In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

We now approach a freshly raised mound, with five crudely made wooden crosses planted, and in the middle was a giant rock, in which these words were engraved:

Here lies five signatures, expunged by the oddities of my mind, and its penchant for continuously collecting random quotations.

1) "A few days ago, I would have done anything to keep you alive. Now I just don't care." Arvin Sloane, Alias.

2) "A man stares humiliation in the face and he asks, 'Do I know you?'" Will Truman, Will and Grace.

3) "Then plump came the Atomic Bomb. At a blow, the balance which had now seemed set was rudely shaken...The three hundred divisions were shorn of much of their value." Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, British Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

4) "Be careful what you shoot at. A lot of things here don't react too well to bullets." Captain Marko Ramius, The Hunt for Red October.

5) "In Sneffels yoculis craterem kendele bat umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende, audas viator, et terrestre centrum attinges. Kodfeci." Arne Saknussemm, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

May they rest in peace...others will be joining them soon...

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

We walk a little further. There, we see another mound. The madman! you might think. Five more fell here. Who shall stop him? The Valar have not avenged themselves. The mods and the admin in their barrows have let him go unpunished. Maybe a catchy line will make him rue his regular habit of randomly changing random quotations.

6) "If I had a thumbtack, I would have made a Scud missile." Lorelei Gilmore, Gilmore Girls.

7) "Fool that I am, that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself." Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo.

8) "Ma, quit scaring my friends with cake!" Tino Tonitini, The Weekenders.

9) "This is the greatest imposture since Genghis Khan! Who is responsible for producing all this rubbish?" Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer of the Third Reich.

10) "But I just like saying 'manure!'" Salem, Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

[Balin999]

I actually don't understand why you quote Hitler. Not really tasteful, but that's just my opinion.

[Rilwen Gamgee]

I had this siggy a while ago, but I just wanted to lay it to peaceful rest. Namarie!

"I'm not short, just vertically challenged."

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

...And if I bleed, I'll bleed, knowing you don't care. If I sleep just to dream of you and wake without you there, isn't something missing?

I've decided to replace these song lyrics for something more festive. smilies/redface.gif

-Aylwen

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

I actually don't understand why you quote Hitler.

I just collect random quotes. That's it. If I happened to offend anyone with a random quote of mine, please notify me immediately. We don't want to start World War Three with a silly quote.

Thanks, Balin999. Your opinion has been helpful.

[Balin999]

Well, it is your right to post what you want and I surely don't want to start any quarrel, but I think it's strange that you post a quote of Hitler. That's all I'm going to say about that quote. If you think that it is necessary to post it, I'm fine with that.

[Theron Bugtussle]

For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying. -Gandalf, The Two Towers

[Amarantha_Daisy]

I hearby lay to rest this quote:
My Tolkien senses are tingling!

For my new one by Sir Ian McKellen. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Orominuialwen]

I have finally waded my way to the end on this thread, so now I can post. smilies/smile.gif

This quote was quite short-lived, but I like it a lot, so it may come back eventually. Those of us who fence are just like everybody else. No, I take that back. We are cooler. That was from a girl in my fencing club. Great quote, even though she's a raving HP fan. smilies/wink.gif An Igloo should be strong enough to withstand freezing hobbits and howling sons of Fëanor. That was the result of a mad-lib where I decided to make every word LotR-related. I later changed it to Mind the howling sons of Fëanor. For quite a while, I also had Naur dan Robert Jordan! (Fire take Robert Jordan!) As you can see, I don't like The Wheel of Time. PM me if you really want to know why. I really like my current sig though, so it'll probably be around for quite a while. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Anything but Arwen]

"If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin,
I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour." ~ Kurt Cobain


R.I.P, both quote and quoter...

[Orominuialwen]

I apologize for posting again so soon, but here's my former avatar (I forgot to post it earlier smilies/redface.gif ) http://www.petpuppies.com/puppy%20pics/pugs/pug.jpg Isn't it cute? smilies/biggrin.gif I love pugs! smilies/wink.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

OK, I'm getting tired of hiding, so I must get rid of this sig:

O Denethor, o Denethor/Your fireworks are such a bore/All you have is burning kings/They don't even have golden rings/O Denethor, o Denethor/Your fireworks are such a bore **hides from Meela**


*sniff* RIP *sniff*

[Imladris]

I happen to like this siggy, but I found something better. smilies/biggrin.gif

"The wierd of today are actually the pioneers of the norm of tomorrow." -- fellow student
The cool of today are the outcasts of tomorrow." -- teacher ~ The Charilie Browns of every society are forever.

[Elennar Starfire]

Time for a new quote, but with the same theme... RIP When the Dead do walk, seek water's run,/for this the Dead will always shun./Swift river's best or broadest lake/to ward the Dead and haven make./If water fails thee, fire's thy friend,/if neither guards, it will be thy end.

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

Replacing this lovely siggy:

It was a single cello playing/ A forgotten Christmas song/ And even on that battlefield/ The song somehow belonged/ And as he flew away/ The angel did take note/ That where he found this music played/ One always could find hope

With another one of a similar theme.

EDIT: Now that the holidays have passed (though hopefully the spirit remains), I'm replacing this siggy:

So tell me Christmas/ Are we kind/ More this day than any other/ Or is it only in our mind/ And must it leave when you have gone away/ It's different now/ It's changed somehow/ And now you're here to stay

Happy Holidays,
Aylwen

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 2:33 PM December 27, 2003: Message edited by: Aylwen Dreamsong ]

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

As we walk towards the graveyard's gate, we notice that a crowd has gathered a little outside it. We push our way into the gathering, the stench of the decaying signatures greet us, their letters being eaten by plagiar maggots.

You hold your hand over your mouth, in an attempt to hold back vomiting. Then, as the feeling of nausea passed, your disgust turns
to resolve, and anger towards the perpetrator. But doubt assails you, realising the seeming invincibility of the...mass quoter? Can any mortal stop him?

11) "[The Soviets] finally realized...that ten thousand warheads was enough to fry all of America eight times over when three or four times was probably enough..." Dr. Jack Ryan, The Cardinal of the Kremlin.

12) "And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it." Melchizedek, The Alchemist.

13) "Call up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry. Don't know how lovely you are." Coldplay, The Scientist.

14) "You're wondering what a place like me is doing in a girl like this." Evelyn Carnahan, The Mummy

15) "If my father dies, kings will go to his funeral. If yours die, his friends will." Lex Luthor, Smallville.

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 8:47 PM January 13, 2004: Message edited by: Nilpaurion Felagund ]

[Anything but Arwen]

Alas, alack, and all that...it is time for this siggy to meet its maker...

"As an Elvis fan, if they name the third movie Return of the King, I'm going to start my own petition.." ~ Lionel Hutz

Heheheh..I found it ages ago no one of those crummy "Calling this film The Two Towers is an insult to 9/11" petitions..sheesh...there is a difference between TWIN and TWO...check your dictionaries, children....

[Gorwingel]

Well this quote has been here for way too long...
So does that mean I can just stand here and look hot?
I got that quote from a girl in Cross Country, and now that Cross Country has been over for months, I think it is time for it to go away.

My new quote is from the issue of Vanity Fair with Viggo on the cover. I know it makes me look like a movie fangirl, but it is just that I really liked the quote smilies/cool.gif

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 7:43 PM January 03, 2004: Message edited by: Gorwingel ]

[Diamond18]

So long to my truncated JA quote. I haven't decided on something to replace it yet, but I got sick of having to look at it every time I wrote a less than proveribal post. smilies/rolleyes.gif

"I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. We are each unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the éclat of a proverb." - Jane Austen

[Orual]

Adeus, Confucius...

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -Confucius

Hello, Switchfoot!

[Evisse the Blue]

My past sigs: RIP, my dearies!

"Whatever a man prays for he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: 'great God grant that 2 and 2 be not four." Ivan Turgheniev

"What would the world be once bereft
Of wet and of wildnerness, let them be left,
Oh, let them be left, wildness and wet,
Long live the weeds and the wildnerness yet."

My Finding Nemo one (fitting, that smilies/biggrin.gif ): "Yes I'm a natural Blue".

The Tolkien one (Smith of Wotton Major):
"For some the only glimpse
For some the awaking" - this wonderful line's time was unnaturally short

because I replaced it with an equally short-lived mad lib to ring in ROTK:
"Movie", said the fan, "ROTK movie! I have watched you to the last, You have never pleased me and always I have scowled you. if ever you came from the forges of Peter Jackson, go now and run with full hou$$$e." which actually happened, right?

I'll also lay to rest my Edward Lear bit of fluff:
"Our Sieve ain't big,
But we don't care a button, we don't care a fig,
In a Sieve we'll go to Sea."

for a different piece of fluff, of course, but this time by our dear Profesor - it seems he and I have this little thing in common: late to bed, late to rise *when possible* smilies/biggrin.gif

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

I've been switching around with sigs lately...I went for a few holiday ones, and after that I planned on keeping one for a while but I took my time. smilies/biggrin.gif

Before his eyes/ The music dies/ But he will always hear me.

That was one I kept for a while, and it was actually quite fitting (Like the Finding Nemo one was for you, Evisse the Blue. I love that movie!) but I eventually stuck to this one:

You cannot choose your battlefield/ The Lord does that for you/
But you can plant a standard/ Where a standard never flew.

And I like it so much I think it will stay for a while. smilies/smile.gif

-Aylwen

[Orominuialwen]

Here I lay to rest my lovely Christmas sig. It's from my favorite carol. "God rest ye merry gentlemen/Let nothing ye dismay;/Remember Christ our savior/Was born on Christmas day/To save us all from Satan's pow'r/When we had gone astray./Oh tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy./Oh tidings of comfort and joy!"


