How did you find the Downs? - Page 3 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Faye Took · 10-01-2002, 07:14 PM

I heard it from a chat room actually. I was sooo happy to find this site! Its awsome! I can finally improve my writing skills. I want to be a writer or An Actress. Mostly an Actress.

alaklondewen · 10-03-2002, 12:43 PM

I read The Hobbit in my Children's Literature course last semester. We had to write a paper on any topic from something we had read, and I chose the history of Hobbits. After looking in the books, I started searching the web and came across the Downs...I've been here ever since. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ October 03, 2002: Message edited by: alaklondewen ]

vanwalossien · 10-12-2002, 04:24 PM

I heard of BD through a friend, and ever since I discovered the Forum, my social life has been internet based... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

VanimaEdhel · 10-12-2002, 04:45 PM

I was looking for a Lord of the Rings chat, and stumbled upon this one while searching. I thought it was "cute", so I came back, and discovered the Name Translator. Then, after about 2 months on the chat, it was basically established that I would be coming here for a while, so I joined the Forum!

And, here I am today: advertising to my Tolkien fan friends and getting weird looks! Woo! Go Barrow-Downs!

Amanaduial the archer · 10-13-2002, 02:40 PM

i heard about it from a chat room as well, so if u still visit this site Mikey Korner-Davidson, thankyou so much!

ilon · 10-14-2002, 07:01 AM

What do you know, I read about The Downs being featured in a column in one of our national newspaper the time the talk of the world was the new TLOTR movie. I checked out the site when I had the opportunity, became a member and read the informative posts, but unfortunately it's only now that i've actively started posting.

Nevfeniel · 10-14-2002, 11:51 AM

The Downs were in a newspaper? WE'RE FAMOUS! Or at least the Barrow Downs are! But that's great, too! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

Glorfinniel the Lost · 10-19-2002, 02:54 AM

I acually was on another site called Daisy's Hobbit Hole...quaint little place. I was on the links and randomly clicked on The Barow Downs. I looked around and was impressed by the thoughtful, witty conversation, so I decided to join up. And here I am today [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Mlo · 10-19-2002, 04:53 AM

Actually, I found the downs while looking for a hobbit name generator. Then I just kinda started going to the chat, and then registered and now I just can't live without the downs [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ October 19, 2002: Message edited by: Mlo ]

Amanaduial the archer · 10-19-2002, 10:28 AM

just out of interest, whats the address of daisys hobbit hole? Sounds quite sweet..

Neferchoirwen · 10-19-2002, 08:49 PM

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my social life has been internet based...

Same here...everytime I'm with my friends I always talk about this place. They may be thinking that I'm crazy. In fact, I talk about LotR to them too much, that they have no time to read any book from the trilogy.

vanwalossien · 10-21-2002, 10:10 AM

Neferchoirwen, I know exactly what you mean, my friends are getting really tired of having me talk 24/7 about my BD friends, they've even stopped asking "who's that?" when I mention a friend of mine they don't know, who has a really strange name, 'cause they presume it's elvish and that I'm talking about a downer...

Auriel Haevasawen · 10-21-2002, 02:58 PM

This site was recommeded to me by a nine year old. I only came to put my name through the generator and have been here for the best part of a year since. It is a great escape and I do think of some of the people here as friends now. I am not clever enough nor Tolkien literate enough as to keep up with most folks here but I have found the Freestyle RPG my own alternative universe. Thankyou to whoever had the initial idea to develop the site.

Snowdog · 07-10-2003, 01:02 PM

Wow... this is a good one. I remember the EZ board, and may have posted a couple times there under my global account 'Snowdogs' sometime in 2000 as I was in search of Tolkien boards at the time. I spent the years on Tolkienonline until I finally got banned.

Anyway, I remember getting the emails about the board changing from EZ to UBB, but never responded. Now I have returned!

Faenaduial · 07-10-2003, 02:11 PM

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Re: How I wandered into the downs

I stumbled (do elves stumble?) on it while looking for additional LotR quizzes. I had been to a lot of other Tolkien sites but BD is the best! Your quizzes hooked me, then I discovered the forum and now its become an obsession.

