Family - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

DarkRose · 10-01-2002, 08:50 PM

Well, I was just being curious me, so I had to start this topic. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

My slightly older brother has joined and surfs around the forums on a daily basis. His username is Dwalin, but he hasn't posted yet. He is determined to find a good, juicy topic to place his opinions in, and is also set on creating controversy. So watch out for him. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

My dad also has joined the Barrow Downs forums, heehee. His username is Quickbeam the Hasty, but he also has not posted yet. I have yet to teach him how to go about posting, etc. on the Downs, as he knows very little about computers and the internet. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] But he'll be popping around the forums soon!

Does anyone else have family members posting on the Downs?

Faye Took · 10-01-2002, 08:59 PM

I have a lot of friends that are family members to me on the Barrow-Downs. Its funny, whenever I'm talking to people on AIM they always ask me what I'm doing. Its the same thing everytime RPGING! Whheeee I love this site.

Thengise Greenleaf of Mirkwood · 10-01-2002, 10:30 PM

Hey Faye!! Yep, same here! I have a whole bunch of friends from school who play my family on the barrow downs. Faye being one of them. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Eärendil · 10-02-2002, 01:07 AM

eleniwilwarin is a friend of mine, ex-class mate. And my littlebrother joined the 'Downs a few months ago, but he hasn´t posted yet.
I guess that´s it....

Elenna · 10-02-2002, 02:17 PM

My friend Shadow_staar joined the Rivendell RPG and now is involved in my Cirith Ungol RPG.

All we talk about at school is the Barrow Downs and Tolkien.

Donisile Of Mirkwood · 10-02-2002, 02:23 PM

Nope,only one of my friends is into the LOTR books. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Ah well [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Arwen Imladris · 10-02-2002, 02:38 PM

My brother is Sarin Elfarmour, but he kinda got bored after like the first week. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Oh well, all the more computer for me!

Eruwen · 10-02-2002, 03:33 PM

Well, sadly none of my family members are as into Tolkien as I am. They just like the movie.

But I do have a friend at school I told about this site. He got on it, and came back the next day. I asked him how he liked it and he was like...it's ok. I was like...well, did you possibly get onto the forum? His answer...no. Duh!! This is one of the best parts about this site!! I'll see if I can get him back on though.

Aylwen Dreamsong · 10-02-2002, 03:59 PM

Gosh, some of you people are lucky, with your parents and siblings and friends all into Tolkien. One of my friends is mildly into the books, my dad read them years ago...I tried getting my friends to like it....but I'm not a very forceful person...

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Aylwen

Brinniel · 10-02-2002, 04:33 PM

No one in my family has even read LOTR! I think my mom and dad have read The Hobbit, but that's it. My sister believes that since she saw the movie she doesn't need to read the books.

I do have on friend on here- Ithaeliel. I'm currently trying to encourage a friend to join. She loves LOTR and says that Tolkien inspires her writing. Perhaps if I send her my RPG, she'll consider joining.

My mom's friend also loves LOTR and she's done other message boards before. I emailed her a link to this site and though she's shown no sign of joining, perhaps she will someday.

Lastly, I have a god-brother who is also obsessed with Tolkien. I've known him all my life, but when I last saw him, it was LOTR that got us into a real conversation for the first time in 10 years!

Perhaps I'll recommend this site to him the next time I see him, if he hasn't already discovered it.

Ithaeliel · 10-02-2002, 04:45 PM

As you probably (now) know, Brinn is a friend of mine. We run with the same group, so to speak [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]. Also there is my dear friend Elizabeth, who, I quote, "doesn't do forums" (what a sad, sad thing). Then there's another girl at my school who is IN LOVE with Orli (yep, one of those). I don't think I'll recommend the site to her, since she really doesn't talk about much else concerning LotR. My family likes LotR okay, but the last time my parents even read the books was twenty years ago. My brother is not at all interested. He's off in his own world, as I am in mine most of the time.

Brinniel · 10-02-2002, 04:55 PM

Ith- That 'other' friend I was talking about was Liz. I might be able to encourage her, but if I do, she'll probably just RPG. That would be wonderful though, considering that she is an excellent writer.

onewhitetree · 10-02-2002, 09:28 PM

I am my own pet Oliphaunt.

Tigerlily Gamgee · 10-02-2002, 09:31 PM

Quote:

I am my own pet Oliphaunt.

[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Quote of the Week!!!

My dad has read the books, but he doesn't like computers well enough to spend time at a forum... oh well.

The Viking Thunder · 10-03-2002, 03:54 AM

My brother and I joined this forum on the same day, within the hour. He has ten times more posts than me because I have school and he doesn't.
Lucky @#!%#^&*!! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Salix · 10-04-2002, 07:09 PM

My sister is also on this forum, but she kind of gave up after a short while. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Both my parents have read LOTR, and at least my dad has read the Silm, but he refuses to by anymore books edited by Christopher Tolkien.