Edit: Of course I forget about the sig I had befor that. *Sigh* I can be so silly sometimes. "Davo sin, davo sin, lhusso i phith saelas, davo sin..." -The Beatles, translated by David Salo It's the chorus of Let It Be in Sindarin, translated by the guy who did all the linguistic work for the LotR movies. RIP, one of my favorite sigs. :( Oh well, it was time for a change.

[Alatariel]

Well, I guess it's about time to change my sig. I will probably come back to it sometime in the future, but for now, rest well. "Hello, My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

[Elennar Starfire]

RIP

Does the walker choose the path, or does the path choose the walker?

*sniffle*

[Tinker]

Here do I lay to rest a quote or two..or three..or more. May they rest well until they are called forth again.

"Trust a Brandybuck and a Took." You heard the hobbit, trust the Brandybuck and the Took. (added 2/4/04)

All Hail Denethor, LSoG AFKot?: Lord Steward of Gondor and Firey King of the Oooops can't say that word here. (added 1/11/04)

As well as the full version of these signatures:

Disease:Tolkienitis, HS (Hobbit Strain); Symptom #34: In the middle of a onversation, subject will pause, stare at speaker for a while and say with smiling seriousness: "You have nice manners for a thief and a liar." (1/11/04)

Disease:Tolkienitis, HS (Hobbit Strain); Symptom #34:Fears to go anywhere without pocket handkerchief and Second Breakfast (2/11/04)

Do you have the symptoms?

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 6:03 PM January 11, 2004: Message edited by: Tinker ]

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 3:32 PM February 05, 2004: Message edited by: Tinker ]

[Orual]

Well, this was quick.

I've switched Switchfoot for Brand New (yes, lame pun intended). I still like Switchfoot, but I discovered that I'm all truly-madly-deeply for this Brand New song. So adeus to my old sig:

We were meant to live for so much more/Have we lost ourselves?

And hello to Brand New.

[Rilwen Gamgee]

Fair rest my beloved siggies:

"Silly little stray pixels! Running away from me? I SHALL CATCH YOU!!!"

I have the King of Gondor on my soda can...

[Everdawn]

The most fantastic one form one of my best movies, Chicago.

How's it feel kid? J. Edgar Hoover couldnt find your name in the paper.- Velma Kelly

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Can any mortal stop him?

That question continues to haunt you as you walk towards a derelict monastery near the graveyard. There, you find a library. Books were kept there that were almost untouched by the passage of time. You pass through the shelves, looking for the proper book. Upon seeing it, you took it, brushed off the dust, and read the cover.

"Of the Random Quoter. 'tis the proper one!"

You turn to the next page, and read.

"A Barrowdowner liked too much quotes, and cannot decide which one to choose. So he created the Random Non-LotR Beast, to chew on quotes and dispense of them soon thereafter. But the beast went berserk, and took its master.

"Now the monster waxes in might each day, as it consumes more sigs from every source possible: sometimes from other Barrowdowners...and, rarely, even from its master..."

You hear a dull thud and, from the window, you see quotes, freshly killed by the beast. Sometimes from other Barrowdowners, you repeat to yourself. Even from its master...

16) "So does that mean I can just stand here and look hot?" Gorwingel, Barrowdowner.

17) "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." Elizabeth I, Queen of England.

18) "Father of the exploding Fire-Elf." Finwe, Barrowdowner.

19) "Merry is the gayest of all hobbits." Dominic Monaghan, TRL.

20) "Sadly, one fact of life is that waiting slows time down. Am I right, people?"

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 12:54 AM January 15, 2004: Message edited by: Nilpaurion Felagund ]

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Oh, yeah. I forgot. My former avatar...

http://www3.telus.net/~nfield/ChipChallenge/chip.jpg

My old avatar whose name was Chip.
Here now will you rest; have a nice trip.

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 8:41 PM January 22, 2004: Message edited by: Nilpaurion Felagund ]

[Ainaserkewen]

Oh Nilpaurion, I used to play that game to no end. Sadly, I lost the disk and never retrieved the game. My sister and I used to try and outdo each other in levels. Brings back memories.

[Nuranar]

I liked The Pirates of Penzance quote, and it's still so fun to sing, especially with three brothers to join in (bass, baritone, and tenor-rapidly-deepening-to-bass, respectively).

For I am a Pirate King! And it is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King!
For I am a Pirate King! Hurrah for the Pirate King, hurrah, for the Piraaaaaaate King!

We can make an awful lot of noise, especially with a rousing song like that. smilies/cool.gif

But I get tired of too much silliness, at least when it's the same in my profile for too long, and especially when I've got something better. My next is from "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields," one of the most lyrical prose passages I've ever seen, and which last entranced me in the Kiev, Ukraine, metro. It takes something awesome to distract one from swaying and jerking in a subway. smilies/smile.gif

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Wow...a Chip player. What's your best score? Did you finish it. Will I ever stop asking you? Oh, wait...

--------------------

You turn back to the book at hand, and flip the pages furiously. Is it here? you ask. Then suddenly, you stop, and read:

"How to kill the Random Non-LotR Beast:"

OK, then... you think, and continue:

"'Switch it off.' That's it?"

A loud groan comes from outside. Fearing the worst, you grab a broomstick(good choice... smilies/rolleyes.gif ), and furtively creep to the door.

"That's it! 29's all I can take!" said a voice.

"Y-you're the creator of the Random Non-LotR Beast! I thought you were dead!"

"Nah," said the fickle Downer. "But the 'Random Non-LotR Quote' thing is...I think I found myself a nice, new, permanent(I hope) sig for myself."

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"So, that was it?" an irate reader demanded.

21) "Patience is not only a virtue, but a job description."

22) "How many hobbits can fit in a bottle of Worcestershire sauce?"

23) "Familiarity breeds contempt, and children." Mark Twain, mortal.

24) "It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it" Robert E. Lee, mortal.

25) "Common sense is not so common." Pastor Dennis Heppner, mortal.

26) "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Turambar, Barrowdowner.

27) "The worst thing at being an atheist is feeling a deep sense of gratitude and not knowing who to thank." Philip Yancey, mortal.

28) "More beer!" Lush, Barrowdowner.

29) "Semel insanivimus omnes." That's Latin. It means, "What kind of dumb-cluck do you take me for?" Chanticleer, The Canterbury Tales.

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 12:28 AM January 16, 2004: Message edited by: Nilpaurion Felagund ]

[Mariska Greenleaf]

A cynic is someone who - when smelling flowers - looks around and expects to find a coffin.

RIP.

[Ainaserkewen]

Wow...a Chip player. What's your best score? Did you finish it. Will I ever stop asking you? Oh, wait... Indeed. I think I was up in the 70s for levels. Does it ever end!?!

"More beer!" Lush, Barrowdowner. Ah, Lush. Will your words ever be forgotten?

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

It "officially" ends at 144...but there's 5 more levels, so it's 149.

And now, I unveil my new sig here!

Fix spot on monitor and stare...
Why are you reading this signature? Only weirdos read signatures! If you want to read signatures go look for a logbook.

[Goldberry]

It's time for me to say farewell to my sig and bring in a new one....goodbye, Mazer Rackham!

There is no teacher but the enemy.

[Pyroclastic]

I am pleased to announce that I've been here at The Barrows not only long enough to call them The Barrows, but long enough to change signatures. Actually, I finally bothered to find an avatar, (I'm a Barrowdowns freak, why fight it), and needed a new sig to accomodate for the necessary appreciation link.

Nilpaurion, I swear I had not seen your new sig when I thought this one up five minutes ago. I looked at yours and thought, "Hey, I'm not as original as I thought I was! How disappointing!" Actually, I find it facinating that I'm not alone in my thinking.

Let's take a moment to remember those that have passed, and reflect upon our most recent loss: "That's a really ugly hat you're wearing."
"I'm not wearing a hat."
Thank you for your thoughts. My former sig will be much missed. By me.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Nilpaurion, I swear I had not seen your new sig when I thought this one up five minutes ago. I looked at yours and thought, "Hey, I'm not as original as I thought I was! How disappointing!"

I'm not as original as you think, too. My sig was made from modified lines found in "Gilmore Girls," which are:

[Rory: ] Fix spot on carpet and stare...

[Emily: ] Why are you outside? Only animals eat outside! If you want to eat outside go hunt a gazelle.

Yes, I love the "Gilmore Girls."

Later days! smilies/cool.gif
->Elenrod

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 9:25 PM January 19, 2004: Message edited by: Nilpaurion Felagund ]

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

http://img-greenbooks.theonering.net/tookish/images/0903_lego_th.jpg

My old avatar; Legolly Blonde.
Well it's a good thing his name is not "Bond"

EDIT: My new avatar is Augusta Ada Byron, the Countess of Lovelace. Which is not working...*resigned sigh*...

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 8:30 PM January 22, 2004: Message edited by: Nilpaurion Felagund ]

[Rilwen Gamgee]

Namarie, siggy:

"Why are they called 'cookies' if you bake them?"

Ah, the wonderful quote provided by my sister... It makes a very good point, but if I kept adding more, my signature would get to long. So, here may you rest in peace! smilies/frown.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

Dai stiho...

At least the lettuce didn't answer her back... Of course, the fact that it hadn't suggested that it should have been in the compost heap several days ago.

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 5:24 PM January 25, 2004: Message edited by: Elennar Starfire ]

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

My old sig:

You cannot choose your battlefield/ The Lord does that for you...
But you can plant a standard/ Where a standard never flew...

Farewell. Oh, and to this:

Ah, Lush. Will your words ever be forgotten?

Doubt it... smilies/wink.gif

-Aylwen

[Imladris]

Alas, I must bid farewell to Will Turner:

http://www.saber-x.com/WIP/bloomy.jpg

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 9:01 PM January 25, 2004: Message edited by: Imladris ]

Edit: this is also my old sig:

A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys/ Painted wings and giants' rings make way for other toys...His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain... ~ "I'll sacrifice in Flames of Love for Thee"

And my new one is a quote from "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." I just saw it a few days ago and the line just really stuck with me...

