Who's got the best signature?

[Mithalwen]

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea

Simple but has a lot of truth in it - but maybe I am biased since I live so close ot the sea.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea

Simple but has a lot of truth in it - but maybe I am biased since I live so close ot the sea.

I am glad you like it, I feel quite the same way about it as you.

I belive it was Karen Blixen who said or wrote it.

[Inziladun]

I rather like Groin's new one:

God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I really like Mithalwen's!

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray,
love, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts.

From Remembered Death by Agatha Christie, is it not? Loved that book!

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

I really like Mithalwen's!
From Remembered Death by Agatha Christie, is it not? Loved that book!

I believe it's from Hamlet.

But yes I like it too, Hamlet is probably my favourite play ever.

[Folwren]

So, I noticed this new signature the other night and was promptly confused and now don't know what a signature is.

Originally Posted by Elempi's Nature of a Sig

Signature? What signature?? SIGN - 8 - YOUR??? SIG - NATURE???? NATURE OF A SIG????? WHAT'S A SIG??????

[Folwren]

Originally Posted by Mith's Signature

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray,
love, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts.

Originally Posted by Aganzir

I believe it's from Hamlet.

But yes I like it too, Hamlet is probably my favourite play ever.

Yep, that's Hamlet.

I like that play, too. I studied it half the semester and I really, really enjoyed it.

[Kitanna]

Nogrod's

What's the difference between believing in what you see and seeing what you believe in?
A) Everything B) Nothing C) That's an incorrectly formulated question D) A Platypus

It's D right?

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Kitanna

It's D right?

I think it can be whichever you want it to be

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Folwren

Yep, that's Hamlet.

I like that play, too. I studied it half the semester and I really, really enjoyed it.

Indeed it is and though it was Ophelia's speech I was thinking of - I probably first encountered it through the Agatha Christie! I had all the childhood illnesses that kids are mostly now vaccinated against in sequence when I was about 8 or 9 and read a lot of Agatha Christie which started an enduring addiction to Detective Fiction. I didn't read Hamlet til I was doing A-levels when it was the set Shakespeare and we studied it so thoroughly that much has stayed in my mind so many years later.

[Morsul the Dark]

Well seeing as how I just got a part as Mad Hatter as well as one of the Tweedles

Kuruharan's signature made me laugh;

"The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax – of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot – and whether balrogs have wings"

[A Little Green]

Mith's signature made my day, and it makes me smile everytime I see it.

Originally Posted by Mith's sig

Time flies like an arrow
- but fruit flies like a banana

[Eönwë]

That's brilliant!

[Mithalwen]

I never thought I'd quote Terry Wogan but it has made me chortle since I heard it so had to share. I remember in linguistic class having to give all possible interpratations of various sentences including "time flies"....

Anyway I am glad it is liked.

Edit - Phew Wogan was quoting Groucho Marx!

[Mithalwen]

I love Phantom's pedantic observation of the regulations.

[radagastly]

Okay, I just changed my signature, so here is the old one: Or at least it's source. It's a poem by Walter de la Mare called "The Listeners":

The Listeners

'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller's head
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
'Is there anybody there?' he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller's call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
'Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:-
'Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,' he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.

Sorry I had to include the entire poem, but there are two reasons (maybe three.)

1. The first two lines have been my signature for nearly five years, and that endurance deserves some respect.
2. I was asked (once) where the lines came from, and I thought it would be appropriate to share it.
3. (yeah, I guess it is THREE!) It's a really good poem, and I think that people who enjoy good writing (like Tolkien) will like this too! (at least I hope so!)

Thanks

radagastly

[Morsul the Dark]

Ok just watched the linked video on Rikae's signature officially making hers the best!

[Mithalwen]

I wanted to honour Fea for being, I believe the first Fenris Wolf and Bar. Remember darling that it is the brave bold wolf that so often gains this status and you are the bravest and boldest wolf of all. Kudos.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I would like to give a thumbs up to Nogrod for having the signature that he has. I know the feeling.

Originally Posted by Nogrod's Signature

Ignorance is bliss...

No, ignorance is the worst enemy of bliss.

[wilwarin538]

I really like alatar's sig:

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. - Ecclesiastes 9:5

[Hakon]

I really like Eonwe's. It is true and touching and there are some other personal reasons I might mention another time.