Lush · 10-04-2002, 07:45 PM

Luckily, not a single member of my family is also a member of the Downs, because my sigature alone might cause my father to take me out of the university and send me to a nunnery in Siberia. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

The less parents now, the easier they sleep, or so we say in Russia.

Neferchoirwen · 10-05-2002, 09:57 AM

Dark Rose, your dad sounds like a cool one.

I hope everyone's family would post...

Sadly, my family's not the reading sort. They tend to be close-minded about a lot of things, while i tend to sound smarter than some of them. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] heehee. Kidding.

My family shebang sound like Hobbits, don't they?

VanimaEdhel · 10-08-2002, 05:29 PM

Lucky...I've been trying to get all my friends to come on here, but none of them have done so...they're all very obssessed too...

My parents? Heck no: they wouldn't come on here! LOL...

And I have no siblings to come on...well: the voices in my head sometimes make appearances and get me in trouble, but... [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

amyrlis · 10-09-2002, 01:12 PM

Although I don't have any family members who belong to this forum, I do have an identical twin sister who is very 'into' Tolkien. In fact, she is the one who got me to read LOTR. But, I went on to read the Sil and have not been able to get her hooked on it, although she's trying. On the other hand, she has read BoLT. Since she doesn't belong to any Tolkien-related websites, and I doubt she ever will, I'd have to say that I'm the "more obsessed twin".

DarkRose · 10-09-2002, 02:27 PM

Wow, it seems I'm one of the only people with a parent interested in the Barrow Downs! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] This is quite interesting!

Well, as some of you may have noticed, my older brother who goes by the username here of Dwalin has finally started posting. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] He posted around The Movies forum a bit, but he's not nearly addicted to the Downs as I am. That's fortunate, considering the fact that I'm not too keen on sharing the computer with him that much. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

My dad still hasn't acually posted! Hmmph. And his ickle daughter took the trouble to make him his screen name that he took 40 minutes to decide upon! :rolleyes Well, I read him the posts and topics he wants to hear often, but he always gets too frusterated every time I try to teach him about how to go about posting, etc. Oh well! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Bwaha, let's keep on recruiting our RL Tolkien buddies and family members! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

The-Elf-Herself · 10-09-2002, 02:43 PM

For everyone here's sake I'm trying to keep my brother OFF the Barrowdowns. He's into Tolkien, read the trilogy(although I'm still trying to get him to read the Sil.). He's even planning to film his own Lord of the Rings parody(he<ahem> the BOTH of us have actually wrote the script out; now comes recruiting actors). However, that's part of the problem. He's kind of a troublemaker, and has already caused plenty of mayhem at theForce.net using about five different screen names. He's not BAD, just very...creative, humor-wise and he might not last long without being banned. On the other hand, he might just fit in. I'll just have to remind him that if he DOES get into trouble, not to mention my screen name. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Estelyn Telcontar · 10-09-2002, 03:48 PM

Guess what - I'm a parent whose kids wouldn't dream of coming to the Downs! So it happens the other way around too...

Raefindel · 10-13-2002, 01:16 PM

Don't I know it Estelyn! My kids think I have a serious problem!

ilon · 10-14-2002, 06:52 AM

My younger sister have also tried to read the books, though she got tired reading the great full-length books. A classmate of mine
introduce The Hobbit to me years ago, then I tried looking for the other three.

10-01-2002, 08:50 PM	#1
DarkRose Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Sauron's Garden Posts: 157	Family Well, I was just being curious me, so I had to start this topic. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] My slightly older brother has joined and surfs around the forums on a daily basis. His username is Dwalin, but he hasn't posted yet. He is determined to find a good, juicy topic to place his opinions in, and is also set on creating controversy. So watch out for him. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] My dad also has joined the Barrow Downs forums, heehee. His username is Quickbeam the Hasty, but he also has not posted yet. I have yet to teach him how to go about posting, etc. on the Downs, as he knows very little about computers and the internet. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] But he'll be popping around the forums soon! Does anyone else have family members posting on the Downs? __________________ "All rivers go to the sea, yet never does the sea become full."

10-01-2002, 08:59 PM	#2
Faye Took Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 345	I have a lot of friends that are family members to me on the Barrow-Downs. Its funny, whenever I'm talking to people on AIM they always ask me what I'm doing. Its the same thing everytime RPGING! Whheeee I love this site. __________________ Dream-of the ones who came before. They are calling from across a distant shore. My Blog

10-01-2002, 10:30 PM	#3
Thengise Greenleaf of Mirkwood Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Mirkwood, my kingdom Posts: 404	Hey Faye!! Yep, same here! I have a whole bunch of friends from school who play my family on the barrow downs. Faye being one of them. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ Thengise Greenleaf daughter of Legolas Greenleaf. My heart and soul belong to Judge Simon.