Annalaliath · 07-10-2003, 02:12 PM

MSN bords....... we have such things as links in those things. One of the managers had put a link to the downs there. I have told her since that she should not have since I will never be on there much anymore.

Olorin · 07-10-2003, 05:52 PM

I believe I found this site off google.com.

Iarwain · 07-10-2003, 09:38 PM

the late "lordoftherings.com" had a collection of links, one of which led me to the late 25 hobbits website, and of course the Barrowdowns was number 1 (or two) on that list. I looked at it, did all of the quizzes (there were only a few back then), and hung around in the quiz chat room for a while. Then it became a frequent favorite, until late last year when I finally looked at the fora. Now the main site is something that I rarely visit, but the Fora have become a regular part of daily life.

Iarwain

Beren87 · 07-12-2003, 03:27 AM

Hum, for some odd reason I thought I had already posted on this thread, so I haven't bothered with it. However, reading back through the last few pages I found I didn't post. How strange.

Anyway, a long time ago..hmm..early '01 I think it was, I was founding my own EZboard forum based on politics and specifically the views presented in Ender's Game. While going through the "recently visited" in one of the posters on my forum I found this place. Soon I was posting every so often. Then when the site converted to PHP-UBB, I came back and reregisted under this new nick. Unfortunatly, I waited about a month before coming back, making me the 492nd person to sign up (instead of a much earlier number, but oh well). Strangly enough, it was only about a year and a half ago I finally discovered the chat.

Amarinth · 07-22-2003, 03:56 AM

woah! this'd be my first post after, say, five months!

hmmm, i remember a friend emailing me one bd quiz and getting hooked. took me quite some time to finally notice the forum and join it. scantily i may add... anyway, it seemed like a different crowd populated the downs then, and streaming in and out as i often do, one can really get a feel of how the site is growing and changing. for example, you can tell that new membership now is mostly through word-of-mouth among the young, is that right?

hey i missed the downs! removed to japan for grad studs and now, in this totally different culture, logging in here feels like communicating with earth from a totally different planet...

Sophia the Thunder Mistress · 07-22-2003, 03:25 PM

I was posting at one of those lit. help forums, the kind where people go to ask about themes of a book or what have you because their lit paper is due in ten minutes and they haven't started yet. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I was mainly in the Shakespeare bits, but I noticed they had a Lord of the Rings forum too, so I wandered in one day. Lo and behold half the posters in there had a www.barrowdowns.com link in their sigs, including someone called Einafets the Ice Princess, who I was pals with. And then one fateful day I clicked it and registered here...

... and almost a year later I started posting regularly... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]Sophia

Orofaniel · 07-22-2003, 03:57 PM

I can't really remember. I just popped in one day I think. But I didn't register on the forum until much later. I thought the form thingy was to long and that it was to many questions. But one day I just did it, which I don't regret. It' soooooo cool here. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Quite boring story huh? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Guinevere · 07-24-2003, 09:01 AM

Well, it was only 2 years ago when my elder son (now 17) started reading the Hobbit and LotR (in German), that I got myself some English copies and was soon more of a fan than he is.
In spring 2002 I bought a book called "Tolkiens Welt" (by Michael Nagula) and there was a list of the best Tolkien sites in it, including the BarrowDowns.
Being rather a luddite, I had hardly ever touched a computer before, but my son taught me how to use the internet so I could get in touch with other Tolkien-Fans all over the world. I was absolutely fascinated, and soon joined the BD. Since then I have read ever so many interesting and thought-provoking threads (though I don't post so often) and have fun in the quiz-room.
My sons now tease me about sitting for hours "staring in the Palantir" as they call it!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Who would have thought that!

