Early-teen fans on the Barrow Downs?

[Goldberry]

Moi, I'm 14.

I'm too scared to post in Books

Same here. I often read the discussions in the Books forum and develop my own opinions but I'm never confident enough with my ideas to actually post them.

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not a very large amount of the teens on this site give intelligent (comprehendable?) input.
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The reason that many teens don't seem to give "intelligent input" is opinions like that. Teenagers aren't given a chance to prove their scholarly aptitude, ergo they just stop trying. That is why teenagers seem to frequent the Mirth forum. There, people don't judge them based on the quality of their posts.

I really love everything about this forum, the people, the posts, and the forum in general, but opinions like that do hurt.

Hear, hear, Finwe. Things like that make me feel like my input is not intelligent.