In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I enjoy reading everyone’s signature quotes, but there is one problem – when the signature is changed, it changes on all past posts as well. Now I realize it’s time to change mine (it is somewhat long!), but I’ve grown rather attached to it. (Besides, I promised Kuruharan a bit of immortality for his balrog wing amendment on my quote!) So I would like to collect signature quotes here; before you throw your old quote into the Timeless Void, please turn it into a message and place it here to ensure that it will be remembered as long as the Barrow-Downs lives - pardon me, remains dead! smilies/wink.gif

Here’s mine: RIP!

“Mercy!“, cried Gandalf. “If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?” “The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-earth and Over-heaven and of the Sundering Seas,” laughed Pippin. “Of course! What less? But I am not in a hurry tonight.”

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax – of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot – and whether balrogs have wings.” Lewis Carroll (amended by Kuruharan)

[ October 15, 2002: Message edited by: Estelyn Telcontar ]

[ElfRayor]

yes... just like posts....
i only put my nicks thats all but others put stuff of the book that ill maybe do...
some times the sigatures are longer than the post! smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/evil.gif

[Lush]

Why do I have a feeling the Barrow-Wight is about to bury this thread? smilies/wink.gif

For what it's worth, here are a few of mine that I enjoyed using.

I'm not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

Far too dark in Mines of Moria to brush hair properly. Am very afraid I am developing a tangle.

Orcs so silly.

Still the prettiest.
-The Very Secret Diary of Legolas.

Here's a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate.
And whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate.
-Lord Byron.

[Shadowfax Clawson]

Just for the record, and in case I ever change mine (change is inevitable, after all) I'll rest assured that it's immortalized here:

"In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes tight and commend yourself to God."
-Tuscan proverb


Quaint, un-Tolkien related, and proverbial, I'm sure it won't be around for long.

Incidentaly, I think my icon is better than Sharku's, being more colorful and an original piece by me. Ha, take that, Sharku. (e-mail me if you want to borrow some of my artwork for your very own icon!)

[ March 31, 2002: Message edited by: Shadowfax Clawson ]

[Sharkû]

being [...] an original piece by me
So is mine, ha!
-- Sharkû, Photography Artist Extraordinaire

[Shadowfax Clawson]

Well, I still think mine is cooler. I used 6 different artistic mediums to create it. Perhaps I'll make a new, grander, even more ostentatious icon for future smiting.

[zifnab]

I would have to agree on "Sharkey's is better" just for the simple reason of, "You can actually see his". smilies/wink.gif


Here is my old sig, I laid down to rest.

"'Don't meddle in the affairs of wizards,' he said in lofty tones, "for they are subtle and quick to anger.' A fellow sorcerer said that. Good at his job, knew alot about jewelry. Not bad at fireworks, either. Wasn't the snappy dresser Merlin was, though. Let's see, whats his name? Raist--no, that was the irritating young chap, kept hacking and spitting up blood all the time. Disgusting. The other's name was Gand-something or other..."

[ April 08, 2002: Message edited by: zifnab ]

[Thingol]

I can't see myself changing my singnature, but just in case here it is: Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days. I really like the new quote Ziffy.

[zifnab]

Thanks Thingol. http://www.plauder-smilies.de/person/znaika.gif

[Lush]

Here I am depositing a truly great quote (especially if you are familiar with Bob's persona):

I'm not angry. I'm a delightful sort of person. -Bob Dylan.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Here lies my second signature:
You had nothing to say... and yet made the nothing up into words. C.S.Lewis, Perelandra

[Rimbaud]

Lo, even Stephanos lays down the most concise of signatures...

'All is vanity' - Ecclesiastes

May my notice of narcissism lay here in peace. Thank you and good night, quiet stars.

[Rimbaud]

They are dropping like the proverbial flies this week. Although I believe this latest addition to be "Not Dead, Only Sleeping".

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform ~ Arthur Rimbaud.

[Nevtalathiel]

I'll deposit my "resting" sig here too, just so I don't forget it smilies/smile.gif

But she does not weep for herself; and those who harken to her learn pity, and endurance and hope.

[ April 26, 2002: Message edited by: Nevtalathiel ]

[Lush]

Well, here goes this gem:

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know...-Oscar Wilde.

Rest in peace.

[Kuruharan]

Besides, I promised Kuruharan a bit of immortality for his balrog wing amendment on my quote!

Yes, I had noticed that my immortality had proven to be a bit mortal. :) Oh well, it builds character. And now I'm immortalized in a thread. :D

[Gayahithwen]

Ok, I've changed my signature partly, so the part that got cut out will now R.I.P. here..

"Aurë entuluva!
Day shall come again!"

"Utúlie'n aurë! Aiya Eldalië ar Atanatári, utúlie'n aurë!
The day has come! Behold, people of the Eldar and Fathers of Men, the day has come!"

As you may have noticed I posted the entire sig.. Not to confuse anybody..

[QuickSlash]

"'Don't meddle in the affairs of wizards,' he said in lofty tones, "for they are subtle and quick to anger.' A fellow sorcerer said that. Good at his job, knew alot about jewelry. Not bad at fireworks, either. Wasn't the snappy dresser Merlin was, though. Let's see, whats his name? Raist--no, that was the irritating young chap, kept hacking and spitting up blood all the time. Disgusting. The other's name was Gand-something or other..."

zifnag, I remember that, but I'm not sure from what.

[Rimbaud]

How the mighty are fallen.

"I saw two shooting stars last night;
I wished on them but they were only satellites.
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care."

~ Billy Bragg, A New England

[Aosama, the Wandering Star]

Here's my old one:
"There are no happy endings. Because nothing ends."
-The Last Unicorn
Not in the least Tolkien, yet still reminds me of him somehow. The idea that its all one big story - like Sam said, on the stairs of Cirith Ungol, about how (serious paraphrasing here) "we're in the story still! don't the tales never end?" "no, the tales themselves don't end, but the people in them come, and go when their part's ended."
I always liked that part...

[Susan Delgado]

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"'Don't meddle in the affairs of wizards,' he said in lofty tones, "for they are subtle and quick to anger.' A fellow sorcerer said that. Good at his job, knew alot about jewelry. Not bad at fireworks, either. Wasn't the snappy dresser Merlin was, though. Let's see, whats his name? Raist--no, that was the irritating young chap, kept hacking and spitting up blood all the time. Disgusting. The other's name was Gand-something or other..."
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zifnag, I remember that, but I'm not sure from what

It's from Deathgate #2, Elven Star. By a char named (surprise!) Zifnab.


I've recently changed my sig, so I'll put both what it was and what it is now (so I don't have to write another entry here later smilies/smile.gif)

RIP, old sig
For, what with my whole world-wide wandering,
What with my search drawn out thro' years, my hope
Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope
With that obstreperous joy success would bring,
I hardly tried now to rebuke the spring
My heart made, finding failure in its scope.
-From "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning

"Well, what is the answer?" Bilbo said, "It's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think from the noise you are making"
-Bilbo to Gollum, during the riddle game


And, my current sig, which I think I'll keep for a while longer.
May those who love us, love us, and those who don't love use, may God tun their hearts, and if He cannot turn thei hearts, may He turn their ankles so that we may know them by their limping.
-Irish blessing

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, we must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
-Abraham Lincoln

[ June 13, 2002: Message edited by: Susan Delgado ]

[Naaramare]

Here I lay to rest my first sig. ^^ Twill eventually be a quote in my story, but for now, it's retired and replaced. Requiescat en pace, and so forth.

"After four thousand years, death, blood, famine, war and pain, I'm left with the simple fact that it's all worth it because I fell in love with a twenty something (although she was fifteen when we met) writer from Northern Canada, who just happens to incinerate things when angry. If that doesn't tell you the Creator has a sense of humor, I don't know what will."
--Puck, Brother Mine

And I'm adding my second sig here:

"You want to know what I realized then? I looked at him and realized I would fight, I would wound, I would kill, I would bleed, I would die and I would live for him and there was nothing I could do about it. It scared me, it shook me, but it was simple truth. It still is."
--Meredith, Brother Mine

Adding third sig now:

Ye shall be free from slavery and ye shall dance, sing, and feast. Music shall surround you, for mine is the ecstasy of the spirit, and mine is also the joy of the earth! I do not demand sacrifice! For behold, I am the Mother of all living things! Create and heal! Be strong, yet gentle. Be noble, yet reverent. Bring forth and replenish!
--The Charge of the Goddess

[ June 22, 2002: Message edited by: Naaramare ]

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[Nevtalathiel]

Cutting down my sig, so goodbye "The light at the end of the tunnel is the on-coming train" I'll miss you, but since my exams are nearly over, you're not as relevant as you once were smilies/confused.gif

[Belin]

So strange.. me, leaving my sig behind. It will probably be back one day, since it's one of my favorites. In the meantime, RIP.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins. And at the end of wisdom there is not grief, but hope. --Lloyd Alexander

My new sig may not last long, either... hmmmmmmmmm.


EDIT: I changed my sig again a few weeks ago, and didn't feel like digging up the thread. No reason to make another post, I suppose; I'll just drop it off here.

It would carry off objects of which it grew fond
And protect them by dropping them into the pond. --Edward Gorey, "The Doubtful Guest"

If I can't figure out how to add extra spaces to my current sig, it may soon join the others....

--Belin Ibaimendi

[ August 21, 2002: Message edited by: Belin ]

[Nevfeniel]

<FONT COLOR=cc98cc>"Twenty-one!" said Gimli.
"Good!" said Legolas. "But my count is now two dozen. It has been knife-work up here."
Everyone's prince will come; mine just took a wrong turn, got lost, and is too stubborn to ask for directions.
Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life.

That was my old sig, now I just have a fairy.

[ June 16, 2002: Message edited by: Nevfeniel ]

[Galadrie1]

i changed my sig a while ago, but i still remember it:

"I am not a tree-root, sir"

i had that simply because it's my one of my favourite sentences in LotR, and it was the only thing i could think of when i was filling in my profile.

