First ever posts!
 

I would be really interested if any of the older or relatively new members could show us their First Ever posts! If you can find it, post it here...
Mine, coincidentally, was :

. . .And no I am not joking. This was me, inexperienced in the internet and possibly life, first time on a Tolkien forum.

Wouldn't it be cool if for example Saucepan Man, who has the greatest number of posts on the 'Downs, would show us the FIRST EVA. ( :rolleyes: )

I'm sure they'll be hard to find, seeing as the "find more posts" option only goes back 500...

Awwww, what a cutie thread! :D
 

Here's mine. I actually started a new thread with that name. This is the first post:
It's quite amusing with using ´ instead of ' and various mistakes I wouldn't make today and me having no knowledge how the forum works... :) *remembers fondly the newbie times*

Wow! What an interesting idea!
 

Personally I'm very curious on how some of you started here (though, I could probably find out myself, but this way it's much better).

Six: Now, Six! Judging from this post, it should've been you playing the young fanboy/Tolkien geek in the last WW...
Lommy: Wow, what an... (seeks a good word) unexpected start from you... (at least from my point - I wonder now, this is for the second time I see you speaking of MERP in the last day - and never seen you speaking about that before - I never knew you had anything to do with it..?)

Well, to my first post - many of you will probably still remember it, but I'll post it here... (I pondered for a moment if I should post it or just link, since it's quite long, but then I said to myself that if I sent just a link, it might cause it to be skipped by potentional reader, so here it is.) Like Lommy, I started a thread in the Books with it (and in contrary to Lommy's, the matter was not completely solved yet!):

Legate - well, I must say that my reason to join this place was to get to ask that question :eek: (and possibly get to ask some other questions in future). Oh, and I've played MERP for ages (since I was nine or ten I guess - blame Noggie)... :)

Well, the variables on the Advanced Search function (searching by forum, date etc) do allow some leeway, but I still can't see my first posts on, for example, Books, Movies or Mirth because there are so many, even searching only those a year back or earlier.

However, as far as I can I recall, this was my first post ever. on WHo in the fellowship would have tried to take the ring next?.

I followed this up shortly with my first thread - Gwaihir to the rescue .. again?. A shamefully common question for a newbie, and to my even greater embarrassment, I was quickly directed (by Sharkû) to the Search function, as there were already umpteen threads on the point. :rolleyes:

And, here is my first post on the Introduction thread.

Wow! Was that really 4½ years ago ...? :eek:

Oh, sweet nostalgia
 

A very good idea to add those introduction posts.

Here's mine.
Awwww, that's so funny and cute... :D *remembers 14-year old self*
Wait... That was only three years ago? :eek:

Great thread idea, Sixth!

Oh, OK, my first ever post then. :rolleyes:
Rune was the first to greet me, and there then followed some discussion about what MP was (Monty Python, in this case). The actors were Brad Dourif and Andy Serkis, btw, the latter of whom I met in March.

My goodness, a lot has changed in nine months...my major, for starters...

Now I'm curious...off to find somebody else's first post ever...:D

...and I found it. Thank you for the chocolate, my dear.

;)

(I'll let him post it if he wishes. It's actually a great post...)

Got it. Happy memories...Bethberry's thread on The Trickster's Consort

And my post... Here

Memory lane indeed! I think my first ever post was this one: my personal fellowship of movie goers on a thread called 'Anyone else have a sister as stupid as this?'. I must confess, it's a thread over which my moderator's hand of doom has hovered a number of times, but I save it "for historical interest"! :Merisu:

BTW, finding that thread was a real archaeological feat - I did resort to Saucy's trick with the individual forum searches. It's easier to locate the threads I've started; not even I have managed to create over 500 new ones, and the first one I started is rather appropriately entitled 'the first time'.

Wow...
 

...and again, wow. I don't think this is my first post ever, but it's from my first day as a 'Downer.

I don't even know what I'm talking about.

Also, here is my first introductory-type post.

Nice idea, The Sixth Wizard, as now that you mention it, I too am interested in some of the heavy-hitters' first posts. Were they always thus, or did they too grow in their manner of posting?

