Happy Birthday To The Barrow-downs! - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Primrose Bolger · 05-01-2004, 12:06 PM

Mathom

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An old word of the hobbit-dialect, not recorded as being in use outside the Shire. It was used to refer to any item that had no particular immediate use, but whose owner had no wish to throw away. Mathoms were often given as presents by the Shire-hobbits - an important part of their culture - or stored in the Mathom-house in Michel Delving.

--from the Encylopedia of Arda

Hope that helps!

Ithaeliel · 05-01-2004, 12:09 PM

Ah, thank you very much, Primrose! I'll be finding a mathom to bring now...

Ainaserkewen · 05-03-2004, 01:48 PM

K, last year I was at the party with bells on my feet. This year I couldn't get on until today, the last day of the party!!! Grrr. Oh well, I got one post in.

Balin999 · 05-03-2004, 01:57 PM

Happy Deathday Barrow Downs!
The fourth death-day for you, and the fourth death day for me. Though I can't say that I've been here regurlarly recently.
Anyway, all the best wishes to the moderators and our beloved Barrow-Wight.
Balin

Lord of Angmar · 05-03-2004, 05:30 PM

It has been four years, and I salute everyone involved in the creation and maintenance of this fine website. Though I myself have only been a member for just shy of a year, I have grown to really love this site and the discussions that take place on it. Just when you think that you have seen everything there is to discuss about Middle-earth, a relative newbie (I use the terms in the most respectful way, I assure you) like Fordim Hedgethistle can come along and shake things up with a marvelous topic like 'Canonicity': The Book or The Reader.

Break out the Old Winyards and toast the Barrow-downs!

I wonder when we'll be able to start calling The Barrow-Wight "the Old Gaffer"?

Galadrie1 · 05-04-2004, 02:23 PM

Happy birthday, Barrow-downs! I missed the party (

) but I probably would have felt out of place since I haven't been around much lately. Ah well; happy birthday anyway, with, hopefully, many more to come!

Lalaith · 05-05-2004, 08:35 AM

I couldn't make the party either, but offer up my best deathday wishes to the Wight and all the restless spirits who haunt his Downs.

05-01-2004, 12:09 PM	#2
Ithaeliel Cornus Caliga Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Five-hundred-twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes from here Posts: 710	Ah, thank you very much, Primrose! I'll be finding a mathom to bring now... __________________ That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. .................William Wordsworth

05-03-2004, 01:48 PM	#3
Ainaserkewen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A cosmic waiting room Posts: 651	K, last year I was at the party with bells on my feet. This year I couldn't get on until today, the last day of the party!!! Grrr. Oh well, I got one post in. __________________ Solus... I'm eating chicken again. I ate chicken yesterday and the day before... will I be eating chicken again tomorrow? Why am I always eating chicken?

05-03-2004, 01:57 PM	#4
Balin999 Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2000 Location: East of the Sun, West of the Moon Posts: 493	Happy Deathday! Happy Deathday Barrow Downs! The fourth death-day for you, and the fourth death day for me. Though I can't say that I've been here regurlarly recently. Anyway, all the best wishes to the moderators and our beloved Barrow-Wight. Balin __________________ ...Nichts ist gelber als Gelb selber... ...The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, but conformity... ...Everything is possible, except to ski through a revolving door...

05-03-2004, 05:30 PM	#5
Lord of Angmar Tyrannus Incorporalis Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the North Posts: 833	It has been four years, and I salute everyone involved in the creation and maintenance of this fine website. Though I myself have only been a member for just shy of a year, I have grown to really love this site and the discussions that take place on it. Just when you think that you have seen everything there is to discuss about Middle-earth, a relative newbie (I use the terms in the most respectful way, I assure you) like Fordim Hedgethistle can come along and shake things up with a marvelous topic like 'Canonicity': The Book or The Reader. Break out the Old Winyards and toast the Barrow-downs! I wonder when we'll be able to start calling The Barrow-Wight "the Old Gaffer"? __________________ ...where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defence.

05-04-2004, 02:23 PM	#6
Galadrie1 Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The wrong place at the wrong time. Posts: 385	Happy birthday, Barrow-downs! I missed the party ( ) but I probably would have felt out of place since I haven't been around much lately. Ah well; happy birthday anyway, with, hopefully, many more to come! __________________ "For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel." Last edited by Galadrie1; 05-05-2004 at 02:05 PM.

05-05-2004, 08:35 AM	#7
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	I couldn't make the party either, but offer up my best deathday wishes to the Wight and all the restless spirits who haunt his Downs.