How did you find out about the Barrowdowns?

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

I was just wondering: how did all you thousands of people find out about this site? I really can't think of enough ways that there would be a few thousand people who found the same site. smilies/eek.gif smilies/rolleyes.gif

[ April 07, 2003: Message edited by: GaladrieloftheOlden ]

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Me myself, I was trying to draw a picture of each member of the Fellowship. They all came out okay, except Legolas, who came out looking like an old man. So I decided to print out some good photos/pictures of him and look at that while I drew, so it would be easier. I searched 'Legolas' in Google images. I felt extremely disturbed by some of the rabid sites the search popped up with, so I began looking at the site name before clicking. Finally, I found one without the words 'Orli', 'Leggi', 'hot', or 'sexy' which was the Barrowdowns. And then I started looking at the rest of the site, and signed up, and then discovered the forum a month or so later. Yeah. You're bored now aren't you? smilies/rolleyes.gif (rhetorical question)

[Arwen Evenstar the Fair]

I think one of my friends found this site and told me to check it out, so I did and I totally loved it, so I joined!!!

[Balin999]

There are at least two threads which answer that question so maybe you could seach for them and read through them.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Oops, sorry, I just wasn't sure what words to search for.

[Balin999]

You're welcome smilies/smile.gif
The chance that you miss a thread in this forum are rather high smilies/smile.gif

[VanimaEdhel]

I was searching around for the Chat and I found the Barrow-Downs Chat. I think it was right before the movie came out. I had figured that, though I had been a Tolkien fan for a long time, finally, with a movie coming out, there were bound to be good Chatrooms coming around because of the movie. In February of 2002, after chatting with many Forum-members in the Chat, I finally got an account at the Downs. And here I am!

[Beren87]

I was stumbling around EZBoard one day, looking for Tolkien forums and low and behold I found BD! Been here ever since, with a slight leave of absence in 2001. [my EZboard name was hegemonmatt, but I changed it when I resigned up on the PHP]

[Eressië Ailin]

I've been on the Barrow Downs for a long time, but I just recently realised that there was a forum. That's my story. Short, sweet, and to the point.

[Silmarien]

I was looking around mostly searching for pictures and a good Tolkien site(We had only just got the internet). I found lots but for some reason the Barrow Downs stuck out above the rest. I went into chat and had some good fun there. Then one day I decided to see what the forum was all about (being new to the net) I wanted to add a reply but found out you have to be signed up so I did and I haven't looked back. smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif smilies/smile.gif

[Lady_Báin]

ah well i found out about BD when i was totally bored out of my mind, (because i really couldn't find any good tolkien sites) and i was looking around kiwibox.com *face turns to tomato* on the tolkien board and there was a person who was like "this site sucks my old balogna sandwhich, barrowdowns.com is better" or something to that affect and i've been here ever since. smilies/smile.gif

edit: hey cool i've been here a whole year, yaydance for me *does yaydance*

[ April 08, 2003: Message edited by: Lady_Báin ]

[Sapphire_Flame]

My friend told me about BD when I asked her about a Middle-earth name generator she found. I had been going to the site for about two months before signing up at the forum!

[Elanor]

I honestly can't remember, it was so looong ago. smilies/wink.gif I suspect I found the BD by accident, like many of us here. I lurked for ages before I started posting, which is why I have so few posts, compared to my member number.

[Ainaserkewen]

I personally found it on my own. Before I read the books, I'd seen the movies and was kinda obsessed with Frodo. So I searched the web for his fansites(I'm kinda ashamed now) then I found this site. I loved the themes, the forums everything was great, and for about two months, I've learned so many new things and met people(in the forums) that shared my interest. Now I can say I am the most tolkien learned of all my friends and they come to me with their questions. Thanks Barrow downs.

[Phervasaion]

One night i was on the net speaking to one of my friends and he told me to check out a site called Barrow downs. I wasnt going to at first but eventually i went on it and after a bit i said to myself "This sites WICKED!!" And basically iv been going on virtually every day since.

