upload over 400 images all at once, you know? I'll get to it soon, so don't worry.

[Galadriel55]

Bad, bad Shasta! Should have let those entings burn.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Bad, bad Shasta! Should have let those entings burn.

I can't help myself. :(

[Blind Guardian]

look at Phantom's eyes! Evil! EVIL!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Never before did I notice how much Shasta resembles Data from Next Generation.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Bit of a disaster today as I lost my Downer Newspaper folder - it got corrupted as I tried to remove the external hard drive or something I don't understand. So, for this week, we have the emergency stand by...
That's right, it's the return of the Tabloid gutter press. The Barrow!

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But P&A is in tact, don't you worry.

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The archive is in a state of disarray, but I plan on fixing it at some point soon. No promises as to when, though. :(

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Thanks Oddwen for her story this week!!

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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PHANTOM AND ALIEN
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The animation is still happening, by the way. Work has slowed down due to brother Joshua (animator) going back to university / collage / thing recently. But progress is being made!!!

[Galadriel55]

I'm on fire! I'm on fire! I'M ON FIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!

Please go on. ^^

[Blind Guardian]

The difference is that sneaking into peoples houses and taking monies isn't wrong and burglary is. Definitely is. Duh, that's why people go to jail. 'Cos I got a sack of cash and I quite happy. Now the people I took it from is a different story...

[Aganzir]

It's winter. I'm sitting in my room and shivering. What's a poor girl to do?

[Lalwendë]

That Entwife picture is sinister! :eek:

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Thanks Oddwen for her story this week!!

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Sorry it's a bit late. Had a bad case of chickens-invading-my-house last night. Had to fight them off with a spoon because everything else had been pecked to dust.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

The way you cropped that photo puts my rock way out of proportion! It isn't nearly that large in real life, honest.

[Glirdan]

There you go Hookbill, there ARE still people reading it! :p

[Galadriel55]

The way you cropped that photo puts my rock way out of proportion! It isn't nearly that large in real life, honest.

Don't be so modest, TGEW! Don't be afraid to acknowledge your attributes! :p

There you go Hookbill, there ARE still people reading it! :p

Oh no, I'm not reading that newspaper! Eru save me from it!

^.^:D

[Boromir88]

Why would pirates accept a robot as their captain? I thought Robots and Pirates were involved in an infinite conflict of infinity?

[Glirdan]

Oh no, I'm not reading that newspaper! Eru save me from it!

Do not lie!!! I've seen you reading it while taking leisurely strolls through Isengard!! :Merisu:

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Nearly done on the first scene or so on the P&A animation. It's looking really good so far!!

[Galadriel55]

Oh those silly moron children! You never get a moment's peace with them! I wonder whose gate I should crush into next...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Thanks to Galadriel55 for satirising the fact that I get a backlog of articles that build up until they're several weeks out of date. :P

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Next week, P&A will see the magnificent, the invisible, the inevitable... MECHADEATH! DUN DUN DUUUUNNN!!

[Galadriel55]

Mechadeath? Death? Ooooooooo, death!........

Oh that Alien...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Also, if you're interested...
A teaser for the P&A animation!!

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[Galadriel55]

Hobbits? Yes, catch them, please. I think they'll make great dessert.

Westeros is indeed messed up place.

Alien looks so innocent in the picture! :eek:

[Blind Guardian]

Wait a minute...does Alien have a front tooth?

[Galadriel55]

Wait a minute...does Alien have a front tooth?

He also has back teeth. Look at his pictures from a couple weeks ago.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Wait a minute...does Alien have a front tooth?

Yes! The animation is going to be based on Volume 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) (which I highly recommend reading ;) ). It's a prequel to the whole P&A experience!! :)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Oh MY!!! Guess I just got another favourite P+A character.

I ♥ MECHADEATH!!!!!!!!!

On top of that, the Hobbits article really almost killed me...

How is the animation proceeding, by the way?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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The animation is going slowly due to Joshua having other commitments. Mostly, you know, school.
I don't know if any of you know how to use flash? But maybe if we decide to do more of these we should get more than one person to do the animating.

