Top Ten Signs You're Addicted to the Barrow-Downs

[Aganzir]

When you crack up at a Hobbit meme that has Thorin (totally just typed that as Thranduil though) hugging Bilbo because you've come up with about fifty related jokes about them during a short Barrow-Downs moot you've been having.

My heart will go on.

[Gil-Galad]

Though I am far and few between posts, I still know the various going on's in the Downs thanks to fanatical stalking of Hookbill's Facebook.

[Galadriel55]

When, upon seeing the words legate and squatter, you automatically add of Amon Lanc and of Amon Rudh to them (and then wonder what the hell those mountains have to do with the context...), capitalize those words, and bold them.

When you think of Lommy when seeing a penguin, and of Agan when seeing a lion.

When Nogrod is no longer a place, nor Anguirel a blade, nor Firefoot a horse, nor Heren Istarion an order.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

My almost twelve-year-old brother says that he has a friend at school who is a member of the Barrow-Downs. When I asked him about it, he told me he doesn't know what his friend's username is, but he swears that he is a Downer. I look forward to having the mystery solved.

My brother has been talking a lot recently about the Downs, actually. After giving a report on Downs-happenings to my family the other day, our house has just been full of Downs-talk. Brother has been talking about the Hobbit movie and joining the Downs. We have had this talk before, of course. My answer was the same to him today as it always has been "you need to read LotR before you join the Barrow-Downs, otherwise you will be confused." I quite expect that once he has read Lord of the Rings in its entirety that he will join the ranks of the dead not long after. My addiction to the Barrow-Downs has manifested itself in my brother. I'm so proud!

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

When Nogrod is no longer a place, nor Anguirel a blade, nor Firefoot a horse, nor Heren Istarion an order.

I recently got a Tumblr account and wanted to have a dwarf-related name for the blog. However, any form of Nogrod was out of the question, for obvious reasons.

Anyway, you all are too cute. Keep encouraging your brother, TGEW.

[Aganzir]

When you stay up till five on the Barrow-Downs instead of Facebook or Tumblr or other such venues. You can't believe how happy this makes me for a change.