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[dragongirlG]

Three books for the publishers under the eye
Seven for the zealists in their halls alone
Nine for paying parents doomed to buy
In the land of Tolkien where the readers lie.
One book to rule them all, one book to find them
One book to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the land of Tolkien where the readers lie. smilies/wink.gif

Took it out of my signature because it was too long.

[mark12_30]

"... when the morning stars sang for joy."
It's actually a quote out of the bible, talking about the creation. "Morning Stars" is said by some to speak of the angels. But C. S. Lewis interpreted it literally in Magician's Nephew, when Aslan is singing and the stars appear together with silvery voices. And now, it always reminds me now of the Song of the Ainur-- which in turn reminds me of elves singing in the starlight.

What was once but an old legend has become the one desire of their hearts. And the loftiest hope is the surest of being fulfilled. --From TheCastle (http://www.johannesen.com/TheCastle.htm) by George Macdonald

...It is not possible to reject or ignore God without demeaning man. --John Paul II
This one got lost in the shuffle and I just remembered it:
What are you going to do with your gift dear child?
Give life, give love, give soul?
Divided is the one who dances,
For the soul is so exposed, so exposed
--Creed


In the Lord of the Rings the conflict is not basically about freedom, though that is naturally involved. It is about God, and His sole right to divine honour. --Tolkien, Letter 183


(Frodo) cannot live with the fact that he failed the unpassable test. --Lyta_Underhill


Waves and wind and storm defying, Hurricane and tempest riding. --Lindo
I have something to do before the end; I must see it through, sir. --Sam

Mark 12_30 looks just like a hobbit... She is not very tall, not particularly slender, and has short curly hair. She smiles often and laughs even oftener. Her cheeks are red ... she has many freckles..

This one is on the way out, so I'll record it while I'm here:

Je6.16 TSTL: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls.

I suppose after Caradhras comes... Moria? Uh oh.

[QuickSlash]

I recently removed the poem from mine since it was too long. I'm about to add to my sig, though. *grins*

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

[QuickSlash]

I recently removed the poem from mine since it was too long. I just now redid the entire thing. Here's my old one:

AIM me: BulbaPk or CTHandSM
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
"The centre of me is always and eternally a terrible pain." -Bertrand Russell
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Best wishes and tasty fishes until we meet again my friend!

[ June 18, 2002: Message edited by: QuickSlash ]

[Estelyn Telcontar]

A change of mood has made me decide it's time to change my quote. Here's the old one: His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

(That was Gandalf, speaking of Pippin)

The new one has to do with the origin of my chosen name.

[ArwenBaggins]

when i first registered, i had
I Amar Prestar Aen. Han Mathon Ne Nen. Han Mathon Ne Chae. A Han Nostron Ned Wilith.

then it was Tiro! Tiro! El Eria E Mor!

then the ring poem in Elvish {yah know: three rings for the Elven Kings....}

Finnaly, I have what i have now. A Faerie.

[Susan Delgado]

I just cut my sig down; this is what i eliminated:

May those who love us, love us, and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts, and if He cannot turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles so that we may know them by their limping.
-Irish blessing

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Edit: I have amalgamated all of my discarded signatures into one post for neatness' sake. Enjoy perusing, and feel free to lift them for your own use. I never use the same sig twice.

In Memoriam

In order to conform with the welcome new forum regulations I've selected a shorter signature quotation. I hereby commit the body of the old one to this thread. Rest in peace, old friend. If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which tends to make us happier and better can be called useful, then we claim that epithet for our subject. For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.Thomas Bulfinch, from the author’s preface to The Age of Fable

--

It's been a while since I changed my signature, so it's time to bid farewell to Herbert Asquith on the futility of war: Is this a kingdom? Then give Death the crown,
For here no emperor hath won, save He.Sanctuary Wood, 1917

--

It's time to lay this one to rest with its fellows. So men flicker and in the mirk go out.
The world withers and the wind rises;
the candles are quenched. Cold falls the night.I presume the author needs no introduction.

--

Although I used it for such a short time this quotation is by no means lower in my esteem than the others. As certain as the sun behind the Downs
And quite as plain to see, the Devil walks.Sir John Betjeman - Original Sin on the Sussex Coast

The twentieth century makes way for the third as Owen makes way for Terentianus Maurus. I went hunting wild
After the wildest beauty in the world (http://www.illyria.com/owenstr.html)

And in the natural course of things, Terentianus Maurus makes way for a rather more famous writer. Therefore his words of wisdom are set here for posterity: Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelliIn other words, "The fate of books depends on the capacity of the reader" - very apt, I thought, for a Tolkien forum.

--

This one was struck down by a sudden change of mood before its time:
The world wept then, as it weeps today:
you can hear the tears through the harp's twanging.
JRRT

--
This little gem has only been supplanted by Juvenal's definition that just about sums up the world as we know it.

"Through clouds, over chimneys and corn-fields yellow,
We'll dance and laugh at the red-nosed grave-digger,
Who dreams not that Death is so merry a fellow." - Thomas Lovell Beddoes
--

A new forum merits a new signature. I lay the old one in the family vault.Difficile est saturam non scribere - Juvenal("It is difficult not to write satire")

--

Time, like an ever-flowing stream, bears all my sigs away. This nationalistic gem sums up an unsavoury national opinion in a nutshell.To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life - Cecil Rhodes
--

Dante has made way for a local boy. The quotation's brilliant, though, and I'm sure that Tolkien must have liked it too.E quindi uscimmo a rivider le stelle ("Thence we came forth to see the stars again")

--

I like Edgar's 'Poor Tom' act as much as the next heartless sadist, but when I found W.P. Ker's translation from a line in Hamthesmol, it just had to go. "The prince of darkness is a gentleman." King Lear III, iv

--

Hamthesmol in translation makes way for an unfamiliar version of a familiar story. Blame my new linguistic studies for this change.We have won good fame, though we die to-day or to-morrow: no man lives out the eventide when the word of the Norns is spoken Old Lay of Hamther, tr. W.P. Ker

--

Once again we Britons are set to choose which gang of criminal incompetents will lead us for the next few years, so some very new Old English makes way for some rather more apposite old English Latin.

"MMD Hér þurh searucræftas aþóhton and beworhton þá Nold-ielfe gimmas missenlice, 7 Féanor Noldena hláford worhte þá Silmarillas, þæt wæron Eorclanstánas." Godéðles géargetæl

--

And continuing the trend of signatures in other languages, one English scholar makes way for a later one.

"Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit" Alcuin

In other words: "Nor should they be listened to who only say "The voice of the people, the voice of God," for the turbulence of the rabble is always close to insanity."

--
It's a good proverb, but it had to go in the end. I'm restoring my old habit of turning Wilfred Owen quotes into links.

”Man dēþ swā hē byþ þonne hē mōt swā hē wile”
"A person does as he is when he may do as he will" - Durham Proverb XIV

--

Well, nobody can stand war poetry for too long, so I've replaced Wilfred with a spot of aimless humour. Here's the defunct quote again

Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout
'I see your lights!' But ours had long died out. (http://users.fulladsl.be/spb1667/cultural/owen/the-sentry.html)

--

This wasn't the best of my signatures, but it's the only one that I invented. I've replaced it with something rather more polished.

In 2005 alone, more than three-million people worldwide developed a taste for semolina. Despite continued medical research, a cure has yet to be found.

--

The time has come to replace Oscar Wilde with something else, so this quotation is going to its long home.
"And the young man looked up and recognised Him and made answer, 'But I was dead once and you raised me from the dead. What else should I do but weep?'" - Oscar Wilde (http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/E850003-017/index.html)

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I think it's time to abandon my Latin silliness. Here let it remain for posterity.
Caesar aderat forte/ Pompey adsum jam
Caesar sic (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?p=157009#post157009)in omnibus/ Pompey sic (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?p=131366#post131366) intram

--

Tolkien rolls in his grave as I replace an Old English elegy with something French. C'est la vie.

Hwilum ylfete song
dyde ic me to gomene, ganetes hleoþor
ond huilpan sweg fore hleahtor wera,
mæw singende fore medodrince.
The Seafarer ll. 19-21

"At times I took the swan's song for my entertainment; the gannet's racket and the curlew's sound in place of the laughter of men; the gulls' singing in place of mead-drinking."

[Nevtalathiel]

I guess I've just got bored of this one, I still really like it, but I wanted Al Capone's quote in my sig and quite like it only being one line.

I'm never wrong. I thought I was once but I was mistaken

Maybe I will resurrect you when I feel the need.

[Brinniel]

I cut my sig down to only one quote. Here's the one I lay down to rest:

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
-Mother Teresa

[Gorothlammothiel]

Mine was nothing special but here it is anyway....

Why? Why should I know these things you ask me? I live this age day by day and learn more each day as you do. And when the new age comes? I will not know no more about that than I did of this one when it first came.

[HerenIstarion]

well, if i can recollect all of them
(un chronological order):

...things might have been different, but they could not have been better...


...but what they are really like, or what lies beyond them, only those can tell, who have climbed them...


Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift of glee which God gave him.

<font color= "red">Beware of the wights if your path leads that way
<font color= "red">Anger lurks here where is no trace of day
<font color= "red">Roaming souls of the vagabond world
<font color= "red">Raging in Darkness under skies ever cold
<font color= "red">Over the valley and under the hill
<font color= "red">Wraiths walk abroad, host of fear and thrill
<font color= "red">Deadly their eyes, greenish burning within
<font color= "red">Oath to keep, cracking bones and no skin
<font color= "red">Woven are spells of the powerful word
<font color= "red">Never to fail, be unbroken their sword…
<font color= "red">So, beware of the wights on the <A HREF="http://www.barrowdowns.com" TARGET=_blank><font color= "red">Barrow-Downs</A> way!


O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back


that's all, methinks smilies/smile.gif

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[Ithaeliel]

I laith here to rest my former signatures.

1) "Ai! Laurie lantar lassi surinen, yeni unotime ve ramar aldaron!"

2) "Don't be humble. You're not that great."
-Golda Meir, ruler of India

3) My beloved black-haired exotic dancer fairy...

