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08-25-2008, 06:59 AM
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Silver in My Silent Heart
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the great beauty
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08-25-2008, 07:19 AM
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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 Though you could be just resting 'in the green room' of course
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Gordon's alive!
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08-25-2008, 01:31 PM
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shadow of a doubt
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Back on the streets
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Wow, that seems like a lot of fun!
Some of those pics (esp. post#398 and #400) look like they could've been the album-cover for some 70's progressive rock band haha. I also recall picking a fight with Rune some time ago. Boy am I glad i didn't go throught with it, that man's a behemoth...  Nice pictures!
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09-29-2008, 12:13 PM
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Alive without breath
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla
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What happens in Oxford stays... strange.
At this year's Oxonmoot there was a great meeting of Downers. A record 9! Here is a picture, stolen from Esty, of 8 of us...
 From left to right: (front) Finwen as Beleg Cuthalion and myself as the Professor; (back row) Estelyn Telcontar, The Squatter of Amon Rudh, Rune Son of Bjarne, Kath, Poison Ivy, and Guinevere. Narfforc was ill, apparently, and so was not present. But he was there in spirit. I believe it was gin. Finwen is the one who got me onto the Downs all those years ago. Her account lies dormant at the moment due to the forgotten password. We've known one another for years, though, off the Downs, and spent far too much time watching Doctor Who and spotting Tolkien references. I'd met Esty last year at Oxonmoot. She's always very cheerful and I remain intensely jealous of her artistic abilities. Her lecture on Musical Instruments in Middle Earth was excellent. Squatter I had also met the previous year. He was very much the same old weirdo with a liking for waistcoats. We shared many ridiculous jokes about things like 'Sky deemed boring; government blamed'. Rune was a fellow I'd not met. Gosh, what an odd person he is. When he wasn't accusing me of being a mushroom, he made pleasant conversation. I was frustrated with him in the quiz, though.  Kath was a surprise. I'd not heard she was coming. So it was nice to meet her. She was very pleasant and engaged in our ridiculous jokes with gusto. Which is always nice. Poison Ivy, much like her Barrow Downs activity, was more of a lurker. At least with me any way. I didn't get chance to have any real conversations. Which was a shame. It was nice to meet Guinevere again, thought we did not talk an awful lot. Which is always sad. I met Narfforc once or twice over the course of the moot. He was, as usual, bizarre and twisted in his humour. Which I loved. Continuing the 'Aragorn and Gandalf went in the van' joke for no real reason at one point. That's all I can think to say at the moment...
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09-29-2008, 01:36 PM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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But anyway, it looks like you had fun. I say anyway that Downers' meetings should be organised more often, and these Tolkien meetings and festivals are a good reason for that. Or this BarrowDownsCon, or how should it be called, it's been talked enough times to actually indeed make it... 
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories |
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09-29-2008, 06:39 PM
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Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
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Oxonmoot! Hookbill, I must admit your pictures made me miss Oxford so much. It's a beautiful city....and of course the perfect place for a BDer gathering.
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But don't worry...we can beat those Oxonmooters again. Perhaps another summer gathering in Finland? With even more BDers, of course. Because we all know Finland is where the Barrow Downs is really located.
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09-30-2008, 01:15 AM
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Leaf-clad Lady
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Oh no, nine! You evil people broke our record
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I'll try advertising a bit... Come to Finland! We are not evil nor scary. At least, we don't show it if we are
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09-30-2008, 08:07 PM
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
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