[Oddwen]

But...pizza is a vegetable. Samwise and Hamfast are gardeners. Ergo, they grow pizza. I'm surprised the author of that blurb didn't realize this.

Also, I love how Alien's Tiem transcending hat is also a roof transcending hat.

[Galadriel55]

Do the birds really think that's the wurst that can happen to them? Wait till I call a few hobbits... :D

I love Alien's hat. What Oddwen said. Also, how the hand goes from "d" to "q" position (ie thumbs up/down).

[Blind Guardian]

Yes! The animation is going to be based on Volume 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) (which I highly recommend reading ;) ). It's a prequel to the whole P&A experience!! :)

I've read it. I just never realized he had teeth!

[Lalwendë]

Lalwende spends family fortune on replica of Tolkien's face

I want to hotly deny this, but it's very close to the truth seeing as with every passing hour I get closer to spending unfeasible amounts of cash on that Lego Millennium Falcon. Because it exists and I want to make it.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

The genocide has been put on hold, until I have managed to acquire some more butter.

[Glirdan]

The genocide has been put on hold, until I have managed to acquire some more butter.

Wait, you haven't received the shipment I sent you a month ago?? *Scowls at poor mail delivery services*

[Gil-Galad]

I want to hotly deny this, but it's very close to the truth seeing as with every passing hour I get closer to spending unfeasible amounts of cash on that Lego Millennium Falcon. Because it exists and I want to make it.

Wait till you see the Lego Super Star Destroyer.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Wait, you haven't received the shipment I sent you a month ago?? *Scowls at poor mail delivery services*

Oh was that for the genocide?

I used it all in my failed attempt to seduce a dozen llamas, that I met at an Engelbert Humperdinck concert.

[Glirdan]

Oh was that for the genocide?

I used it all in my failed attempt to seduce a dozen llamas, that I met at an Engelbert Humperdinck concert.

But there was a letter attached to it saying "For use of genocide ONLY. Contains lethal ingredients." And the label of course went on to outline the aside lethal ingredients, most of which I am prohibited from speaking about due to copyright infringements and top secret government sponsors!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week284.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING (http://joelcornah.webs.com/)

And for those of you that love Mechadeath and his mysterious ways, here's a special picture...
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Larger version (http://i41.tinypic.com/a9g0l.png)...

[Galadriel55]

Let me tell you that the majority of the spy-dancers consisted of "Galadriel couples", formed, of course, by Galadriels 1 through 54.

[Glirdan]

If you're going to spread slanderous libel about me, at least get the pastry I was using right.....it was a pie, for any who were interested.:Merisu:

[Hookbill the Goomba]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week285.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING (http://joelcornah.webs.com/)

Well, another week, another beak.

[Blind Guardian]

Omigawd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Galadriel55]

I was trying (fruitlessly) to figure out who's the person behind Greenie. Then it dawned on me: it's Überdeath. Mwahahahahaha!!!!!

[Oddwen]

I was trying (fruitlessly) to figure out who's the person behind Greenie. Then it dawned on me: it's Überdeath. Mwahahahahaha!!!!!


It's at least twice as odd as you think it is. :P

[Hookbill the Goomba]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week286.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING (http://joelcornah.webs.com/)

Hmm. I notice the 300th Downer edition is coming up soon. I need to think of some good ideas for it. If anyone has some suggestions I'm open to hearing them.

[Galadriel55]

And now we can all laugh at Phantom. Hahahahahahahah...ahh! no!!! It was a joke!!! I repent!!! :D

[the phantom]

Ha ha, I was right!

Beneath the stairs I discovered Super Wight's legendary stack of bricks! Tomorrow I shall return to finish collecting them. Alien is guarding them for now.

Though.... Hmmm.... The thought has suddenly occurred to me that Alien may be an untrustworthy guardian.

As a matter of fact... I can almost guarantee he'll eat them.