4) "Notwithstanding, we'll make millions writing books on the way it should have been."
-Incubus, "Warning"

5) And the final quote, which I now shall lay to rest:

"My only conclusion is that I have no conclusions."

Here's one that would have been here, but I never got a chance to put it in:

"What's the point of having your cake if you can't eat it?"

[ August 20, 2002: Message edited by: Ithaeliel ]

[Gimli Son Of Gloin]

My old sig.

Nothin' gets atchya like a baked possum- unless there're two!

I nice little quote. I forget where I got it from, so I might have taken it from some's sig without noticing, sorry if I did.

The only proof that there is intelligant life elsewhere is that it hasn't tried to visit us.
One of my favorites.

Don't throw a brick straight up.

May the Force be With You...
Don't sweat petty things, don't pet sweaty things.

[ July 10, 2003: Message edited by: Gimli Son Of Gloin ]

[Nevfeniel]

I can't find my old sig fairy! *sob* I grew so attactched to it! Oh well. If I find it, I'll post it.

[Lush]

I'm dumping this quote. It came off a Warsteiner label:

"...life is too short to drink cheap beer."

Why am I dumping it? Because the morons at Duke drink Natural Light without any regard for the transience of physical existence, and this quote only makes me sad anyway. Germany is far away now.

[*Varda*]

Nev, I'm pretty sure I saw your old fairy in the archives on http://www.amybrownart.com - they moved it off the main site.

My old signature -

A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna miriel
o menel aglar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-diriel
o galadhremmin ennorath
Fanuilos, le linnathon
nef aear, si nef aearon!
-Many Meetings

[Rimbaud]

Dropped for reasons of probable overkill:

"What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world." ~ Arthur Rimbaud
(Une Saison en Enfer, "Dèlires I")

[ August 27, 2002: Message edited by: Rimbaud ]

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

I see that you've replaced it with part of my favourite stanza from Ode to a Nightingale. Superb.

[Rimbaud]

It seems we share more than nationality, Oh Vagrant of Fictional Mountains.

[Nevfeniel]

I FINALLY found my sig fairy! Here she is, in all her glory:
http://www.barrowdowns.com/pink2.gif
Ain't it gorgeous? smilies/biggrin.gif

[Daisy Sandybanks]

Well, here are my past signatures, or quotes, the one's that I can remember at least....

"Not all who wander are lost"
- J. R. R. Tolkien

"There is nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad"
- Annonymous

"I am at an age were if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to"
- Einstein

"Why is it that nobody understands me and yet everybody likes me?"
- Einstein

"Its been a long road, getting from there to here, its been a long time, but my time is finaly near"
- Star Trek: Enterprise Theme Song

Lord of the Rings (Star Trek Style)
Three commbadges for the Vulcan-Masters under the sky,
Seven for the Klingon-Warriors in their Star-Ships of wrath,
Nine for brave Comanders doomed to die,
One for the Borg Queen on her destructive path,
In the Delta Quadrant where the shadows lie.
One commbadge to protect them all.
One commbadge to guide them.
One commbadge to hail them all and in the Universe bind them,
In the Delta Quadrant where the shadows lie.

Actually, a couple of those were not past signatures, I just thought that I would put up one or two interesting quotes.

[NazgulNumberTen]

i have decided to use my sig to promote something i care for with all my heart, the fight to save invader zim.
if you people only knew how much i loved that show smilies/frown.gif
pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee...

[ September 06, 2002: Message edited by: NazgulNumberTen ]

[Losthuniel]

hmmm... old sigs

Nothing is an accident
we are free to have it all
we are what we want to be
Its in ourselves to Rise or Fall
-Radames (from the musical Aida)

"The Doom lies in yourself, not your name"

~Je Me Souvien- I remeber~

[Salix]

Here I lay to rest a quote that is too long for my sig, and I had to get rid of. "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. - from Silver Blaze

[NazgulNumberTen]

/\/\y |\|3w 51g r()x()r5 yur 5()x()r5
(translation: my new sig roxors your soxors)
(translation: my new sig rocks)

[VanimaEdhel]

I hereby lay to rest my old signature that consisted of a greeting and a farewell...I've started a new thing: I'm going to have a quote of the month as my signature. It won't necessarily be Tolkien-related, although the 1st one is...

But: may

"Lissenen ar' maska'lalaith tenna' lye omentuvyn. Amin melon llie!
Melon,
Rachel
ri'
Menelduliniel Vatathra Taraana Melarduin"

rest in peace (FOREVER)!

[NazgulNumberTen]

i decided to give my old avatar to rest. now i have the irken invasion symbol...mauhahahaha...ahahahaha...ha.

[burrahobbit]

Mine was very recently I started the first Balrog thread. but now it isn't.

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

old sig's.....erm

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief,it grows perhaps the greater.

thats one of them. And I suppose soon this one will be an old sig, but it isnt yet

When you're all alone in the lands of forever, lay under the Milky Way. On and On, it's getting too late out; I'm not alone this time, this night


Aylwen

[onewhitetree]

This is In Memorium not to my old quotes, but to my old avatar (with an honorable mention to Ulmo/Legalos/LegoIas for making it pretty, and to burrahobbit for hosting it).

http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/gmorning.gif

Goodbye, my little coffee-addict alter ego.

[Rimbaud]

K-k-k-k-k-k-kate, the Downs will never be the same again...

[onewhitetree]

I am passing through the same kind of separation anxiety, Rimbaud, but I hope and pray that with a few of the right posts, or rather, lack thereof in my case, that this one will meld almost seamlessly into the Downs world of avatars.

I am off caffeine, now, anyway, and far be it from me to give the wrong impression of my character. My flawless, upstanding, good-looking, intelligent, and talented (I drew it myself!) character.

[Rimbaud]

So...you were trying to draw me? It's not far off, I suppose...

[onewhitetree]

Alas, there are no perfect reproductions.

[Rimbaud]

Say hello to my new avatar.

[onewhitetree]

Rimbaud, he's wonderful! If only he came with the little green felt collar. Nevertheless, he is quite a mesmerizing little guy. http://www.bertuccia.com/ikonboard/emogal/Love/love11.gif

[Susan Delgado]

I am replacing:
A wise woman once said, "One does not attend a banquet because one is hungry"

By the way, that wise woman was me! smilies/biggrin.gif

[ October 07, 2002: Message edited by: Susan Delgado ]

[Susan Delgado]

Like Kate, this is merely to commemorate my current avatar, for it is being retired. smilies/smile.gif

Farewell, Chameleon, you have served me well!
http://fringeworld.homestead.com/files/Chameleon.jpg

edit: hmm...it's a little bigger than I realised...

[ October 07, 2002: Message edited by: Susan Delgado ]

[HerenIstarion]

Rimbaud (et al) would you enlighten me?

by Rimbaud

Say hello to my new avatar.

hy do you call such pics avatars?

thanks

[Susan Delgado]

Avatar: An embodiment; Bodily manifestation

Like our sigs (only more so, because they do not depend on our posts to exist, and they tend to change less often), these little pictures define us to the rest of the community. One can go down a thread and find a specific poster just by looking at the little pictures under the names. Sometimes, the picture even gives us an idea (albeit a false one smilies/smile.gif) of what the poster looks like, because we see it so often. I can look at nothing but the little picture and know who's speaking. It's like having a face to go with the words. smilies/smile.gif

[HerenIstarion]

thanks for info smilies/smile.gif

I just wondered why are you connecting it to Induism. Why not to say simply embodiment :rolleys:

well, kiddin. thanks, Susan

[Susan Delgado]

I also briefly had, "Honesty through parnoia"

[Lush]

I'm dropping this one off to rest:

"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice, From what I tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire."

Then again, I might revive it later on. It fits me too well.

[DaughterofVana]

Since becoming a skeleton I've become more philosophical... therefore, I am retiring my "old" quote that just refers to my name:

"Flowers spring as she passes and open if she glances upon them; all birds sing at her coming..."

This one is a little more personal. And I'm surprised at myself, it not being a song lyric, which is the catagory most all of my other "quotes" fall into. It's from an actual BOOK. (shock!)

"If it would help you and if it were possible I would go down with you into Hell: but you cannot bring Hell into me."

There--so sayeth, it exists. smilies/smile.gif

-'Vana

Edit: Um. I changed it, but nothing happened. I think my sayeth is broken.

Edit: Never mind.

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: DaughterofVana ]

[ October 23, 2002: Message edited by: DaughterofVana ]

[Alkanoonion]

My old Quote
Some people are wise and Some are otherwise.

[Alkanoonion]

My old quote

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.

[Elenna]

My old quote: "Probably the saddest thing you will ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend."

Random, true. But amusing when considered.

[Nevfeniel]

Ooh! Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey! I've seen that one!
I would post the link that used to be on my sig before, but sadly, I forgot about this topic when I changed it, so I don't remember it. But here's the general message: SAVE THE TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Especially since I read somewhere that scientists have said that there are only about 100 tigers still living in the wild of India (I think that was the place).

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Here's my buried quit message from chat: Once you are dead, you will have the time of your life. (Black Adder) Singularly appropriate for the Barrow-Downs, isn't it?!

And another appropriate chat quit that I am abandoning:
Given the difficulties the real world had created for both of us, it probably made sense that we should want to leave it as often as possible. (Paul Auster, Moon Palace)

[ November 10, 2002: Message edited by: Estelyn Telcontar ]

[Elenna]

My best guy friend gave me The Lost Deep Thoughts for my birthday. Funniest thing I've ever read.

[hobbitlass]

Okay, my first two signatures.....

1. And they lived happily ever after....at least for a day.
I say that after reading a story to my young girls, so they know realty is not always like that.

2."...'cause it's easier to try than to prove it can't be done".

From a Moody Blues song, "Blue World"

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

I realize that I don't change mine very often. I've changed quotes once & I've never changed my avatar (I like the little serving lass).
Here's my ex-quote:

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story". ~John Barth~

[Nevfeniel]

For a while, I had:
Night has brought to those who sleep/Only dreams they cannot keep/ I have legends in the deep/Paint the sky with stars
From, of course the wonderful Enya's Paint the Sky with Stars. I changed it now to a quote by the insecure, easily furiated, and extremely hilarious George Costanza from Seinfeld. (best TV show on Earth, by the way.)
I also have entered a doll contest for Miss Middle Earth, and my doll, Laurëloth Elhîth, is entered for Miss Mithlond. Please vote for her, if you think she is worthy.

