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Old 03-09-2003, 04:34 PM   #1
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These are great! How about this one: If you have a special "computer copy" of LotR (and other Tolkien books) that has the beginning of each chapter marked, and certain "frequently-used" passages highlighted.
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Old 03-09-2003, 04:51 PM   #2
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I have a feeling if I put Dragoneyes on my clothing, there's bound to be someone who points out to me that my eyes aren't actaully like that of a dragon's.

I have to admit, I have had a dream about the BD, all I can remember now is the green writing and black screen though.
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Old 03-09-2003, 04:54 PM   #3
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I will admit, I have had a dream about the people on the BD before. I just have no recollection of what happened. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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Old 03-09-2003, 04:56 PM   #4
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I think the major sign that you are addicted is that you sit in front of your PC screen with no other web boxes open and just press REFRESH every 2 minutes to see if anything has changed and every so often check if you have any messages. I admit to doing this quite often and have to physically force myself to go to bed when I realise that no-one is going to add to an RPG because they are in a totally different time frame in the states. D'oh!
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Old 03-09-2003, 05:13 PM   #5
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I didn't count how many there were in total, but I got 51. Being that I don't have a spouse or kids and I'm not Christian, some of them didn't apply to me. Here are a few more:
* You find yourself saying, "That reminds me of when Aragorn_Isildur on the Chat said..." or "You know (fill in Barrow-Downs member)? Well, I saw his pic, and he's really hot..." more than you find yourself making real-world conversation.

* You have actually convinced at least one of your friends that was previously not a huge Tolkien fan to come to the Chat or Forum.

* You begin accidentally answering your friends in what Elvish you know.

* You begin taking notes in the language you came up for your fanfic about some races of Maia not discussed by Tolkien (you make up the races, of course, but you have a way to fit them in).

* You have two languages that you've made up that you do that in.

* You begin carrying your Lord of the Rings characters to fantasies about living other stories.

* You argue that "The Silmarillion" is a history of sorts when you begin trying to explain the entirety of the book in history class.

* You start yelling at anything fantasy-related that you read or see that has anything remotely connected to Lord of the Rings (Harry Potter has a character named Wormtail...coincidence? I think not! Couldn't come up with an original idea, could she? Nooooo...had to steal...).

* Before you speak to your friends, they now say, "We know, we know: In Lord of the Rings..."

* You have spent an entire 55 minutes giving an ad-libbed speech to your friend about how the fact that he hasn't read Lord of the Rings nor seen any of the movies will seriously affect his life.

* Whenever you Improv in Theatre Club, you think of a character from Lord of the Rings and take it from there, creating a modern version of the character.

* You begin to laugh hysterically in the middle of class just remembering some of the threads on the Middle-Earth Mayhem board and some of Lush's threads.

* You compare anything to a thread in here, even if the thread was not really Tolkien-related (The "How Many Barrow-Downers Does It Take to Screw In A Lightbulb?" thread gets brought up a lot, as my friend has a similar thing in her locker that a group of her friends wrote about their camp).

* You've converted at least 9 people (two of which are your mother and father) to Tolkien fans.

* Not only that: you have your mom now bringing up obscure Tolkien references when she hasn't even read anything other than Lord of the Rings because you talk about the other books so much.

* Your dad mentions when you haven't talked about Lord of the Rings for more than 20 minutes.

* You rant about how they ruined Arwen anytime anyone even says the name "Arwen" now.

* You spend time writing ways you know you're addicted to the Barrow-Downs and/or actually fall into all these categories.

* Your aspiration in life is to be as Elf-like as possible, as people always tell you that you would make a perfect Galadriel.

* You see any movie with anyone from the Cast of Lord of the Rings, just to see their acting style in other movies.

* You name anything you have to name with names in Sindarin, Quenya or Westron.

* Friends actually approach you for name recommendations, asking you to translate.

* People seem to assume that, because you are so into Elves, you will actually meet one of the actors that played one of the Elves one day and will really marry them (some of my friends are planning my wedding with Orlando Bloom, others with Craig Parker, and actually some with Sean Bean...although: judging that they are all at least 10 years older than I am...)