My first post, read here, was nothing groundbreaking. In retrospect, and to rewrite history a little, alatar's first post was that newbie's attempt to sneak in where he'd never ventured before, namely an internet forum. It would take a few posts for him to unleash his real venom - and show his real reason for joining - which was to carp about Peter Jackson's mishandling of Gandalf in RotK:EE. Luckily for all, said carpiness and sniveling was an attitude reserved only for that one scene from that one movie, and so never appeared in any of the milk and honey posts about all other topics.

Odd, looking back at the first few posts...clearly that's not me. Did I actually write like that, and think that way? Must have been the other me... And I do remember, or at least think that I remember, or saw a really good TV show with the same information that I've subconsciously included into my life in lieu of more mundane events, that I was a bit disconcerted that no one "answered" my first few. I felt like I was invisible and talking to myself, which is at least one thing that's consistent over these years as, while I type, I'm having this conversation in my head. ;)

But then I got answered, and I was like, "Oh my gosh!" I went from invisible to scorned. Ouch. Luckily, with advice (received and inferred) I learned to love this Big Barrow.

I could describe what it felt like when I took my first hit of rep, and when I first got repdrunk, but think that that's a thread asking to be closed.

If you are laughing at my apparent noobiness ( :D ) remember I was only thirteen when that was posted, I had not read LOTR for a year and didn't know anything about the Silmarillion. AND it was my first time on an internet forum. I then proceeded to get the Sil and take a bit of time off to get out of the whole Runescape-talk rut.

But STILL... Jeez... :o

I can't even remember where I first posted. It was somewhere in the Quiz forum I believe. I didn't actually find the Introduce Yourself thread until nearly two months after I joined and when I did post on there it was just to welcome a friend!

I strongly suspect that my first post probably consisted of me asking for a letter in Palantir of Fortune ... not the most attention-getting of starts! :D

My first post was on Anguirel's Il Principe-thread (here 's my post). The first to greet me was also the first to rep me, which was very nice of that person. :)
I think the thread would also deserve a little revival. *hints*

I introduced myself some days later here (just a few posts before Sixth's introduction).

My first thread was at the same time also my first encounter with the whips of the knowledgable members. :rolleyes:

I take it the thread was deleted?

Nope, Mac mistyped it - he wrote twice http there in the link. The thread is here. Quite interesting, I might add.

My hero! :D

I see it now! Thank you Legate.

My goodness, I've never seen that side of Anguirel before...:eek: The discussion of the "historical accuracy" of the Silm and whether to dismiss a passage from it more or less readily than "bleak factual marginalia" was quite interesting; ah, yeah, there's probably already a thread where it's been all hashed to death years ago, though. :(

Macalaure, you shouldn't act so sheepish, dear. Sheepish deer? :D It looks like you won the argument, after all, at least by default...a year and no one's responded to your last point!

Hmmm... Ang, are you implying that was your first post ever here? Have you forgotten about this one in the Lalwende & davem wish to announce their engagement -thread? ;)

Alrighty, my first post was on the All About You thread. I wrote it June 9, 2002, three days after I joined:

Oh boy, how have I changed since then... Btw, for anyone who doesn't know, Ithaeliel was the one who recommended me to the BD, which is why I mentioned her.

My first post was followed by this:
Apparently, the newbie me did not yet know how to edit posts. :rolleyes:

I also made two more posts that day elsewhere:

What's A Vanyar?
Left-handed

Pretty simple and boring. If I made more posts that first day, I can't find them.

I never made an actual introductory post, and it appears that is because the introductory thread didn't even come into existence until six months after I joined. :eek:

I feel so old (BD-wise, that is). I guess that's what happens when you've been decaying for almost five years...

I have no hopes of finding my first ever post, but I do have my first ever thread (which was one of my first posts). It was anything but what I had hoped. After writing up some ideas on Gothmog (a character who ever since the movies I have been obsessed with :rolleyes: ), SpM and SoN both point me to the search engine. And Squatter calls the thread redundant (which was true :p)and points me to the FAQ. Needless to say I was scarred for life and didn't create another thread for a very long time.

