New Members - Introduce Yourself Here

Hi there and thank you all for welcoming me in such a warm way.
I'm very happy to be just dead and to have heard some sweet chanting chorus just on the left of the mist in Barrow dows... Your voices awaked me from a spellbound sleep and are leading me to the light...
xxx, Sabry

[JennyHallu]

Melannen, welcome to Tolkien and to the 'Downs! Don't worry about your level of knowledge, there are all levels active here, and the old farts should appreciate fresh viewpoints. The members of this site are really friendly and helpful! PM anybody if you have any questions.

Raewyn, are you sure you need to worry about your English? You have a very poetic turn of phrase...have you thought about joining an RP? Look the RP forums over! You'd be an asset.

[Boromir88]

Greetings and Salutations Raewyn and Melannen, you've come to the right place and I'm sure you'll find your lodgings very comfortable.

Hi JennyHallu and thank you so much...

What you said means that I'm on the right way with my hard work on this beautiful language I try to practice as much as I can (reading, writing, watching dvds in original language, internet and so on)

But I think that to say you really know a language you need to speak, read, write, think, dream and "feel" in this language;
as far as concerning the first 5 things, I can say I'm not that bad at them, but about "feeling" in English... uhmmm I cannot say that, yet...
I think I should spend some time in an English speaking country to start feeling in your amazing language, thus many terms and most of all, sentence and speech constructions would come out automatically and quite perfectly matching what I really feel and want to communicate...
I don't know If I could have really explaned what I mean...

Anyway, thank you very much for what you said, it encourages me and helps me to carry on...

I won't dare to partecipate a RP yet... Also 'cause I've never joined RP even in Italian... give me time, please...ah ah ah

I saw from your signature that you love Loreena too... she's one of my favourite musician... absolutely terrific and very talented.
Have a great day!!!
xxx, Sabry

[JennyHallu]

Actually, Raewyn, my signature is from a poem by Keats. I didn't know anyone sang it until I made it my signature...

Anyway...Welcome again, and I'm wandering off before the chat skwerl eats me.

Hello and thanks for the welcome to both JennyHallu and Boromir!

This place is huge, and I'm overwhelmed. Any suggestions on where to start?

Originally Posted by JennyHallu

Actually, Raewyn, my signature is from a poem by Keats. I didn't know anyone sang it until I made it my signature...

Anyway...Welcome again, and I'm wandering off before the chat skwerl eats me.

ooops, I've never realized that "The Stolen Child" is by W.B. Yeats. I've always listened to this poem as a song, sang by Loreena McKennitt.
Thank you so much for telling me and have a great night and chat.

For all the others who want to enjoy this magic poem:

THE STOLEN CHILD
WHERE dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water-rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berries
And of reddest stolen chetries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's morefull of weeping than you
can understand.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim grey sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances,
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And is anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's morefully of weeping than you
can understand.

Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,.
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To to waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For to world's morefully of weeping than you
can understand.

Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal-chest.
For be comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
from a world more full of weeping than you.

[Boromir88]

I won't dare to partecipate a RP yet... Also 'cause I've never joined RP even in Italian... give me time, please...ah ah ah~Raewyn

That's what I said when I first came here. Though I haven't done much recently the 'Downs RPing system is so organized and well set up by it's moderaters it's hard to resist. I hope to get into another one once this busy season is over.

[mark12_30]

Originally Posted by Raewyn

I saw from your signature that you love Loreena too... she's one of my favourite musician... absolutely terrific and very talented.

...And now she's changed her sig... what was it? I do like Loreena.

Raewyn, What instrument do you play, and what type of music? Are you tempted to try some Tolkienish music? (If you're into Loreena, you may already play Celtic, or so I'm guessing.) There are musical discussion threads on the Downs, let me know if you'd like some links.

Welcome, Kevins and NR_Orome!

[Taimar]

Hello,

I used to post here regularly, but have been busy for a while...five years or so. I'm glad to see the site has thrived. Well done, Barrow-Wight.

I hope to be an occasional poster from now on.

[Gil-Galad]

welcome back taimar