[Orual]

"There goes the last DJ/Who plays what he wants to play/And says what he wants to say/...There goes your freedom of choice/There goes the last human voice/There goes the last DJ..."--Tom Petty

Rest in peace, my bulky sig. Great song, though, too bad it was banned from the radio.

~*~Orual~*~

[Cúdae]

"Not all who wander are lost."--JRR Tolkien

I live by that quote, but it was time for a change.

[Nevfeniel]

Wow, not many people have posted here lately. I am now putting to rest the quote that I mentioned just a few replies ago:
"I'm against all 'it's me's'. It's so self-absorbed and egotistical, like those hip musicians with their complicated shoes."
-George Costanza
I now have another Seinfeld quote down there, from what my brother says is the funniest episode ever. He nicknamed it "Man-Hands".

[ November 29, 2002: Message edited by: Nevfeniel ]

[Lostgaeriel]

Shortly before signatures longer than 2 lines were not allowed, I had added to more quotes to my sig to extend the meet & greet theme. So for a few days it looked like this:

Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

"My mother told me to give a cheery greeting to everyone I meet. And to take a ring from a good lady if the occasion arose." - Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight retold by Katherine Paterson

ZAPHOD: Oh God...Ford. This is Trillian, hi, Trillian, this is my semi-cousin Ford, who shares three of the same mothers as me, hi. Trillian, is this sort of thing going to happen every time we use the Infinite Improbability Drive?
TRILLIAN: Very probably I'm afraid.
ZAPHOD: Zaphod Beeblebrox, this is a very large drink. Hi.

P.S. My avatar is Parzival/Parsifal/Peredur/Perceval in honour of Viggo Mortensen's publishing company.

[ November 29, 2002: Message edited by: Lostgaeriel ]

[Amanaduial the archer]

Ive changed mine about 3 times, but my favourite is;

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day.
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!

from Jingo by Terry Pratchett.

Im reading Romeo and Juliet at the moment, thus I have my current sig.

[Susan Delgado]

I am changing from:

"Near and far, far and near. They are within sight of your lady's eyes, but almost out of reach of her memory. They are coming closer, and they are going away."

"A cat can appreciate valiant absurdity."

-- The Last Unicorn

[vanwalossien]

Here's some of mine:
"Charming man" said Arthur. "I wish I had a daughter so I could stop her from marrying him." "There's no need", Ford replied. "They have about as much sex appeal as a car crash"D. Adams' "The Ultimate Hitch-hiker's Guide"
Smart is sexy Actually Jennifer Aniston said that..
This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark. Ah, Adams again..

[ December 04, 2002: Message edited by: vanwalossien ]

[Lush]

Oh yeah, I suppose I can lay to rest my Thomas Mann quote here:

"For you know that we poets cannot walk the way of beauty without Eros as our companion and guide."

It's self-explanatory, if you know me at all, and know who Eros is. This is the quote I use to justify almost all the "youthful indescretions" in the world. Try it on your mother next time you come home after dawn.

[HerenIstarion]

your sigs are always so sad (and ven depressive sometimes), Squatter...

[Lush]

Squatter makes up for it by being a cutie.

[HerenIstarion]

Surely you're not going to tell me in all honesty that you of all people need a therapist. I do hope that you mean a drinking companion.

that'shim smilies/wink.gif

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

How did you get that? I didn't post it. Clearly I'm being spied upon, and I'm most upset. smilies/wink.gif

This forum is themed around a graveyard. What else would my signatures be about but death? Actually I mainly choose them for their poetic qualities.

Squatter makes up for it by being a cutie.

It's very sweet of you to say so, old thing. You're not so bad to look at yourself.

[ December 14, 2002: Message edited by: Squatter of Amon Rudh ]

[Lush]

Heren is quoting the quote of the week off my homepage. smilies/wink.gif

Anyway, back to business, eh?

[Diamond18]

My first sig was from the Wizard of Oz:

She's not just merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.

I was reading a newspaper article which mentioned it, and I thought it fit perfectly for the dead theme on the Downs. But then I watch WoZ again recently and realized just how annoying, cloying and insipid the whole munchkin land is (it's certainly no Shire and those paint-by-number midgets are no Hobbits!)

Second sig, a quote by Faramir:

We look towards Númenor that was, and beyond to Elvenhome that is, and to that which is beyond Elvenhome and will ever be.

I may go back to that because I love it immensely, but I changed it for Christmas. I may as well post my current sig since it will be changing after Christmas:

Under that bed there runs a flood, the bells of Paradise I heard them ring.
The one half runs water the other runs blood, and I love my Lord Jesus above anything.

That is a verse from "Down in Yon Forest", a Christmas song.

[vanwalossien]

I've now changed my "Smart is sexy!" to a little TTT-movie hysteria.. Jennifer Aniston's motto is returning when I've seen TTT I suppose..

[dragoneyes]

I liked this quote, I didn't have it for long, maybe I'll change it back one day.

"I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating, I want to think!"
"Good heavens! At Breakfast?"

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

This one used to be mine as well:


I get enough exercise just pushing my luck

I think this was one of mine for a week or two smilies/biggrin.gif :

Quitting is easier, I know

I think I will change mine soon.

~Aylwen

[ April 04, 2003: Message edited by: Aylwen Dreamsong ]

[Bêthberry]

Memory trolls for submerged words. Here are the two quotations I have used at the BarrowDowns:

I went looking for the garden of my mother and lo! I found my own.

Never speak to women/Unless you speak of flowers
illustrate your garden/and walk with them past fountains
but never let them carry your secrets/they are lapses

The first I found on a stone plague in a garden centre; the second is from Jane Urquhart, Some Other Garden.

Bethberry

[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: Bethberry ]

[vanwalossien]

I finally disposed of my Harry Potter quote I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. Fitting words to live by both for Harry and me...

[Susan Delgado]

I am changing from,
"Where are you?" he cried again, both angry and afraid.
"Here!" said a voice, deep and cold, that seemed to come out of the ground. "I am waiting for you!"

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

Old:

I'd rather eat my soup with a fork. Or drive a cab in New York. Because to talk to you is harder work.

New:

The higher you build your barriers, the taller I become. The more you refuse to hear my voice, the louder I will sing.

I usually use original or less famous lyrics to songs. smilies/biggrin.gif

How long have you been using that one, Susan?


I went looking for the garden of my mother and lo! I found my own.

I always loved that one smilies/smile.gif ! And to think it just came from a garden stone...

Aylwen

[ January 15, 2003: Message edited by: Aylwen Dreamsong ]

[dragoneyes]

The more I looked at this sig, the more stupid it seemed, so I've decided to change it at last.

"I was glad to be rid of his company, for he stank" - Aragorn, so don't you go around saying Aragorn was dirty! He knew dirt when he smelt it!

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

I like your new one, Dragoneyes:

'Hm, tired? No, I am not tired. I do not easily get tired. And I do not sit down. I am not very, hm, bendable.' - Treebeard

I changed mine, a little. It is still "The higher you build your barriers, the taller I become. The more you refuse to hear my voice, the louder I will sing," except it is in Spanish.

I can't seem to make up my mind when it comes to sigs. I always change mine.

Aylwen

[Rimbaud]

This one lasted a long time. I was pleased that people enjoyed the link.


Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath; (http://www.englishhistory.net/keats.html)

[Orual]

For a brief moment, this was mine:

"I mean, what's my business? My business is basically good."--Zackie Salmon

From Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project. A very, very good play. Everybody ought to read it.

[HerenIstarion]

bye for now:

...Не шалю, никого не трогаю, починяю примус...

[Diamond18]

This very short-lived sig was doomed to be brief, as I wrote it in a fey mood and was annoyed by it ever since:

Delight in the dance of the dying duck and weep,
Or may a thousand electric eels devour you in your sleep.

It's fun and quirky the first time around, but not when one has to read it every time she posts...

Rest In Peace.

[Carlas]

I have not had this quote long, but I love my new one!

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Both of those quotations are absolutely brilliant. I especially like Macchiavelli there. Most apposite for some threads.

[HerenIstarion]

...One foot in front of the other, through leaves, over bridges...


this one lasted only for 2 weeks. Maybe it was too poetic for me smilies/wink.gif I'm going back to one before, now in English

[ February 24, 2003: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ]

[Lush]

Argh! Heren! The English translation of The Master and Margarita is not up to my standards at all. I resolve to translate and pubblish a new version sometime during my post-graduate work.

[HerenIstarion]

Argh! Heren!

Ты слышишь, прокуратор? -- тихо повторил первосвященник, -- неужели
ты скажешь мне, что все это, -- тут первосвященник поднял обе руки, и темный
капюшон свалился с головы Каифы, -- вызвал жалкий разбойник HerenIstarion?

a-a-a-a...

Единственно, что может спасти смертельно раненного [в сердце] H-I, --
проговорил HerenIstarion, -- это глоток бензина...

and yes, I'm not that much of a cat, you know....

[Sapphire_Flame]

I here lay to rest my first ever sig on the Downs...
Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind.
And beside it I lay my last sig...
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up. ~Stephen King
May they rest in peace. (unless I decide to use them again...)

[Salix]

I have finally chose to lay to rest this quote.
"Did you ever want to go swimming out among the stars?... We could fall into the night and be cradled by the stars and still return to the place we began..."


I still love it, but it was time for a change.

[Lush]

Bye bye Pulp:

You are the last drink I never should have drunk. You are the body hidden in the trunk. You are the habit I can't seem to kick. You are my secrets on the front page every week.

Helloooo mischief! smilies/wink.gif

[InklingElf]

Here I lay to rest my most treasured sig quote:

1. "But this story [the gospel] is supreme; and it is true. Art has been verified. God is the Lord, of angels and of men, and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused." --J.R.R. Tolkien [On Fairy Stories]

BTW: I might revive it someday...

