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Thoréandan arrives in Tyrn Gorthad
 

A young peredhiel walks into the room. He is wearing a plain green tunic and breechers, and has a large, flowing, brown bear-skin cloak draped off his shoulders. "Hail, Wights of Tyrn Gorthad" he calls out, "I am Thoréandan, son of Thelandan the Dúnedain and Grimordel the Elf. I am visitng from the distant land of Imladris, commonly known as Rivendell." Thor looks around the room and sees a few faces he vaguely recognises. "Hey Finrod, you're not FinrodFaithful from Imladris are you, by any chance?"

oh wow...back story and all, you are welcome here friend

Thanks Gil-Galad. This is the second Tolkien related forum I have joined now. I only first watched the PJ movies beginning in January 2006, and have since then read the whole LOTR Trilogy books and the Hobbit. I am now reading the Silmarillion. I'm still very much a Newbie in respect to the world of Arda, but I'm learning quickly :)

my favourite is still the Silmarillion

While welcoming all the newly deceased to have a good time in this fine place I totally agree with Gil: Read it... :p

Hi all-- I've been posting off and on for a few months now, but still consider myself a new member. Saw this thread and thought I'd say hello.

I'm a professional writer, living on a mountaintop, surrounded by woods, in New York's Hudson Valley---lots of Tolkien-esque paths and trails throughout our woods, and leading up to the somewhat famous Gunks and Ice Caves Mountain.

I've been reading Tolkien for about 10 years now, and have read UT and most of the HoME...

Anyone interested in my own work in film/television, and literary writing is welcome to visit www.myspace.com/sardy

--Scott

Hey Sardy, I never thought I'd meet a really famous person in just my second day of being dead!! That's so cool. Had a look at your site. I'm pretty sure we get The Real Deal here in New Zealand. I must confess, I don't watch a lot of television though. In RL I work 12 hour shifts, 6pm to 6am the next morning, so I don't really have time to watch television. I suppose I could videotape something, but I'm just too lazy to :)

Gil - Your selection of smilies here is a little limited to my liking. Can you tell me what your policy is on hotlinking, and in particular to sites that allow and encourage being hotlinked from (I wouldn't do it without proper permission from the source site). http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/happy0007.gif

Well, Real Deal isn't in production yet, the pilot script was just awarded 1st Place for Best Original Pilot in Scriptapalooza TV 2006, so I highly doubt it's on the air in New Zealand... :) But you may be able to catch my show "Dead Tenants" which is currently airing internationally on TLC/Discovery Networks...

Sardy - Oh, I must have gotten the name wrong :) As I say, I don't watch much TV anyway. Too busy wandering around chat rooms talking to strangers about the Lord of the Rings I guess.
Gil - Was it just me, or was the Barrow Downs server down today? It kept coming up with a DNS error every time I tried to log on, yet I could navigate to other sites on the Internet quite fine.

Reporting abuse and spammers
 

Gil - Sorry for double-posting (I don't know if that is considered rude here or not). I was just wondering how one would go about reporting abuse or spammers here? I've noticed some recent posts by a particular member here who is using what I would consider inappropriate language in an abusive tone. I know that on the other LOTR forum that I post on, this type of behaviour would be shut down immediately, and most likely the member would have his/her account suspended forthwith.

I haven't posted anywhere outside of this thread yet as I'm still trying to learn how to navigate your menu system. :rolleyes:

Don't worry Thor the admins will see his posts and get rid of them as well as get rid of him. It's a shame that someone has to be like that in a wonderful place such as this :(

Orcleaderalpha will be banned and his posts deleted as soon as an administrator stops by.

You can always report a bad post by clicking on the little triangle at the bottom left of the message, right next to the reputation button and the green "online" icon.

Admins catch everything usually, but yes the trianlge alerts them as well and yes i beleive the Barrowdowns were down yesterday as for i could not ascess the site as well.


and with exploreing the site, choose which you feel like reading, if your interested in discussing Books, check out the Books Portion, if you want to read and anwser basic questions, check the newcomers portion, if you like to play a game check the quiz room and quotable quotes. if you enjoy the fun stuff of Tolkien, check out the Mirth forum. the rest is basically RPG forum and the Admin Thread.

hey everyone
I am back!
Welcome newbies, to the wonderful wacky world of the 'downs !
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FORD MODEL C

Introducion!
 

