Barrow-Downs hiatus

[TealDude4]

You see, my Internet connection has been gone since July. I haven't been able to discuss the greatness that is LOTR since then. It has driven me CRAZY! smilies/mad.gif smilies/eek.gif
I'm not talking just a little crazy. I mean 'screaming-smashing-ax through the wall-HERE'S JOHNNNEYYYYYY!!!' crazy. smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif

So, I figure for a Downer, being away from the Barrow-Downs is somewhat of a endurance test. So, what is the longest you've ever been away from the Barrow Downs? And what were some of the things that you did to keep sane (or partialy sane)?

Mine is 103 days to be exact (I counted the days. Sad, huh?). I read LOTR for the second time though it all. Beat THAT!! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

Oh, yaeh. I'M SOOOOOO HAPPY TO BE BACK AT THE BARROW DOWNS!!!!

[InklingElf]

Gahhh...5 MONTHS -- and I read the canons and the Silm [<---Silmarillion being my hundreth time!]HAHAHAHAHAHA -- I'm over my head sorry...

Ahhh sweet ignorance that has plagued me of madness...

[Eruwen]

Less than a month for I find this site very addictive at times. During that time, I watched LOTR as much as I could, drew pictures of the characters in my sketchbook, and just tried to not think of how much I was missing while being offline.

[Knight of Gondor]

I was gone for a full 8 months, as some of you might possibly remember. And it was RIGHT before The Two Towers released no less! It was terrible. But I got back on, now, and that's what counts. smilies/cool.gif

[Ainaserkewen]

I'd say about five or six weeks. I went to camp in the summer. 600 kids and ONE computer with Internet. I got on twice for email and just long enough to see the downs and check up. 3 minutes, however, is not nearly enough to digest this site. But I survived.

[Arwen Eruantale]

Sheesh. I was away for about three weeks once, just because I didn't have time to do much besides school. But I can't imagine how hard it would be for to much longer than that. smilies/biggrin.gif

Eight months...?

Edit: Knight of Gondor, I really like your sig. That is my very favourite Faramir quote.

[ October 22, 2003: Message edited by: Arwen Eruantale ]

[Elennar Starfire]

I was grounded from the computer for about a month a while ago. I sneaked on from the library whenever I could.

How did I keep my sanity? The 'downs is what's driving it away, but this is a good thing. Someday it will all be gone, and I'm not trying to keep it.

[THE Ka]

The longest the Ka has been deprived of the joy and light of this wonderful site has been 5 months. Why so long you may ask? well, first of all i moved as most spirits should do, and that i had to speed a month trying to find an internet provider that didn't dig to deep in my pockets. ( internet providers are like Gollums to Bilbo remember" what's in your pocketsssss...")
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what i did was read the last two chapters out of the FOTR and most but not all of the second book. And i saw the first movie. The favorite parts of the books for the Ka are the last two chapters of the FOTR and the chapter the counsil of elrond, and finally threeb is company. so you can see i was content. how about you?

"Samhains almost here!"
- The KA

[The Elusive Spirit]

I've been off for about a month now. It's good to get back. I have so much work to to it's insane. I have been reading FOTR to my little bro. The only thing is I get yelled at for about a week every time I come on here. My mom think I spend too much time on LOTR in general. It's tough but I should be able to make it.

[Neferchoirwen]

I came back just a few days ago...and I've been gone almost 3 months.

Been reading the trilogy in preparation for movie three (giving myself till next week to finish, and I'm hardly done with A Knife In The Dark!

Nothing like a good challenge!

[elfearz1]

a whole week *whew* I could barely take it.

[Lindril Arvilya]

Ainaserkewen, I feel your pain. Add up nine weeks at camp, one excrutiatingly slow computer with internet, one hour off a day, fifty counsellors and not enough time for us all, and you get no Lindril for two months.
I barely survived, getting through by having "spirited arguments" with my friends there. ... or, you know... "heated debates".... yeah.

I was always right.

Lindril (ain't that always the way?) Arvilya

[Finwe]

Ai Elbereth! Now I feel like an obsessed maniac! The longest I've been away from the Downs in the past few months is about three or four days. *sheepish grin* smilies/biggrin.gif

[Lindril Arvilya]

Now I feel like an obsessed maniac!

Finwe, that would be because you are an obsessed maniac. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Two weeks at Air Cadet camp, and I couldn't get on the computers at all. I would be waiting, and then the counsellors would come in and yell at us for having too many people in the room. Bah. Plus in the beginning of May my computer died, and I didn't get it fixed until the beginning of June. Soo...one month at one time, and two weeks at another time.

[Finwe]

Well, Lindy, I presume that would explain it.

[Ophelia]

I haven`t been away for too long . Well if you mean all the BD`s (the forum and the chat) thenthe longest ? 2weeks . But if forum - this is my first post after a ve-e-e-errry long time . There are less and less topics to reply to these days smilies/frown.gif

-OpheliA-

[Knight of Gondor]

Knight of Gondor, I really like your sig. That is my very favourite Faramir quote.

I chose it to contrast the many outcries against the war these days. Not to turn political, but interesting how it applies to modern-day America, and her fights against terrorism! (And interesting, too, is it not, that Viggo Mortenson can get on the camera and say "Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not" then spear a few hundred Uruk-hai, then go out off-camera and be anti-war. smilies/rolleyes.gif )