10-02-2002, 01:07 AM	#4
Eärendil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor (RtL: 1220 miles) Posts: 562	eleniwilwarin is a friend of mine, ex-class mate. And my littlebrother joined the 'Downs a few months ago, but he hasn´t posted yet. I guess that´s it.... __________________ Jag ska aldrig göra dig illa. Inte igen. Åtminstone inte mycket, åtminstone inte hårt. Kommer du ihåg? Då vi fortfarande kunde skratta, le på ett äkta vis. Jag tänker på det ibland. Det smärtar. För aldrig har du väl varit. Längre bort. Från mig.

10-02-2002, 02:17 PM	#5
Elenna A Ghostly Light Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My private bubble of innocence Posts: 563	My friend Shadow_staar joined the Rivendell RPG and now is involved in my Cirith Ungol RPG. All we talk about at school is the Barrow Downs and Tolkien. __________________ If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

10-02-2002, 02:23 PM	#6
Donisile Of Mirkwood Animated Skeleton Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: UK Posts: 36	Nope,only one of my friends is into the LOTR books. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Ah well [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ Let it not be said and said unto your shame that there was beauty here before you came.

10-02-2002, 02:38 PM	#7
Arwen Imladris Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In a box with a fox Posts: 1,347	My brother is Sarin Elfarmour, but he kinda got bored after like the first week. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Oh well, all the more computer for me! __________________ "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up, sleepies, we must go, yes, we must go at once."

10-02-2002, 03:33 PM	#8
Eruwen Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 901	Well, sadly none of my family members are as into Tolkien as I am. They just like the movie. But I do have a friend at school I told about this site. He got on it, and came back the next day. I asked him how he liked it and he was like...it's ok. I was like...well, did you possibly get onto the forum? His answer...no. Duh!! This is one of the best parts about this site!! I'll see if I can get him back on though.

10-02-2002, 03:59 PM	#9
Aylwen Dreamsong The Melody of Misery Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Island of Conclusions (You get there by jumping!)... Posts: 1,162	Gosh, some of you people are lucky, with your parents and siblings and friends all into Tolkien. One of my friends is mildly into the books, my dad read them years ago...I tried getting my friends to like it....but I'm not a very forceful person... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Aylwen __________________ ...Come down now, they'll say. But everything looks perfect from far away - Come down now! But we'll stay.

10-02-2002, 04:33 PM	#10
Brinniel Reflection of Darkness Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull. Posts: 3,027	No one in my family has even read LOTR! I think my mom and dad have read The Hobbit, but that's it. My sister believes that since she saw the movie she doesn't need to read the books. I do have on friend on here- Ithaeliel. I'm currently trying to encourage a friend to join. She loves LOTR and says that Tolkien inspires her writing. Perhaps if I send her my RPG, she'll consider joining. My mom's friend also loves LOTR and she's done other message boards before. I emailed her a link to this site and though she's shown no sign of joining, perhaps she will someday. Lastly, I have a god-brother who is also obsessed with Tolkien. I've known him all my life, but when I last saw him, it was LOTR that got us into a real conversation for the first time in 10 years! Perhaps I'll recommend this site to him the next time I see him, if he hasn't already discovered it. __________________ Nolite te bastardes carborundorum Last edited by Brinniel; 02-04-2007 at 07:29 PM.

10-02-2002, 04:45 PM	#11
Ithaeliel Cornus Caliga Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Five-hundred-twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes from here Posts: 724	As you probably (now) know, Brinn is a friend of mine. We run with the same group, so to speak [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]. Also there is my dear friend Elizabeth, who, I quote, "doesn't do forums" (what a sad, sad thing). Then there's another girl at my school who is IN LOVE with Orli (yep, one of those). I don't think I'll recommend the site to her, since she really doesn't talk about much else concerning LotR. My family likes LotR okay, but the last time my parents even read the books was twenty years ago. My brother is not at all interested. He's off in his own world, as I am in mine most of the time. __________________ That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. .................William Wordsworth

10-02-2002, 04:55 PM	#12
Brinniel Reflection of Darkness Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull. Posts: 3,027	Ith- That 'other' friend I was talking about was Liz. I might be able to encourage her, but if I do, she'll probably just RPG. That would be wonderful though, considering that she is an excellent writer. __________________ Nolite te bastardes carborundorum Last edited by Brinniel; 02-04-2007 at 07:29 PM.

10-02-2002, 09:28 PM	#13
onewhitetree Seeker of Syntax Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: The Scene of the Crime Posts: 273	I am my own pet Oliphaunt. __________________ onewhitetree (also known as Kate) Well, I'M BACK.