[Suldaledhel]

I am bidding a fond farewell to my writing quote in light of a more... optimistic signature. "...words are the only true power. The wisest monarchs know this, the foolish and the cowardly fear it. The gods respect it, but they, too, are not immune to the sting of a bitter truth well told." And so I lay thee to rest.

[ March 06, 2003: Message edited by: Suldaledhel ]

[Lady_Báin]

This quote is from The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland I love the Mad Hatter he is my favorite in the whole book. Rest in peace my friend.


Twinckle twinkle little bat, how i wonder what you're at, up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky. Twickle twinkle-

[ March 10, 2003: Message edited by: Lady_Báin ]

[HerenIstarion]

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

RIP

[Schmendrick]

Ok, since I just recently changed my sig, I'm gonna put the old one here, too.

" We are not always what we seem and hardly ever what we dream."

It was from the Last Unicorn, one of Schmendrick's lines, of course... smilies/smile.gif

[vanwalossien]

A hunter who lays snares had better watch where he puts his feet.True, isn't it? I still got tired of it though.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Ты слышишь, прокуратор? -- тихо повторил первосвященник, -- неужели
ты скажешь мне, что все это, -- тут первосвященник поднял обе руки, и темный
капюшон свалился с головы Каифы, -- вызвал жалкий разбойник HerenIstarion?

Lol! I love that! I should think of one that only a few people will understand... smilies/evil.gif

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Currently, mine is "Recently,I've been throwing myself out of areoplanes"
"Legolas' moves are smooth and elegant, like a cats... very balletic. It's also bloody hard to do without falling over!"~Orlando Bloom~ but I think I'll change it in a while.

[Nevfeniel]

After having it for a long time, I have decided to replace my Seinfeld quote with a quote from another book I just finished reading. It sounds weird out of context, but that's what makes it funny! Anyways, here's my old quote:
"Would you prefer it if she had no hands at all?"
"Would she have hooks?"
"Do hooks make it more attractive, Jerry?"
"Kinda cool looking."
Elaine Benes and Jerry Seinfeld
Enjoy the new one!

[ March 18, 2003: Message edited by: Nevfeniel ]

[Belin]

Recently, I've left behind my much-beloved sig of seven months:

Light lay the earth on the lonely dead
Heavy lay the woe on the heart that lived

I didn't attribute it, because it's Tolkien, but it's from the Lay of the Children of Hurin and refers to the burial of Beleg. There ought to be a space in each of the lines (between "earth" and "on" and "woe" and "on"), but I can't figure out how to do it.

If anyone would like a translation of my current sig, please pm me.

--Belin Ibaimendi

[ March 19, 2003: Message edited by: Belin ]

[Lindril Arvilya]

Well, I finally ditched my original one. Here it is.
Bird of song, and bird of night, Healing Hands and Eyeless Sight. Bird of passage, Elven friend, walks the road without an end.
And good riddance! Too darn sweet and obvious fantasy work.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

All the ones I have had so far will now be laid to rest. Well, actually I already killed my one of Orlando Bloom quotes and buried it here....toher than that, before I got the one I have now, I only had one. It was a funny quote from the Simpsons. I had it for about 2 days. smilies/redface.gif Now I have a piece from a rather depressing poem in Russian. It is LotR related, but you couldn't tell just from those two lines. It's a poem from the perspective of a goblin. I'm changing it tomorrow or the day after, because so few people understand it. I love the poem, but the whole thing won't fit in the sig. I had wanted to use a (Russian) poem from the perspective of Aragorn, which is also sad. Now I've decided- today, right now, I'm changing my sig to the Denethor line when Faramir is brought back. Usually, I like sigs that are either funny or sad. Can you tell? smilies/tongue.gif

[Salix]

For a short while I am laying down: Willows whiten, aspens quiver,/Little breezes dusk and shiver/Thro' the wave that runs for ever/By the island in the river/Flowing down to Camelot. (http://www.geocities.com/eranj2/shalott/)

My new quote is Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- I think I think, therefore, I think I am. - Ambrose Bierce
I probably will be changing back sometime.

[Orual]

Well, I loved this quote, but I'm going to try out a new one for a while. I may change it back, but this is a great quote. Oh, and for anybody who missed it, Falante pelos Mortos is Portuguese for Speaker for the Dead, an Orson Scott Card reference.

Falante pelos Mortos

"There is some one myth for every man which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought." --William Butler Yeats

RIP

[Ithaeliel]

"Is sloppiness of speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care." -William Safire

Wonderful quote; cynically humorous and a perfect definition of the way many people think. RIP.

[Durelin]

I got rid of my one quote a little while ago. I liked it though, it was my own quote! smilies/biggrin.gif You are told that if you are given a lemon, you should make lemonade. As a pessimist, I am given a lemon, and I suck on it.

Sad...goodbye! You'll be back soon. Anyway, I think it might be written on my binder...so, it gets a little credit!

[Nuranar]

I liked these lines from John Donne's "Death, Be Not Proud" very much, and I got several comments on it.

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;...
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

But I have been inspired anew - nothing like watching Henry V with your family the day before Easter! smilies/smile.gif

[Diamond18]

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, rest in peace, yadda yadda...

Bugs represents the person we all want to be, whereas Daffy captures a closer approximation of the person we all fear we actually are. ~ Chuck Jones

Too true. smilies/wink.gif

[Salix]

It is time for me to leave behind my brand newish quote
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- I think I think, therefore, I think I am. - Ambrose Bierce
so that I may begin a 'Useless fact of the week' in my sig. This week's is The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Since that is my favorite useless fact, it probably will be the only posted in this topic. smilies/tongue.gif

[DaughterofVana]

Changed my sig again. Formerly:

"If it would help you and if it were possible I would go down with you into hell; but you cannot bring Hell into me."

CS Lewis, "The Great Divorce." I have an unhealthy affinity for his books. (Yet, then again, all of us have an unhealthy affinity to books... that's why we're here.)

Back in all her glory (?) after quitting all things Tolkien for Lent,

-'Vana

[Nevfeniel]

Even though it came from an absolutely great book, my sig quote has changed AGAIN. Here is my old one:
"When Qwilleran rushed into 14-A and found the bathroom flooded and the culprit sitting on the toilet tank, he had no time to analyze motives." From the book The Cat Who Lived High.

Hehe, it's funny, but unfortunately, it would make more sense if you had read the book, so therefore, READ THE BOOK!!!
Anyways, I changed my sig to the lyrics of a beautiful song we sang in choir. I chose that song because not only is it gorgeous, but we also got a superior ranking everytime we sang it at competition, so I guess I'm honoring it by putting it in my sig.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

My current sig is A source of guidance for teenagers is television, but its message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
...for she was Menelien, the chandelier-hanger.
~Menelien, the Elvish Bostonian~

but I'm changing it to- something today, so I thought I'd better bury it first.

~Menelien

[Beren87]

Well, I changed my sig again, to something a little more showing of my current career path.

However, my old one I still hold to be completely true.

Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding-Harvey Danger "Flagpole Sitta"

[Sapphire_Flame]

I am laying to rest my old sig:
I'm not anti-society, society is anti-me.
R.I.P.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

RIP to my Donne, I should have laid it to rest long ago...
For except you enthrall me I never shall be free, nor ever chaste except you ravish me.

[ElenCala Isil]

well, mine was quite simple.. it used to be:

It comes in Pints???

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Here is the sig I just stopped using about 7 minutes ago: "Crazy-insane or insane-crazy?
I say Hussein, you say Shady."
#Don't hate me cause I'm beautiful... I'm not.# " " ~Silent Bob ~%*Menelien, the Elvish Bostonian*%~


~Menelien

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Burying a few more quotes, though they may be rebodied shortly smilies/wink.gif.

And if I never shall return from this to see the light of Day, I know your words will ever flourish after mine have fallen away... -Tree by Leaf and Shall we meander in the rain tonight? You can slip me through a brilliant sky... RIP, friends.

[Arafangwen]

I am currently pondering whether to lay to rest my "DO THE WAVE FOR BOROMIR THE DISCO KING!". Does anyone have an opinion on whether I should or not?

I am just now laying down this part of mine in preference of something new. I am "Vanya Aranel Arafangwen, Erusén" ~ the one and only, wife of Legolas, or Mimi, whichever you perfer.
RIP

[Elennar Starfire]

I am changing my sig today, so RIP to the part I'm changing. I think, therefore I don't know.
It may be brought to life again later.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

I change my sigs far too often, so my new one won't last either, but I am killing off The snail, awake for good, trembles from his shell and sets sail for China. My hand dances in the memory of a million vanished stars. -Philip Levine
"My dear, I don't give a damn." -Rhett Butler
~Menelien, the Elvish Bostonian~

I really liked it, but then I got something that I thought was more... Downish.

~Menelien

Edit: Spelling...

[ May 21, 2003: Message edited by: GaladrieloftheOlden ]

[Iarwain]

I suppose I have a few to bury:

"Jamais Errant": never wandering.

and "Un troubadour errant, dédaigné par tous." : a wandering troubadour, scorned by all.

and my first, always my favorite quote from LotR: "'Unless the king should come again?' said Gandalf. 'Well, my lord Steward, it is your task to keep some kingdom still against that event, which few now look to see. In that task you shall have all the aid that you are pleased to ask for. But I will say this: the rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I also am a steward. Did you not know?' And with that he turned and strode from the hall with Pippin running at his side." Quite lengthy, that was probably one of the reasons I changed it.

[Orual]

"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, what if life was fair, and all the awful things that happened to us happened because we actually deserved them? Now I take comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe." --Marcus

Far too lengthy, so I ditched it. Let's give Marcus Cole from Babylon 5 a hand, though, for such a great quote.

~*~Orual~*~

[Diamond18]

Bye bye to Ben Franklin:

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

I've traded it in for a line from one of my favorite songs by Matchbox Twenty. It's just so... me. Though, I really am crazy, as my friends tell me daily.

