Why do you love the Downs?

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Well, people do make a site and one thing that is great is that most of us are decent to newbies, whereas on most other forums they get made mincemeat out of.

That I second... I'll never forget how encouraging Dave, Heren and Fordim were back in the day when it took ages for me to venture into Books (Canonicity was raging). How different to another forum I used to frequent where there are a couple of posters who remind me of Statler and Waldorf on the muppets and who if you say something they agree with you are repeating them and if you disagree you are a wrong and being inherently disrespectful to the memory of the great man, his family, possibly his non-existant cat, garden gnome etc. Blah di blah.

What do you mean it isn't obvious to have a crush on Elrond?