[BethoHOG]

I found The Barrow-Downs through my friend. She introduced me to The Name Generator which fascinated me greatly. After that, I decided to take a look around the site, and I ended up wandering into the forum. Shortly after, I signed up! smilies/biggrin.gif ... And that is my story. smilies/wink.gif

[Gorwingel]

I think I first went on here because of the Name Generator, and the Who were you in Middle Earth? quiz. Then I eventually started looking around (the fan art, and some of the fan fiction is really great), and then I went to the forum just to look at what everyone was talking about, though it took about 8 months for me to actually register.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

For the first while I only went on the Fan Fiction and Reader Art pages. And then i remember wondering vaguely: "what is this, whatchamacallit, forum thingy? And that's how I got here. smilies/smile.gif
Edit: I also remember that the first section I ever looked at was QQ, but my very first post was in Books. Sorry for that random bit of info smilies/wink.gif

[ April 08, 2003: Message edited by: GaladrieloftheOlden ]

[Diamond18]

Barrowdowns.com was recommended as a cool Tolkien site by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal in their online section. I'm very impressionable, you know. smilies/wink.gif

[Galenfea of Mirkwood.]

I was looking for my own website, Legolas rules (http://www12.brinkster.com/galenfea), and did a web search for those words, it came up with a thread called '1000 reasons why Legolas rules' and, out of interest, clicked on it. It came up with middle earth mayhem and I decided that this site looked like fun. The rest is history. smilies/cool.gif

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

I was on a different Tolkien forum for a long time (the name of which shall remain anonymous, to spare me personal embarrassment), and one of the people who wrote had the link here in their Sig. I came and registered (one year ago tomorrow smilies/wink.gif) and promptly got hooked on the forums, where I lurked around the New Silm thingy but didn't post much anywhere until about February smilies/smile.gif.

[The Saucepan Man]

Happy Deathday, Mistress of Thunder (it's tomorrow here in the UK, already).

smilies/smile.gif

[elven maiden Earwen]

yes happy almost deathday to you, I have to wait till January...... smilies/biggrin.gif

[Ithaeliel]

The day when I found this site... ah, what a day that was...

Allow me to brace myself for a crop of rotten vegetables coming my way: I used to be a Leggy-bopper. Granted, I loved other parts of the movie too. Anyway, I was surfing the web and found a Legolas fanlisting. I put my name in (28th member! Ha!) and then went to the "fun stuff" page. The Barrow Downs name generator(s) were on there. Well, of course I wanted to know my elvish name (no, it is not my screen-name), so I went there. Then I checked out the fanfiction a few days later. Then came reader art, an attempt at the chatroom, and finally I became curious at the forum. Now, normally I dislike forums a lot because they're either full of slander or way too strict and unfriendly, but this one was pretty close to a fine balance. What could I do but join? I'm also happy to proclaim that the 30th of April is my deathday! I'll have been here an entire year! smilies/eek.gif

Cheers,
Ithaeliel

[Lush]

One day, while I walking down the primrose path and generally minding my own business, I encountered a burning bush that said: www.barrowdowns.com (http://www.barrowdowns.com) shall tell you your Elven name, but shall simultaneously cure you of your embarrassing fetish for skinny English actors from Canterbury, by brainwashing you to read the Silmarillion, just to seem cooler to those who have read it. There might be free beer in the offing as well.
"Well, if I get to seem cooler..." I thought...
And the rest is history.
Though I am still waiting for that free beer.

[Guo Si]

I enjoyed bothering the chatgoers so much it was only natural to do it here too. Then, about 50 posts down the line, it got boring, so I shut up for about a year. Then, I was bored today so I decided I'd come back here again.

[Heathie4479]

Me and my friend were in study hall searching for Lord of the Rings quizzes to take, and stubbled upon this the Barrow-Downs site and looked into the forum part. I was hooked. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Tasslehoff_55]

Well,formeiheard from a somebody i knew while drivingto an activity....then another somebody talked to me about it...so i went,logged in and came back in a few months after i found out where you are supposed to login..... yes i know that was very stupid....
AND it gets past the internet filtering at my school,heeheehee smilies/tongue.gif

[VanimaEdhel]

www.barrowdowns.com (http://www.barrowdowns.com) shall tell you your Elven name, but shall simultaneously cure you of your embarrassing fetish for skinny English actors from Canterbury, by brainwashing you to read the Silmarillion, just to seem cooler to those who have read it. There might be free beer in the offing as well.