Crap.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING (http://joelcornah.webs.com/)

If you've got suggestions for the upcoming 300th edition of the Downer I'd like to see them! Feel free to PM me an idea if you've got one. :)

[narfforc]

Goomba's are taking over the planet, and are in disguise.... this is what Hookbill really looks like..... http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://images.wikia.com/villains/images/6/6f/Goombamovie.jpg&imgrefurl=http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Goomba&h=257&w=450&sz=101&tbnid=vqKm_XmF4IGAWM:&tbnh=69&tbnw=121&zoom=1&docid=WKen6RD3ADPuiM&sa=X&ei=5-aCT_39BunF0QWuuMXxBg&ved=0CFwQ9QEwBg&dur=11148

P.S They are a menace and highly dangerous.....they've even been known to steal children's sweets (candy).

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Let's all do a special dance!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

MECHADEATH!!! Really, I think after Mr. Mop, this one has to be my favourite... well, and then General Crock-Face from vol. 2.

Is the animated version proceeding anywhere, Hookbill, by the way? Perhaps near for the 300th anniversary of The Downer, huh?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Is the animated version proceeding anywhere, Hookbill, by the way? Perhaps near for the 300th anniversary of The Downer, huh?

It's going quite slow as Joshua is learning as he goes with the animation. Also, he's got a lot of school work and is quite lazy. I'll try and have him locked in a basement where he can only work on it from now on. ;)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

We've got to get newsed up to the max!!

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week289.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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PHANTOM AND ALIEN
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Wasn't that fun?

[Blind Guardian]

Wait a minute...where did the fish man come in? I am sooo lost...

[Galadriel55]

Ah, I'll never remember this episode... :D

[Oddwen]

WHAT episode? :confused:

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Wait a minute...where did the fish man come in? I am sooo lost...

The Fishman was the main villain in Volume 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454). He's been mentioned a few times in this series, too. Mostly in Death episodes. The archive is being silly and I need to fix it, but in the meantime, the Volume 4 archive is HERE (http://photobucket.com/PandA4) if you're lost.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week290.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Let's just get one thing straight here; the floor is made of lava. Also, we're going to have to think of something fast as the 300th edition of the newspaper is only ten weeks away! Anyone got any ideas?

[Glirdan]

Well this is going to put a kink in my plans for world domination......an I was already moving into phase two of my 101 steps of taking if the world!!! (and if you know anything about it, then you know that most people barely make it through phase 1!!!)

[Blind Guardian]

Sooo...we're going to have to wait a few episodes to find out what happens. Unless someone can convince Alien to take the MechaDeath dude back to the past. But this also explains why Alien never heard of the guy. The *present* alien isn't even in the story so far, probably off eating someone. And now MechaDeath's short part comes to an end, I mean, beginning. WHOHOO!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week291.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Progress IS being made on the animation, guys! But with exams and such happening there's a delay happening. Hopefully once this one is done it will make all future ones easier as templates will then be in place for ease of use. I don't know. I'm no expert on this stuff.

[Oddwen]

As if a joke being used to death has ever stopped anyone before.

I at least will have something silly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cusuT57pLsM) to present for the big extravaganzaventiversary.

[Galadriel55]

I at least will have something silly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cusuT57pLsM) to present for the big extravaganzaventiversary.

Oddwen, consider yourself much loved. :D

[Hookbill the Goomba]

As if a joke being used to death has ever stopped anyone before.

I at least will have something silly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cusuT57pLsM) to present for the big extravaganzaventiversary.

Oh Oddy, remind me to get you some special biscuits at Britain moot. :D

[Oddwen]

Oddwen, consider yourself much loved.

Aww, thanks. :D

Oh Oddy, remind me to get you some special biscuits at Britain moot.

Thanks, but I'd rather eat Randy. :P

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

As if a joke being used to death has ever stopped anyone before.

I at least will have something silly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cusuT57pLsM) to present for the big extravaganzaventiversary.
Oddwen, consider yourself much loved. :D

Absolutely :D This is just great.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

This week's headline story was written by everyone's favourite phantom, the phantom!

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week292.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Everyone give tp some praise. Maybe if his ego gets big enough we can harness its power to create cheap electricity for the world!!!

