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05-22-2007, 02:10 AM
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Shade of Carn Dűm
Join Date: Apr 2006
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First ever posts!
I would be really interested if any of the older or relatively new members could show us their First Ever posts! If you can find it, post it here...
Mine, coincidentally, was : Quote:
Wouldn't it be cool if for example Saucepan Man, who has the greatest number of posts on the 'Downs, would show us the FIRST EVA. (  )I'm sure they'll be hard to find, seeing as the "find more posts" option only goes back 500... |
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05-22-2007, 02:17 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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Awwww, what a cutie thread! :D
Here's mine. I actually started a new thread with that name. This is the first post:
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 *remembers fondly the newbie times*
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05-22-2007, 04:36 AM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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Wow! What an interesting idea!
Personally I'm very curious on how some of you started here (though, I could probably find out myself, but this way it's much better).
Six: Now, Six! Judging from this post, it should've been you playing the young fanboy/Tolkien geek in the last WW... Lommy: Wow, what an... (seeks a good word) unexpected start from you... (at least from my point - I wonder now, this is for the second time I see you speaking of MERP in the last day - and never seen you speaking about that before - I never knew you had anything to do with it..?) Well, to my first post - many of you will probably still remember it, but I'll post it here... (I pondered for a moment if I should post it or just link, since it's quite long, but then I said to myself that if I sent just a link, it might cause it to be skipped by potentional reader, so here it is.) Like Lommy, I started a thread in the Books with it (and in contrary to Lommy's, the matter was not completely solved yet!): Quote:
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05-22-2007, 05:38 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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Legate - well, I must say that my reason to join this place was to get to ask that question
 (and possibly get to ask some other questions in future). Oh, and I've played MERP for ages (since I was nine or ten I guess - blame Noggie)...
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05-22-2007, 05:44 AM
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Corpus Cacophonous
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A green and pleasant land
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However, as far as I can I recall, this was my first post ever. on WHo in the fellowship would have tried to take the ring next?. I followed this up shortly with my first thread - Gwaihir to the rescue .. again?. A shamefully common question for a newbie, and to my even greater embarrassment, I was quickly directed (by Sharkű) to the Search function, as there were already umpteen threads on the point. And, here is my first post on the Introduction thread. Wow! Was that really 4˝ years ago ...?
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05-22-2007, 05:53 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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Oh, sweet nostalgia
A very good idea to add those introduction posts.
Here's mine. Awwww, that's so funny and cute...  *remembers 14-year old self* Wait... That was only three years ago?
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05-22-2007, 06:15 AM
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Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
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Great thread idea, Sixth!
Oh, OK, my first ever post then. Quote:
My goodness, a lot has changed in nine months...my major, for starters... Now I'm curious...off to find somebody else's first post ever...
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05-22-2007, 06:24 AM
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Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
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...and I found it. Thank you for the chocolate, my dear.
 (I'll let him post it if he wishes. It's actually a great post...) |
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05-22-2007, 06:38 AM
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Byronic Brand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The 1590s
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05-22-2007, 09:33 AM
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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Memory lane indeed! I think my first ever post was this one: my personal fellowship of movie goers on a thread called 'Anyone else have a sister as stupid as this?'. I must confess, it's a thread over which my moderator's hand of doom has hovered a number of times, but I save it "for historical interest"!
BTW, finding that thread was a real archaeological feat - I did resort to Saucy's trick with the individual forum searches. It's easier to locate the threads I've started; not even I have managed to create over 500 new ones, and the first one I started is rather appropriately entitled 'the first time'.
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05-22-2007, 10:21 AM
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Drummer in the Deep
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Next Sunday A.D.
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Wow...
...and again, wow. I don't think this is my first post ever, but it's from my first day as a 'Downer.
I don't even know what I'm talking about. Also, here is my first introductory-type post.
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05-22-2007, 10:32 AM
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Doubting Dwimmerlaik
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Heaven's basement
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Nice idea, The Sixth Wizard, as now that you mention it, I too am interested in some of the heavy-hitters' first posts. Were they always thus, or did they too grow in their manner of posting?