Okay: I spent about ten minutes trying to think of something witty to say, and it turned into such a long post, I'll keep it short and sweet: LOL! ...and... Free beer?! Where?!

I enjoyed bothering the chatgoers so much it was only natural to do it here too. Then, about 50 posts down the line, it got boring, so I shut up for about a year. Then, I was bored today so I decided I'd come back here again.

And you aren't leaving again, just so you know...

EDIT: Actually, Lush, in all seriousness, most of those comments were reasons I joined the Barrow-Downs...

[ April 19, 2003: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ]

[akhtene]

I've been here for nearly a year, as long as I had Internet. I was serching anything Tolkien-related (the only worthy theme on my mind), and BD was among the first finds. I stayed and never regreted.

I just recently realized that there is something else to it. Last year I was in Prague with my students, and there on the Charles Bridge we were told about one spot on its railing which (in case you rub it)will grant ANY wish in the course of a year. My students rushed to rub the cross on the railing, then urged me to make a wish too. I can't say how it came to my mind, but I wished to meet someone spernatural. It was silly I forgot about it. But now...isn't it the most supernatural place with most supernatural skeletons, spirits, wights etc?!
And just supernaturally great people!!

[Legolas]

A quick search after I saw The Fellowship of the Ring led me to TolkienWorld.com (http://click.tolkienworld.com/?account=1007838592). I found the Barrow-Downs from there and settled in.

[Sleeping Beauty]

i first found out about the Barrow-Downs through my roommate who kept up with the Shire calendar for kicks. I finally decided to play with it and did the names and such. Then I saw the forum and started reading posts. I enjoyed it so much I signed up. It's been love ever since. smilies/biggrin.gif

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Allow me to brace myself for a crop of rotten vegetables coming my way: I used to be a Leggy-bopper. I feel your pain smilies/wink.gif I was one too. That's why I was looking for his pictures... but it lead me to the Downs, so I don't mind anymore. And I stopped obsessing over him a few weeks into here smilies/rolleyes.gif

~Menelien

[Oddwen]

It took me something like a year to find the forums. I was looking for a story online (The Quest for the Dumbo-Themed Mandarin Orange with Purple Polka Dots Umbrella! actually), and this was one of (I think the only) the sites that had it. I sent in one of my fanfictions (which was ignored, I believe smilies/rolleyes.gif ). I didn't know about the forums at all, or didn't care rather, until I started at Allscifi.com and CouncilofElrond.com, and then I just decided to check this place out, and now look where I am!
(Staring at my Denethor Bobblehead doll is where... smilies/confused.gif smilies/wink.gif )

[Lindolirian]

Looked for a Tolkien site. Found the Barrow Downs. It was the very first day that the BW started the guest book on the main site. Boy, that was a LONG time ago. The a few months later, got involed in the EZboard forum under the name of Lindolir. When it got switched, i forgot to claim my account, and just made a new one as Lindolirian.

[Lossentilien]

I used to be a Leggy-bopper.

Oooooh....so did I.... smilies/rolleyes.gif How embarrassing...I still think he's hot though. *ducks*

I think I'd been on some site that mentioned elvish names, but the name generator wasn't working, so one happy search later, and here I was. Although it took me a while to notice the forum, since I didn't realise what a forum was....heh heh... smilies/frown.gif

[Manardariel]

It was one a site I can´t remeber... they had a link, and I clicked on it. Anyways, I came here for Hanghobbit and the Fanfiction first, (Dude!) (that was like in october) and then two months later I registered in the Forum. (And it seems like 5 years not five months since then!!!!) smilies/smile.gif

[BlackHorseDesign]

I found it by backtracking my website's visitor tracker. Seems someone from here visits my site a LOT since it's really running up my bandwidth bill. smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif Although I suspect it's people using my painting(s) in their profiles. While it's flattering, please, at least have the courtesy to download the image and upload it to your own webspace so as not to run up the hosting bill of the person you're "borrowing" the image from.

Okie dokie? Muchly thanks!!!
www.BlackHorseDesign.com (http://www.BlackHorseDesign.com)

[The Barrow-Wight]

Sorry you found us that way, BlackHorseDesign. We preach that people shouldn't use images like that, but some people never listen.