10-03-2002, 03:54 AM	#15
The Viking Thunder Animated Skeleton Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 37	My brother and I joined this forum on the same day, within the hour. He has ten times more posts than me because I have school and he doesn't. Lucky @#!%#^&*!! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ Thorgrim Odinson

10-04-2002, 07:09 PM	#16
Salix Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: May 2002 Location: Riverbank of the Anduin Posts: 299	My sister is also on this forum, but she kind of gave up after a short while. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Both my parents have read LOTR, and at least my dad has read the Silm, but he refuses to by anymore books edited by Christopher Tolkien. __________________ Do not trifle with Dragons, as you are small, and crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.

10-04-2002, 07:45 PM	#17
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,803	Luckily, not a single member of my family is also a member of the Downs, because my sigature alone might cause my father to take me out of the university and send me to a nunnery in Siberia. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] The less parents now, the easier they sleep, or so we say in Russia. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~

10-05-2002, 09:57 AM	#18
Neferchoirwen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: RtR: 483.3 miles, Fords of Bruinen Posts: 513	Dark Rose, your dad sounds like a cool one. I hope everyone's family would post... Sadly, my family's not the reading sort. They tend to be close-minded about a lot of things, while i tend to sound smarter than some of them. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] heehee. Kidding. My family shebang sound like Hobbits, don't they? __________________ On really romantic nights of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion. ~Speed Levitch http://crevicesofsilence.blogspot.com/

10-08-2002, 05:29 PM	#19
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,473	Lucky...I've been trying to get all my friends to come on here, but none of them have done so...they're all very obssessed too... My parents? Heck no: they wouldn't come on here! LOL... And I have no siblings to come on...well: the voices in my head sometimes make appearances and get me in trouble, but... [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ "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

10-09-2002, 01:12 PM	#20
amyrlis Wight Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Helcaraxe Posts: 210	Although I don't have any family members who belong to this forum, I do have an identical twin sister who is very 'into' Tolkien. In fact, she is the one who got me to read LOTR. But, I went on to read the Sil and have not been able to get her hooked on it, although she's trying. On the other hand, she has read BoLT. Since she doesn't belong to any Tolkien-related websites, and I doubt she ever will, I'd have to say that I'm the "more obsessed twin". __________________ "Pull the blinders from my eyes, let me see these endless skies And drown here where I stand in the beauty of the land."

10-09-2002, 02:27 PM	#21
DarkRose Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Sauron's Garden Posts: 157	Wow, it seems I'm one of the only people with a parent interested in the Barrow Downs! [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] This is quite interesting! Well, as some of you may have noticed, my older brother who goes by the username here of Dwalin has finally started posting. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] He posted around The Movies forum a bit, but he's not nearly addicted to the Downs as I am. That's fortunate, considering the fact that I'm not too keen on sharing the computer with him that much. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] My dad still hasn't acually posted! Hmmph. And his ickle daughter took the trouble to make him his screen name that he took 40 minutes to decide upon! :rolleyes Well, I read him the posts and topics he wants to hear often, but he always gets too frusterated every time I try to teach him about how to go about posting, etc. Oh well! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Bwaha, let's keep on recruiting our RL Tolkien buddies and family members! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] __________________ "All rivers go to the sea, yet never does the sea become full."

10-09-2002, 02:43 PM	#22
The-Elf-Herself Haunting Spirit Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mithlond Posts: 74	For everyone here's sake I'm trying to keep my brother OFF the Barrowdowns. He's into Tolkien, read the trilogy(although I'm still trying to get him to read the Sil.). He's even planning to film his own Lord of the Rings parody(he<ahem> the BOTH of us have actually wrote the script out; now comes recruiting actors). However, that's part of the problem. He's kind of a troublemaker, and has already caused plenty of mayhem at theForce.net using about five different screen names. He's not BAD, just very...creative, humor-wise and he might not last long without being banned. On the other hand, he might just fit in. I'll just have to remind him that if he DOES get into trouble, not to mention my screen name. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ Go here http://www.geocities.com/sunlit_rain/home_page for songs translated into elvish.~Eruantale Aranìs Oronlamba~

10-09-2002, 03:48 PM	#23
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,645	Guess what - I'm a parent whose kids wouldn't dream of coming to the Downs! So it happens the other way around too... __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

10-13-2002, 01:16 PM	#24
Raefindel Sword of the Spirit Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Washington State Posts: 1,325	Don't I know it Estelyn! My kids think I have a serious problem! __________________ Blessed be the Lord my Strength, Who trained my hands for war and my fingers to fight. Psallm 144:1

10-14-2002, 06:52 AM	#25
ilon Animated Skeleton Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: lothlorien Posts: 33	My younger sister have also tried to read the books, though she got tired reading the great full-length books. A classmate of mine introduce The Hobbit to me years ago, then I tried looking for the other three. __________________ "Not all those who wander are lost."