:D Well, Hello! I somehow came across the downs whilst looking for a good place to talk about Tolkien and such things, and this seemed like the best place out there, so I promptly stole the name of a character I found interesting and registered! I've seen the movies, read the books, and also the Silmarillion. Somehow the interest died down, and my love for Tolkien's works lay dormant like a balrog under Cahadras. More recently, (to stretch my metaphor) some dwarves came and delved for mithril, so I scanned the internet...and thus came here. I look forward to taking part in the discussions here, and learning new knowledge of Arda. :)

Welcome Damrod! Glad to see you made your way to the Downs. Feel free to come down to the Shire which is the beginning RPG forum and take a look at the discussion thread for the Golden Perch Inn. If you'd like to participate or have any questions, feel free to drop a pm to me or to Piosenniel.

Hope your stay here is long and moldy as befits a new member of the barrow.

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A tip of the hat to Elonve as well.

welcome Damrod

i'm probably one of the only downers that collects the LOTR Minatures, but heres the Minature version of Damrod:


Damrod And Faramir


you have your own minature! i'm so jealous! well...not really... i have one too...


Me and my buddy Elrond

I do too, Gil, I do too. :)

well, that makes three of us. :cool: Um, it appears all my profile info talking about such things disappeared overnight...what's that about?

I don't *collect* the figures, but I do have a really nice Gandalf the Grey on my Tolkien bookshelf (he bellows "You... Shall Not... PASS!!!" at the press of a hidden button. Oh, and we have an 18 inch Treebeard on our mantle...

I do, however, collect all of the esoteric Middle-earth boardgames and rpgs...

hey, obviously im new, and i'd appreciate it if u guys could tell me a little about this place.

im a real big Lotr fan, my fav. character is Legolas :D (isn't he every girl's ;) )

Welcome to the Downs Laleena.

I hope your will find a nice resting place among us wights. . .

The Barrow-Downs Forum has a bit of everything, although the activity is a bit low at the moment. There is the Book section for the seriouse and in dept discutions, right now a chapter by chapter Silmarillion discution is going on.

If you have some minor questions about the books I would recomend the Novices and Newcomers area.

If you are looking for fun and sillyness we have Mirth wich has all kinds of stuff going on, amongst other things there are the famouse werewolf games. In fact there is a game starting soon that still need a few players. There is also a Quiz Room that could need an extra dead soul and of course the RPG section.

If you have questions don't hesitate to ask in a thread or by PM's, the dead in these Barrows are suprisingly friendly.

Thanks for the replies and advice everybody. I must say I was quite shocked by that. Each to their own I guess. I believe Tolkien was a scholar and a gentleman, who spent many long hours in his study drinking with friends and having interesting discussions. I'm sure that had he been alive today we would see him here on the Internet doing the same thing. What a shame that some hooligans don't take a lesson from him ;)

In relation to collecting miniatures, I went to the Armageddon Pulp Culture Expo today here in New Zealand. It is a Sci-Fi & Fantasy convention. I bought a bust ornament of Lord Elrond. It was made by Weta Workshops, so the detail is absolutely amazing. They were the ones who did a lot of the animatronics on the PJ movies. I also bought 4 books to add to my collection about Middle Earth, including a very interesting book called "The Science of Middle Earth", by Henry Gee.

thank you for being so kind, im sure i'll find something to my interest here ;)

Vendui
 

Hey all I am Tom Bombadillo and I like the place. Cya around

That's okay. Welcome to the downs and enjoy your stay here.

Welcome Damrod, Laleena and Tom Bombadillo! Enjoy your deaths. :D

what the penguin said

That's going to confuse them Gil, Lommy isn't a penguin at the moment!

Welcome all newbies, although ...

No! He most certainly isn't! :D

That sounds quite weird... Like I was a penguin skinchanger.... :D (Though the newcomers might get the clue from the PT...)

All of my friends agree with you *sigh* Guess I stand alone :D

before the movies i thought Legolas was rather "rad" but now... its been turned into a Chick icon

still, he's good with a bow and has blond hair, what else could a girl want? ;)

Oh yea, one of my friends have turned to the light and admitted that Legolas is the best :D

My duty is fofilled, 1 more person on my side :D

Hi everyone, im new and just now my friend Laleena told me to sign up cuz she needed an answer to some ques.

I see she's been going on about her one true love :D

People, you must forgive her, she is very weary. My fav. Charecter is Frodo, (Leena made a bet with me and I lost so I had to sign up under this name)


K, I bet you're tired of me babbling, so I'll stop and get off. ;)

legolas can get any girl by saying these lines : "my love for you is like my quiver of arrows. never ending."


oh and howdy legolasfan1

he could, but though I love him, he wouldn't get me so easily :D

*snort* :rolleyes:

Why do I have the feeling that he wouldn't have to blink and you'd be all over him? :D
I have no doubt that he wouldn't have a problem getting you.

By the way, Thanks for the welcome :D

Welcome!!!