[Galadriel55]

*gives tp some praise*. No, seriously. I LOVE THAT ARTICLE!!! :D

[Aganzir]

The Leijona of Mariagan is neither to be caught nor tamed, I hear. I'm glad the phantom didn't compromise his reputation as a trustworthy journalist by inventing something that just wasn't there in order to make Legate look even braver.

So, Legate, where can one find the book?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

So, Legate, where can one find the book?

The publishing house "Goomba&Son" (nobody has ever made it clear whose son, anyway) promised to hit the stores this week. In fact, they actually said "we'll hit the stores and if they still stand, we hit them again". Originally, the intention was to publish also electronic version, but only before the person responsible for it managed to electrocute himself with it. So you have to do with the hard copy. It might be hard to get, but then again, if it's worth it for you...

In any case, Phantom, as for the advertisement you have provided, in the immortal words of Cpt. Solo: Thank you. Thank you very much.

[Nogrod]

Some of the Finnish terms used are quite interesting indeed, but as it is the Downer, it's hard to say if they are mistakes or just intented "as is". In either case, it makes as perfect sense as the Downer's articles make sense in general... :rolleyes:

I'm looking forwards to that magnum opus in days to come with great interest!


Actually. We made a great anthropological trip to the US. two years ago, so maybe we should publish an anthropological survey into the "American Soul"? :D

Would The Downer boost the markets with a front-page story?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week293.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

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This newspaper is not edible.
Thanks to the phantom for the second story. I'm sure he'll appreciate the animated adventures of the Phantom and Alien just as much as the comic version. Not to mention the inevitable puppet theatre!

[Boromir88]

Co-worker of the phantom's? Hmm...I'd actually pay money to get that gig.

[Galadriel55]

I nominate this P&A the best P&A of the year, when it's combined with the article... :D

Gandalf's eyebrows still too big.

Alas, they are, and will continue to be. This joke can be recycled for ever and never get old. It's like Peter Pan.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

What is the point of this newspaper? To give you news of top quality.
Once again we can lavish the phantom with praises and adoration for his work on the second story. How he got that interview with a mountain is beyond us, but he did it anyway.

[Oddwen]

That's some high quality entertainment.

I somehow missed last week's installment, so I had a double helping of Papery goodness today. Hurrah!

I finished work on both puppets today. Here (http://youtu.be/m60r55XnIDM)is a teaser of Alien. And here (http://youtu.be/Ls-TLPQm69s)is The Phantom.

[Blind Guardian]

My goodness, that pink is bright!

[Boromir88]

This week is very unpunfessional. (No pun intended).

[Galadriel55]

Ooooooooooooooo, I'm mentioned in Newspaper! Awesome!


Way to go Oddykins! These poems are so appropriate! :D

[Meneltarmacil]

This newspaper is not edible.

*om nom nom* Wait, what did that say? *munch munch* Ah, never mind, it can't be that important. *nom nom*

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Thanks to the phantom for his stories over the last few weeks! They made my Sundays much easier!

Rest assured, I shall be going on a long and harsh campaign of nagging my brother into animating the Phantom and Alien cartoon!! Perhaps we were a little ambitious with it, but I still hope it turns out okay. If not, we can always fall back on Oddwen's puppet theatre!

[Galadriel55]

Part-time traffic light!!! :D Brilliant!

[Meneltarmacil]

Hmm, I do remember reading this on LOTR Wiki:

On an excerpt from a letter of Tolkien's, a new Ainu shall enter Arda upon the side of Melkor, and will aid him in battle. This Ainu is said to have a special relationship with Mandos, although it is not known whether or not he is a Vala or Maia. He is said to be held equal with Sauron, and his name was given by Christopher Tolkien as Gilthrang.

Can Helmost the Dreadfully Evil confirm any connection with this Gilthrang guy? Like, is he working as the Walk/Don't Walk signal or something?

Also, dinosaurs? Is the Dagor Dagorath going to involve dinosaur cavalry? It really should.

[Galadriel55]

Also, dinosaurs? Is the Dagor Dagorath going to involve dinosaur cavalry? It really should.

And pterosaur Air Force as well. :smokin:

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

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Things are getting pretty crazy up here in The Downer's printing offices. Something special really should be done for issue #300, but we're not sure what yet. If you want to do something, please do! There's only so much our vast staff can do.