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 11:58 PM January 27, 2004: Message edited by: Imladris ]

[Elennar Starfire]

I shine, not burn.
~*Proud member of S.A.M.!*~
Disco for Rosie, Queen of the Wave!

Namarie to these three unrelated siggies, sharing a barrow.

[Lyta_Underhill]

At last, I lay to rest a signature that has served me well for a very long time:
"...I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too." --Huck Finn Somewhat earlier, I also laid to rest my "sleeping Frodo" avatar, which I think I had had even longer than the quote! I woke him up, put him in a tree and gave him a pipe and some pipeweed! Who knows, maybe I'll give him dinner one of these days! smilies/wink.gif

http://www.ardmore.net/~frodo/frodoamonhensmall.jpg

Rest well in the graveyard of the Barrowdowns! (how odd to have a secondary graveyard for those already entombed!) smilies/wink.gif

Cheers!
Lyta

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 1:54 AM February 04, 2004: Message edited by: Lyta_Underhill ]

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I chose a new "hope" quote for my signature, so the old one gets a decent burial here: His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from the rock. (JRRT)
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. (William Wordsworth)

[Alatariel]

I think it's about time to move on to yet another Pricess Bride quote, so I will lay this one to rest. Vizzini: "Inconcievable!" Inigo: "You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[HerenIstarion]

the most recent one is now laid to peace

<html><font color="red">It is the fate of all banisters worth sliding down that there is something nasty waiting at the far end.</font><html>

I will go with just my name beneath my posts for a while

[Orual]

Adeus to Brand New...

Upon arrival the guests had all stared/Dripping wet and clearly depressed, he'd headed straight for the stairs...

Hello to Andrew Wells! I couldn't resist...I get "Angel" and LotR all in one nice, travel-sized package!

~Orual

[Imladris]

Here is another quote laid to rest, to live long and merrily and happily upon a green and black screen:

I'd rather play poker with a gentleman who's duty it was not to cheat than with a philosopher who knew all the reasons not to cheat. -- C.S Lewis

I don't play poker myself, but the point applies to all things in life.

Cheers!
Istawen

[Thorongil]

Time to change the sig, but I leave the old one here. I took it from one of my Playstation games, it's well said:
The only dependable thing about the future is its uncertainty.

[Gorwingel]

Well I am finally going to say goodbye to my Viggo/Elijah quote..."He's mental. But in a good way!"-Elijah Wood talking about Viggo Mortensen
I have had it for a while, and it was making me look like a fangirl, so it is time for it to go. But I am going to keep the "Return of the King for Best Picture" part at least until the Oscars.

I am replacing it with a Cate Blanchett quote until I find a more suitable one :cool:

I think I may try to find a Simpsons one to go with my new Lisa avatar ;)

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

Alas! The time has come to abandon my old quote...no hard feelings?

It's so simple to be wise. Just Think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
-Sam Levenson
I need to get the cotton out of my ears and put it in my mouth...
Rest in peace.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

I plan on changing sigs again: This time I'm marketing links from them. I plan to own two to three of them, then let anyone else have it.

So, sayonara, au revoir, namarie, paalam, goodbye to this:

Fix spot on monitor and stare...

Why are you reading this signature? Only weirdos read signatures! If you want to read signatures go look for a logbook.

[Evisse the Blue]

"I go to bed late and get up late, when possible" JRR Tolkien
I'm keeping the Academy one for another week, at which point I'll either replace it with a harsher one, or with a celebratory one!

Nilpaurion, I have yet to see your new quote! This doesn't become you.:D

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Fix spot on monitor and stare... (http://freeib.com/?mforum=oddwensplace[/url) shall be retained, but upon the unveiling of my sparkling new home page, this...

Why are you reading this signature? Only weirdos read signatures! If you want to read signatures go look for a logbook. I commit to Davy Jones' locker...or is it Barrow-downs' barrow? and replace it maybe with...

I was thinking: Are you thinking? If you think I think you're thinking, then I think you shouldn't think at all. making every occurrence of the word "think" or "thinking" a link. That makes seven links up for grabs.

[Everdawn]

R.I.P To this...

The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an oncoming train.

rest ye merry...

[Elennar Starfire]

Namarie and Navaer to this quote from the musical called Pippin.

Morning glow, by your light, we can make the new day bright. All the phantoms of the night will fade into the past, morning glow is here at last.

[Imladris]

I was going to wait until March 1st to change my avatar and signature, but you know I was watching the Oscars and had nothing better to do, so here it is.

First of all, I changed my sig from this:

I am, I believe, alone of all our race, the only man in human memory to have been shipwrecked and cast up upon a deserted ship.

to an old Scottish song. And the avatar was changed to the aurora lights. Yes, I changed them in honour of St. Patrick's Day. So the song's not Irish...

Former avatar:

http://joshuanitschke.saber-x.com/images/Sonja/avatar6.jpg

[Evisse the Blue]

Well, time to drop the sig that was untrusting of the Academy's mental abilities (Aceademy wise, I do not doubt their hearts, only the size of their brains). It seems that I was proven wrong, or that their hearts prevailed over their small brains. :D
*goes back to celebration*

[Lush]

Almost forgot this e.e. cummings gem:

kisses are a better fate than wisdom

Agree or disagree, cummings was a charmer.

[HerenIstarion]

and to choose kisses instead of wisdom is the path of wisdom...

[Rilwen Gamgee]

I have resurected my beloved first siggy. Namarië:

"Mom's cell phone battery died. Does that make it a 'dead ringer'?" - Dennis the Menace

"How about 'Classical 92.5: The REAL oldies station! We’ll take you Bach and Rach-your-manin-off!'?"

[Rimbaud]

Imladris,

I recognise your old signature from Umberto Eco. Are you an appreciator? I love those books dearly. Lush, keep being wise for me.

[Imladris]

I recognise your old signature from Umberto Eco. Are you an appreciator? I love those books dearly.

I think that when I have weeks of summer vacation ahead of me, I would appreciate it. As it was, I was only able to read it sporatically due to school and homework, and I had only gotten to page 100 and something before I realized I'd never finish it in time to return it to the library. It 's also one of those books that you have to have to read for a few hours everyday to really "get" it all in (he painted some lovely word pictures). But what I did read of it I enjoyed greatly and I plan on tackling it again (as well as the Rose one) this summer.

Cheers!
Imladris

[Mad Baggins]

Ta, darling!
Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? Was there no communication in this car? Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts?

[Mariska Greenleaf]

"Cynism is: buying a car because riding a bike is becoming so dangerous with all these cars. "

Enough Cynism! rip:smokin:

[Elennar Starfire]

Sanity, leave me now! I choose the realm of dreams.
Rip.

And as I'm changing it again before anyone else has posted here, I won't double-post. Rip to the first sig in my first Siggie Serial...

Spare a little candle, save some light for me. Figures up ahead moving in the trees, white skin in linen, perfume on my wrist, and the full moon that hangs over these dreams in the mist.

[Aethelwine]

Well, I've been with this siggie for such a long time, I felt it was time to change it. I still like it though!

Farewell, O twice beloved! A Túrin Turambar turun ambartanen: master of doom by doom mastered! O happy to be dead!

Farewell, oh much beloved! You will return, one day...

Love,

Aethelwine.

[Mad Baggins]

...the book has become something of a cult.
Said by Flair about the Fellowship of the Ring. Gandalf for prime minister!

[Nuranar]

From the most lyrical of chapters:

For once more lust of battle was on him; and he was still unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell people. And lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them.

I would have loved to see this depicted in the film.

For now, The Faerie Queene. Very enjoyable, and certainly gives one furiously to think about certain names and motifs . . .

[Evisse the Blue]

RIP to It is best to love first what you are fitted to love. said by a wisened Merry in the Houses of Healing.

[Imladris]

I changed my sig again. It used to be

I don't like raisons...all they are is humiliated grapes

Or something to that effect. It's from the movie Benni and Joon.

My current sig are two quotes (the italacized lines) combined into one. The first is a quote from Agent Smith, while the second quote is from Peter Pan. The two combined forms a rather good attitude on life, methinks.

[Eowyn Skywalker]

I doubt I'll change mine ever again, but I used to have: Do not stand between the Nazgul and it's prey. However, if you stand between my lightsaber and the Nazgul, I may have to cut you down as well!

And that was regarding the fact that I am Eowyn Skywalker, and, of course, have a lightsaber... and well, yeah. I had to remove that to make way for my very long link...

-Eowyn Skywalker

[The Perky Ent]

Well, my 1st sig had a good running. From december to April! It was Well, that's it...so...um...bye!


It really shows my true spasmness

[Carlas]

This one always made me laugh....

CABBAGE, n.
A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

*tear tear* :(

[Lush]

R.I.P. Morrissey:

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.

And Dave:

Father up above, why in all this hatred do you fill me up with love, love, love

I think I'll still quote from those songs in the future. They're that good.

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

RIP

I've heard there was a secret chord,
That David played and it pleased the Lord.
But you don't really care for music, do you?

That one was almost four months, I think. I'll keep my new one for a while, though.

-Aylwen

[The Saucepan Man]

OK. Time to lay my old sigs to rest here.

My first and most appropriate, to which I shall one day return:


And inside they saw the strangest little man, dancing the strangest little dance! He had saucepans and kettles hung all over him, he wore a saucepan for a hat, and he crashed two saucepans together as he danced! And then a series of quotes from modern English icons that I found amusing and surprisingly relevant:


I think it was John Lennon who said: "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", and that's how I feel. Although he also said: "I am the Walrus, I am the Eggman" so I don't know what to believe. ~ Tim Canterbury ~


I'm not from these parts, I'm from a little place called England. We used to run the world before you. ~ Ricky Gervais ~


We should thank our collective parents for bestowing on us the gift of rock. ~ Justin Hawkins ~ But for now, I am content with a highly relevant (to me) quote from a slightly older English icon. ;)

[Firefoot]

I've finally decided on a new sig. Here was the last one:Frodo Lives!
"By Elbereth and Lúthien the Fair," said Frodo with a last effort, lifting up his sword. "You shall have neither the Ring nor me!"RIP

[Thorongil]

I'm changing mine again.
An eye for an eye would make everyone blind.
It as said in a movie with Mr. Gollum himself. (Can't remember the name of the movie though)
RIP.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

First,

I was thinking (http://oddwenspace.forumer.com); are you thinking? If you think I think you're thinking, then I think you shouldn't think at all.

composed by yours truly.