* Your teachers all know how much you are addicted to Tolkien and fear you for it.

* You think that they should have Tolkien Language Studies at your school, even though they are, after all, made-up languages.

* You run out of ideas, but keep mentioning anything that you've ever done or keeps happening to you that is related to Tolkien, in the hopes that, if you keep typing, you'll think of something really good...*sigh* oh well, no such luck...
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Old 03-09-2003, 05:30 PM   #6
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You have been here for at least 6 mounths
hey thats cheating!. what about if you've been here for six/seven weeks and posted 268 times?

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You rant about how they ruined Arwen anytime anyone even says the name "Arwen" now.
never mind arwen, what about faramir?

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Old 03-09-2003, 07:04 PM   #7
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When writing essays for English, you accidently place smilies in your paragraphs. [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]
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Old 03-09-2003, 07:22 PM   #8
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Oh! That's funny, and true! I'm a bit addicted to several forums, and have a difficult time when writing notes and letters. Must have my smilies to communicate! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Sometimes, I'll get frustrated and try to draw my own, but they look pretty stupid! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

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Old 03-09-2003, 07:53 PM   #9
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You begin to laugh hysterically in the middle of class just remembering some of the threads on the Middle-Earth Mayhem board and some of Lush's threads.
I'll be taking that one as a compliment. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

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some of my friends are planning my wedding with Orlando Bloom, others with Craig Parker, and actually some with Sean Bean...although: judging that they are all at least 10 years older than I am...)
So? I am currently besotted with a man who is thirty-five years older than I am, not to mention five years older than my father (for more information, explore my sig), and I don't find anything wrong with that. His intellect + my youth and good looks = a good time. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

So if you want Orlando, go for Orlando. Just, uh, don't blame me when you are labeled "obsessed", just like moi.
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Old 03-01-2006, 05:00 PM   #10
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Okay, I got some!

You are here for more than four hours...

Your mom or husband or whoever you have always assummes where you are on the internet.

They have gone accustomed to you talking about certain people on here...

If you go somewhere else, ( huh, me??? ) then you hear the explitave," The world is coming to an end!!!." and very oh-so- tentavily correct them that "Arda is coming to an end."

People who see what your Christmas tree looks like politely offer to buy you another one.

The only friends you now have know about this site.


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Old 03-02-2006, 03:02 PM   #11
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Okay, I got some!

You are here for more than four hours...

Your mom or husband or whoever you have always assummes where you are on the internet.

They have gone accustomed to you talking about certain people on here...

If you go somewhere else, ( huh, me??? ) then you hear the explitave," The world is coming to an end!!!." and very oh-so- tentavily correct them that "Arda is coming to an end."

People who see what your Christmas tree looks like politely offer to buy you another one.

The only friends you now have know about this site.


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This is your first post on the 'Downs...

You're hooked already?

I'm impressed. It took me eight months of membership to achieve that level of 'Downs 'Ddiction.
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Old 03-02-2006, 08:56 PM   #12
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This is your first post on the 'Downs...

You're hooked already?

I'm impressed. It took me eight months of membership to achieve that level of 'Downs 'Ddiction.
Which, I'm sure, coincided with your first Werewolf game.

Did it not?
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Old 03-03-2006, 01:48 AM   #13
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Which, I'm sure, coincided with your first Werewolf game.

Did it not?
It helped.

Actually, to be perfectly honest, it wasn't the first Werewolf game I played that got me addicted, but the second one... which was actually my worst showing thus far!
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Old 10-19-2010, 03:50 PM   #14
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My 5 signs of being a Tolkienutter (nuts about Tolkien)

1. When something comes up, the first think that comes to mind is an episode from one of Tolkie's works
2. I've read LotR so many times that can tell you from 1 sentence who, when, to who, why, etc, said the line
3. My parents had to confiscate the books a few times because I've reading them too much
4. In every library that I come to the first thing that I check is which Tolkien books they have
5. I feel contempt for people that say that LotR is useless but never read it and don't know who Tolkien is
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Psst... this thread is for Barrow-Downs addictions, this one is for signs of LotR obsession.
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Old 10-21-2010, 03:26 PM   #16
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14 or so: You've tried numerous time to explain Ewan MacGregor's eyeliner to various people, and they Just Don't Get It. And they don't even beGIN to understand the Balrog's eyeliner.
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- When you consider hiding your screenname so other BD'ers won't see how much time you spend here...
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Some just too true for me right now:

Even though you´re REALLY sick and can basically think, you drag yourself in front of your computer and say to yourself: "I am not dizzy. I will not through up. I will write an RPG post!"

