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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
Funny, but no one has yet mentioned the Werewolf games, a stupendous source of post counts and friendships here on the Downs. I would have thought that Tol in Gaurhoth would have been first on everyone's list.
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Funny you should mention that...
Yeah, Lommy first convinced me to join this forum because of the werewolf game - girl was she excited! Now I think I lead the played games tally... or am at least a honoured second.
But I have loved Tolkien and his works from something like from the early years of the 70's or something when my dad first read the LotR as a bedtimestory to me... (well, he never got to finish but I read it myself from that on)
But this site has been a lot more than just werewolfing (even if there has been a lot of that to me).
I'd like to make three... well four points why I love this community.
1. The discussions are intelligent indeed most of the time. Even if I'm no net-forum know-it-all I've seen only worse sites. Many times it seems that the only options are being "fan-girls" or then walking "Encyclopedias" just reciting the prof's words like holy Scripture, but it's different on the 'Downs. And I also really love the sometimes wry, sometimes absurd humour people have around here.
2. Also the warm athmosphere and the respect of others has caught my eye in here. Indeed I've had quite a learning curve as this is the first forum I have really attached myself into - and being a bit older than many others around here it has taken some fumbles for me to learn the power of this one. So I'm kind of feeling a gratitude to this site (more specifically to the people around here) as well. You've thought me a lesson or two how to be in a forum. Sad that doesn't seem to happen in most other fora.
3. Even if it stalls at times and then bursts again I think that the 'Downs RPGing has been just super!
It's great to get oneself into an RPG where people are not just calling when's the next fight but they actualy write about the characters and their relations. I don't think 'Downs RPG's are great literature as such but they are so much fun to write and read and many writers here have lots of talent as writers, and the feeling of a writing-community is quite overwhelming at times.
4. I have already gotten myself a few RL friends because of this site... and I do consider - unlike many other adults I know in RL - also those I feel good and well with if I had only discussed with them via this forum (or the LJ because of this site) as my friends as well. And that means quite a many people. So this site has extremely enriched my life - even if it's mostly virtual (not counting Brinn, Legate, Rune, & Spawn whom I have also met, some of them for a considerable period) that is.
But then again, what is mind if not a virtual thing?