Now,
It's always times like this when I think (http://oddwensplace.forumer.com) of you/
And wonder if you ever think of me...

from A Thousand Miles by Nessa Carlton. A lovely, melancholic line with the word "think" twice.

[The Perky Ent]

Alas i leave my 2nd quote: Gil-galad ech vae vaegannen matha, Aith heleg nín i orch gostatha; Nin cíniel na nguruthos Hon ess nín istatha:
Aiglos

It's the inscription on Aiglos, Gil-Galad's weapon during the Last Alliance!

[The Perky Ent]

And so another passes. "Buy one hot dog for the price of two, and get the second one free!"

The starts predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep!

[Maeggaladiel]

It's been a while since I've had this sig, but I thought I should put it here anyway. Sniff sniff! Goodbye, sweet sig! And may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

I read banned books. So short, yet so revealing.

And my other favorite...

You look strangely familiar... Have I threatened you before? Oh Jack Sparrow, it is with a heavy heart that I abandon your psychotic pirate banter and replace you with nonsense!

And how can i forget...
My dearest dear darling, Oh don't hate me please/ If I tell you your feet smell like moldy French cheese!! --Dave the Barbarian I love poetry.

sniff sniff
MAEG

[Eowyn Skywalker]

"Always remember that it is a conspiracy, and never play with lightsabers. Trust me on this one..."
Middle-earth, the webpage for Hobbits, elves, Jedi, pirates, and Agents alike. (http://ennaani.proboards3.com)
Can you believe that I just changed mine?! Ak! Doom! I removed the word conspiracy from my sig.... how odd...

-Eowyn Skywalker

[Saraphim]

*Sigh* This old signature has served me well, but all good things must come to an end. Perhaps one day, far from now, I will discover this little siggy in my attic, blow the dust off, and return it to its rightful place at the bottom of all my inane postings. But until that day, it will rest here.

~Cold be keyboard and monitor and mouse.
Cold be your skin when you reside in your house,
But never more will you wake from stony bed,
Without logging on and checking the dead.
A moment of silence for my aged siggy.

[Lush]

Rest in Peace, O quote from Seamus Heaney's "Tollund"

~...To make a new beginning,
And make a go of it, alive and sinning,
Ourselves-again, free-willed again, not bad.~

I think this one is self-explanatory somehow. Or is it?

Well, it's about religion. Both Pagan and Christian. And life. Oh how.

[Nurumaiel]

Alas, fare thee well, dear beloved dead signature. Maybe I'll take you back someday....

From the lovely song Grace:

Now as the dawn is breaking my heart is breaking too. / On this May morn as I walk out my thoughts will be of you / and I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone will know / I loved so much that I could see His Blood upon the rose.

What a grand hero he was!

[Mad Baggins]

Rest In Peace, Nirvana signature.
Come, doused in mud / Soaked in bleach, / As I want you to be. / As a trend, / As a friend, / As an old memoria...

[Eowyn Skywalker]

It's been a while, but I still thought I'd post my last one, as I changed it a few daya ago...
That's Eowyn Skywalker to you! Not Eowyn, Eowyn Skywalker!!! Middle-earth, the insane crossover site... (http://ennaani.proboards3.com)
And I'll probably end u[ changing it again... I'm rather bored of my old sigs...

-Eowyn Skywalker, obvioulsy

[The Perky Ent]

Another one bites the dust Well...that's it....so....um....yeah....you can....go...I guess....bye!

[Eowyn Skywalker]

Sigh.. what boredum does for the soul...

I am now Eowyn Skywalker, the nearsighted Elven Jedi Shieldmaiden, aka, the Lady of the Lenses... wow... that's a mouthful. Join the nearsighted elves today!Middle-earth, the insane crossover site... (http://ennaani.proboards3.com)
-Eowyn Skywalker

[Sirithheruwen]

*sigh* I lay thee down to rest. A curse on the demon who defiles thy bones!
RIP,
I do what cheerios tell me.

and

I hope your life is like toilet paper, long and useful..

[Lyta_Underhill]

Time to change the sig again...I've made it past Cerin Amroth on what I'm now calling the "Walk to Mount Doom," so I lay to rest Frodo's thoughts upon that fair place:
“Frodo stood still, hearing far off great seas upon beaches that had long ago been washed away, and sea-birds crying whose race had vanished from the Earth.” and replace it with something completely different!

I also think it is time to give Frodo something to drink, so I'm changing my avatar as well (Frodo has smoked enough by now!)

Cheers,
Lyta

[Maeggaladiel]

Well, I've done a lot of sig and avatar changing recently, and I haven't gotten a chance to lay them all to rest. So, Farewell Figwit!
Fiwit knows that glasses make you look smarter. He's a member of the Society for Nearsighted Elves. ARE YOU?

Hasta Luego, Haldir!
If Haldir had worn his glasses to the Battle for Helm's Deep, he would still be alive today. The Society asks for a moment of silence for our fallen comrade.

Adios, Elrond!
Ever wonder why Elrond is always squinting? Now you know! Join the Society for Nearsighted Elves today!

And goodbye, dearest Request for Funding!
*Please donate generously to the Nearsighted Elves Foundation.

Countless tears have been shed over your passing.

[HerenIstarion]

Weasly is our king...

to be replaced with another Harry Potter related:

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good


RIP

[Eowyn Skywalker]

I can never resist the pull of a new signature... and that just might become my NEXT one... but I feel like leaving a new one for a while...

You look famillar... have I blackmailed you before?
<---Eowyn Skywalker is a proud member of the nearsighted elves foundation...
Middle-earth, the insane crossover site... (http://ennaani.proboards3.com)
Rest in pea...err... insanity, dearest signature!

-Eowyn Skywalker

[Liriodendron]

It's done. :(

"Go Pacers"

They lost. :(

[Evisse the Blue]

My old sigs: be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue (Rainer Maria Rilke)
and W.H. Auden's Petition: Look shining at
New styles of architecture, a change of heart
They have been with me long enough so now I lay them lovingly to rest.

[Son of Númenor]

...our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most humane, is still soaked with the sense of 'exile'.
J. R. R. Tolkien

I really liked this quote, but decided to let it go. Is my new signature just an excuse to link to the awesome bastion of amateur literary intelligentsia that is the Fan Fiction forum (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi) (see, I did it again!)? Mostly, yes. I still like the quote, though.

[Mariska Greenleaf]

Humor is giving sad thoughts a happy funeral.

RIP is very appropriate here... :cool:

[The Perky Ent]

But why is the rum gone? Pirates, I hardly knew ye!

[Sirithheruwen]

I can resist everything except temptation.

~Oscar Wilde

[HerenIstarion]

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good

Of Harry Potter's Marauder's Map

Maybe I'll be us up to some good henceforward ;), after all

[Gorwingel]

Well I don't have the exact quote, because I did get rid of it a while ago. But I would love to say a fond farewell to one of my most favorite quotes ever. If you have seen the film Finding Nemo you most definitely know this quote: It is Dory's quote from when they run into the Jellyfish, and she finds a small one, and calls it her "Squishy". I thought it was one of the most brilliant lines from such a brilliant film, so I had to have the quote for a while. But now I'm on to Gandhi for at least a little bit :cool:

[Son of Númenor]

And its object is Art not Power, sub-creation (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi) not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.
J. R. R. Tolkien, on the 'magic' of the Elves

Adieu!

[Amanaduial the archer]

I hereby leave to rest my most long-standing signature, a faithful companion for some-long-time...

Tell too many lies and there's no truth to go back to

It's from 'The Monstrous Regiment' by Terry Pratchett, one of my favourite books of all time - for those among you who haven't read it, I strongly recommend it and any of Terry Pratchett's works.

*sniff* R.I.P. ;)

[HerenIstarion]

Hallo, fellow TP fan :)

Monstrous Regiment is one I haven't got yet. My current 'Flappity-flappity flap! Cheep, cheep! Ach, poor wee me, cheepitty-cheep!' comes from Wee Free Men

:)

[Kuruharan]

Boo-hoo.

I'm going to retire my "Random Quote from Random Book" sig. Since I am making pathethic attempts to participate in the Chapter-by-Chapter discussion I thought I would replace it with a choice selection from each week's chapter (depending on how I keep up with the discussion, and I don't have a particularly good track record yet.)

Farewell Oh Random Sig! May your eyries receive you at the journey's end!

*weep* *weep*

[Amanaduial the archer]

Ah, my turn to say I haven't read that one, although I was curious about your sig, Heren ;). The Monstrous Regiment and Night Watch are probably my favourites - yes, Vimes is probably my favourite character. Along with Death - Mort was the first Pratchett book I read, so, well...

My current signature is from a completely different fantasy type though - Susan Price's 'Sterkarm Handshake'.

[Bêthberry]

*bows head for a moment of silence as she lays this one to rest:

"The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ....Nothing ... had ever been so interesting."

[Eowyn Skywalker]

Sigh, I had to edit mine, and leave the oddness behind, in favor of an announcment!

Now, let us all weep, as I leave my lack of sense and dollars behind...
Why should I make sense when I could make dollars??
<---Eowyn Skywalker is a proud member of the nearsighted elves foundation...
Middle-earth, the insane crossover site...
Maybe I should mention that I married Anakin today as well...

