Tolkien Events 2013 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Bêthberry · 09-21-2013, 07:11 AM

We wants pictures, we does, many incriminating pictures. And are you in the Isis Guest House?

Mithalwen · 09-21-2013, 07:45 AM

I know Pervinca and PI have met up and Bethberry I know that PI' costume is due feture something you might recognise.

Bêthberry · 09-21-2013, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I know Pervinca and PI have met up and Bethberry I know that PI' costume is due feture something you might recognise.

Yes, I have been waiting an entire year for the rest of the (Tolkien) (Downer) world to know what you and I have known. It sounds absolutely splendid and I'm quite disappointed that I didn't come up with the idea.

And wonderful that PI has met up with Pervinca. I had no idea Pervinca was attending. Still a good number of Downers representing us.

Mithalwen · 09-21-2013, 08:32 AM

Oh inhope she doesn't mind me saying. But she is running her Password clue via text message... so already public domain.

Pervinca Took · 09-22-2013, 03:51 PM

Got home about half an hour ago!

What an absolute joy to meet Aganzir and Kath and have a good discussion with The Squatter Of Amon Rudh (sp?) (my last conversation with a group including the Squatter was on a roof about six years ago). The conversation of last night/this morning was also shared by Faramir Jones, whom I already knew before he became a Downer.

Poison Ivy and I had a brief conversation a few years ago which would have been longer, but she had promised to meet someone. We had a really good conversation this time - in fact more than one.

Have been attending Oxonmoots for quite some time now, so met quite a few Downers before I knew they were Downers.

Hookbill the Goomba · 09-23-2013, 04:19 PM

Oxonmoot was a much more relaxed affair than in past years. There still manged to be clashes of things we wanted to see, but it was still great and we all had a lot of fun.
I didn't think it was possible, but my Saruman of many colours costume was upstaged by Aganzir and Kath as Fili and Mr Dwalin! Next year I will wear EVEN MORE COLOURS!!

Squatter was mad as a hatter as usual. His hilarious impractical car nearly got crushed by a pair of gates, but at least he didn't think cheese was a viable currency, so I think he ended up ahead.
Pervinca Took was very friendly and to my shame I did not realise who she was until it was too late! If I knew that I knew you I would probably have been more talkative!
Poison Ivy is as enthusiastic and creative as ever! I will never look at otters the same way again!

Bungo · 09-26-2013, 04:34 PM

Hello to all those that I met at Oxonmoot this year, after hearing about the Barrow downs at Oxonmoot I just registered to give it a go.

(for those who met me, I was the father of young Arwen. I suppose I should have registered as Elrond - but instead I chose Bilbo's dad's name!)

Pervinca Took · 09-27-2013, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Pervinca Took was very friendly and to my shame I did not realise who she was until it was too late! If I knew that I knew you I would probably have been more talkative!!

Hookbill, we've never really talked on here, because I only registered in 2009 and I got quite "talked out" on Tolkien in the early noughties, on a different board which was never the same after it crashed and lost all its old threads. Also I began to feel out of place on boards that seemed to become very pro-film (even though I like aspects of the films and was tremendously enthusiastic in the "looking forward" stage that preceded them). And I'd joined the Tolkien Society about a year before having any Tolkien activity online, and had always felt very comfortable there.

I think I became properly aware of the Barrow-Downs when Downers started coming to Oxonmoot. (I remember quite a lot of their masquerade costumes, too!) And eventually I decided I'd like to try a bit of online Tolkien discussion again. I've posted elsewhere, but I find the BD to be the best place around. My addiction to cryptic clues (especially lots of them in a "Password" arrangement) may have something to do with this, but I also very much enjoy the literary discussion here.

Bungo, did you and your daughter go to the Slide Show? (The lighthearted slide-show of Tolkien art, with audience participation, in the wooden-panelled room with the tapestries). If that was you, I certainly remember talking with you, and your daughter playing with my friends' children (I was sitting next to them).

09-21-2013, 07:11 AM	#1
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	We wants pictures, we does, many incriminating pictures. And are you in the Isis Guest House? __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

09-21-2013, 07:45 AM	#2
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	I know Pervinca and PI have met up and Bethberry I know that PI' costume is due feture something you might recognise. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

09-21-2013, 08:32 AM	#4
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Oh inhope she doesn't mind me saying. But she is running her Password clue via text message... so already public domain. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

09-22-2013, 03:51 PM	#5
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	Got home about half an hour ago! What an absolute joy to meet Aganzir and Kath and have a good discussion with The Squatter Of Amon Rudh (sp?) (my last conversation with a group including the Squatter was on a roof about six years ago). The conversation of last night/this morning was also shared by Faramir Jones, whom I already knew before he became a Downer. Poison Ivy and I had a brief conversation a few years ago which would have been longer, but she had promised to meet someone. We had a really good conversation this time - in fact more than one. Have been attending Oxonmoots for quite some time now, so met quite a few Downers before I knew they were Downers. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 09-24-2013 at 04:29 PM.

09-23-2013, 04:19 PM	#6
Hookbill the Goomba Alive without breath Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla Posts: 5,912	Oxonmoot was a much more relaxed affair than in past years. There still manged to be clashes of things we wanted to see, but it was still great and we all had a lot of fun. I didn't think it was possible, but my Saruman of many colours costume was upstaged by Aganzir and Kath as Fili and Mr Dwalin! Next year I will wear EVEN MORE COLOURS!! Squatter was mad as a hatter as usual. His hilarious impractical car nearly got crushed by a pair of gates, but at least he didn't think cheese was a viable currency, so I think he ended up ahead. Pervinca Took was very friendly and to my shame I did not realise who she was until it was too late! If I knew that I knew you I would probably have been more talkative! Poison Ivy is as enthusiastic and creative as ever! I will never look at otters the same way again! __________________ I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket...

09-26-2013, 04:34 PM	#7
Bungo Newly Deceased Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Worcestershire Posts: 7	Hello to all those that I met at Oxonmoot this year, after hearing about the Barrow downs at Oxonmoot I just registered to give it a go. (for those who met me, I was the father of young Arwen. I suppose I should have registered as Elrond - but instead I chose Bilbo's dad's name!)