[Galadriel55]

An article about the phantom, for a change! :D

And I'd take that gold if it was chocolate! What are you people thinking?! It's like being in Willy Wonka's! :p

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I've been misquoted! I've smelled the phantom's head. He has a nice, lovely smelling head, I assure you...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

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The animation is coming along! It might even be ready before the moot!
Yeah, sorry everyone. I guess I didn't realise how labour intensive animating was. And it is about 5 minutes long, which for someone whose barely animated before is a tall order. We'll see how it turns out, though.

[Blind Guardian]

Plot? There's a PLOT?!?

Also: tea.

'Nuff said.

[Galadriel55]

Hats hats hats hats
Cats cats cats cats
That's that's that's that's
How the poem goes.

:D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

New means of communication is "hit" with youths between 13 and 12.
Is that months, years, days, millennia, centimetres, pounds? Between 13 and 12 what?

Did you see the halo of light around me? Obviously tea is heavenly and since I am the purveyor of it, I am also heavenly.

Actually it wasn't chamomile "tea" (it's not a tea, you know, unless it comes from the Camellia sinensis plant), it was a pu-erh. And it wasn't my fault that I ran out so soon. Agan stole all of my tea yesterday despite the fact that I just got a new shipment in last Tuesday. Now I have no more tea and the Downs with all be forced to forlornly go about without their daily tea. My evil scheme to make the entire Barrow-Downs into tea addicts is almost complete. It's not indoctrination, it's enlightenment!


Stay tuned for a word from our sponsor:
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[Meneltarmacil]

Where exactly do we post our pictures these days, considering there's no thread for them and the Barrow-Downs Photo Page hasn't been updated since 2007?

Considering my last photo was submitted way back in 2005 or so, I need to stay current in case someone should happen to interview me on here.

(for good reasons, mind you. I had nothing to do with the Giant Sloth Incident.)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Where exactly do we post our pictures these days, considering there's no thread for them and the Barrow-Downs Photo Page hasn't been updated since 2007?

All BDers who add me on Facebook run the risk of appearing in the Downer. :p

[Galadriel55]

Where exactly do we post our pictures these days, considering there's no thread for them and the Barrow-Downs Photo Page hasn't been updated since 2007?

Considering my last photo was submitted way back in 2005 or so, I need to stay current in case someone should happen to interview me on here.

(for good reasons, mind you. I had nothing to do with the Giant Sloth Incident.)

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=11909


Though, as Hooky said, he gets all the pictures from the Book of Faces.

[Meneltarmacil]

Ah, then I must resurrect the old thread as I have no Facebook account.

Not that I have anything to hide, of course. And even if I did, it would definitely not have anything to do with giant sloths. Nope. Not at all.

[Galadriel55]

Ah, then I must resurrect the old thread

It's not that old...

...as I have no Facebook account.

*hi-fives Menel* join the club. :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

All BDers who add me on Facebook run the risk of appearing in the Downer.
Don't I know it. I have been in The Downer a lot of times since Hookbill and I became Facebook friends in 2008 or 2009 (or whenever it was). Whenever there is a Downs meetup and there are pictures on FB because of it, Hookbill will milk it for a month. He is relentless. :p

[Hookbill the Goomba]

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

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Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Animation update: it's going well and should be done before the moot, hopefully. Legate, is your brother still willing to do the music? If so we can send a rough cut to him for scoring some time soon, if he's still up for it.
Post-pilot, we're thinking of doing some shorter animations. Perhaps some Volume 1 style quick fire jokes, or whatever. These shouldn't take as long or require as much intense work and will hopefully get the wheels greased enough for us to tackle a bigger series later on. I'll probably take suggestions, too. That way we can improve the whole process and get the main series ready at a higher quality.
Hopefully...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week299.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/Episode079.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Special thanks to the phantom for the second story with all it's goodness and niceness and high-fiveness!!

So, next week is the special, spectacular, 300th edition of The Downer!! I hope you're all as excited as I am panicked!! If you have stories or things you'd like to be in it, let me know some time this week and I'll do what I can.