My first post, read here, was nothing groundbreaking. In retrospect, and to rewrite history a little, alatar's first post was that newbie's attempt to sneak in where he'd never ventured before, namely an internet forum. It would take a few posts for him to unleash his real venom - and show his real reason for joining - which was to carp about Peter Jackson's mishandling of Gandalf in RotK:EE. Luckily for all, said carpiness and sniveling was an attitude reserved only for that one scene from that one movie, and so never appeared in any of the milk and honey posts about all other topics. Odd, looking back at the first few posts...clearly that's not me. Did I actually write like that, and think that way? Must have been the other me... And I do remember, or at least think that I remember, or saw a really good TV show with the same information that I've subconsciously included into my life in lieu of more mundane events, that I was a bit disconcerted that no one "answered" my first few. I felt like I was invisible and talking to myself, which is at least one thing that's consistent over these years as, while I type, I'm having this conversation in my head. But then I got answered, and I was like, "Oh my gosh!" I went from invisible to scorned. Ouch. Luckily, with advice (received and inferred) I learned to love this Big Barrow. I could describe what it felt like when I took my first hit of rep, and when I first got repdrunk, but think that that's a thread asking to be closed.
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05-22-2007, 03:53 PM
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Shade of Carn Dűm
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Stuck under a rock in Valinor with Ar-Pharazon.
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If you are laughing at my apparent noobiness (
) remember I was only thirteen when that was posted, I had not read LOTR for a year and didn't know anything about the Silmarillion. AND it was my first time on an internet forum. I then proceeded to get the Sil and take a bit of time off to get out of the whole Runescape-talk rut.But STILL... Jeez... 
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05-22-2007, 06:22 PM
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Everlasting Whiteness
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams
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I can't even remember where I first posted. It was somewhere in the Quiz forum I believe. I didn't actually find the Introduce Yourself thread until nearly two months after I joined and when I did post on there it was just to welcome a friend!
I strongly suspect that my first post probably consisted of me asking for a letter in Palantir of Fortune ... not the most attention-getting of starts!
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05-23-2007, 02:55 AM
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Fading Fëanorion
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: into the flood again
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My first post was on Anguirel's Il Principe-thread (here 's my post). The first to greet me was also the first to rep me, which was very nice of that person.
I think the thread would also deserve a little revival. *hints* I introduced myself some days later here (just a few posts before Sixth's introduction). My first thread was at the same time also my first encounter with the whips of the knowledgable members.
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05-23-2007, 07:17 AM
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Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
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I take it the thread was deleted?
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05-23-2007, 07:31 AM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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05-23-2007, 08:00 AM
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Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
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I see it now! Thank you Legate.
My goodness, I've never seen that side of Anguirel before... The discussion of the "historical accuracy" of the Silm and whether to dismiss a passage from it more or less readily than "bleak factual marginalia" was quite interesting; ah, yeah, there's probably already a thread where it's been all hashed to death years ago, though.  Macalaure, you shouldn't act so sheepish, dear. Sheepish deer? It looks like you won the argument, after all, at least by default...a year and no one's responded to your last point!
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05-24-2007, 02:14 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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Hmmm... Ang, are you implying that was your first post ever here? Have you forgotten about this one in the Lalwende & davem wish to announce their engagement -thread?
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05-24-2007, 01:12 PM
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Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
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Alrighty, my first post was on the All About You thread. I wrote it June 9, 2002, three days after I joined:
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My first post was followed by this: Quote:
I also made two more posts that day elsewhere: What's A Vanyar? Left-handed Pretty simple and boring. If I made more posts that first day, I can't find them. I never made an actual introductory post, and it appears that is because the introductory thread didn't even come into existence until six months after I joined. I feel so old (BD-wise, that is). I guess that's what happens when you've been decaying for almost five years...
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05-26-2007, 08:13 AM
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Laconic Loreman
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I have no hopes of finding my first ever post, but I do have my first ever thread (which was one of my first posts). It was anything but what I had hoped. After writing up some ideas on Gothmog (a character who ever since the movies I have been obsessed with
), SpM and SoN both point me to the search engine. And Squatter calls the thread redundant (which was true  )and points me to the FAQ. Needless to say I was scarred for life and didn't create another thread for a very long time.
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05-26-2007, 08:47 AM
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Byronic Brand
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: The 1590s
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Good catch Lommy, I was indeed mistaken...