As all your friends have seem to have overlooked your absence in school, you hope you´ll get the appreciation and pity you need here instead
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Old 03-10-2003, 12:00 PM   #21
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Ah this is too funny!

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Your colleagues visit you at lunchbreak, see the green-and-black screen, and ask, "How's Bilbo?"
I Almost laughed out loud when I saw that! I don't get "How's Bilbo?" but rather "Find anything good?"

But I don't have a problem...I can quit any time. I can go for a day without wondering if I'm missing anything.... Just because 99 percent of lunch is a picnic on the Downs and the other 1 percent is on Amazon seeing if I can get a hard back copy of HoME Vol. 2. (And I resent actually having to eat!) And just because my family feel I'm a wee bit preoccupied....

As long as I don't get into RPG I should be OK, right? Or is that no RPG before noon?
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As all your friends have seem to have overlooked your absence in school, you hope you´ll get the appreciation and pity you need here instead
get well soon! aah! you look terrible ( [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )
was that the sort of thing you wanted?
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Here are some of mine. Another good thread, Lush. I shouldn't stay away as long as I have. Bad Elf Queen!

Top 10 signs you're addicted to anything LOTR, including BD!
10. You take your LOTR action figures to work.
9. You frequently check the BD site at work, especially to read anything Samwise has posted. I've missed you, Samwise!
8. Your hubby whines that he can't use the computer because you're writing yet another chapter of your fan fiction.
7. You keep putting your One Ring on in hopes that it will make you invisible.
6. Clapping loudly when the vicar of your church refers to the new informational class as the E.L.F. class (ELF stands for Episcopal Life & Faith).
5. You refer to anything as "my precious", and frequently use the word "nasssty".
4. Checking BD frequently to see what those silly hobbits are up to.
3. Carefully looking at a tree before leaning up against it for fear that you'll wake an Ent.
2. Hiding the CC bill from your hubby so that he won't see how much more LOTR stuff you bought from Amazon.com
And my number one sign that I am addicted to LOTR:
I recite The Lord's Prayer in Quenya at church.

Yes, I am an addict! :-D
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As long as I don't get into RPG I should be OK, right?
(Ghastly Hobbits beckon with skeletal fingers):
"Come, Hilde. Come to the RPG Rooooooms! Why, they hardly take any of your time at allllll. Just a few minutes a day. You know you want tooooooooo..."

"Oh, and don't forget to bring your sword, a recently discovered map, some kind of mysterious Elven artifact, a horse that speaks 7 languages, and...what else?...oh, yes, an extra handkerchief and a change of socks."
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Well, I can add one up, methinks

"your office PC monitor is luckily turned away from everybody else in the room, so you can type whatever you're typing now on the BD instead of calculating the increase in number of credit cards sold over the last year (whatever else there it may be) you're supposed to be calculating right away"
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You read this thread! lol [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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Ack Birdland "DON'T TEMPT ME!" (I feel myself slipping .... Maybe if I just linger on that forum alittle...see what it's like.)

You know you're addicted when:
  • [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] it's 7AM and you've been to check the Downs twice. Once at home and once at work.

    [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] when you are trying to cut and paste a door's center panel into another drawing at work and someone's avatar shows up instead!

    [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Everytime a CADManager guild e-mail gets sent to you with the heading "employee internet access" you start getting a real sense of panic.
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Feh. All this time I've been blaming C7A, and Birdie, it was you and those hobbit-wraiths all along. Shifty, shifty.
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Oops! Scary how many of these are only too familiar. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

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When you consider hiding your screenname so other BD'ers won't see how much time you spend here...
[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I'm glad it's not just me!