Good catch Lommy, I was indeed mistaken...

*cough*

Umm...yeah.

That's at least one of my first. I do not remember posting that, or really posting much of anything more than a couple years old, as a matter of fact. Poor long term memory, possibly by choice.

If you want a really good laugh, or have some bizarre desire to make yourself feel ill, read my first RP post.

It's been a long 4 years and 7 months, about...

Mine first RP post in an actual game... here. Cliché'd in the extremities! "Ah, an Inn ahead." Oh man.

I'm a bit embarassed by my early posts. But here is the first post and first thread every started by mormegil...dang I still wish I would have capitalized my name back then.

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=11862

Whatever you do, at some point you'll feel embarrassed.
 

First eva

Introduction

First thread

First RPG post

First Books post

:D

Pretty embarrassing, huh? I'm only relieved by the thought that I'll probably make lots of even more embarrassing things in the future.

I still think my first thread is a good idea though. :rolleyes:

And the RPG post is edited by the way, originally it looked much worse.

Oh yes...first RPGs. I'm rather embarrassed about it as my first RPG character was quite ridiculous; she had magic powers and everything (heh). :o

But just remember I was only 14 at the time, and if I recall correctly the Freestyle forum that existed way back then had very little rules, so my first RPG turned out to be...mmm...interesting. I still had fun with it, but it's not exactly what you'd call Tolkien... :rolleyes:

Here we go:

First RPG Character

First RPG Post

Rather short, don't you think? Especially considering that more recently I've written posts up to four pages long on Word...

Would anyone else wish to shed their 3,000+ post skin and get back to basics? :Merisu:

Oh my... this is nostalgiac.

I don't know if it was my first post, but it was my first thread. I was fifteen, unless my basic math skills took a turn for the worse.

My intro post. You were all so nice to me...
It's hard to find these posts, it's been so long.

I remember that post! In fact it was on the discussion thread to that RPG that I posted my first (and possibly most cringeworthy) words here at the Downs. Cringe-ho!

I loved that Freestyle RPG Section, we could write completly bonkers stuff!

*Shows back up after being away for far too long...*

A long, long time ago (2001?!), I made this quite unimpressive, though not horribly embarrassing first post:

It was in some thread about Merry and Pippin being good or bad.

In fact, I am not sure I ever formally introduced myself to the Downs.

Now I kind of wish I had made some kind of horribly embarrassing, typical 14-year-old girl sort of statement, so that I could laugh about it now. :P

long, long ago in a galaxy far away...
 

Here's my first,

Hello and where's Mount Gram?

I guess unduly precocious as I started on a new post and new thread at the same time. I only got 3 replies though. Is this a record and if so do I win a prize?

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthr...2034#post52034

A'right then. I had quite an odd and slow start. I think I'm going to back and find some more interesting first posts I may have had.

Oh dear. I looked like a strange little newbie when I joined the forum, but there is actually a story to my first post: [x]

I've been a member of the barrowdowns chat room (hosted by an IRC/Java server called sorcery, for those who don't know) since the summer of 2001 and in some brief moment of high-speed insanity a number of the chat go-ers started rattling off the first few lines of the (albeit huge) post.

Being gullible, I offered to write the entire thing down in the same fashion (I mean, it didn't take any time hardly to read! It had to be short, right? :rolleyes: )

Here is my first post ever. . . not really that embaracing http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpos...postcount=1748

My second post on the other hand is a bit desturbing. . . .I don't know if I am trying to show of or what is happening.

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpos...postcount=1750


Anyways if it had not been for Gil's quick reply I would probably not be here today as this was the first forum I ever joined and I had no idea how they worked. (and the only one I have stayed with for over a year.)

I had forgotten the Boro, Encai and Glirdan welcomed me as well. . . .people was alot better at greeting new members back then.

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?p=21440

Wow, look at that decrepit thing! :D

(beaten by Estelyn by mere days...humph ;))