How did you end up here?

[Helkahothion]

Hi was reading a tread that was thanking B-W for his services and I began to wander How I stranded on this Island of pure wonder. It's a funny story really.

I was searching pic's of Legolas on Google.com(I know not very manly but he rulez)when I stumbled onto this drawing of him. Google users may know that the site where the pic comes from is stated underneeth the pic so I wandered what it was. I looked at several drawings when I realized there was more than just drawings. (for the not so smart people that site with pic's was the Barrow-Downs)

So now that is out of My bucket, wat's your story?

How did you end up here?
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[Sleeping Beauty]

About the same way you did. My roommate and I were looking up those Foxtrot cartoons that came out at the time of the Fellowship and I came across the Barrow-Downs in my search. I wandered about for a bit and found a site I fell totally head over hills for. I had never done a search for Tolkien online and didn't know I could find such good things and good people as well. smilies/biggrin.gif

[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: Sleeping Beauty ]

[mordor136]

For me it was pure luck and I happened to make a mistake in a search (I cant remember what for) and I wound up here in heaven

[DarkRose]

I believe I was searching the internet for LOTR name generators, and I ended up at the Barrow Downs website. After playing around on the generators, I stumbled across the forums, and..here I am. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Meela]

I did a search for Lord of the Rings sites. Well, you know what these things can turn out like. If you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to. A place called the Barrowdowns, by the looks of things.

[Helkahothion]

Hahahahahahahahaha I like your sig. Meela, but what Isildur do you mean? A Barrow Downer or the real Isildur? Or is it not a quote?
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[Manwe Sulimo]

I got here by looking for it. I was considering joining a LotR forum for a while...this just was the one that popped out at me.

[arelendil]

I got hit over the head several times by a fellow BD until I tried the site! When I first heard of it the name put me off, I mean barrow-downs are evil places. And having just read that bit, which really scared me(don't ever read that chapter in the middle of a field at 2 in the morning) I wasn't keen to join but as soon as I looked around I had to! smilies/biggrin.gif

It's sooooo nice to have people understand you!!!

[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: arelendil ]

[Eruwen]

My story is the same as most others here. I was looking for pictures actually from the movie on askjeeves, and they gave me this link. That was about 7 months ago.

[LadyElbereth]

Ummm, my story is exactly like DarkRose's. Weird... smilies/eek.gif

[Scattergold]

I just arrived here about 10 minutes ago via the Encyclopedia of Arda smilies/smile.gif

So far so good!!

[Beren87]

When I first signed up for EZboard, I searched for Tolkien related sites and found this one. Ahhh the Downs, my souldmate. smilies/wink.gif

[Veritas]

I friend of me told me about this site because of the namegenerator... Well, I browsed the forum a few times, and there was Veritas smilies/wink.gif. Later I've been visiting the chat more. Although lately there are tons of screaming fun girls there *sigh*...
Venerunt Quererunt Fugerunt.

[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: Veritas ]

[Nurumaiel]

I got an email from a friend who loved LOTR as much as I, and she told me her Elvish name. I asked her where she got it and I came here! I discovered the forums reading through fanfiction and finding the Rohan RPG. I clicked on the link to see the RPG, and I came to the forums. So, if there were some poll or something where you had to say how you found the Barrow-Downs, it would be 'From A Friend.' smilies/biggrin.gif

EDIT: I forgot to mention. Welcome to the Downs, Scattergold!

~Nurumaiel, or just Nuru

[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: Nurumaiel ]

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

I was looking for a site dedicated to The Barrow Downs, my favorite part of the book. Well, I kept finding site that gave like a one-sentence definition of The Barrow Downs. I went to this site and looked around in the forum. You might think that I would be dissapointed, finding yet another site that doesn't really live up to its name. But actually I realized I could talk about ME all the time and I love it. I wasn't dissapointed at all. Although I'm still looking for a site really about the Barrow Downs, I find myself here a lot. I think that I've been here so much that I feel I've been here for years, even though I registered last November.