EDIT: "Matchbow"? Egad... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[ May 25, 2003: Message edited by: Diamond18 ]

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

I hereby bury my current signature, as I've got all night to chose a new one, and that's what I'll be doing. Expect something from the Matrix... (Surprise surprise!) Bones rattle; hearts quake; the ground parts- the dead wake.
I can do anything. There is no spoon.
Who the hell would want to say boo to a goose? ~Menelien, The Elvish Bostonian~ AIM: SquirrelGurl126
-Garbled Ramblings- (http://www.garbledramblings.blogspot.com)
Rot in pieces, my dear smilies/wink.gif

~Menelien

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Rest in peace, good friend.

If you don't name your sword, how is it supposed to come when you call it?

Quite stupid, but...

Do the Wave for Boromir the Disco Squid!

[ June 05, 2003: Message edited by: Horse-Maiden of the Shire ]

[Lossentilien]

I hearby lay to rest;
4th of March 1791 is the estimated date of Louis' immortal birth...the last day he saw sunlight. And for that, we remember the mortal who fell to earth to eternal damnation. Would any of God's angels find him? Shall we light a candle for him?
Now it comes to it, I don't feel like parting with it. After all, why not, why shouldn't I keep it?
I have a feeling it will return....

[Lyra Greenleaf]

I've had too many! I should have been coming to this thread for months.

Let me see...there was one about Juan Pablo when he FINALLY won Grand Prix no.2, one about Mark Butcher's AMAZING First Test against Zimbabwe, Darius is gorgeous smilies/wink.gif , Orlando Bloom's greatest quotes, Paul McCartney 40 years ago, a quote from Yellow Submarine, various Wheel of Time quotes...far too many related to guys. And of course the classic (well to me anyway):
Oh sheep swallop! Sheep swallop and bloody buttered onions!

Oh and I hereby lay to rest
It may not be cool...Heck, it may not even be normal...But I'll stand up and admit it:
I LIKE WESTLIFE!
~Apologies to all with "Good Taste"- and Americans! smilies/biggrin.gif

Not because I'm ashamed. I got bored!

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

The lips from which the kiss is wrought, has fallen words, will fall cold breath;
The womb from which the cry released, has suffered hurt, will suffer death.

I liked it, but it was time for a change. Soon will be time for another change, methinks smilies/wink.gif.

Sophia

[Edit: And yet another, discarded signature. I found this one too lighthearted for someone as thoroughly dead as I smilies/wink.gif

Behind every good man is a woman rolling her eyes RIP my dear departed friend.]

[ June 08, 2003: Message edited by: Sophia the Thunder Mistress ]

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

My Matrix quotes are swiftly exchanging for... other Matrix quotes smilies/wink.gif, so I would like to bury the one I just hearlessly murdered: Guns. Lots of Guns. The rest of them have been left to live for now, but the gun quote has been "traded in" for a quote from the trailer for Matrix Revolutions.

~Menelien

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

Let's see...I'm not sure if I can remember the early signatures, but here are the ones I do:

For a fleeting moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they would have thought they beheld an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing.

This is my favorite passage in all of LotR. I believe that this shows that Gollum actually would have given up the ring. I'll always believe that, RiP.

Who says I need a signature?

Ahh, that was a classic in my eyes, rest (peacefully) in peace.

The next sig I had was something that came off the top of my head. I got rid of it after a while because it looked stupider and stupider each time I saw it. I'm sort of glad I can't remember it.

"If I were elected mayor the first thing I would do is I'd kill the whole lot of you!"
"pssst, the mic is on"
"Ah know it's on!"

There's hilarious one from Grounds-keeper Willie, from The Simpsons, which is (in my opinion of course) the best show ever.

I might change mine again soon, but I'll let it live for a while. It deserves to.

[Arafangwen]

I have recently laid to rest a section of mine-
DO THE WAVE FOR BOROMIR THE DISCO KING!!!
(but I didn't stop)

RIP

[vanwalossien]

I decided to finally dispose of
To err is human but to foul things up completely requires a computer a sig I actually had for a long time. RIP...

[Daewen]

Here's my old quote:

Dude look! I'm a wight now! Cool!

It's creepy and it's kooky, mysterious and spooky, there's just one thing to do-ee...the ring must be destroyed!

[QuickSlash]

And, now I retire my lovely Slipknot siggy.

I keep my scars from prying eyes, / Incapable of ever knowing why. / Somebody breathe, I've got to have an answer... (Diluted, Slipknot)

Why'm I so fascinated with / Bigger pictures, better things? / I don't care what you think, you'll never understand me!

Mmhmm. It's been replaced with the happier BNL song, Light Up My Room. But just for the Downs. ~_^ Other 'Knot songs pop up frequently on other boards.

[Durelin]

Good bye old WoT quote, hello new one! smilies/biggrin.gif

I really did like this one, though. Love those prophecies.

Oh, yeah, I still have my army recruitment link... smilies/biggrin.gif

Let the arm of the Lord of the Dawn shelter us from the Dark and the sword of justice defend us. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

*sniff* Perhaps I'll resurrect it someday...

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

I just killed off my Matrix quotes... for a while. They'll be back. For now it's Douglas Adams for me... smilies/biggrin.gif

~Menelien

Edit: Nah. We now have a new dead: "My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving universes." I love the quote, but I just felt like killing it... *curves hand protectively over axe* smilies/wink.gif

~Menelien

[ June 24, 2003: Message edited by: GaladrieloftheOlden ]

[Yavanna228]

I haven't had this sig for an overly long time, but it's time to change. Farewell, sweet words!
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Peace

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I'd only had these ones for a short time, but the Moxy Fruvous one is part of one of my favourite songs:
All generalizations are false, including this one.
~Let's make Friday part of the weekend and give every new baby chocolate eclairs~ Moxy Fruvous

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

RIP: You can run, but you can't hide. "What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive?" The second quote was HP 5... once again, rest in peace. (Or rot in pieces?)

~Menelien

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Time to lay to rest another old favorite...

“Well written words can reach far beyond the bounds of their own meaning, bringing visions, sounds, and sensations that one cannot wrap his arms about or fully comprehend; a ponderous state of awe and wonder.”

Thanks Phantom, for letting me borrow it. I'll surely ressurrect it sometime in the future. But for now, me and my Shelley are ok together smilies/wink.gif.

Sophia

[Nevfeniel]

My old sig featured a haunting melody that helped get our choir straight ones for the UIL competition:
The waters move so freely and know us by name. Their course is oft unseemly, whose choices show no shame. An ebb and flow sublime, erasing every line of all the images in time. Feel the waters running at your feet, taste the stream its flavor bittersweet. Water so warm, pure as of gold; yet when we touch turns cold.
Now I have an excerpt from a book I'm reading called The Cat with an Emerald Eye. I think it's a little witty. And "Purr of Power" is the phrase of the day!
I also got a pic to match. smilies/biggrin.gif

[ July 09, 2003: Message edited by: Nevfeniel ]

[*Varda*]

And now I lay this one to rest - it doesn't have any sort of sentimental value, just that I've had it for a very very long time.

Of all the Great Ones who dwell in this world the Elves hold Varda in most reverence and love. Elbereth they name her, and they call upon her name out of the shadows of Middle-earth, and uplift it in song at the rising of the waters.

Still, time for a change.

[Yavanna228]

Now I lay this one to rest. I liked it, it served me well, and is with its ancestors. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Ok, enough.
We laughed out loud til we cried/
And the tears were sweet/
Midnight melted to morning/
A moment faded to memory/
All these days just slip away through our fingers
Peace

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

"She says we don't really understand it, but there are many things we don't understand, and we just have to do the best we can with the knowledge we have." -Calvin
"Sharing with people, I'm always impressed by how they share back." -Bill Waterson


...I said I wasn't going to cry, I said I wasn't going to cry smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif smilies/frown.gif ...

smilies/wink.gif I think I'm going to change my avatar too.

[Cúdae]

I am, at long last, throwing off the tyranny of my ruling quote even as my forefathers did 227 years ago on the fourth of July!

Okay, so my quote wasn't exactly tyrannous. And I'm not exactly throwing it off, just trading it in for a new one by the same people and in the same song. Here it is anyway:
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on. --from "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin

Hmm, maybe I'll follow the example of MLD and change my avatar too. Although, then I won't know it's me posting, so maybe not.

[Galadrie1]

I just remembered something that used to be in my signature before the 3-line limit was set: Tolkien wrote about rings called Hibberts. These Hibberts were worn by dorky Felfs who glowed when Sting, the singer, was around. It was a dumb inside joke, but I have to get it down while I remember it -- it's too funny to forget. smilies/smile.gif maybe I'll follow the example of MLD and change my avatar too. Although, then I won't know it's me posting I know exactly how you feel! That same thought has kept me from changing my signature, too (I always look for the word 'Galadriel' at the end to find my posts).

[Elennar Starfire]

Had this one for a while, and rather liked it, but all good things must pass...

Too much sanity is bad for your mental health.
Does this perfume make me smell fat?
I think, therefore I thtay out of the thwimming pool.

Also, another bit I had for a while:

**Smeagol's other precious**

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

"I’m a freak to the core!" I look at the rule book and say "I don’t think so." "The only thing worse than losing your mind... is finding it again."
And...
It's a good life- that's what I'm told. But everything, it all just feels the same... -GC Now changed for my opinion on life. smilies/wink.gif smilies/tongue.gif

Swan song,
~Menelien

[Lëowen]

My siggy that I just killed:

Llamas are very dangerous, so if you see one where people are swimming, you shout: LOOK OUT! THERE ARE LLAMAS!!

From Monty Python, of course. smilies/biggrin.gif

[ July 09, 2003: Message edited by: Lëowen ]

[Faenaduial]

I'm finally retiring my sig (sniff, sniff)). It's the one I started with and I think I shall miss it. I'm replacing it with one of my favorite quotes.

But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken forever do they pass into song.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Life is full of cactus, but why do I always sit in the prickles? *audible sigh* RIP, my friend. smilies/wink.gif

Swan song,
~Menelien

[Niluial]

Come to think of it… I actually have never changed my sig.. I don’t know why…

[Eressië Ailin]

RIP, all my old siggys:

'I liked white better.' ~Gandalf, to Saruman about his rainbow bathrobe.
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."