A fact of life: No-one wants to be the same as everyone else, but no-one wants to be different

[Pitchwife]

Two of my favorites are Morthoron's

"Among theologians, heretics are those who are not backed with a sufficient array of battalions to render them orthodox." -- Voltaire

and davem's

"It's terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton

(darn - he's changed it, so I had to quote from memory)
I also second TGEW about Nog's new one.
Hakon, yours is rather nice as well, but do you mean character as in e.g. Aragorn, Hamlet, Madame Bovary or as in letter, rune, tengwa? Anyway, I'd like to add that we write blindfolded with invisible ink (in my experience, at least).

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I wanted to honour Fea for being, I believe the first Fenris Wolf and Bar. Remember darling that it is the brave bold wolf that so often gains this status and you are the bravest and boldest wolf of all. Kudos.

Just noticed this. Thank you, love, for noticing and caring. ♥

[Hakon]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

Hakon, yours is rather nice as well, but do you mean character as in e.g. Aragorn, Hamlet, Madame Bovary or as in letter, rune, tengwa? Anyway, I'd like to add that we write blindfolded with invisible ink (in my experience, at least).

Thank you. I mean a character as in a person. It is just something I noticed lately in my own life how that I keep making decisions about who I am. It makes me feel like I am just creating another character for some story I am trying to write.

[Nessa Telrunya]

Hakon, I really like your sig, it's especially true for people who write a lot. It seems like, in life, everyone is a side character in the biggest book ever.

[Hakon]

Thank you Nessa. I have a funny story about people being characters. It is both funny and embarrassing.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

davem's current signature is both clever and Tolkien-relevant - I love quote parodies!

Eowyn: I fear neither death nor pain.

Aragorn: That is well my lady, for they have cancelled your healthcare plan....

[skip spence]

I like pitchwife's. It's very relevant these days.

I WILL NOT BE PUSHED, FILED, STAMPED, INDEXED, BRIEFED, DEBRIEFED OR NUMBERED. MY LIFE IS MY OWN.

[Eönwë]

Thank you Hakon.

I would also like to nominate, Laurinquë's

-- Let the sun beat down upon my face --- stars fill my dreams --- I'm a traveler of both time and space --- to be where I have been --

I've always liked that song.

[Laurinquë]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

I would also like to nominate, Laurinquë's
I've always liked that song.

Thank you! That IS a good song! Still, it's hard to beat you and Nog for good (and meaningful) signatures.

[Bêthberry]

There's something very appropriate to a Tolkien forum in alatar's new siggie from Houseman's A Shropshire Lad. Nice pick, blue wizard.

Originally Posted by alatar's current siggie

East and west on fields forgotten
Bleach the bones of comrades slain,
Lovely lads and dead and rotten;
None that go return again.

[alatar]

Originally Posted by wilwarin538

I really like alatar's sig:

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. - Ecclesiastes 9:5

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

There's something very appropriate to a Tolkien forum in alatar's new siggie from Houseman's A Shropshire Lad. Nice pick, blue wizard.

(See below)

Thanks to you both. Both choices were obvious, as they speak of the dead, and so seemed appropriate for the Downs. What surprised me was that Bêthberry was able to identify the author of the second/current sig via a few lines.

[Laurinquë]

I do not want to sound hurtful in the least, but I must say that Eönwë's signature made me do a double take the first time I read it; the bit about the Night Guard saving people automatically made me think he must be referring to the saving of their teeth from grinding. I understand now, but it was rather amusing.

The Night Guard will save you, if the village decides...

And before I forget, I have been fond of Oddwen's signature for quite some time now. It's rather adorable.

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Laurinquë

I do not want to sound hurtful in the least, but I must say that Eönwë's signature made me do a double take the first time I read it; the bit about the Night Guard saving people automatically made me think he must be referring to the saving of their teeth from grinding. I understand now, but it was rather amusing.

Hahahahaha

I hadn't even though of that.

Originally Posted by alatar

What surprised me was that Bêthberry was able to identify the author of the second/current sig via a few lines.

And using your modly powers for that one, eh?

[Eönwë]

I like Nienna's:

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

[Hakon]

Eonwe, is your current signature from a poem?

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Hakon

Eonwe, is your current signature from a poem?

It's a song. Let's see which Downer can name it first...

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

It's a song. Let's see which Downer can name it first...

Not much of a challenge when Google exists. Not my typical cup of tea, but the song's got a nice rhythm to it, and a strong set of lyrics.

[Nogrod]

Loves Jethro Tull... *an old hippie anyways*

(I actually made a version of the song that I left just on the point where those words would have been next - it was already like 5 minutes or so...)

[Nogrod]

Actually it's to be heard in here...

Thick as a Brick it is (even if the stuff gets "thicker" only at 3 minutes and something when the electric guitar and the rest come in... ).