[Kalimac]

I was looking for movie information (especially movie/book comparisons) around the time that FOTR came out, and one of the links that popped up was to a thread in the movie forum. Oddly enough I don't remember which thread it was smilies/smile.gif. But I did stay to look over the whole Barrow-Downs forum and loved it since it wasn't just drooling over movie characters or only for people who had read the Sil 15 times; it had something for every mood (sorry to be gushy). I lurked for about three months and then joined (I only belong to 2 internet forums total, I like to sleep on these things). It's been fun smilies/smile.gif.

[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: Kalimac ]

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

"Candle of the Marshes"... we likes it, yeessss, we likes it smilies/smile.gif

I honestly don't really remember how I found my way here. I think it was from a links page on another site... it was probably along the path of my endless pursuit of Tolkien knowledge after seeing the first film.

[Gayahithwen]

Let me see..

Oh, yes.. One and a half year ago I was a Harry Potter-freak (though I had read LotR and liked it, it was still HP that was my major interest). I used to hang out on a fun Hogwarts-site, and many of the people there was (apart from being HP-fanatics) LotR-fans. So, one day when we were chatting along, some of the 'teachers' gave me the link to the name-generators.. I played around with them alot, went here some times during the following months, took a look into the forum and the chat, and finally signed up in December last year.

[Alphaelin]

I found my way here from TORN about a year ago, and after looking at several of the sections over time, decided to join. I like all discussions of Tolkien's work, as well as the silly parts of the site.

[mordol]

I was searching for a LOTR encyclopedia, best thing I ever did was find the Barrow Downs one

[mary_lou]

Err... I started my message boarding career as a strict Star Wars, nothing else girl, then some people on one of the forums got me interested in LOTR, I started looking for a copy of the LOTR script for a fanfic, got onto a site, accidently clicked on the link to here, and here I am! smilies/smile.gif

[Maikadilwen]

Also try to look here (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=14&t=000082). It was started a long time ago but has been posted on pretty recently.

[Nianna Telmnar]

Like many of you, I followed the route of searching for a LOTR name generator. I poked around there for awhile typing in all my frinds names and then I clicked on forum on a whim. And now I'm here. I'm also proud to say that I have gotten 3 more of my friends addicted to the BD.

[engwaalphiel]

After reading the hobbit when I was 9 or 10 , I never realised until I was older that Lord of the Rings concerned middle earth also. So when I read LOTR , Sim , HOME etc i started to become much more interested in ME , Tolkien and his characters. I was aimlessly wandering the net one day when i decided to find an elven name and behold I found the barrowdowns! I vistited to read articles , play the games etc but didn't join for quite some time (everyone seemed so intelligent!) Then one day i did ! and voila!

[TealDude3]

There was this kid on my school bus, and he wouldn't stop talking about LOTR. And he just kept talking about Barow-Downs.com. I had read FOTR, so I decided to go to the site. Ta-Daaaa!

[dragoneyes]

My friend (ElentariGreenleaf) came here and sent me her Mad libs (which, may I add, didn't make any sense whatsoever) when I finally worked out what a 'Mad Lib' was I came here and did a few of my own, I got bored with that and progressed to the rest of the games (hanghobbit mostly smilies/evil.gif) then onto the fanfics and finally here. smilies/biggrin.gif

[vanwalossien]

I'm just another in the 'I also want an Elvish name'-category. My friend found this site (I think she heard of it from her sister) and she told me I could get an Elvish name there. By pure chance I happened to take a look at the forum and voila *watches her social life blow away like leaves in a storm*

[Gorwingel]

I was just searching about anything I could about Lord of the Rings and stuff and I just came upon here. I think the art section and all the games on the main site are wonderful, and I would just read in the forums what all the fellow fans were talking about.

