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

[Elennar Starfire]

(and start cussing out loud because the coolest picture is only a bit too big)

You, Ashton? Cussing?!?! I'm shocked!

~You want to hurt your computer because you can't find a fractal picture that's not too big to use as an avatar. (My avatar has always been a fractal, here and on other forums.)

~When the only reason you'll stop looking for an avatar is to make a post about how you can't find one.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

I am number 83 in the list of people with the most number of posts?

I guess you're addicted if you care to know such trivial facts.

[Vuelve]

You are a firm believer that the stuff people put in their sigs is more useful than the stuff you learn in school.

Peace,
Vuelve

[The Perky Ent]

You're absolutly addicted to the Barrow downs when...

1. your computer dies due to 20 hour posting
2. your in English and suddenly shout "Shoot! I'm still logged on"
3. you pester your friends saying "Do you know (user name here)? "
4. you coil up in a corner in the dark until a computer turns on, then you kill the person in the chair and shout 'percious! mhemhemhemhemhehe (maniacle laughter) mhemhemhemhe
5. you throw a party every time the theme changes
6. your eyes fry from getting too close to the screen
7. you can't remember your name, and start coughing up "(user name here),
   (user name here)!
8. you have an excyclopedic memory of everything in Elvenhome
9. you twitch uncontrolably when someone beats you at a Fun and Games post.
10. you know everyone who ever registered on the site

[Oddwen]

You're quite obsessed when you write "Do the Wave for Boromir the Disco King!" and the address of the good ol' BD's on dollar bills.

[Finwe]

When your first words to your friend whom you haven't seen at all in three years are: "So have you heard about the Barrow Downs?" since she's an extremely Tolkienista as well.

[Bekah]

Spend three hours on the downs when you are supposed to be writing a reasearch project (right now in fact)

Yes, that sounds like me...

You call their friends by their Downs name a lot instead of their real name (yes that means you Elennar!)

And that...

You spend your lunch time talking with your friends about your latest find on the BD's

Forget about lunch - I talk about the Downs all the time....

You get grounded from the computer because you are on the downs too much

When have I not been grounded for being on BDs or fanfiction too often?

Your grades are suffering because instead of doing your homework you start posting on the BD's and writing PM's to all your friends

Yes, that's me....I kind of weaned myself off BDs at one point becuase of this, but then fanfiction.net claimed my attentions....

You are always on the lookout for an avatar, every time you get on the net (and start cussing out loud because the coolest picture is only a bit too big)

It took me the whole day (when I should have been doing my school-work) to get this picture small enough to be an avatar!!!

I find myself going "guilty...guilty...not really...guilty...I wish I could....guilty....guilty...have you been spying on me!?!?"

~ Elentari II

P.S. Wasn't the 'add reply' button on the right and 'new topic' on the left before? This is really starting to annoy me, because I keep clicking 'new topic'...and I found that about 200 of my posts are no longer attributed to me (I probably deleted most of them myself earlier)...I used to be a Ghost Prince!!!

[Sirithheruwen]

When you brave all odds to get here! (Sorry, I have none in mind, that just sounded cool in my head!)

When you save your 100th post for this thread...YAY! I'M A WIGHT!!!

EDIT: Oh...nevermind...*sighs* I guess it's the 101st post, huh...oh well...

[Nirvana II]

when your walls are covered with posters, your ICQ,AIM, and Yahoo!messengers names have something to do with Tolkien.....When you RPG 8 hours per day........

[warrenerd]

yes, that's it. i'm a barrow-holic. but that's okay, because now we can be one big support center. i liked number three, by the way. oh, and do you go to berry college?

[Everdawn]

When you are in hospital and you have your sister sneak in your mobile phone so your best friend can check all your RP threads on the net and read them to you so that you can *try!* to write your next post but for the fact you cant even see properly becuase of the drugs they are feeding you...

Phew!

[Sirithheruwen]

...When you print out all of the old versions of this thread and read them when you are not on this site!

Everdawn, hon, why are you in the hospital? Did I miss something? Are you ok?

[Everdawn]

Spooked horse, long story and has nothing ot do with Tolkien. But I am ok.

YOu print out old versions of this text? That is obsessive!

[Elennar Starfire]

~When you are reading a book and imagine one of the characters as looking like Everdawn's new avatar.

(I wonder how curious I've made Everdawn as to which character and which book...?)

[Bekah]

I don't know how curious Evenstar is, but you've intrigued me...

~ Elentari II

[Finwe]

Ooh... spooked horse? Did you get thrown?