[Oddwen]

Fortunately for us fancy types, I was able to jump ahead into fiction and the future to compare those two fine gentlemens' makeup products.

I submit to you the results (http://youtu.be/J5o3qLSLKWo)and will let you decide which you like best.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I will be launching a men's fragrance series soon, it is in the final development stages, right now under the working title "Beef it up"

In other news:

Rune's Quality Beef is contemplating a more active branding strategy, due to greediness this campaign will probably be highly unoriginal and followed by several lawsuits. The company is thinking along the lines of using model photos of Gollum and/or a drowsy badger, accompanied by a catchy slogan, preferably in German...

Although nothing has been decided yet, the preferred slogans are said to be:

Das Lard
Lard We Can
Yes We Lard
Wir Leben Lard
Katzenjammer Für Die Welt
So Ein Ding Muss Ich Auch Haben
The Custard People Are Attacking!

[Pitchwife]

I Have Had a Long Life and a Lard

[Hookbill the Goomba]

The Door of night had been shattered. Melkor had returned to Middle Earth. The Dagor Dagorath raged across the world, breaking Arda apart as the Valar battled day and night against the Dark Lord and all his little goblins.
Turin Turambar dealt the final blow, breaking Morgoth once and for all.
Then the Pelóri Mountains were be levelled, the three Silmarils recovered from the Earth, sea, and sky, and Fëanor's spirit was released from the halls of Mandos to give them to Yavanna, who broke them and rekindled the light of the Two Trees. Then Fëanor revealed the substance by which he made the Silmarils; plastic.

Then the time came for the Second Music of the Ainur! And that's when everything changed.

In the ruins of the old Middle Earth, a lonely Barrow Wight stands, his hand upon the hilt of a rusty sword and his dead eyes glaring into the fallen stones of his home. The BWH wipes away a single tear from his skull-face as he reaches into the dust to retrieve a fragment of paper. One by one, he find more fragments until he is able to pull together a complete page from the final Downer Newspaper of Middle Earth Mk 1...

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Interestingly enough, he also found a complete and undamaged episode of the loveable and confusing duo, the Phantom and Alien.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/Episode080.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Wasn't that fun, folks?

The Downer will have a rest for a few weeks, I think. I'll do some other papers for a while, The Barrow, The Dead Times, and maybe some random magazine or something. If anyone wants to submit their own guest paper, PM me and let me know.

But, blimey! 300 papers! It's almost as if I've achieved something.

[Oddwen]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Oddwen/firework22.gif

Many congratulations!

And as promised...puppets (http://youtu.be/dLzdkW0-9Zc)!

[Galadriel55]

Woohooooooooooo!!! Congratulations! :D



Lovely, Oddy. ^^

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I was sort of expecting a poem dedicated to me... it is an anniversary issue after all.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Part one of our series of alternate newspapers.

The Dead Times is an old and well established paper that attempts to appear sophisticated and high brow, but almost always ends up being silly and deranged. Reporting on important and pressing issues like lunch and beards, it sets itself up as the number one spot for irrelevant news that is made to sound more relevant than the end of the world!

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And now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/Episode081.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

I'm drawing Volume 4 to a close, soon. But do not despair, my friends! Volume 5 is just around the corner. I've realised some of my mistakes with Volume 4 (too little planning and not enough attention to detail), but the next series is going to, I think, rival volume 3 in terms of scope and goodness!

So far, all I can tell you as that the title will be;

THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN'S JOURNEY THROUGH TIME

Questions will be answered! Adventures will be had! Insanity will be welcomed! All your favourite P&A things will be in it! And possibly Dennis, too!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN'S JOURNEY THROUGH TIME


They don't get their hands on a TARDIS, do they? Or a Time Turner? That would be all wrong.

[Galadriel55]

Agan looks more of a Dwarf than Kili. Lol.

Phantom ate lunch! No kiddin'!!!

They don't get their hands on a TARDIS, do they? Or a Time Turner? That would be all wrong.

They already got their hands on a watch and a hat. They don't need a TARDIS. :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Agan looks more of a Dwarf than Kili. Lol.