Here's another one from recent experience:

When, having finally logged-off and gone to bed at some unearthly hour in the morning, you lie in bed trying to work out the answer to LePetitChoux's excellent cryptic clue in the Words in Words thread ... and then when inspiration strikes, you get out of bed, log on and post what you hope is the answer ...

Oh dear! [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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Yeah, same Saucepan man. Im wincing at how scarily familiar some of these, one in particular is seeming....one which no way am I going to mention, for risk of eternal humiliation...

But I can say, that going on the downs is not the very first thing I do.


Its the very last.
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These are way too familiar for my liking...I do occasionally just sit and refresh the page, waiting for someone to come along and post on a thread...obsessed? Maybe. And I am developing a really bad habit of coming online for 15 minutes before school in the morning. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Maybe we all need therapy.

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Old 03-11-2003, 09:13 PM   #32
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How many of you minors here have your parents ground you... by taking away your privileges of going HERE? Just a thought, since that is my present situation.
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Old 03-11-2003, 11:06 PM   #33
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Don't keep us from knowing if you are currently on line! Because I always like knowing who's on when. Besides I am not going to be bashful about being on this website a lot. My name is Gorwingel and I am addicted to the Barrow-Downs. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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Old 03-12-2003, 11:37 AM   #34
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Yes, I have been banned from the downs for a week. I thought I would die...

Nah, jk. I dont go on before school though. Too early, bleh...
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Old 03-12-2003, 12:20 PM   #35
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Ha ha!!! I go on before school, and between classes, and after school. I'm home-schooled!!! Today is my third day of home-schooling and...this...is...the...life. [img]smilies/redface.gif[/img] I'm sorry that some of you guys are banned from the downs. That must be real hell. My girlfriend is banned too, and people I think are starting to think that she's dead in the RPG. She hasn't posted there for like, two weeks. Oh well. Aralaithiel, so true...so true. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

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Old 03-12-2003, 12:40 PM   #36
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I can identify with way too many of these!

I had a Barrow Downs moment this morning. Watching the weather forecast, the BBC puts in some random towns on the map, which change every day. Well today, they were Oxford and Barrow in Furness. My mind jumped straight away to you-know-what!
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Old 03-12-2003, 12:44 PM   #37
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I have almost the same case as all of you who are banned...

Whenever my mom [or dad] entered the room, they would always see something green on the screen w/ a black background. And they would always see me reply to something, and they were worried I got into a cult or something because of the colors [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] . I don't blame them-I do spend alot of time here, and I'm always cooped up in my room doing homework or on the internet on the Barrow-Downs. But then I explained everything-and I didn't need to show all the FAQs about the forum. :breathes: They ALMOST had to ban me because I had spent so much time here.

Yet, another thing restrains me from writing lengthy replies to great topics: SCHOOL. Yep, that's right school. The 3rd quarter of 8th grade is almost done [and it's the hardest of all 4 quarters of school]. Well, I'd best get back to studying Romeo and Juliet...
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Old 03-12-2003, 01:17 PM   #38
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Lush, quite how bad must his puns have been?

*incredulity etc*
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Old 03-12-2003, 04:48 PM   #39
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I do occasionally just sit and refresh the page, waiting for someone to come along and post on a thread
I've done that up to an hour before. Then I realize that it's 4:00 in the morning and I have church in six hours. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

I have gotten banned from the computer before and it's a terrible, terrible thing. Last week I spent so much time on one RPG, my mom threatened to forbid me from doing anymore RPGs again (I was going to bed at 11:00 on school nights). But luckily that was only a threat and she has not threatened me that since. *wipes sweat off forehead*
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Old 03-12-2003, 05:03 PM   #40
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Brinn, don't think it's over... don't think it's over... be cautious, young hobbits! The parents are out there... just waiting... waiting to get you... to revoke all your RPGing privileges! *thunder & lightning followed by bloodcurdling scream and the shadow of a parent*
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