'What's taters precious, eh, what's taters?''PO-TA-TOES!'
There are three kinds of people in this world: people who can count and people who can't.

I'm going to end this post with the newset addition to my sig, a quote from Faust.

Holy angel in Heaven blessed... My spirit longs with thee to rest!

Quite appropriate for a graveyard, no?

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I lay to rest my "hope"less signature quotes: Ónen i-Estel Edain, ú-chebin estel anim.
I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept no hope for myself. (JRRT)
I attempt a hopeless healing / Bleed again with each new day. (David King) I have chosen something a little more "hope"ful.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Mine that I had for about an hour:
Pobodies Nerfect.

[Lyta_Underhill]

Alas, as amusing as my old sig was, it was too long, so I lay it to rest in both its forms, way too long and just too long, here:

Too long: Maedhros bent over his father's lifeless body and heard an echoing voice: "This elf will explode in 5...4…3…2…1…BOOM!" And behold, the Sons of Fëanor were covered in a black dust and their father spontaneously burst into flame and disappeared entirely!" --from "Of Fëanor, the Exploding Elf"

and Way too long: "Maedhros bent over the lifeless body of his father and heard a small, echoing voice from deep within Fëanor's chest, as if Mandos himself spoke from afar: "This elf will explode in 5...4…3…2…1…BOOM!" And behold, a great noise overcame the Sons of Fëanor, and they were covered in a black dust. They stood silent as their father spontaneously burst into flame and disappeared entirely!" --from the alternate Quenta Silmarillion, "Of Fëanor, the Exploding Elf"

And now for something completely different...

Cheers,
Lyta

[Nuranar]

I love this song from the movie Henry V, but I think I've had it quite long enough:

Non nobis, Domine, Domine, non nobis, Domine,
Sed nomini, sed nomini tuo da gloriam!

Now for a quote I ran across in my Bible reading two nights ago. smilies/smile.gif

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I really liked this one; it was pretty cool. And quite appropriate for the Downs.

I fled, and cried out Death;
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed
From all her caves, and back resounded Death.

[Beren87]

I lay to rest "Life is like an analogy" for my newest, which is from The Raven, o'course.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Doesn't somebody already have that quote in their sig? smilies/confused.gif

Anyhow, I plan to kill off this sig within the day, or possibly tomorrow: After this, the unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast this catastrophy, dance with me... -Jason Mraz

Swan song,
-Menelien

[ July 30, 2003: Message edited by: GaladrieloftheOlden ]

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Rot in pieces, love.
One cup to the dead already;
Hurrah for the next that dies!

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I get tired of these things fast...
"Do you have anything you'd rather be doing than marching UP and DOWN the SQUARE?!?!?"

Why, Monty Python, of course!

[Galadrie1]

Oh, the horror! I've changed my signature. Here's my beloved year-and-a-half-old sig, which I'm sure I'll be returning to shortly: "For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel." Rest well, my darling.

[Beren87]

Doesn't somebody already have that quote in their sig?

I hope not! I haven't seen it around anywhere.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Yes, somebody does. This took me ages to find, so be very grateful. smilies/wink.gif "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
In Dreams, we will meet again...
~*Eruwen*~
Eruwen's sig. smilies/tongue.gif

Swan song,
-Menelien

[Beren87]

Well then, I guess you could say I lay it to rest.

Great minds think alike, I suppose. smilies/wink.gif

[Yavanna228]

Though I know I'll never lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ I know I'll often stop and think about them/ But in my life I love you more.
Lovely quote, lovelier song...rest in peace. I'll probably resurrect this one soon enough.
Peace

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

Watch where you spit/I'd advise you wait until it's over/Then you got hit/And you shoulda known better/
And we die young/Faster we run/Down, down, down you're rollin'/Watch the blood float in the muddy sewer/
Take another hit/And bury your brother/And we die young/Faster we run/

That signature was from a song called We Die Young, by Alice in Chains. The song was about gang violence.

[Yavanna228]

I knew this one wouldn't last long...
And because I am of the people, I understand the people, I am sorrowful with their sorrow, I am hungry with their desire...
Padraic Pearse
Peace

[Yavanna228]

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. ~W.B. Yeats
Good grief...I just can't seem to keep a good sig anymore. Ah well, it's good in it's own right. Farewell.
Peace

[vanwalossien]

All know that he who would ride a dragon must risk a great burning Wise words from Gwarn the loremaster... RIP
EDIT: Is it just me or does it take some time before the sig changes in your posts when you change it in your profile?

[ August 06, 2003: Message edited by: vanwalossien ]

[Eressië Ailin]

As far as I know, the sig changes in all of your old posts as soon as you make your first post with your new sig, if that makes any sense.

[Kaiserin]

I shall lay this one to rest...
but he knows the way that I take;
when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

[Evisse the Blue]

Here's one recently discarded: The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
I still like it but I felt the need for something more sing song.
Sadly, I cannot remember right now the exact wording of my first signature, so I can give it a proper burial. Sorry. smilies/frown.gif

[Airerûthiel]

RIP my old sig (which I've had since about Christmas, so nearly since I joined the Downs) *sniff*:

'Hope, compassion, and wisdom born of experience are...the mightiest weapons at hand.' - Viggo Mortensen

I would include my previous Pirates of the Caribbean quote but as I only had it for a day or two, I don't think I will.

[Lush]

This quote from "Orange County" had raised a couple of eyebrows:

~Do you want me to get naked and start the revolution?~

I am happy to report that the revolution is well on its way.

[Gorwingel]

Well I am now laying to rest my quote of...
"Someday your prince will come. Mine got lost, took a wrong turn, and is too stubborn to ask for directions."

Even though it perfectly discribes my current dating situation. It is time for it to go, it has been here for way too long. To this quote I say "Good Bye" smilies/cool.gif

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

Alas! I must lay my old signature aside! Farewell, old sig!

"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Christian work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision."
"But nobler is his spirit than the understanding of Sauron, for is he not of the children of Luthien?"


Now for something a little different....

[Rimbaud]

My namesake's devastating analysis of what constitutes poetry, and the echo of many later greats:

Je est un autre

I lay to rest, from restlessness, not dissatisfaction.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

My two latest discarded sigs:

Hold me when I'm scared/And love me when I'm gone... I wanna scream at the toppa my lungs!
Also, a Linin Par (sorry, a few letters aren't woring just now) quote which I can't remember at the moment.

Swan song,
-Menelien

[Yavanna228]

Good old Steven Wright.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
~Steven Wright

The newest one is from an Irish children's song. The translation is 'Seaweed from the yellow cliff/ Irish seaweed.'
Nice bit of randomness there. I just need to find one to stick with...I've not yet found anything that truly fits me to the point of being around for awhile, and I doubt this one will be either. Ah well. I suppose it's doomed.
Peace

[lindil]

on old and original one.

I would have kept it on for far longer I think, but the 3 line rule would have necessitated pruning which I did not think it could weather...

'The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night, and awaken early before dawn- exchanging lore and wisdom such as they possessed , so that they should not fall back into the mean and low estate of those , who never knew or more sadly still, had indeed rebelled against the Light.'

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

I am discarding already my newest sig... I'm so tired of being here/Supressed by all my childish fears[...]These wounds won't seem to heal/This pain is just too real/There's too much that time cannot erase...
-Evanescence, My Immortal.
Lovely song, but I'm going to put in something from Interview With the Vampire instead...

Swan song,
-Menelien

[The Barrow-Wight]

GaladrielOfTheOlden,

This is not an admonishment, just a thought....

In the last six months you are in this thread no less than a dozen times. That's approximately once every two weeks. www.dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com) defines a signature as, among other things, A distinctive mark, characteristic, or sound indicating identity. You are apparently in the middle of an extended identity crisis. Though I and others I am sure, appreciate the materials you choose for your signatures, I think it might by beneficial for you to actually sit back and choose something for your signature that truly represents you as a whole, not just for today. That's not to say that a signature is supposed to represent a person's eternal mission statement, but I think that by turning it a phrase-of-the-week it becomes meaningless in the end.

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Sorry, point taken...

Swan song,
-Menelien

[Elennar Starfire]

I kept this one for quite a while, but I decided it was time for a change so, goodbye to this lovely little quote.

Those who walk in darkness may be looking to the sun, blnded to the path their feet tread.

I may bring it back later, it is one of my favorite quotes, being one I made up myself.

Edit: And goodbye to this as well:

Eenie, meenie, Smeagol, catch him and don't let him fall.
Drop the ring, though he'll yell, and flee the fiery citadel.
Wave kings at Boromir the disco squid!

[ September 18, 2003: Message edited by: Elennar Starfire ]

[Diamond18]

Stop the presses, I've changed my sig. I think this has been my favorite one so far, it's a couple lines from two different songs by MB20. It was very "me", but after a few months I figured no one even reads an old sig anymore. So RIP.

I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell...
...I wish the real world would just stop hassling me. - Matchbox Twenty

The new Jane Austen one is very me too... not that I'm actually successful in my little fantasy, but hey! I can dream.

[ September 19, 2003: Message edited by: Diamond18 ]

[Lush]

Goodbye, Dr. Seuss:

But on you will go though the weather be foul. On you will go though your enemies prowl. On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl.

I imagine a Hakken-Krak to be a rich, white, frat-boy, btw. You know the type.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Down comes the two part quote; up comes Great Big Sea!
A sharp tongue can slit its own throat.
It was only after their numbers dropped from 50 to 8 that the other dwarves began to suspect Hungry.

[Elennar Starfire]

I am now ditching my latest siggy:

Eenie, meenie, Elennar, jump and catch a falling star.
If it burns you, throw it far. Eenie, meenie, Elennar.
PM me if you want to know my theories on PotC! (warning: potential spoilers)


You can still ask about my theories, I just took it out of my siggy. (been getting buried in PMs lately)

[Aethelwine]

Well, it was about time I took another siggie. So it's RIP to this one:


"Its a bird, its a plane, its, hold up, wait, is that... whats Boromir doing up there!?"