[Sirithheruwen]

Aww...poor Everdawn... *Hurries over to give her a chocolate chip cookie* Chocolate and cookies make everything feel better!

Anyways, back on topic...
...when you spend your spare time thinking up PT for people who don't have one yet.

Sapphire_Flame: Jewel of a Took

That's the only real good one I have so far...BTW, shouldn't you be getting your PT soon?

Taa for now,
Siri

[Bekah]

BTW, shouldn't you be getting your PT soon?

Who, Everdawn? Whether you get given a personal title is up to the mods...

I know there are other threads for signs of obsessive LOTRishness, but I just have to say I stayed up until midnight (I don't usually do this as late nights don't help me in the morning, and I guess I'm still catching up from my aforementioned antics) recording the 76th Academy Awards. ROTK won 11 out of 11. Yay!!!

On the other hand, POTC didn't win any, not even when they didn't share a category with LOTR. Grrr....

Okay, back to the real topic which is summarized by the title of this thread.

~ Elentari II

[Everdawn]

(I wonder how curious I've made Everdawn as to which character and which book...?)

Very! and it's killing me!


...DId I get thrown, yes...


Anyway.

YOu know you are obsessed when you are watching the Oscars and you dont see the actors all you see are the characters sitting there in costume. And when Liv get's up to present, all you see is Arwen in the last scene of ROTK talking about some musicians.

[Elennar Starfire]

Ok, ok, I'll tell you! (don't die! pleeze!)

The book was Polgara the Sorceress, by David Eddings. To understand this book you first have to read The Belgariad, beginning with Pawn of Prophecy. If you read the Mallorean after that it's best. Anyway, the character was Salmissra. (Everdawn, is there any chance you chose your avatar because you really look something like that? And if you did, can you act? Because I intend to direct a movie (actually several, no way it could be done as one) of the Belgariad someday, and I'm already trying to pick a first choice for all the characters.)

[Everdawn]

lol! If I was minus Blonde hair so in some pictures yes, and some no... It's Velma Kelly. And yes, I do act. My major is musical Theatre and drama as well as some other stuff, I have to take a little break at the moment though due to my little fiascoe.

However.... Sitting at home this very afternoon in my zombie-like state, I began to think which people I knew reminded me of people on the 'downs, strange huh?

[Eorl of Rohan]

I know I'm addicted....

Simply becuase I spend every second of my free time on the barrow-downs.

[Maeggaladiel]

You weep because nobody on your campus is a Tolkien fan. *sniff sniff* I'M SO ISOLATED! HELP ME! HELP MEEE!

You get angry when you wait more than two hours for someone to answer your post in an Inn. (Green Dragon, White Horse, it doesn't matter.) *Maeggaladiel checks her watch.* "Come on, people, I'm WAITING!")

You cry because you drew a wonderful avatar on Paint and it was too big to use. CURSE YOU, PAINT! CURRRSSEE YOUUUU! Making it smaller warped Boromir's face.

You get envious of other people's avatars. *folds arms, pouts* Why can't I have nice things?!?!

Avatarless,
Maeg

[Lhundulinwen]

Oh, you poor thing, Maeggaladiel! the only other Tolkienite on campus is a Senior and is graduating in two weeks!!! Oh, the horror! I have three more years. Oh well. At least I've got the Downs.

[Lhunardawen]

It's equally tough when you know there are other Tolkienites in your campus other than you, but nobody's as open to discuss it as you are...you can't even speak Tolkien with anybody in your school...

[Maeggaladiel]

We should create a support group for isolated Tolkienites!

Anyway, You Know You're Addicted to the Barrow-Downs When:
Your fingers type www.barrowdowns.com faster than anything else. Every time you get on the internet, your hands start into the two-second barrowdowns.com motions and you have to hold yourself back before your fingers click "ENTER." Why hold back? because you were supposed to be looking up research for homework!

Mwa ha haaaa!
MAEG

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Maeggaladiel

You weep because nobody on your campus is a Tolkien fan. *sniff sniff* I'M SO ISOLATED! HELP ME! HELP MEEE!

You get angry when you wait more than two hours for someone to answer your post in an Inn. (Green Dragon, White Horse, it doesn't matter.) *Maeggaladiel checks her watch.* "Come on, people, I'm WAITING!")

You cry because you drew a wonderful avatar on Paint and it was too big to use. CURSE YOU, PAINT! CURRRSSEE YOUUUU! Making it smaller warped Boromir's face.

You get envious of other people's avatars. *folds arms, pouts* Why can't I have nice things?!?!

Avatarless,
Maeg

BOROMIR?! WHERE! I'M COMING MY LOVE BOAT!