-Eowyn Skywalker

[Amanaduial the archer]

*bows head for a moment of silence as she lays this one to rest:

"The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ....Nothing ... had ever been so interesting."

Bethberry, I was curious about your sig: what is it from?

[Bêthberry]

Thanks for asking, Aman. :)

It is from Neil Gaiman's splendidly strange and frightening tale of a young's girl's courage and adventure, Coraline.

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

In the last few months I have probably gone through nine or ten different sigs, most of them old ones that I had decided could use some reviving but then quickly decided differently. In the end, I think I shall finally stick with this completely new sig:

'The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked to Milo gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort."'

A quote from the wonderful 'children's' book, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. The book was written and published in 1961. It really is quite a wonderful book! It has been likened to Alice in Wonderland for its use of puns and plays on words. Highly recommended.

-Aylwen

[Amanaduial the archer]

Thanks for asking, Aman. :)

It is from Neil Gaiman's splendidly strange and frightening tale of a young's girl's courage and adventure, Coraline.
Ah! And I suppose you would never believe what I chanced to be reading yesterday? That's right - one of my friends declared that Coraline should have been a necessary part of my childhood (this would be the same friend who was horrified when I said I hadn't even heard of the Faraway Tree and thrust it upon me). I came to that point and smiled as I recognised it, Bethberry :)

[Imladris]

Alas, I must say goodbye to my standing sig and avatar.

Puss in Boots was great -- but a greater movie came along. Thus, Puss in Boots

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ImladrisLore/Avatars/pussinbootsavatar.jpg

is to be replaced with Spiderman

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ImladrisLore/Avatars/spidermanavatar.jpg

And my awesome sig which is a mixture of Bill and Ted, Matrix, and Peter Pan

Be excellent to each other! (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=ImladrisLore) Party on, Dudes! (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi)
Purpose of life is to end, but to die will be an awfully big adventure.

is to be replaced with the tag lines of Spiderman 2 since the most excellent IMDB doesn't have the cool Spidey quotes up yet. *dark glower*

Cheers!
Imladris

[Vuelve]

I'm retiring "Pray for mercy from Puss in Boots!"
for a sequence from American Outlaws, but I'm keeping my avatar. I've grown quite attached to it.

[Saraphim]

My avvy needs a good make-over, and a trim. Here it is, may it rest in peace and ect.

~Saraphim, Head of Eyeglass Repair
"You will find me in the matinee..." (Franz Ferdinand)
"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend." ~Faramir
Too long, too varied, and thus it ends.

[Elennar Starfire]

I was going to do a siggy serial...but I got bored with it too quickly. Anyway, I lay to rest my wonderful dreams quote:

Darkness on the edge, shadows where I stand; I search for the time on a watch with no hands. I want to see you clearly, come closer than this, but all I remember are the dreams in the mist.

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Please excuse this post, but I've finally got myself a siggie and I wanted to see it. It's not appeared in any of my old posts, so I'm hoping that it will appear on this one.

As this is my first, I have no old quote to consign to the graveyard. I can make one up, however:

"How extravagent you are, throwing away women like that. Who knows? Perhaps some day they might become scarce!" -- Louis Renault, from Casablanca

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Fordim, it's nice that you have a signature now! You do share one problem with some other newer forum members, unfortunately, so this is a good opportunity for me to remind everyone of our guideline for signature length. Please note that the new Downs policy is that all signatures must be three lines or less as they appear in your posts on the board.
( Barrow-Downs FAQ (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=6010) ) This is often a problem with poetry, since even a four-liner takes up more than three lines. That's why we ask members to find a way to keep their poem within that three-line maximum. Thanks! :)

[Fingolfin II]

Ironic, Esty- your signature's more than three lines too! ;):p

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

*ducks his head in newbie shame and runs off to fix it*

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Ironic, Esty- your signature's more than three lines too! That depends on the display mode/resolution, Fingolfin - I set it up to show exactly three lines on my screen, but perhaps mine is larger than yours!

[Mariska Greenleaf]

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."

I'm leaving behind this wonderful quote from Pablo Picasso, and changed my sig to a more up to date quote.
RIP!

[Amanaduial the archer]

Fordim, it's nice that you have a signature now! You do share one problem with some other newer forum members, unfortunately, so this is a good opportunity for me to remind everyone of our guideline for signature length. This is often a problem with poetry, since even a four-liner takes up more than three lines. That's why we ask members to find a way to keep their poem within that three-line maximum. Thanks! :) *gulp* Oh, and here I was thinking I had finally got away with it...;)

[Fingolfin II]

I set it up to show exactly three lines on my screen, but perhaps mine is larger than yours!

Ah, I see. I thought it was a bit weird, the way it was set up....

[Orominuialwen]

RotK Soundtrack: $15, Hobbit vest:$20, 3 opening-day tickets for RotK:$30, Fabric for Éowyn costume:$50, Starting an orc sing-along in the parking lot after the show: Priceless RIP That sig served me well. from January, to now, late July. The prices are in some places invented, since my brother's Frodo vest came from a rummage sale, so the actual cost was less than $1 US (it was a bag sale), but that wouldn't be very believable. We did start singing a parody of Y.M.C.A. called U.R.U.K. at 11:30 pm in the theater parking lot after seeing RotK for the first time -- we got some funny looks for that! :D :D

[Orual]

Half of this is in some archaic, proto-demon cuneiform. And I don't like to be rude, but the other half, I think they just doodled. --Angelus

RIP. It was pretty funny while it lasted, but I enjoy my new Faith quote.

[Morsul the Dark]

my old signature was

Sauron my lord gave my a ring and on it it said "morturo Sauron na esse a nazg" :eek:

[Saraphim]

My pointless siggy now rests here, replaced by yet another pointless siggy. For now at least.