Everyone else, if you are showing pics on the Downs that are linked directly from their original site, STOP IT. Bandwidth woes hurt us all. smilies/mad.gif

[vanwalossien]

My friend told me about the name generator, so I decided to check it out. I noticed the forum right away, and I have a nasty habit of sign up to pretty much everything, which often fills my inbox with junkmail, so I joined. My social life went online with me, and now it's 10 o'clock in the morning and brilliant sun, I've been up for three hours, and not even dragged myself upstairs to eat breakfast..

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

10? Wow, it's 5 here. And I've been on the BDs most of the night smilies/eek.gif

~Menelien

[Annalaliath]

I found out at an MSN board that was fun. But anyway I thaught this palce was cool! So I joined. Me and a few freinds like the Name generator and so we torment others with it. We also played Hang a Hobbit and laughed the whole thing through. This is the coolest thing that I had found for a longgg time. Other than that I was looking for a site that I had been looing for for a while, was something similer or other. Anyway that is how I found it.

[Guinevere]

While reading LotR I bought a book "Tolkiens Welt" (in German) and at the back of it there was a list of the 50 best internet-addresses about Tolkien! I checked some of them and liked the BD best.

I had never before used the internet at all and the computer hardly ever (being rather a luddite smilies/wink.gif ) My son had to show me how to work it.
And now I have been frequenting the Downs for a year! smilies/smile.gif Who would have thought that! My son is always teasing me about "looking into the Palantir" too often!

[Orofaniel]

I found barrow downs as a link on another site..... smilies/smile.gif oh, well I think I did, it's been a long time since I found it....

Orofâniel

[Linaeve]

My twin sister, whom I think you know as Merri (or Merry?) told me about this site last year. I think she was a regular poster until our mother banned her from all use of the computer because she wasn't studying hard enough! She told me to apologize for her, because apparently she abandoned an RPG thread or something that she was in charge of. She says she'd come back but she thinks you're going to eat her alive or something, as I said in another thread in The Shire. Anyway, I didn't have time to actually do any registering or posting or what have you until this year, so here I am!

[Theron Bugtussle]

A simple internet search for interesting LotR/Tolkien sites. Certainly didn't intend on joining a forum, but got hooked.

[Enorëiel]

I owe all my thanks to miss Sapphire_Flame, who suggested this site when I complained about my lack of Lord-of-the-Rings-fan-friends. Hannon le!

[The Only Real Estel]

Certainly didn't intend on joining a forum, but got hooked.

Same here! My friend was showing me Barrowdowns once when I was over at his house, & then a few months later I decided to get on at my own house. The rest is history smilies/biggrin.gif.

[Imladris]

Looking for an elvish name. My brother found the name generator and I just happened to remember the site. Then I saw the forum...and discovered RPG games...and now I waste all my time here!

[Trippo The Hippo]

Before I was a reader or really interested at all my friend showed me the some threads about the ring. Such as could Frodo have controlled the nazgul if he kept the ring or what would have happened if Sam kept the ring. I found it all interesting then when I was more interested I had my friend give me the name of the site again and here I am.

[lord_of_rohan2003]

I was a member of two other boards,one I didin't get along with the people(hey it's not me they were the ones who laid into me)and the other was more of a movie fan site and didin't have much to do with the books.

So one late night I was bored and surfing the net and I found a link to this site,so I grabed a pint and checked it out and ta da!Here I am. smilies/smile.gif

[Gorwingel]

Well today is my one-year anniversary of being a member of the downs! smilies/smile.gif

I remember it vaguely because I think I went on the internet on Christmas Eve because there was nothing to watch on TV, and went on here to see what everyone was talking about (like I did many times), and I decided to take a chance and join. I think I first posted in the movies forum, but don't try to make me find that first post because I think it is long gone now.

This experience of being a member of the Downs has changed me much. I am now a much more outgoing person on the net, and it has encouraged me to do many Tolkien related things that I wouldn't normally do.

I love this place, it is now one of my little homes on the Internet smilies/cool.gif

[Finwe]

Happy deathday!


I had known about the Barrowdowns site for a fairly long time, but I never realized that it had a forum until this May. By then, I had stopped posting on the LotR Fanatics Plaza (where I had been a very rabid poster) and was suffering severe posting withdrawal. So, I decided to join this forum, and I'm having LOADS of fun! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Lady_Galadriel]

i found out about the barrow-downs from my good friend macaroni, and i'm glad she told me about it! cudos to you macaroni!!!