[LePetitChoux]

There was a craze on Orlando Bloom in our school smilies/rolleyes.gif , and people were looking on the main site, so I went along one day and started checking all the bits of it out, and voila! smilies/smile.gif

[Dark Shadow]

hmmmm. I may have seen a like somewhere..... oh that's it. Someone linked me to the personality thingy on the main site and I was looking around and I saw "forums" and I love forums smilies/rolleyes.gif so I just thought i'd take a look, and then i kinda registered.... an here i am.... smilies/wink.gif

[Celebrodiel]

I came here to find out my Elvish name, and came across the forum button. So here I am!
smilies/biggrin.gif

[Maylin Talese]

it started with the Lapas Strosh, the Eternal Storm....my ship drifted to close to it, next thing I knew, I was dead...
**just kidding**

I was searching for something about Sam, I think, and I stumbled on to it.

[Helkahothion]

HAHAHAHAHA liked that one Maylin Talese.

Hey what do you know this can maybe become a tread that will be larger thatn one page. Yes I finnaly made it.

Keep posting people.
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[Thor]

I ended up here after having a link emailed for the Barrow-Downs name generator... Sound familiar anyone? Anyway, love all the talk about the movies - it's great to hear what all those like-minded people think (and unlike-minded smilies/wink.gif ). Can't tell you all what a relief to find people who love nit-picking like me!!

[redshelob]

My story is similar. I wandered by, lurked, and decided to stay. But unlike many here, I read the books before most of you were born. Before terms like "nerd" or "geek" were used. Peter Jackson is a hero. Tolkien is forever. smilies/evil.gif

[Helkahothion]

Dear redshellob

Darn you, if you would have only said Tolkien Forever a few years ago he would still be alive.

Ahw well, we all go wen out time comes.

Greetings,

Anuion
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[MYyyPreciousSS]

Yet another person who came to the site for the name generator.... But once I was done with that, I started to search around the site and came to the forums. I had never been to a LOTR related messageboard before, and I was really impressed, so I joined. I'm glad this was the first messageboard I saw, because in my opion, its still the best.

[Helkahothion]

Greetings all,

Hm I gues the Forum page is some sort of sucking gap that will keep you locked inside of him forever.

But then again, maybe not.

Greetings,

Anuion
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[aragornreborn]

Well, I think I was looking for LOTR related sites and I just randomly clicked on the Barrowdowns. I took the personality test and it told me I was Aragorn! Yay! Anyway, I was hooked. I got my name, and then I found the forum. And here I am...

[zacattack]

I asked one of my freinds were they got their personality tests and they said at the BarrowDowns so here I am

[Peri]

Well, I found while I was also looking for LOTR stuff. I came across this website where people were talking about their elcish names and where they got them. Someone said they got theirs from a name generator at the barrow downs site, so I decided to check it out. That's how I ended up here.

[Aphrodel Baggins]

my sister "airehiriel" siad it was cool and i had to join. smilies/smile.gif

[Nevcairion_of_Rivendell]

My friend told me that i could find out my Elvish name so i came here because i like Elves and here i am

[Falagar]

I found a link on the net to the Name-generator some months ago, but when I tested it I didn't like it, and thought of the Barrow Downs as another unserious Tolkien-site.
(you shall not judge a site by the first impression smilies/rolleyes.gif )

Then, someone posted a link to this site, and I clicked at it again for some weird reason. But then I discovered that the Barrow Downs had a forum! I entered, and here I am smilies/smile.gif

[Mithril]

I was looking for Lord of the Rings sites on Yahoo and found this and it looked interesting so I registered and have been here since.

[*Anuion*]

Well,

I saw two monkey's running to a grave and I like monkey's so I followed them. When I enteed I could not get out any more and was trapped. I starved to death and am here ever since.

Nah just kidding. I am here for a long time(Hell I started this tread personaly), but because I can't log in for the moment I am using this account.

Greetings,

Anuion

[Guinevere]

I am certainly an exception here!
Until last spring I had never even touched a computer!! But then, because I am such a huge Tolkien fan, my son showed me how to use the internet so I could get in touch with other Tolkien fans. I was first on a German Tolkien-site and forum (Since I live in Switzerland).

The address of the Barrowdowns I actually found in a German book "Tolkien's World",(By Michael Nagula) at the end of it there was a list of the best internet addresses concerning Tolkien.