Niluial · 07-24-2003, 01:53 PM

I was searching for my Elvish name and I went to google and I found the barrow-downs name generator! I didn’t like my name so I fiddled around. Later I saw the forum I searched the web for the perfect name and here I am!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ July 24, 2003: Message edited by: Niluial ]

peonydeepdelver · 07-28-2003, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Actually, I found the downs while looking for a hobbit name generator. Then I just kinda started going to the chat, and then registered and now I just can't live without the downs

Funny, that's exactly how I found it too. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Genevieve · 07-29-2003, 10:24 PM

My friend and I got really interested in lotr, and started searching the internet for good sites. My friend found the barrow downs, and I checked it out. For a long time I just read the fan fiction and barrow-comics ect. I thought I had explored the whole site until that same friend told me about the forum, and recently convinced me to join. And I love it!! It's great! Im so glad it was put together!! Thank you everyone who created this site and who are keeping it going (including all you other posters [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )!! THanks. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Hirilaelin · 08-01-2003, 08:38 PM

The name generator. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Actually, I found a different one, but I didn't like the name I got so I tryed the BD's version.

After poking around the site for a few months and chatting, I decided to give the forum a try. So here I am!

***HIRILAELIN***

10-01-2002, 07:14 PM	#81
Faye Took Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 345	I heard it from a chat room actually. I was sooo happy to find this site! Its awsome! I can finally improve my writing skills. I want to be a writer or An Actress. Mostly an Actress. __________________ Dream-of the ones who came before. They are calling from across a distant shore. My Blog

10-03-2002, 12:43 PM	#82
alaklondewen Song of Seregon Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Following the road less traveled Posts: 1,201	I read The Hobbit in my Children's Literature course last semester. We had to write a paper on any topic from something we had read, and I chose the history of Hobbits. After looking in the books, I started searching the web and came across the Downs...I've been here ever since. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [ October 03, 2002: Message edited by: alaklondewen ] __________________ At last I understand why we have waited! This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away!

10-12-2002, 04:24 PM	#83
vanwalossien Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: middle of Nowhere/Norway Posts: 376	I heard of BD through a friend, and ever since I discovered the Forum, my social life has been internet based... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ "The ships hung in the air in much the same way as bricks don't"

10-12-2002, 04:45 PM	#84
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,473	I was looking for a Lord of the Rings chat, and stumbled upon this one while searching. I thought it was "cute", so I came back, and discovered the Name Translator. Then, after about 2 months on the chat, it was basically established that I would be coming here for a while, so I joined the Forum! And, here I am today: advertising to my Tolkien fan friends and getting weird looks! Woo! Go Barrow-Downs! __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

10-13-2002, 02:40 PM	#85
Amanaduial the archer Shadow of Starlight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: dancing among the ledgerlines... Posts: 2,397	i heard about it from a chat room as well, so if u still visit this site Mikey Korner-Davidson, thankyou so much! __________________ I am what I was, a harmless little devil

10-14-2002, 07:01 AM	#86
ilon Animated Skeleton Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: lothlorien Posts: 33	What do you know, I read about The Downs being featured in a column in one of our national newspaper the time the talk of the world was the new TLOTR movie. I checked out the site when I had the opportunity, became a member and read the informative posts, but unfortunately it's only now that i've actively started posting. __________________ "Not all those who wander are lost."

10-14-2002, 11:51 AM	#87
Nevfeniel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mithlond Posts: 783	The Downs were in a newspaper? WE'RE FAMOUS! Or at least the Barrow Downs are! But that's great, too! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] __________________ Consider the purr a variety of audible tranquilizer. [. . .] For a few of us, there is one more purr, a secret purr. When we combine our secret purrs, we produce the Purr of Power. And that is simply the amplified amity we feel as furred and purred beings.