The ka jumps out to its computer screen, smacks face.

Ah, you poof of a computer.

[Sirithheruwen]

You get angry when you wait more than two hours for someone to answer your post in an Inn. (Green Dragon, White Horse, it doesn't matter.) *Maeggaladiel checks her watch.* "Come on, people, I'm WAITING!")

Ah, yes, I completely agree! (C'mon Alaksoron! I'm waiting!)

[Maeggaladiel]

Ah, yes, I completely agree! (C'mon Alaksoron! I'm waiting!)

*sigh* I've been waiting for more than a week for my conversation partner in the Green Dragon to say something. It's terrible! I have to get used to the fact that some people have real lives. (Unlike me)

You know you're addicted to the Barrow Downs when you get exited that people actually join your Society for Nearsighted Elves. It started out as just a joke, and now we've got eight members. Eowyn Skywalker is thinking about adding a section on her proboard just for the society. And Siritheruwen, I read your sig and I feel for you. Maybe you could join the Society as an Ambassador to All Nearsighed Non-Elves. Tell me if you're interested.

BOROMIR?! WHERE! I'M COMING MY LOVE BOAT!

I created an avatar on Paint of Boromir doing Disco, THE ka. He was too big, though. Sizing him down ruined his widdle faceywacy. So I settled for nearsighted Arwen.

~Maeg

[Finwe]

Ooh... Elennar... I'd sell my soul to be part of a movie about the Belgariad!

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

...wait, what's Belegaer? Belegost?

Belgariad, stupid.

Yeah, something like that. What's that?

[Elennar Starfire]

It's a series of books. The first is Pawn of Prophecy. After the Belgariad there's the Mallorean, a sequel-series. And after that there's Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress.
I have read them all.

Anyway, you know you're addicted when you spend two hours on the incredibly slow school computers, which used to be fairly fast until yesterday, on the 'downs, despite the fact that due to the slowness of the computers you don't even have time to post anything. (I swear it took 5-10 minutes to load a page!)

[Vuelve]

When you get bored you start writing down all the names of fellow Downers you can remember for absolutely no reason.Then you can't wait to get home so you can post about your latest BD withdrawl.

Peace,
Vuelve

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Vuelve

When you get bored you start writing down all the names of fellow Downers you can remember for absolutely no reason.Then you can't wait to get home so you can post about your latest BD withdrawl.

Peace,
Vuelve

AH! how.how... HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT! I have not told anyone about what goes threw my scropionic mind! Ah !... I'M TELLING ON YOU!

[elfearz1]

Is it just me or does anyone else associate a certain smell with the 'downs? I don't know how,but I do. (It's good luckily.)

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

A certain smell? How about pineapples? They have a nice smell.

[Lhundulinwen]

Pineapple? ok.

You know your addicted when you-


1. Sign your check accidentally using your user name

2. Can name at least five Bders but less than 4 cousins, other non-imediate relative

3. You cannot stand to get on a computer whose homepage is not the bd, so you of course change it (your doing them a favor!)

4. When in emotional distress, you grab a gallon of ice cream and read all 12 pages of Top Ten Signs You're Addicted to the Barrow Downs

5. The last date you had, your side of the conversation revolved around the last chat you had with your friends on the bd

6. You have ditched at least three weeks worth of aerobic class because you were inbroiled in a heated debate in the chat room

7. Your last resolutions involved getting to bed earlier or sleeping in longer because you have had less than six hours of sleep repeatedly because you had to prove that you were right whether elves could dream or some other equally obscure topic

8. The last pen you bought had to write in green ink because your eyes will now only read green letters

9. The last time you HAD to leave the Bd was because of a bodily function, so you now are considering buying a hand-held computer (forget the cost, you'll sell all books except LOTR and all other editions-wait, you only own 4 other books) so as to never be seperated from the Bd

and last but not least

10. You own at least five Bd shirts so as to never have to wear something else (not that you don't, it's just easier to corrdinate green when that's all you own)

[Vuelve]

When you think about the Downs at the oddest times.

When your away somewhere your first thought is 'I can't wait to get home to see whats going on at the Downs!'

When you start to tell your friends something funny from the Downs then quit because they give you "that look".They just don't understand .

Peace,
Vuelve

[Elennar Starfire]

Is it just me or does anyone else associate a certain smell with the 'downs? I don't know how, but I do.

Yes, I do that! I don't think I could explain the smell, though.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

You know you're obsessed when you make unrealistic goals, like having a thousand posts before your D-Day (Death-Day) anniversary.