Some people are like slinkies, worthless, but fun to push down the stairs.
~~~~
Haggis: It's not just for breakfast anymore. 'Cuz my new one is so much better and all...

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I really liked that sig Saraphim, it provided justification for those times when I would gorge on haggis at 2am. :D

[Saraphim]

Thanks, Eomer. I just wish haggis was as easy to get ahold of here. And by the way, I love your new title!

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Thanks. I'm very proud to have it. :)

If only I could remember my old signatures, I might actually have something interesting to put here.

[Orual]

Adeus to Faith...

"You'll love it, B. It's just like fun, only boring." --Faith

I'm indulging the musical theatre geek inside of me with my new quote from Les Miserables. I was able to see it in performance yesterday, so my next few quotes may be from Les Mis.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I shall now lay to rest my signature, one of which I have had for quite a long time.



And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.
I'm like a bad penny-- I always turn up.

Fare thee well, and may you never be forgotten.

Fea

[Elennar Starfire]

Your new one is great, Fea!

[Imladris]

Here is my oldest one, a quote by Albus Dumbledore:

"Remember Cedric. Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."

I spose I like it so much because it speaks volumes of self sacrifice and nobility. Very Tolkienish come to think of it.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Why thankee kindly, Elennar, I rather like the new one myself.

Fea

[Elennar Starfire]

Now I leave behind one random friend's quote for another random friend's quote...The keyboard is mightier than the pistol.

[Gil-Galad]

i forgot my first one, but my new one (sorta) is in italics!

[Gil-Galad]

ah i remember it now!


Feed me a Dwarf for i am hungry

[Morsul the Dark]

Bows Head We...ok I gather ...ok Post here to say farewell to my last quote

"Fear the Black M for I am wiser than Sauron and my wrath greater, I am Morsul the Dark and all shall fall to me!"

Tosses Flowers on Grave..quote I'll always remem-- Hey look a penny!...What was i doing here again?

[Gil-Galad]

You were joining the huge crowd over my Quotes Grave...

[Morsul the Dark]

Oh yes =...walks over."Its sad Gil's Sigs are always the best"...tears stream down my face...looks over hey you yeah you is there food at this funeral?

OK enough thread wasting from me

[Gil-Galad]

I'll probaly be there too.. but my head will be an old electric piano, and when i get mad, i play a demo

has brought good times...but i must move along now

[Gil-Galad]

indeed....


i might remove my current quote and replace it with a more Trogdor-related quote...

[The Perky Ent]

Now it is time that my quote must take the voyage beyond the forum. Rest in peace Later! Yes, when you also have the Keys of Barad-dûr itself, I suppose; and the crowns of seven kings, and the rods of the Five Wizards, and have purchased yourself a pair of boots many sizes than those that you wear now.

Namarie

[Imladris]

I lay my siggy here to rest:

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

I don't remember when I last changed it, but I like my new one too....besides...we haunt a graveyard -- 'tis healthy to have frequent dyings....

On a side note, I love your siggy Perky. Classic

[The Perky Ent]

Thank you! I'm thinking of changing it to a quote, but if my current one catches on...

[Nuranar]

I here immortalize - or preserve until this forum falls to dust - the memory of Britomart, Spenser's original shieldmaiden, and the knight of the Red Cross.

. . . about her swayd / Her wrathfull steele, that none mote it abyide; / And eke the Redcrosse knight gave her good ayd, / Ay ioyning foot to foot, and syde to syde; / That in short space their foes they have quite terrifyde. ~The Faerie Queene

Now for something more in line with my avatar - Jane Austen!

[Gil-Galad]

Alas! my short-lived quote has fallen, may he ride a steady wind to where his ancestors await it!

"The dead make good soldiers. They can't disobey orders, they never surrender, and they don't stop fighting when a random body part falls off"

[Mariska Greenleaf]

Well, I thought it would be a good idea to change my quote, as it was too political according to Downs policies. :o
The new one is from Confucius, and I like it very much.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I remembered an old sig I used to have that I think deserves a place in here. It's a line I had for some time probably about a year ago and I think it deserves a proper burial.

The buzz of love is busy buggin' you...

It's from a song called Buggin' by The Flaming Lips, a truly wonderful band, and it is on their album The Soft Bulletin. I enjoy the quote because I think it is very happy, positive and carefree.

[The Perky Ent]

Goodbye sig. I've moved on. Go...and be at peace




It's a sad day when you need scissors to open scissors! And what if you're buying them for the first time?

[Gil-Galad]

Indeed...though i don't quite understand your new one...

[The Perky Ent]

Then you obviously don't know classic movies :D

[Gil-Galad]

It seems like i saw that some where... but to me it probaly won't make alot of sense to alot of people...

[Sirithheruwen]

Farewell! I might come back for you, but then again, I might not.

The World is Quiet Here.

[Amanaduial the archer]

Then you obviously don't know classic movies :D

And it is indeed a good film - Gil-Galad, the quote, if I'm not mistaken, is from 'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure' (is that the exact title? I'm never quite sure...), which remains an incredibly classy film, and was, like, a cult in the early 1990s. You know 'Dude Where's My Car?' ? Yeah, that's shameless plagiarism from Bill and Ted, and it's proud to be so. You know the turtles from 'Finding Nemo'? Once again, inspired by Bill and Ted. Legend, and glad to see it has a place on the Downs, Perky! I believe another fan is Imladris - a phrase including 'most excellent' was in her sig for a while, I believe...

And now watch me be completely wrong and it be a completely different film... :rolleyes:

One of the sigs I recently noticed was The Only Real Estel's - a few rather cutting remarks about M. Night Shyamalan's newest thriller, 'The Village'!

[Imladris]

Oh yes, I am definitely a fan. I used to have, "Be Excellent to each other and party on Dudes" in my sig for months...it broke the record of the longest sig (at least for me)

That info about Bill and Ted -- I never knew that! Finding Nemo -- now that I should have recognized...

[The Perky Ent]

Don't you mean party on dudes?

[Gil-Galad]

this might not go here but its in my sig...i had to sacrifice my peasants wuest link to fit in my new page of my crazy life... enjoy it please! i need feedback! (email me with SITE RATINGS as title)

[Amanaduial the archer]

Don't you mean party on dudes?Oh, picky, picky, picky...;) :p

And Imladris, your new (or maybe I've simply been unobservant) sig is cool - a good quote, a good quote indeed...

[Firefoot]

I now bid my long-time sig farewell. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt in the heart." ~Helen Keller

[HerenIstarion]

RIP:

Flappity-flappity flap! Cheep, cheep! Ach, poor wee me, cheepitty-cheep!

As the above dealt with cats, let the new one deal with cats too :)

Pussу cat, Pussу cat, where have you been?
"I've been to London to visit the Queen"
Pussу cat, Pussу cat, What did you there?
"I frightened a little mouse under her chair!"

[Mithalwen]

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams" (WB Yeats - 'He wishes for the cloths of heaven"

[Evisse the Blue]

Rest in piece my beloved siggy, whom most of you found amusing, and I'm really glad of that, but alas, all things must pass, and I was getting bored of it. :p It's lived its time:

The time has come, the Downers said, to talk of many things,
Of Hobbits, Elves and Oliphaunts, of Palantirs and Rings,
Whether the orcs are truly evil and if Balrogs have wings.

[Fingolfin II]

It's time for me to put down my long-serving faithful sig-

And from the blade rang a cold voice in answer: 'Yea, I will drink thy blood gladly, that I may forget the blood of Beleg my master, and the blood of Brandir slain unjustly. I will slay thee swiftly.'

I just noticed that I omitted the word "so" from the quote all this time. I know what you're saying- 'So?'.

[The Perky Ent]

And thus, a great sig must take it's last journey of this world:

"Bill?"
"Yeah Ted?"
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K"


Go now, and be at peace...

[Pyroclastic]

Farewell, thy true and potent words! Seldom has one sentence so aptly described my essence; and for that I thank thee, thou wonderous signature:

"Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost, But I Sure Am!"

~Pyro~

[The Perky Ent]

That's a good one :D I like that better than the 'If you can't beat em...', but your new one is still very funny :)

[Imladris]

Rest in peace, faithful sig:

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ~ Sirius Black

[Pyroclastic]

Do you know what's horrible about this thread? It makes you want to change your sig every day just so that you can post here!

~Pyro~

[Mithalwen]

How could I have forgotten my first sig "Carpe jugulum" (go for the throat) , not entirely unrelated to Terry Pratchett, and which some people read too much into :p

[HerenIstarion]

Pussу cat, Pussу cat, where have you been?
"I've been to London to visit the Queen"
Pussу cat, Pussу cat, What did you there?
"I frightened a little mouse under her chair!"

RIP

it lasted less than a week, but now, as Dr Alban of dubious (or blessed) memory sang once, 'I'm going back to my roots" :)

...me ain't fooling around, ain't touching nobody, just repairing the primus stove...

will be the new one, and it is a old one at the same time - put to rest by yours truly back in March 2003. And it deals with cats (up to a point) too

cheers

[Elennar Starfire]

Farewell...

Granola people care about their socks!
**I may be weirder than normal, I'm painting my room. Paint smell, ye know.**
~Keeper of Dreams~ (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=5524)

The comment about the paint still applies...but I need the space for a longer quote.

[Mithalwen]

"Was it I who spoke? Was I not also a listener?" The Prophet

Still like this but feel that the forum is a bit short of cats at the moment :)

[HerenIstarion]

I feel I'm mentally unstable of late, as compared to what a solid rock I once was. Maybe I'm overworked. Not being rich and lazy gnaws at my mind too. Por favor, seňor, donate me a million, would you? (Euros or US Dollars would be accepted). Nevertheless, all this whimpering concerns overly quick change of current signature:

...me ain't fooling around, ain't touching nobody, just repairing the primus stove...

To be replaced with an advertisement. Society in the age of capital accumulation...

[Evisse the Blue]

Ha ha, HI! That's three in a week is it? Signatures, that is. Maybe it's the autumn restlessness that's getting to you like it got to Bilbo and Frodo, eh? But this still doesn't excuse the shameless advertising of your thread... hahaha:D

Ok, the same instability makes me change my sig too. This one is just too damn depressing, isn't it? So rest in peace (how fitting), vision of Carl Sandburg:

Death is a nurse mother with big arms: 'Twon't hurt
you at all; it's your time now; just need a
long sleep, child; what have you had anyhow
better than sleep?

[HerenIstarion]

But this still doesn't excuse the shameless advertising of your thread

I know. But:

Morsul the Dark 33
Gil-Galad 21
The Only Real Estel 16
The Perky Ent 14
Imladris 13
HerenIstarion 11
Firefoot 11
Mithalwen 11
InklingElf 10
Nilpaurion Felagund 10
Lhunardawen 9
Feanor of the Peredhil 8
Sirithheruwen 8
Evisse the Blue 7
Diamond18 7
paavo 7
Sapphire_Flame 6
Sleepy Ranger 6
Saraphim 6
