Why did you join?

[ElementFire]

Because it's fun!!! Fun fun fun!!! And everyone here is nice! well...most everyone... haven't really met everyone...

[Gil-Galad]

aye... it was my older brother that brought me to see a performance of the Hobbit by the UofC, thats what really got me into Tolkiens work...then he showed me this site and i decided to join in...much fun indeed

[aredhelthewhite]

I'mon here becus I had nithing to do today
I got in the the net and foundthis,desiding that it was a good idea
simply blah

[Meela]

I didn't originally join the forum, I found the site and regularly haunted the chatroom. It took a few months for me to work up the courage to join the forum, labyrinth of intelligence that it was. I had just found out about the impending release of one "Fellowship of the Ring", and I undertook a thorough internet search. Thus I clicked the first returned link:the Barrowdowns. And I stayed put.

[Snowdog]

It was in 2000... I had heard of the making of a movie of one of my favoritist book series ... Lord of the Rings. This renewed my interest in Tolkien and I joined a couple websites. I think it was May or thereabouts that I first posted on Barrow Downs when it was on EZ Board. I never registered when they moved to the old board until a couple years later.

So it was my love of the books, but my curiousity of the upcoming movies that caused me to join. Later when I joined again, I was seeking good RP experiences like I had once back in 2000. Unfortunatly the time constraints on myself and the stringent rules on RP here made my commitment to the Barrow Downs be intermittant at best.

[eowyntje]

I joined because I like the conversations about the books a lot. I rp a lot on othe rforums and therefor I am constatly looking for lotr data. What happened in that year? Where was that character at the time and why? Who's the son of who? On this forum I cna find all that information and maybe sometimes add a little of my own. Also, I love the quotegames.

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

I joined because I had just seen the first movie and was reading the books. There were a lot of things in the books that I wanted to learn more about, so I went searching on the web. I don't remember how I stumbled across the Downs, but I did, and I came to check out the boards. Everyone here was so knowledgeable and gave such thorough answers to questions that I just had to stay because there was so much to learn. I've since quieted down because I've participated in many of the discussions a couple years ago (as well as a few riddles threads that were going strong for a while), and since the books are not fresh in my mind anymore I don't really have much to add to the discussions at the moment. I hope to pick them up again, though, and join in once more. For now I just kind of haunt. There are still many familiar "faces" around here who I enjoy talking to, so my spirit remains floating around
It's funny, too, because when I joined these forums, Hobbits were my favorite, and Sam was my favorite character (can ya tell?)... and since then, Eowyn has become my favorite character. But, I couldn't just give up the online alias I'd had for so long, nor the cute little beer carrying hobbitlass that represents me here at the boards