[Alatariel Telemnar]

I found the Barrow-downs from Elencala Isil, who showed me the 'Sauron's Discount Rings' thread... after a few months I decided what the hey, and joined. yes... *cowers and scurries away*

[Lhunardawen]

Two years ago, when FotR was first shown, my classmates were all musing over this site that has an Elf-name generator. I was quite amused (though I was not an LotR fan then) and went to the site they told me to go to. After many months of playing with the name generators and stuff, I went to the chatroom. However, people there were not discussing ME-related things. Since I was a nouveau fan looking for others who can relate to me, I decided to see the forum for myself. At first I couldn't quite understand how it works, since I've never joined a forum before. Now, I'm a wight! smilies/biggrin.gif

[The Dark Elf]

My friend sent me the name generator and then i checked out the site. I loved it! a year later i find ou you can sign up and do forums!

[Rilwen Gamgee]

I was looking through Google for some LotR sites and stumbled across this one. It looked really spiffy and well organized so I checked it out more. Quite a while later I found about the forums. No this is one of the only other sites that I check regularly... smilies/biggrin.gif

[Morgul Queen]

Mine's not that interesting, but, Mr Barrow-Wight, you may find it flattering.

Being a New Zealander, I get a free magazing every year on the LotR movies in the Newspaper, in the Fellowship one (which I still have, you won't believe some of the stuff you get out of the papers here, sometimes it's almost as crammed of Tolkien as TOR.net) was an interview. Tehanu's interview, in fact. As a side note is written...

"There are hundreds of internet sites devoted to The Lord of the Rings including several with name generators. One (www.barrowdowns.com) provides your Orc name, your Hobbit name, your Elf name, your Dwarf name as well as guessing who you could be in Middle-earth."

...followed by...

"In another internet tribute site (http://fan.theonering.net/writing/stories/files/whistler_greeneggs.html) a fan has rewritten Tolkien in the style of Dr Suess"

That is actually how I found TOR.net as well. Then, sometime after sneaking off to see LotR at midnight at somepoint (Mum had forbidden me to see it again, something about 10 times being enough) I got fed up with lurking and joined the Forum...I had lurked since November 2001!

Yeah...so there's my story. Be proud, Mr Barrow-wight, your site was in a special souvenir magazine celebrating all the best things about LotR!! And was mentioned *before* TOR.net smilies/biggrin.gif

[Lolidir]

i had just finished the books and was hooked. i loved the elvish names so i decided to find my own. i searched for name generators and found my way here. this was a while ago. just recently have i ventured into the world of forums.

[Lalwendë]

I found this site by happy accident. I was looking up my own surname - which some Downers actually know - and this site came up on Google. Intrigued, I came in for a look and the rest is history. I'll leave you to ponder how peculiar my 'real' name is. ;)

[Mithalwen]

ooh Lalwende ..not "Miss Barrowdowns" ? LOL...

Someone I RPGed with introduced me to MadLibs about 3 years ago!!! and it tool another 2 years to look at the forum :eek:

[Lalwendë]

ooh Lalwende ..not "Miss Barrowdowns" ? LOL...

Erm, not far off!

The other odd thing about me joining the 'Downs was that some months before I found A.N.Other Forum and I was pondering whether to join that. Alas, I found it far too confusing so I didn't bother, and I assumed all forums were equally as confusing. Then I joined and after just a few posts didn't post anything for months because I had a supremely dodgy computer. It was reading the RPGs that got me into it again.

[Neurion]

I was searching for topics related to people being ticked-off at the portrayal of the Gondorian soldiers in RotK.

[Assasin]

I just kind of stumbled upon it.

[ohtatyaro]

While reading LotR I bought a book "Tolkiens Welt" (in German) and at the back of it there was a list of the 50 best internet-addresses about Tolkien! I checked some of them and liked the BD best.

This forum is mentioned in the book? Wow!

I was lured in by one of the memberse. I won't tell who, have to ask permission first :D, but he even lets me use his PC from time to time. It was lot of fun to PM each other occupying same chair at the same screen in turns :D, like we were not able to tell it in words, I mean :D

[Neithan]

I found this site four years ago on a search engine. Not being one for social interaction I did not even look at the forum until this last December and when I saw all of the interesting discussion I knew I had to join.