10-19-2002, 02:54 AM	#88
Glorfinniel the Lost Wight Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Enchanted Isles Posts: 119	I acually was on another site called Daisy's Hobbit Hole...quaint little place. I was on the links and randomly clicked on The Barow Downs. I looked around and was impressed by the thoughtful, witty conversation, so I decided to join up. And here I am today [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ But Lancelot mused a little space, he said 'She has a lovely face' God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson

10-19-2002, 04:53 AM	#89
Mlo Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 65	Actually, I found the downs while looking for a hobbit name generator. Then I just kinda started going to the chat, and then registered and now I just can't live without the downs [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [ October 19, 2002: Message edited by: Mlo ] __________________ I may not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -Voltaire

10-19-2002, 10:28 AM	#90
Amanaduial the archer Shadow of Starlight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: dancing among the ledgerlines... Posts: 2,397	just out of interest, whats the address of daisys hobbit hole? Sounds quite sweet.. __________________ I am what I was, a harmless little devil

10-21-2002, 10:10 AM	#92
vanwalossien Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: middle of Nowhere/Norway Posts: 376	Neferchoirwen, I know exactly what you mean, my friends are getting really tired of having me talk 24/7 about my BD friends, they've even stopped asking "who's that?" when I mention a friend of mine they don't know, who has a really strange name, 'cause they presume it's elvish and that I'm talking about a downer... __________________ "The ships hung in the air in much the same way as bricks don't"

10-21-2002, 02:58 PM	#93
Auriel Haevasawen Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Nowhere of importance Posts: 240	This site was recommeded to me by a nine year old. I only came to put my name through the generator and have been here for the best part of a year since. It is a great escape and I do think of some of the people here as friends now. I am not clever enough nor Tolkien literate enough as to keep up with most folks here but I have found the Freestyle RPG my own alternative universe. Thankyou to whoever had the initial idea to develop the site. __________________ Auriel

07-10-2003, 01:02 PM	#94
Snowdog Emperor of the South Pole Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Western Shore of Lake Evendim Posts: 606	Wow... this is a good one. I remember the EZ board, and may have posted a couple times there under my global account 'Snowdogs' sometime in 2000 as I was in search of Tolkien boards at the time. I spent the years on Tolkienonline until I finally got banned. Anyway, I remember getting the emails about the board changing from EZ to UBB, but never responded. Now I have returned!

07-10-2003, 02:12 PM	#96
Annalaliath Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 380	MSN bords....... we have such things as links in those things. One of the managers had put a link to the downs there. I have told her since that she should not have since I will never be on there much anymore. __________________ Bloody Stumps!!!

07-10-2003, 05:52 PM	#97
Olorin Wight Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Where the sun sails and the moon walks. Posts: 155	I believe I found this site off google.com. __________________ Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then don't be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

07-10-2003, 09:38 PM	#98
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 808	the late "lordoftherings.com" had a collection of links, one of which led me to the late 25 hobbits website, and of course the Barrowdowns was number 1 (or two) on that list. I looked at it, did all of the quizzes (there were only a few back then), and hung around in the quiz chat room for a while. Then it became a frequent favorite, until late last year when I finally looked at the fora. Now the main site is something that I rarely visit, but the Fora have become a regular part of daily life. Iarwain __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"

07-12-2003, 03:27 AM	#99
Beren87 Master of the Secret Fire Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Between fire and ice, death and life Posts: 2,266	Hum, for some odd reason I thought I had already posted on this thread, so I haven't bothered with it. However, reading back through the last few pages I found I didn't post. How strange. Anyway, a long time ago..hmm..early '01 I think it was, I was founding my own EZboard forum based on politics and specifically the views presented in Ender's Game. While going through the "recently visited" in one of the posters on my forum I found this place. Soon I was posting every so often. Then when the site converted to PHP-UBB, I came back and reregisted under this new nick. Unfortunatly, I waited about a month before coming back, making me the 492nd person to sign up (instead of a much earlier number, but oh well). Strangly enough, it was only about a year and a half ago I finally discovered the chat.