Phantom ate lunch! No kiddin'!!!



They already got their hands on a watch and a hat. They don't need a TARDIS. :D
They aren't cool enough for a sports car. :P

[Nogrod]

Concerning the late The Downers' edition I feel obliged to stress one word from a headline appearing there.

"Nogrod May Not Actually be Iluvatar in a Mask."

Just to keep you guessing...


May The Downer rest in peace until it's time for a resurgence.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

PART TWO of our journey through alternate newspapers on the Downs! This week, everyone's least favourite tabloid rag, proudly reporting from the very gutter of the press, it's The Barrow! Home of Justin Durham and scandals.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Barrow005.png

And now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/Episode082.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Next week we'll be having a visit from The Financial Wight, a know-it-all paper that thinks that anything about money must be newsworthy.
I'll do my best to prepare some papers for during Britainmoot but I make no promises. There should be an internet connection, so things should happen nicely... We shall see, though.

[Galadriel55]

Tee hee! I love cheese!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

PART THREE of our journey through alternate newspapers on the Downs! This week, everyone's favourite paper for bankers! The Financial Wight!
Thanks to the phantom for the second story!

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/FinancialWight.png

And now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/Episode083.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Right, this week I will try and make some Newspapers that will be posted while I'm on holiday. Also some P&As. I'm making some plans for the finale of volume 4 and that'll be happening in the next three or four weeks. After which I'll be wanting some guest comics if anyone fancies giving it a go! Anything from a regular Phalian, to a Fungoltch und Schmurt, or a Sir Phantom and Mr Alan. ;)

[Aganzir]

Psh. Why are there never articles about me these days?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

PART FOUR of our journey through alternate newspapers on the Downs! This week, we journey into the future! Yes, the future of the Barrow Downs! A world of technology and possibly other things. And Robots.
Thanks to the phantom for the second story!

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/FutureNews.png

And now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/Episode084.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Sadly, there will be no newspaper next week, but the following week we'll be back to the good old Downer regular! Hope you enjoy that!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

The children sang, the old folk danced, the people in the middle were slightly confused. But nothing could hold back the

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week301.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/Episode085.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

There will be a few more P&As this season, followed by a short mini series, and then we'll head into volume 5!! So look out!! It feels good to be back doing these things again.

[Oddwen]

I hope the new series has more jellysplosions! Grant us jellysplosions fifthwith! Fivesooth!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Sorry guys, but the Downer Newspaper and this week's P&A will probably not come until later in the week. My computer died and I can't get my software to work on the emergency back up computer I'm using. Hopefully I should be back with a working thing by tomorrow, so I'll see what I can do.

In the meantime, anyone who wants to post an article to the thread is free to do so. :)

[Oddwen]

NO PAPER TODAY, SAYS PAPER GUY

by "Pickles" McSpankypants

Shock, horror and ambivalence swept the Downs today as alleged editor of the extremely unpopular "Barrow Downs Newspaper" announced via newspaper that there would be no newspaper today. It's about time somebody swept around here, it's getting grave-dusty.

Hookwilliam Fitzgoomba claimed that computer problems were to blame for the lack of gossip, slander and enraging lies that the population is accustomed to reading with their morning meal. Sources say that they saw sea-hag Aganzir attempt to bite the offending computers to death, but Sources is a silly person who knows just about as much as Jon Snow, because computers can't bleed or feel pain.

"This is disappointing," said one the phantom. "How are people supposed to read my own articles about how great I am? Looks like I have to go out and put leaflets on everyone's car windshields again."

"I'm for it!" said a man who looked like the phantom wearing a fake mustache. "How else will people realize how much they miss reading about the phantom unless they're not reading about the phantom?"

"I sure am going to miss reading about the phantom," said a man who looked like the phantom wearing a dress and long-haired wig. "Anyone else? Anyone? Anyone? Please notice me!"

the phantom could not be reached for additional comments. We didn't even try, really, he looked so happy drawing up his propaganda posters.

Advertisers have begun lining up outside the door of the Downer's main offices, demanding remuneration and various measures of Hookbill's flesh.