Son of Númenor 5
Amanaduial the archer 4
Niluial 4
Elennar Starfire 4
dancing spawn of ungoliant 4
Lindolirian 3
Estelyn Telcontar 3
Kuruharan 3
Maédhros 3
Meneltarmacil 3
Rinfanawen 3
Mithadan 2
Beren87 2
Lush 2
Child of the 7th Age 2
Rimbaud 2
the phantom 2
Aylwen Dreamsong 2
Orofaniel 2
Esgallhugwen 2
Kransha 2
Fordim Hedgethistle 2
tar-ancalime 2
Encaitare 2
The Barrow-Wight 1
piosenniel 1
Guinevere 1
Hilde Bracegirdle 1
The Saucepan Man 1
Mariska Greenleaf 1
Pyroclastic 1
Lady Gamgee 1

These are the statistics of the thread in question. 51 members overall. Reciprocating, too. I certainly would be glad to try my teeth on some more :)

Not to stray, though:

Your preceding - the one you parted company with in the post immediately above, - was very poetic, but depressive a bit :) Legends of the fall, you're right in that too. Stability? - nah, I'm off home to my Complete Published Works by Poe. Reread the Raven, scare myself with shades and candlelight and whimper silently in the gloom afterwards...

[Gil-Galad]

Morsul only got 33 posts cause he changes his avvie and sig every week literally...

[HerenIstarion]

You mistook me, dear Gil-Galad. The previous one dealt with the link in my [current] signature. Statistics of the thread we are posting in are as foollows:

HerenIstarion 19
GaladrieloftheOlden 18
Elennar Starfire 18
Lush 17
Nilpaurion Felagund 14
The Perky Ent 12
Rimbaud 11
Aylwen Dreamsong 11
Imladris 11
Gil-Galad 10
Estelyn Telcontar 9
Nevfeniel 9
Orual 9
Amanaduial the archer 8
Susan Delgado 8
Evisse the Blue 8
vanwalossien 8
Horse-Maiden of the Shire 8
Nuranar 6
Diamond18 6
Yavanna228 6
Mariska Greenleaf 6
Eowyn Skywalker 6
Beren87 5
onewhitetree 4
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh 4
QuickSlash 4
Galadrie1 4
Sophia the Thunder Mistress 4
Bêthberry 4
Salix 4
MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie 4
Gorwingel 4
Rilwen Gamgee 4
Orominuialwen 4
Aethelwine 4
Saraphim 4
Nevtalathiel 3
Eomer of the Rohirrim 3
NazgulNumberTen 3
Anything but Arwen 3
Lyta_Underhill 3
Sirithheruwen 3
Pyroclastic 3
Mad Baggins 3
Fingolfin II 3
Mithalwen 3
Morsul the Dark 3
Balin999 2
zifnab 2
Alkanoonion 2
Belin 2
Kuruharan 2
Shadowfax Clawson 2
Elenna 2
Ithaeliel 2
*Varda* 2
Cúdae 2
DaughterofVana 2
Iarwain 2
Sapphire_Flame 2
Airerûthiel 2
dragoneyes 2
Durelin 2
Lindril Arvilya 2
Carlas 2
Everdawn 2
Ainaserkewen 2
Eressië Ailin 2
Feanor of the Peredhil 2
Faenaduial 2
Niluial 2
Arafangwen 2
dancing spawn of ungoliant 2
Amarantha_Daisy 2
Elfwine 2
Alatariel 2
Firefoot 2
Thorongil 2
Fordim Hedgethistle 2
Maeggaladiel 2
Son of Númenor 2
ElfRayor 1
The Barrow-Wight 1
Sharkû 1
burrahobbit 1
lindil 1
Suldaledhel 1
Lostgaeriel 1
Gayahithwen 1
Thingol 1
ArwenBaggins 1
mark12_30 1
Daisy Sandybanks 1
Gorothlammothiel 1
Tigerlily Gamgee 1
dragongirlG 1
VanimaEdhel 1
Gimli Son Of Gloin 1
Aosama, the Wandering Star 1
Lady_Báin 1
Losthuniel 1
Naaramare 1
Luthien_ Tinuviel 1
Brinniel 1
Morgul Queen 1
Liriodendron 1
Daewen 1
hobbitlass 1
InklingElf 1
Schmendrick 1
Laivine 1
Nurumaiel 1
Lossentilien 1
The Saucepan Man 1
Lyra Greenleaf 1
Goldberry 1
ElenCala Isil 1
Vuelve 1
Finwe 1
Lëowen 1
Kaiserin 1
Theron Bugtussle 1
Tinker 1

(um, I never expected this. Being the signature changer #1 is by far beyond my expectations...)

[Imladris]

New sig, new avatar.

Old sig:

It does not do to dwell on dreams. --Dumbledore

Old avatar:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ImladrisLore/Avatars/Snape9.jpg

Thanks to Eponine, who said it was cool. :D

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Your statistics are fun! Have you tried counting how many sigs per person are posted here?

My random non-LotR quote thing has 29 signatures alone! Add to that the other offsprings of my fickleness, and that should propel me to the top! THE TOP!!!

My adoration for your penchant for numbers is like chastity for the Romans - adored, but rarely emulated. Alas, for having flunked Calculus, I lost all love for Math! Failing does that to me. :(

Anywhen I have new old sigs to post. Dosvidania, my siggies!

Here Digitopolis we have our meals when we're full and eat until we're hungry. That way, when you don't have anything at all, you have more than enough.
I haven't read The Phantom Tollbooth (yet), but a book in Math I possess happens to have a part of it, Milo in Digitopolis.

Where do they get the courage . . . to fight against Death himself, knowing that they must ultimately lose. Such [is] the nature of the medical profession.
This is from Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy. I have discovered some more sig-material quotes from him (not involving the Cold War, the CIA, or nuclear weapons, mind you!) Maybe I'll use it sometime after I run out of multiple-choice questions, but I get too ahead of myself.

And now, I have created (three, so far) multiple-choice questions that shall become my signature until my home page is finished, and I return to imitating HI's sig (albeit with my name).

I'll post them here once I complete all three. Until then, fare thee well, until they bring back down the fare rates! Thank you, and good day!

~Elenrod Felagund, unassuming(?) heir of Finrod

[Amanaduial the archer]

Well, I lay to rest:

Now Yannie's good yew bow is broken, and his good gaze hounds are slain, and he lies sleeping in the deep greenwood, with all his hunting done, done, with all his hunting done...I loved that sig. It lasted for a fair while as well, and seemed vaguely fitting: both about death, and with a mention to the deep 'Greenwood'.

RIP siggy.

[HerenIstarion]

They can tak' oour lives, but they cannae tak' oour troousers! (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=11039&page=1&pp=40)

[Fingolfin II]

Reward on earth is more dangerous for men than punishment.

-~- J.R.R. Tolkien

Wise words, Professor.

[Evisse the Blue]

"I am not now sure that the tendency to treat the whole thing as a kind of vast game is really good - certainly not for me who find that kind of thing only too fatally attractive." J. R. R. Tolkien

Dear old Professor, he made game players of us all. My hat's off to him and his vast game! :smokin: <-- the only smilie with a hat. :D

[vanwalossien]

I'm laying this brilliant quote to rest after long and faithful service, and switching to a piece of madness that a friend of mine once said. He feels very important when he is quoted ;)
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence

[Bêthberry]

I put to rest this little gift:


Love, by memorial mould;
Birds, by the snow.

and turn to

So take, for joy's sake, this wild gift of mine

[Elennar Starfire]

Carbon made Found her at the end of a chain Time to race she said Race the downhill Behind crystalline irises Loons can dive Where the world bleeds white...

Switching my Tori Amos lyrics for a quote from Labyrinth...

[Fingolfin II]

Rest in peace, oh humorous sig-

'Coming, sir!' came the answer from far within, followed soon by Sam himself, wiping his mouth. He had been saying farewell to the beer-barrel in the cellar.

[Imladris]

I lay to rest my sig and Avvie:

Avvie:

Draco (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ImladrisLore/Avatars/BDdraco.jpg)

And my sig:

Longbottom, if brains were gold you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

Aww, count on good old Malfoy to come up with an insult...What? Oh yeah..this is a Tolkien forum...*cough*

My new sig is:

Had the bo'sun good form without knowing it, which is the best form of all?

I also changed the image that it links to. :d

[Bêthberry]

I know I just changed my sig, but there's a magnetic poem that is too funny and must be commemorated in some way. I will return to Mandelstam's lilting line:


So take, for joy's sake, this wild gift of mine.


but for now I want to giggle over


"I am the platypus."


laughing pen indeed. ;)

[ohtatyaro]

why waste time reading this silly signature? c'mon, you don't have so much time on your hands, do you?

Rest in peace. I mean, every time someone looks at my post, they inevitably read the sig asking them not to read it :D. Time to change that. I mean, we waste our time online anyway :D

[Lush]

The Smiths'

"All those people, all those lives where are they now? With loves, and hates, and passions just like mine, They were born and then they lived and then they died, Feels so unfair, And I want to cry."

Was very approrpiate there for a while. Until I felt like a change.

[the phantom]

the phantom has posted. This thread is now important.
I loved this sig dearly and kept it for quite a while, but I think it needs to rest for a bit.

Never fear- it will rise again.

[Oddwen]

I hereby retire:

...you may say I'm a drummer, but I'm not the only one...
:P ~Saraphim, John Lennon and A Perfect Circle, sort of.

I'm putting it here because it's something I want to remember. Of course.

[Orual]

"Her name was Eponine--her life was cold and dark, yet she was unafraid."

Farewell, 'Ponine:

Every word that he says is a dagger in me!
In my life, there's been no one like him anywhere...
--Eponine

And a big bonjour to Jean Valjean.

[The Saucepan Man]

I lay this to rest.


... the most improper job of any man ... is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
~JRR Tolkien ~Alas it is too true, more so now than ever.

But it's time for a change,

[Imladris]

*buries avatar to rest*

Had the bo'sun good form without knowing it, which is the best form of all? (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ImladrisLore/misc/PeterPansig3.jpg) ~ Hook

[Evisse the Blue]

Little tree, oh little green tree,
Please don't let your leaves rustle over me
A Vodka's on me for whoever knows where this is from. :D

[Imladris]

Which one Evisse? The old sig or the new sig? But...I think the old sig is from the peg legged dude from the comic strip BC?

As Halloween is over, I have a new avatar and a new sig.

Old avatar: Clicky (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ImladrisLore/Avatars/bdavviezero.jpg)

Old Sig:

And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King
Would give it all up if only he could.

Old Sig image:
Clickety click (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/ImladrisLore/Avatars/Jpgnightmaresig.jpg)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I have had this signature for quite some time, as it commemorates a great summer time, but as that summer is now only a memory, so too must be the quote.

Farewell to thee:
Ni And welcome to the 'Downs must go to:
Out on the roof to inquire of the sky, the existance of ghosts in my life... who's to blame, you or I? No one would answer me, they just stared with the weight of the world I pretend not to feel.
Free and Invisible (yet highly coveted) Feanorian Bonus Points to whoever can tell me the origin of my newest signature. :p

Fea

[Amanaduial the archer]

They're song lyrics, aren't they? Song name...google.com is cheating, must resist the urge... "Ghosts"? Not a clue of the artist. Maybe half a FBP? (Feanorian Bonus Point, copyright 2004)

Farewell to my last siggy - it lasted just over a month, although seems longer for some reason. Today we'll go witch-hunting, and tomorrow, we'll hide, and it'd be the witches' turn to find us...

It made me shiver when I first read it, although maybe that was just in context. It's from Terry Pratchett's 'Good Omens' - class book, very class. And if anyone can guess the origin of my new one, they get a free pint in the Green Dragon (ooh, fierce competition, Fea, fierce competition!;)) Hey, and no Google allowed!

[piosenniel]

Aman

Make it a glass of good, dark stout, if you will, lass . . .

One of my faves from a later part of 'The Song of Solomon' -

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

They're song lyrics, aren't they? Song name...google.com is cheating, must resist the urge... "Ghosts"? Not a clue of the artist. Maybe half a FBP? (Feanorian Bonus Point, copyright 2004)

Half an FBP goes to Aman! The name of the song is indeed "Ghosts". Anyone who can tell me (without using the bane of my trivia spouting existence, google) who sings it gets the other 2/3. ;)