[*Anuion*]

God bless your son guinevere,

Welcome to the downs!(altough I can see your here for quite a time already)

Hm maybe I should have children when I grow up. (If I ever will that is) smilies/smile.gif

Greetings,

Anuion

[Evenstar1069]

My friend was looking for legolas pictures and came across this site. Then she found the comics and pictures. She told me to check it out so I did and I found this board and here I am.

[Balin999]

Good question!
I surfed the internet and tried to find a LotR site. I found the Barrow-Downs. First I only looked at the pictures and the quizzes, then I discovered a little-frequented forum on the site where I was member number 4 or 5. That was almost three years ago.

[*Anuion*]

Dear Balin999,


Good question!

Thank you! It is always nice when people say you are doing a good job. Really apreceate that. Love you and will be seeing you arround.

Greetings,

Anuion

[Inderjit Sanghera]

Is the B-D the largest Tolkien forum on the web? Hundreds have joined in the last two weeks alone!It is certainly my favourite forum.

[Vardadurwen]

A friend of mine kept going on and on about this place where you could find out your Middle-Earth names and such. So I went to the Barrow Downs generator and played around on it for a while before entering other sections of the site. I saw the forum and it intrigued me so much that I decided to join! There ya have it, folks.

[Nuranar]

I was searching for Lord of the Rings pictures (not from the movies) and initally found this site. I went back to it when my friends asked me if I'd checked out the forums. I am glad I did!

[Elfchick7]

I was talking to my cousin about a different name generator and he said he knew were a better one was. I didn't believe him so he showed me The Barrow-Downs. I thought that the sight was totally awesome and started hanging out here eventually I stumbled onto the forum and I liked it. I've really only been in the forum for like a week. smilies/wink.gif

[lord of dor-lomin]

I've liked LOTR since junior high, and I met a fellow LOTR fan in high school (the phantom) and after he found this site he told me about it, so then I joined.

[JenFramp]

I was helping a friend do a huge Tolkien project..while I was of course already a fan..I had not yet delved into the online tolkien world yet..i stumbled across this site and was hooked!

[Ebony]

Hello. I first discovered Barrowdowns about a year ago when someone from the forum I normally post to (at sf-fandom) gave a link to the name generator. I added the site to my favourites, but just visited occasionally to check out other things - I didn't visit the forum. Then last December, things on my forum were getting kind of slow, so I joined up over here.

Like Redshelob, I first read the books while Tolkien was still alive, and have enjoyed them many times over the years.

Must confess though, I'm here today because sf-fandom is down. (ducks)

[Helkahothion]

*curses his bad aim and mourn's about the broken fase*

Stop ducking!

smilies/wink.gif

Greetings,

Anuion
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[Ebony]

smilies/tongue.gif Oh yeah, I guess since I'm dead it doesn't really matter if you hit me anyway. hehehe. Fire away!

Or in Tolkienese, Release Arrows!

[Laialthriel]

My cousin showed me the name generator and I thought it was a very cool idea. I liked the look of the site and haunted it for a few weeks playing 'hanghobbit' pretty much every day (Dang that game's addicting...), checking out the drawings, etc. Then one day I scrolled a little too far down looking for the hanghobbit button and happened to see the beautiful little button labelled 'Forum'. Needless to say, I got hooked and here I am to stay.

Laialthriel

[alaklondewen]

I took a Children's Lit class because The Hobbit was required reading. We had to write a 'research project' and link it to something we read in class, so I wrote the history of Hobbits. While looking for any and everything about Hobbits on the web, I came to B-D. I haven't left since. smilies/smile.gif

[Pallando B.C]

My friend was laughing at me when he told me I was a struggling Olog-Hai, on a LotR web site. After about a month fiddling around with the quiz topics i dicovered this forum. I never looked back! smilies/biggrin.gif

[harlindon]

Well, My friends came here and told me about it. I was here for a while and then I left, and then my friends still kept talking about it so I decided to check it out agin and now bada bing bada boom I'm here.(and staying)