[Assasin]

Well, I'm glad you did. It's really the best, isn't it? :D

[Assasin]

Well, I'm glad you did. It's really the best, isn't it? :D L8er

[Finwe-89]

Uhm Assasin why do you double post? Only the other has ''L8er''

Anyway, I found this site while I was looking for a Elvish name generator

[ohtatyaro]

Uhm Assasin why do you double post? Only the other has ''L8er''

It happens when one remembers to put some extra word in the post which just started to be posted. I mean, that is, when you push Submit Reply button, than suddenly remember to put extra things in, and push Submit Reply button again, just as the blue line in the lower side of the screen already started crowling right (Internet Explorer, dunno bout other browsers). The effect is to have double posts, one with and one without addition.

[Finwe-89]

Aaah, tnx for the information

[Assasin]

yeah, what Ohtatyaro said, or something like that. It was an accident

[ohtatyaro]

And you always can delete one extra post... ;)

[Assasin]

Oh, yeah. I forgot about editing.... haven't really used it in a while, I guess

[Maeggaladiel]

I stumbled across the Barrow Downs while looking for a name generator several years ago. I spent a while at the fanfiction section but didn't actually join the forum for several months. Then I did, I got hooked on the Shire RPing, discovered Crazy Captions.... and the rest is history.

[Lhunardawen]

Erm, not far off!
How about "Ms. Downs," then? Or "Ms. Barrow"? ;)


...and the rest is history.
Which includes establishing the Nearsighted Elves Society. :D

[Lalwendë]

How about "Ms. Downs," then? Or "Ms. Barrow"?

As they say when playing hide 'n' seek and getting close to the 'hidee' - you're getting warmer! ;)

[Mithalwen]

Well since you provided a homepage link, Lal.... I guess I now know the truth... but I am afraid, for me your real name is Lalwende.

[Linnahiril Tinnufinwen]

I discovered the Barrow Downs in much the same way that Maeg did. I was looking for a LOTR's name generator, as well as some good RPGs and fan fiction. After reading a few games in the Shire, I decided I would join myself. It seems like such a long time ago! I only ended up playing one RPG game in the Green Dragon.

[Luinalatawen]

Gosh, it's been over two years and I don't exactly remember what I was doing. I was searching for LotR-related sites in general with the desire to expand my knowledge of the books I believe, and came across the Downs either by a search engine or a link from another Tolkien site.

[Maeggaladiel]

Which includes establishing the Nearsighted Elves Society. :D

Heh! That's right! Although I'm sure most of the other Downers wish that I hadn't. :rolleyes:

[Amrod the Hunter]

I was searching for quizzes while I was in school and i foun Barrow-Downs.Then I had to look through the site and I saw the forum wich had really great topics,users and so on...And here I am now.

[Brinniel]

For those who remember her, it was all because of Ithaeliel. I had been absolutely obssessed with LOTR for about six months when she told me about this great site with a name generator plus a forum she had just joined ('tis a shame she has ghosted away). I checked the site out a few times, but didn't join until a month later when I was done with school for the year. The rest is history. :rolleyes:

I still find it amazing that I was only 13 when I joined (so young) and 14 when I joined my first RPG. Now I'm 18- a legal adult. :D

[Valesse]

Neopets. :p

[Kath]

How on earth did you get here from Neopets!? :confused:

[MatthewM]

I came across the Barrow-Downs when the moderator of a Lord of the Rings group on MySpace posted a Tolkien fansite list. I wish I knew about it before!

[Valesse]

How on earth did you get here from Neopets!? :confused:

There -was-, I'm not sure it's there anymore, a guild on Neopets dedicated to the Barrowdowns itself. Very cute, however there were just two members (including me) That person messaged me and raved about the site.

Ta-da! I've been haunting the chatroom (and more recently, the forum) for five years now! ...My Neopet is still "dying".

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Now I'm 18- a legal adult. :D
Good luck reaping any benefits until you're about 25. The next few years are nothing more than shorthand for debt accumulation while you try to figure out what sort of career has good potential to pay it off without killing you.