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05-26-2007, 11:08 AM
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Estelo dagnir, Melo ring
Join Date: Oct 2002
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*cough*
Umm...yeah. That's at least one of my first. I do not remember posting that, or really posting much of anything more than a couple years old, as a matter of fact. Poor long term memory, possibly by choice. If you want a really good laugh, or have some bizarre desire to make yourself feel ill, read my first RP post. It's been a long 4 years and 7 months, about... |
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05-26-2007, 10:22 PM
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Maundering Mage
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Texas
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I'm a bit embarassed by my early posts. But here is the first post and first thread every started by mormegil...dang I still wish I would have capitalized my name back then.
http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=11862
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05-27-2007, 11:40 AM
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Silver in My Silent Heart
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the great beauty
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Whatever you do, at some point you'll feel embarrassed.
First eva
Introduction First thread First RPG post First Books post Pretty embarrassing, huh? I'm only relieved by the thought that I'll probably make lots of even more embarrassing things in the future. I still think my first thread is a good idea though. And the RPG post is edited by the way, originally it looked much worse. |
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05-27-2007, 02:41 PM
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Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
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Oh yes...first RPGs. I'm rather embarrassed about it as my first RPG character was quite ridiculous; she had magic powers and everything (heh).
But just remember I was only 14 at the time, and if I recall correctly the Freestyle forum that existed way back then had very little rules, so my first RPG turned out to be...mmm...interesting. I still had fun with it, but it's not exactly what you'd call Tolkien... Here we go: First RPG Character First RPG Post Rather short, don't you think? Especially considering that more recently I've written posts up to four pages long on Word...
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06-01-2007, 04:15 AM
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Shade of Carn Dűm
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Stuck under a rock in Valinor with Ar-Pharazon.
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Would anyone else wish to shed their 3,000+ post skin and get back to basics?
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06-04-2007, 04:27 PM
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: perpetual uncertainty
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Oh my... this is nostalgiac.
I don't know if it was my first post, but it was my first thread. I was fifteen, unless my basic math skills took a turn for the worse. My intro post. You were all so nice to me... It's hard to find these posts, it's been so long.
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Soul of Fire
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06-26-2007, 09:01 PM
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Shade of Carn Dűm
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: By the Sea
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*Shows back up after being away for far too long...*
A long, long time ago (2001?!), I made this quite unimpressive, though not horribly embarrassing first post: Quote:
In fact, I am not sure I ever formally introduced myself to the Downs. Now I kind of wish I had made some kind of horribly embarrassing, typical 14-year-old girl sort of statement, so that I could laugh about it now. :P
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06-27-2007, 01:53 PM
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Sage & Onions
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Britain
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long, long ago in a galaxy far away...
Here's my first,
Hello and where's Mount Gram? I guess unduly precocious as I started on a new post and new thread at the same time. I only got 3 replies though. Is this a record and if so do I win a prize?
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06-30-2007, 01:19 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jun 2003
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http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthr...2034#post52034
A'right then. I had quite an odd and slow start. I think I'm going to back and find some more interesting first posts I may have had.
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07-03-2007, 02:01 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Oh dear. I looked like a strange little newbie when I joined the forum, but there is actually a story to my first post: [x]
I've been a member of the barrowdowns chat room (hosted by an IRC/Java server called sorcery, for those who don't know) since the summer of 2001 and in some brief moment of high-speed insanity a number of the chat go-ers started rattling off the first few lines of the (albeit huge) post. Being gullible, I offered to write the entire thing down in the same fashion (I mean, it didn't take any time hardly to read! It had to be short, right? )
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Odinic Wanderer
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Here is my first post ever. . . not really that embaracing http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpos...postcount=1748
My second post on the other hand is a bit desturbing. . . .I don't know if I am trying to show of or what is happening. http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpos...postcount=1750 Anyways if it had not been for Gil's quick reply I would probably not be here today as this was the first forum I ever joined and I had no idea how they worked. (and the only one I have stayed with for over a year.) I had forgotten the Boro, Encai and Glirdan welcomed me as well. . . .people was alot better at greeting new members back then.
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07-03-2007, 02:58 PM
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Regal Dwarven Shade
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http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?p=21440
Wow, look at that decrepit thing! (beaten by Estelyn by mere days...humph )
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In the text about Gandalf, Saruman and the Shire (UT) there is that story of Saruman seeing Gandalf smoke - and talking about it - on the 2851 White Council meeting. But in Appendix B there is no word (and it seems very unlikely) that Saruman started to act in the Shire right after. But...
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