"As far as I know, we're all paid up," explained Rune of Rune's Quality Beef fame. "I just thought my main office could use a bit of decoration, and I decided that a human foot would be gorgeous on top of the pile of rotted Beef."

Eonwe, spokesman for "Let Them Eat Lard" revealed that he actually owed Hookbill money, but chose to line up because he believed that beating up people for no reason was "Fun For The Whole Family(tm)!".

The Barrow-Wight Himself ordered Moderators to shut down their usual weekend "Cleanup Squad Response Team" in response.

"Usually on Paper day, tempers flare, riots start in the street, volcanoes erupt, blood is mingled with milk and honey, the usual apocalyptic signs," explained The Books Moderator Estelyn Telcontar in a press conference that nobody attended. "We were pleased to see this morning that everybody was behaving rationally and politely in all forums and sub-forums. Posts in the Chapter-by-Chapter discussions have doubled! The Moderator team is hosting a huge party of special magnificence that nobody is invited to in celebration. It won't be all fun and games though. We will have to make a plan of attack for if the Paper returns. We're hoping we can get the Eagles to transport Hookbill's printing press to the Cracks of Doom for us."

The Eagles are currently on tour in the US and could not be reached for comment.

"The rumors that my computer is working just fine and that I spent my usual writing hours watching television are wrong! Unfounded! You can't prove anything!" Hookbill then attempted to weld his door shut using a sonic screwdriver. The police watched and laughed. He is now in custody and will appear in court after lunch.


And now for your irregularly scheduled Phantom and Alien fill-in.


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[Bêthberry]

Superb coverage, Oddwen. It's just like Hooky posted the latest edition. Except not.

A report on Fifty Shades of Gandalf the Grey in Sherwood Forest would have rounded out the edition quite nicely but I understand that the auteur has writer's cramp.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Thanks Oddwen! You will be rewarded. WITH DEATH. Oh, wait... never mind...

But, my computer problems appear to be fixed for now. So here's the news...

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Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/Episode086.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Not long to go now with this P&A volume!

[Boromir88]

Hmmm...that sounds like a good idea. Sally you wouldn't happen to have a WW game coming soon? Or, wait, I think i'll just take over Kath's.

[Blind Guardian]

CHEESE!

One a side note, the Wonderful Event of Wonderful Nothingness!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

CHEESE!


It doesn't matter how sick it makes you, cheese is always in vogue!



I love nothing, I also love some things and some people too.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Thanks to Galadriel55 for the second story!

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week303.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/Episode087.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

The current P&A volume is coming to a close in two weeks, people! So for now I'd like to ask if anyone fancies doing some guest comics while I set up the next volume? Let me know either here or in PM if you prefer.

[Oddwen]

I am torn between not posting and therefore proving that article wrong and reaching that all-important 2123'd post.

I just want to watch my re-warming food spin around...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Thanks to TGEW for the main story!

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week304.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/Episode088.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

Next week sees the end of this current volume of Phantom and Alien. I know it was a bit meandering and didn't make a lot of sense, and that was my fault for losing track of what I was doing. But the next series will be better, I promise!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I have three things to say about this:


ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY TEA! IT IS THE ELIXIR OF ALL!
The Downer this week has become overrun by bespectacled people!
That second article sounded suspiciously like real journalism...

[Galadriel55]

About the paper: tea! More tea!


About P&A: Oi. Actually, I'm a little afraid of where the new volume will start. :eek:

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Tea is the most important thing. It should always be in the paper. My personal crusade should be plastered all over the Barrow-Downs.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/Week305_zps9a37ff6e.png

Now back to your regularly scheduled Phalian.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/Episode089_zpsdf8ad216.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien, you can look back though the...

VOLUME 1 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753231) | VOLUME 2 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753454) | VOLUME 3 (http://joelcornah.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=9753528) | VOLUME 4 (http://s75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/JoelCornah/P%20and%20A%20Volume%204/)

And that's the end of Volume 4!!
Next week there will be something different. Maybe a Fungoltch und Schmurt? Maybe Phanston and Ailsbry. Maybe something new? Who knows or dares to dream...

[Galadriel55]

*feels vibrations of the universe trembling*