Slightly more on topic, I really do love your new siggie, Aman. Very pretty.

Fea

[Amanaduial the archer]

Aman

Make it a glass of good, dark stout, if you will, lass . . .

One of my faves from a later part of 'The Song of Solomon' -

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.

Ah, such a scholar will well be welcome in the 'Dragon, Bethberry, a stout it is ;) Song of Solomon, a favourite of weddings (I do alot of weddings, because I sing in the Church Choir, and it comes up at all of them. Really. All.), but that particular passage, I think, is so good in it's entirety: I couldn't find a way to cut it down and not leave my siggy feeling unfinished. So I looked further. It's one of the lovely songs of the Bible.

[HerenIstarion]

The ability to edit your posts is a privilege, not a right (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=11191) -- Sharkû
Ask yourself if you are on-topic, off-topic, or on Mars (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=4646) -- BW

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I enjoyed those two Heren. I had once considered placing a quote from The Squatter into my signature but I didn't for fear of being labelled a stalker.

Somewhat belatedly, I will place my now old signature into the thread, that being Green Ideas Sleep Furiously. Unfortunately, though I tried, I never could find a green idea that slept furiously. The closest I came was finding a green idea that snoozed in a somewhat surly manner. And it was most uninviting when it woke up to find me gawping at it...

[Orual]

It hasn't been long, but Jean Valjean was making me kind of sad, so I'm switching to another quote that...makes me...kind of sad...it's from a beautiful song in Seussical! the Musical, as it says.

So goodbye to Jean:

She was never mine to keep. She is youthful, she is free.
Love is the garden of the young. Let it be...--Jean Valjean

and hello to Mr. Mayor, Mrs. Mayor, and Jojo.

[Rimbaud]

I have now abandoned the Guy Debord quote on quotations, in favour of something punchier.

Farewell: Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

~Rimsky

[Elennar Starfire]

I have loved it well, but 'tis time to say farewell...

So much trouble over such a little thing! But not for long.
~Jareth, The Goblin King (Labyrinth)
Sound familiar?

Now for a bit of my own poetry...I'm in a poetic mood...

[HerenIstarion]

I have been reading of Schrödinger's cat
But none of my cats are at all like that.

Grew tired of it pretty soon :)

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I performed magic, I'm going to leave you here with the story that justifies you.

I was making myself a cup of tea, as I am wont to do, and everything was going quite unspectacularly up until a certain point. Bear with me, it's a good story. I put some water in the kettle and left it to boil. I then placed a mug on the counter next to the kettle, and put a teabag into said mug. I then (and this is crucial so pay close attention) took a teaspoon from the drawer and put it into the mug. Unremarkable? I think so.

I turned towards the fridge and retrieved the milk. As I turned around, my mind probably filled with moderately pleasant and unworrisome thoughts, I ventured to perceive the mug. And lo and behold! there was not one, but two teaspoons in the mug.

I conjured a teaspoon.

I performed magic.

[Elennar Starfire]

*dies of helpless laughter*

That was the last thing I expected!

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

You keep conjuring teaspoons and selling it, you'll make a heap from absolutely nothing!

Is that possible.

I think. I've seen some make their fortunes from far less.

[Lhunardawen]

Finally, one of The Barrowdowns greatest mysteries has been revealed! Now I can sleep...but not until I put this Biology-class-spur-of-the-moment-insanity-of-a-signature to rest:

You are what you eat...but what if you don't have the enzymes to break iy down?

*zzzzzz*

[Evisse the Blue]

Wow, Eomer the teaspoon conjurer! Is it to late to go to Hogwarts now that you discovered your true calling? ;)

On topic now, I say farewell to:
"Rabbi, what can we learn from a telephone?
My shiksa daughter, your faith, your faith
That what we say here is heard there"
That's a nice faith to have, right? :)

[Estelyn Telcontar]

...burying my long-time Arwen quote, since it was too lengthy and I wanted to add a link to my fan fiction. Arwen remained in Rivendell, and when Aragorn was abroad, from afar she watched over him in thought; and in hope she made for him a great and kingly standard, such as only one might display who claimed the lordship of the Númenoreans and the inheritance of Elendil.

[Orual]

I lay to rest a verse from Solla Sollew.

They say breezes are warm there...
And people are kind...
Maybe it's something like heaven...
Seussical! the Musical, Solla Sollew

[Lhunardawen]

Esty, I never thought you would change your signature...please don't say you will have an avatar makeover soon.

[Rimbaud]

Did you see the stylish kids in the riot?

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Oh, I've had several signature changes - after all, I'm the one who started this thread! :D For a very long time, my signatures have all come from the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen, though this is the first in awhile that doesn't echo the "hope" theme of my nick. As to an avatar change, I've considered it, but need to solve the technical side of it first...

[Kuruharan]

Next thing you know, Estelyn will have a dwarf avatar.;)

There is precedent for that sort thing. :p

[Elennar Starfire]

This one doesn't fit my usual mood at all anymore, so I lay to rest

curséd whisper ever weeping/clouds of dreaming drifting cold
life beyond though ever sleeping/drown my heart in tears of gold

Now for something more cheerful.

[Ainaserkewen]

No one can hear you now, only me, only the one who will feast on your living, bleeding soul until the red rider relieves the One of his head to feed upon what is inside. I smile on the day of this trollop's understanding, because it will never come.
I think I'll get rid of this one...
It was a paragraph of a story I wrote about someone with a weird kind of bipolar disorder. The evilness inside his head ended up being very dark and poetic.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

The Ents were seen in Dunland, looking for: a. Saruman and his secret stash of Longbottom Leaf; b. Entwives; c. Taters; d. Legolas and Gimli. They haven't paid the entrance fee.


Much Elven-blood can be found in: a. Helm's Deep (?); b. The Prince of Dol Amroth; c. The Lórien Blood Bank; d. Alqualondë (ooh, harsh!).


At the end of the Third Age the Dúnedain population of Arnor: a. were all dead; b. were rebuilding...what was the name again? It's been so long; c. wait. Didn't Hal take all of them?; d. can breathe easier, with Aragorn gone and all.


The Company abandoned the passage of Caradhras because: a. Frodo lost the Ring in Hollin; b. winter there is bad for Hobbits; c. Gimli stepped on a hole and fell to Moria; d. Leggy forgot his shoes.


The curse on Húrin's Children was caused by: a. a loophole in the free will clause; b. Túrin, the angry man with a talking sword; c. Morgoth (yeah right!); d. stupid staring contests.


(NOTE: Questions 3 and 4 are the complete version. I had to chop a word or seven to make them fit in.)

My personal favourite was question 5 (on account of "stupid staring contests"), although it looks like a lot more liked question 2: Vy ze vay, thanks, Ms. Esty, Ms. Helen, Ms. Evisse, Ms. Nuranar, Ms. Ainaserkewen and NK for the appreciation! :)

My current sig (the line above I intend to . . . ) is a quote from Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Mirror Image, although it sounds eerily like something from Tolkien.

Oh, I almost forgot: whoever can give me the correct answer to all questions above gets a true-to-life stuffed Balrog. With wings and not! ;)

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Well Nilpaurion, it's a little known secret among teachers that the answer to every multiple choice question is b. ;)

And to what scale is this stuffed Balrog? Would it fit in a Christmas stocking?

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

:eek:

So it is! All b.

Re stuffed Balrog: It really is a Balrog, albeit one stuffed with goose feathers. So sorry, Eomer, it wouldn't fit in any mortal stocking--although Morgoth's would do.

There are two versions of this novelty item: the winged one (the one that fell in Khazad-dûm), and the un-winged one (the one that fell in Cirith Thoronath). Which one shall it be? :smokin:

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Hmm, so some Balrogs had wings eh? Sounds like a good debate...

I'll have whichever. It's not wings that I love about Balrogs, it's their cute faces. :)

[Gil-Galad]

Don't forget the great gifts they give yo uat christmas, thanks ot them i've completed my flaming dwarf head collection

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

...if you can fix me up girl, you'll go a long way...


A lyric from a song called Obstacle 2 by my favourite band Interpol. It is not too often you come across a popular band this epic. My only apology is that this particular lyric can in no way be linked to Middle-earth! :rolleyes:

[HerenIstarion]

omelets and sonnets are not bad things in themselves

One of the dearest, as it was one of my own. But I change modes of expression pretty frequently, though moods to be expressed be often alike

cheers

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I grieve over this Heren. It was much loved.

[HerenIstarion]

grieve over this Heren. It was much loved.

Thank you, sir, I appreciate that :). If a nostalgic mood is ever upon you, you may find it at the following location, for Post #75 (http://69.51.5.41/showpost.php?p=314314&postcount=75) of 'Evil Things' thread is the forest where it has originally sprouted ;)

cheers

[Elennar Starfire]

RIP to my Five for Fighting quote:

Though endings are never ever happy, it's the happy endings along the way, that in the end, make it OK.

'Tis ironic that Heren should abandon his sonnet siggy so near the time I switch mine to the ending couplet of my very first ever sonnet...

[Lhunardawen]

"One thing I do know. I was blind, but now I'm just myopic!"

This is John 9:25 changed to suit me. The real verse says "I was blind, but now I see." When I read it, I recognized its truth in my life...though I can't see perfectly. So I changed "I see" to "I'm just myopic" because I am myopic!

[Evisse the Blue]

I hope this match never ends. When the match ends, the memories begin.
RIP, depressing quote. Time for something more cheerful.

[Imladris]

I lay my Spidey sig to rest:

I believe there's a hero in all of us...even though sometimes we have to give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.


Lovely sentiment that...

My new sig is a quote from Lawhead's Taliesin.

[Elennar Starfire]

I was going to read that...I read the Song of Albion series...but I haven't had time for Taliesin yet.

[THE Ka]

It was hard for me to let this one go but, i have put my Half Jack by the Dresden Dolls to rest...


two halves are equal
a cross between two evils
it's not an enviable lot
but if you listen
you'll learn to hear the difference
between the halfs and the half nots

Rest in Peace Amanda! :cool:

~Punk Rock Cabaret Ka~

[HerenIstarion]

...each for the joy of the working,
And each, in his separate star,
Will draw the thing as he sees it.
For the God of things as they are! (RK)

[Mithalwen]

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how
not to dance.


'you shall above all things be glad and young ' ee cummings

Because, having been ennobled on the Downs' own New Year's Honours list - to my great delight - I had to make a hard choice and "Bewildering Ghost" just missed the cut.... and maybe it would have been more appropriate... :D