I found the 'Downs stalking my big brother. I'd recently read the Trilogy and possibly seen The Fellowship... can't remember exactly the order. He was being a jerk and wouldn't answer my questions, so I stalked his internet history to www.theonering.net (http://www.theonering.net) and to here and, quite frankly, I preferred it here.

All I wanted to know was what kind of stone Glorfindel's lil green bridge rock was! That's how addictions start, children. "All I wanted was..." ;)

[Roa_Aoife]

I found the forum twice, actually.

I remember a friend telling me about a site that named the top five Tolkien-related websites, and the Downs was listed on it. I was just looking for information in general at the time, and I played with the name generator. I was also drawn to the fanfiction. (The fact that there's a genre heading entitled "Legolas" still scares me...)

I wasn't big into forums (I'm still not) but eventually curiosity and boredom got the better of me and I clicked the link to check it out. One thing led to another, and soon I was involved in the Books forum, then I RP'd for a little while. Sadly, I had to leave after only a short time to deal with RL issues.

I found it the second time some about a year later when someone suggested I Google my name for fun. Turns out I don't actually exist. So, I Googled Roa_Aoife, which is the screenname I use everywhere. I found a link to the Memorial of Members thread, and I found out people actually missed me here. So I decided to make everyone's life more joyous and return.

[Diamond18]

Barrowdowns.com was recommended as a cool Tolkien site by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal in their online section. I'm very impressionable, you know. ;)

Funny how forgetful I am -- I know the above is why I checked out the main page, with the name generator and other goodies, but I don't remember how I made the leap to the forum. I'd never posted on a forum or any other kind of internet group before, so I must have had some special reason to think "Hey, this is the very first internet community I want to become a part of!" I assume I was really bored one day and decided to check out the one part of the site I hadn't been to, and read something and wanted to respond, but I can't actually remember it.

Premature senility.

[Rockin_tha_Casbah]

Jeez...I can't remember how I found out about this board...

Wait! It's coming back to me!

[LONG, DRAWN OUT STORY]

Back when I still had money and spare time, I was a big GameBoy Freak. I bought the FotR Game (the one from Black Label; Man, that game was horrible.) and I needed a bunch of help on it. (I didn't say I was a good GameBoy Freak.)

I found another message board that dealt with the game, and eventually I stumbled on The BD. This was a couple of years ago; the first movie still hadn't come out yet. I kept reading the boards (I still hadn't registered) until just after RotK came out, then I became a bit too busy. I don't think I even had time to look at a computer, let alone post on a message board.

Now, a couple of weeks ago, I was reading another board I like, and someone linked to a thread here. Something clicked. "Hey...this place seems familiar..."

So, I bit the bullet and registered (yesterday).

[/LONG DRAWN OUT STORY]

And yes, I know I'm using fake codes to add to my post. Just one more rung on the Ladder of Geekdom.

[Durelin]

I was shown this site by a person who was banned from the forums 2-3 years ago... :rolleyes: :p

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I seem to recall that a good friend of mine was once a member of the Downs. She has since forgotten her username and all that and gave up on it, but she told me about it and I checked it out.

After messing around with hangahobbit and the name generator for a while, I found the forum and said, "ooohhh!"

So, that's the fascinating story of how I came to the Downs. Next week: How :smokin: got his cigar.

[wilwarin538]

I believe I joined right after I read the trilogy and possily after I watched the third movie. I just googled for LotRs websites and this one looked fun. I read some of the fanfiction that used to be on the front page, played around with hanghobbit, then noticed the forums. I joined under Wilwarin Bluemoon, then forgot my password, couldn't get it back and joined again under this name. :p Now I have the 'Downs as my home page, so it's the first thing I see when I get onto the internet, and I just go right to the forums, rairly do anything else on the main page. ;)

[Firefoot]

Now I have the 'Downs as my home page, so it's the first thing I see when I get onto the internet, and I just go right to the forums, rairly do anything else on the main page. Same here... except the forum is my homepage. :D

I found the Downs from some other people at school who were fooling around in computer class and found the quizzes. I kept coming back mostly because of the fanfiction, and also sometimes the quizzes and games - I was around off and on for about a year and a half before joining the forum.

[Mírfain]

Lets see I can owe my finding and signing up here to my friend who is trying to convert me to lotr. If not for her I would have never found this place. i still kinda have no clue what I am doing on here. I shall try though!!