And now I'm here, lets lay my very first siggie to rest to:


"Sometimes I think the surest sign of intelligent life out there is that none of it has tried to contact us."
- Calvin & Hobbes


*Lays down some roses* Rest in peace. I'll miss you! *sob*

Navaer! smilies/wink.gif

Aethelwine.

[Faenaduial]

Time to retire one of my favorite quotes for a new quote I came across recently. Goodbye old sig:

My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night; but, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--it gives a lovely light! --Edna St. Vincent Millay

[Amarantha_Daisy]

'Tis sad, but I must get rid of my first siggy...

A toast to Sarumon's manicurist!

I wish it well. *tears* I loved you, almighty humorous sentence! But the time has come for a change. Oh the drama!

[Niluial]

I recently said goodbye to my beloved signature…
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J. R. R. Tolkien
But I felt it was time to say good bye and say hello to one that suits be better smilies/biggrin.gif
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
It makes me giggle and it kind of tells you what person I am smilies/tongue.gif

~Niluial

[Aylwen Dreamsong]

Goodbye to my signature of several months:

For everyone and everything there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.

Time for a shorter, more appropriate sig, I think. smilies/smile.gif

-Aylwen

[Laivine]

As I really liked my previous signature, I felt it deserved to be written down somewhere, even though it didn't last long.
When everything is gone, there is nothing there to fear.

EDIT: You would think I'd learn to type soon...

[ October 06, 2003: Message edited by: Laivine ]

[Galadrie1]

I make my triumphant return to the posting world with a change of signatures. Here's my old one: With all this Pirates of the Caribbean nonsense, I think it's time for a moment from Pirates of Penzance: "Pray observe the magnanimity they display to lace and dimity. Never was such opportunity to get married with impunity!" There, wasn't that fun? I'm returning to my old, beloved Galadriel quote. Huzzah!

[Iarwain]

Sadly, I've forgotten lately that signatures should last more than a few days. Therefore, I won't list all the great quotes I've sorted through in the past few weeks, instead I'll say farewell to the one most pertinent to my life right now:

OUT, DAMNED SPOT!!!

Love that quote, smilies/smile.gif
Iarwain

[Elfwine]

Ah! The Scottish Play! Not one of my favourites, but wonderful all the same. My friend played Lady Mac****, dear Erin. She was wonderful.

Anyway, to business. I changed mine long ago, perhaps before I even had a chance to post more than once.

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts, never to heaven go." -King Claudius, William Shakespeare's Hamlet

My line! And a good one at that!

[vanwalossien]

Forstå det du, eller den som kan/Slik er det for møll, slik er det for mann/Tåpene ler, ignorantene snakker/Og livet gir mer til den som er vakker
I am finally and reluctlantly letting go of Nemi's slightly pessimistic poem about the unhappy moth *sniffs* RIP smilies/frown.gif
The new sig is a lot happier - those you who understand it might even be so Norwegian that you know where the quote comes from smilies/smile.gif

[Finwe]

"He was strong in life. His spirit will find its way to the halls of your fathers."


I've decided to retire my old siggy, and pick up one in the "Eenie, meanie..." series.

(I really liked that scene with Gandalf and Theoden.)

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

"Yeah, it's fine/ we'll walk down the line/ leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine/ you my friend/ I will defend/ and if we change, well I love you anyway."

This is from No Excuses, by Alice in Chains.

[ October 28, 2003: Message edited by: MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie ]

[Airerûthiel]

RIP my PotC quote (with slight changes):

Norrington: 'You are, without doubt, the worst pirate I have ever heard of.'
Jack: 'Yes, but you have heard of me.'

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

I'm going to abandon this one, goodbye Han mathon ne nen
Han mathon ne chae
A han noston ned 'wilith
Oh well, I didn't like it anyway.

[Elfwine]

Another, another. I fear I'm too inpatient to keep one signature for more than one month. Ah well.

I shed a tear for:

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

Tolkien is a brilliant, brilliant man.

[ October 22, 2003: Message edited by: Elfwine ]

[Elennar Starfire]

I got tired of having my siggy sometimes be longer than my post, so I decided to use something much shorter. RIP!

Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog, where no one notices the contrast of white on white.
In between the moon and you, the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.

The first few lines of one of my favorite songs.

[Anything but Arwen]

I laid this one to rest quite a while ago, after BW decided Elronds Guestbook had gone too far.. (anyone remember that? Anyone? Oh well, my ex-siggy speaks for itself...)


Everybody, do the wave for Boromir the Disco King! And Faramir, his squirrel obsessed brother!
Beware the ERDS, The Squirrels, Penn without her pills, Denethor and Meela with fire, Me & Eowyn working together, The Chipmunks if they think youre a pinata, Legolas without shampoo, Elrond without valium, and basically everything in what USED to be the Last Homely House...


Yah, I know. Long siggy...

[Lush]

This quote attributed to Mae West measured up to my standards:

"It's not the men in my life-it's the life in my men"

Too bad I am listening to a lot of rap right now, and appear to have major ADD.

[Morgul Queen]

Ai, Farewell my (somewhat) new sig

The Precious has you....

and while we're here we may as well farewell one of our favourite quotes

Panic, Chaos, and Disorder. My work here is done.

And time to add one of the funniest (and Truest) things I have heard lately

Forget Knights in Shining Armour, I want Elves in Tight Leather

Keep doing the Wave people *waves*

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Niiiiiiiiiii!!!!

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

“’Would you destroy me as easily as you let them be destroyed?’ I demanded. ‘Why should I?’ he asked. ‘My God,’ I whispered. ‘You’re much changed,’ he said. ‘But in a way, you are much the same.’”
From, of course, Interview With the Vampire... Had it for a pretty long time, decided it's time for it to die. And another sig which I had only for a few days before deciding I didn't want it:
"I can hear the voice/But I don't want to listen/Strap me down and tell me/I'll be alright..."
All exchanged for a Queen of the Damned Quote. smilies/smile.gif

-Menelien

[Aethelwine]

I'm temporarily disposing of this siggie:

There can be no triumph without loss, no victory without suffering, no freedom without sacrifice.

I still loving it, and it's so true, so true even for life, so I'll probable be taking it up again soon. Like during the countdown for ROTK.

But right now, my new siggie is much more appropriate, 'cause I feal like the master of doom myself.

Luff ya all!

Aethelwine.

[Beren87]

I'm so sick of that wave..

I changed it this morning, so goodbye former quote.

There are no words for rain.

By me, I pulled it from a blog entry of mine.

[Bêthberry]

A story told through time here.

I went looking for the garden of my mother and lo! I found my own.

Never speak to women/unless you speak of flowers,
illustrate your garden/ and walk with them past fountains
but never let them carry your secrets/ they are lapses.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.

For time has not seen her
Thus all the keener.

Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of all children.

Death ends a life but not a relationship.

The plot currently unfolds with this:

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

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 4:59 PM December 16, 2003: Message edited by: Bêthberry ]

[Lindril Arvilya]

I now lay to rest the following quote.
Cognito eggo sum: I think, therefore I am a waffle.

It served me well, but the Latin trend seems to have passed, and none of the newbies get it. Ah well, onwards and outwards!

[Lush]

Andre Nickatina did the chorus on this song about everybody's favourite white powder:

"Doin my job Connected with the mob Got President Bush, Whitney, and Bob Many others all walks of life have one on ones with meevery night"

But thoughts of rich white boys' addictions have become tiresome, and anyway, all of two people on this forum are familiar with Andre and the subject matter, and I just felt odd using it after a while.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Continuing my tradition of Aragorn "hope" quotes to go with my nick, I lay this one to rest: Alas! I can not foresee it, and how it may come to pass is hidden from me. Yet with your hope I will hope.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

"Oh me, oh my!" I heard me old wife cry. "Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die! Oh me, oh my!" I heard me old wife say, "I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay!"

Rot in pieces!

[Elennar Starfire]

I may be a nut, but I'm not cracked yet!

This is one of my favorite siggies so far. I probably will bring it back once I run out of new siggies. I just get restless, and tired of seeing the same thing every time I post.

My new siggy will probably soon be laid to rest as well, I just have to think of something better.

[Nuranar]

I do not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory; but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame. ~Psalm 44:6-7

I still like that one. smilies/smile.gif

The new one, from Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, has been in my head for a while. Not to mention how well it corresponds with The Ambassador's Son (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=19&t=000119). I'm thinking theme song here...

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

I've forgot most of my four previous sigs. Ever since I shifted to "Random non-LotR Quote," I kept a record of them. Unfortunately, it's not on my person, so I put the latest of my four previous sigs here.

"The Valar be my witness, I would rather have it so, rather a beautiful Queen to thwart me and flout me, than freedom to rule while the Lady Elestirnë falls down dim into her own twilight.

May you have the rest eternal you deserve here...

[ November 20, 2003: Message edited by: Nilpaurion Felagund ]

[Mariska Greenleaf]

Het is een meesterstuk der Engelsen geweest hun zondag dermate heilig en vervelend te maken, dat zij ongemerkt weer naar hun dagelijks werk verlangen.-Nietzsche.


I leave this one behind. I don't know if any of you understand what it says, but maybe that's for the best, with all you brittish people around here smilies/evil.gif

[Aethelwine]

Oh, I now what it says Mariska! I really like it... smilies/evil.gif

Well, I know I said that I would change my siggie back into the There can be no triumph without loss, no victory without suffering, no freedom without sacrifice. quote, but I really started to love my current siggie, so it's gonna stay for some time!

Navaer!

Aethelwine. smilies/wink.gif

[vanwalossien]

Verden er syk - du er medisinen! I love that one, but it doesn't really make sense to keep it any longer, as 'operasjon dagsverk' is over a long time ago... It means "The world is sick - you're the medicine" smilies/smile.gif

[Elennar Starfire]

My late latest quote was short-lived indeed...RIP

No, I'm not crazy, why would you think that?
I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to the voice in my head.

I do like it...it may be back someday.