Hey Anaarkhal!
Nearly similar situation for me as well.
The Hobbit movies got my Tolkien internet interest back up enough to start posting again as well.
I had forgotten about this site until doing a Tolkien discussion board search and found few results other than theonering and I'm not interested in posting there--too many spoilers. Then I saw
Barrow-downs and thought... I remember that site.
Kind of. When I got here a little more came back to memory.
Yeah, 10 years ago there was a
plethora of sites.
I posted to a lot of them too.
Now, just a few remain.
As I recall, this site was one of the better ones even then.
So welcome. Belated (re)intro for myself as well at the same time.