07-22-2003, 03:56 AM	#100
Amarinth Wight Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: realm of agonized volcanoes Posts: 113	woah! this'd be my first post after, say, five months! hmmm, i remember a friend emailing me one bd quiz and getting hooked. took me quite some time to finally notice the forum and join it. scantily i may add... anyway, it seemed like a different crowd populated the downs then, and streaming in and out as i often do, one can really get a feel of how the site is growing and changing. for example, you can tell that new membership now is mostly through word-of-mouth among the young, is that right? hey i missed the downs! removed to japan for grad studs and now, in this totally different culture, logging in here feels like communicating with earth from a totally different planet... __________________ pity this busy monster,manunkind, not / -progress is a comfortable disease;/ your victim (death and life safely beyond) / plays with the bigness of his littleness ---ee cummings

07-22-2003, 03:25 PM	#101
Sophia the Thunder Mistress Scent of Simbelmynë Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Aboard Highwind, bound for Traverse Town Posts: 1,834	I was posting at one of those lit. help forums, the kind where people go to ask about themes of a book or what have you because their lit paper is due in ten minutes and they haven't started yet. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I was mainly in the Shakespeare bits, but I noticed they had a Lord of the Rings forum too, so I wandered in one day. Lo and behold half the posters in there had a www.barrowdowns.com link in their sigs, including someone called Einafets the Ice Princess, who I was pals with. And then one fateful day I clicked it and registered here... ... and almost a year later I started posting regularly... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]Sophia __________________ The seasons fall like silver swords, the years rush ever onward; and soon I sail, to leave this world, these lands where I have wander'd. O Elbereth! O Queen who dwells beyond the Western Seas, spare me yet a little time 'ere white ships come for me!

07-22-2003, 03:57 PM	#102
Orofaniel Mighty Mouse of Mordor Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Lands of the North, where no man can reach.... Posts: 827	I can't really remember. I just popped in one day I think. But I didn't register on the forum until much later. I thought the form thingy was to long and that it was to many questions. But one day I just did it, which I don't regret. It' soooooo cool here. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Quite boring story huh? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ I lost my old sig...somehow....screams and shouts ..............What is this?- Now isn't this fun? >_< .....and yes, the jumping mouse is my new avatar. ^_^

07-24-2003, 09:01 AM	#103
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,833	Well, it was only 2 years ago when my elder son (now 17) started reading the Hobbit and LotR (in German), that I got myself some English copies and was soon more of a fan than he is. In spring 2002 I bought a book called "Tolkiens Welt" (by Michael Nagula) and there was a list of the best Tolkien sites in it, including the BarrowDowns. Being rather a luddite, I had hardly ever touched a computer before, but my son taught me how to use the internet so I could get in touch with other Tolkien-Fans all over the world. I was absolutely fascinated, and soon joined the BD. Since then I have read ever so many interesting and thought-provoking threads (though I don't post so often) and have fun in the quiz-room. My sons now tease me about sitting for hours "staring in the Palantir" as they call it!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Who would have thought that! __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!

07-24-2003, 01:53 PM	#104
Niluial Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: In the darkness of white Posts: 631	I was searching for my Elvish name and I went to google and I found the barrow-downs name generator! I didn’t like my name so I fiddled around. Later I saw the forum I searched the web for the perfect name and here I am!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [ July 24, 2003: Message edited by: Niluial ] __________________ Life is not about how many breaths you take but about how many times it leaves you breathless. My rants, moans and groans in other words my Blog My Magical Site

07-29-2003, 10:24 PM	#106
Genevieve Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Where am I? Huh? I'm lost! Posts: 50	My friend and I got really interested in lotr, and started searching the internet for good sites. My friend found the barrow downs, and I checked it out. For a long time I just read the fan fiction and barrow-comics ect. I thought I had explored the whole site until that same friend told me about the forum, and recently convinced me to join. And I love it!! It's great! Im so glad it was put together!! Thank you everyone who created this site and who are keeping it going (including all you other posters [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )!! THanks. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ No thought was put into this I always knew it would come to this. Things have never been so swell I have never failed to feel Pain.

08-01-2003, 08:38 PM	#107
Hirilaelin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Immersed in a Good Book Posts: 392	The name generator. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Actually, I found a different one, but I didn't like the name I got so I tryed the BD's version. After poking around the site for a few months and chatting, I decided to give the forum a try. So here I am! *HIRILAELIN* __________________ ...so I fired two warning shots. Into his head. - Chicago Let Helky stay! Bree\|Imladris\|guess you'll never know...