Know Yer Mates, or a Member Above Ye

[Gil-Galad]

Ah Estelyn Telcontar... shes visited a few downers in Germany, or so i've heard and is a rigourous and getle Moderator that helps the set newbies in their places and guides them through the posting process, bravo dear Estelyn, bravo

[Gurthang]

Gil-Galad is an interesting fellow. He posts very frequently, having averaged over three posts a day during his two and a half years on the Downs. He does prefer to respond to rather than start threads, although he has begun thirty or so of his own. Many of them can be found in the Quiz Room. His most popular include Of Gondorians and Rohirrim..., The Topic Game, and odd item out. His greatest was The Topic Game, which has garnered more than 1,000 responses.

His main haunting grounds are the Quiz Room and Middle-earth Mirth, although he does visit The Barrowdowns and Novices and Newcomers. He's even been seen in The Books and The Movies a few times. He has a good sense of humor, which he uses regularly, but his sort of funny often goes unappreciated.

He likes computer gaming and LotR and enjoys a tasty dwarf when he gets hungry, according to his Biography. I would also guess that he likes Star Wars from his jedi-ish e-mail address.

[The Only Real Estel]

Gurthang. Well let's see. His name is Gurthang, & Gurthang means him. He has a habit of posting thought-provoking posts & threads in The Books especially; having earned the distinction of being the starter of such popular threads as The source of Dragons, The Gift of Speech, Elves and Ringwraiths, & Entwife Hide-and-Seek. His good sense of humor has gotten him the majority of his reps from Crazy Captions.

Speaking of reps, Gurthang has risen to eight boxes (three of them a shiny shade of green) & is welcome in Aragorn's Court despite only having time to make 340 posts (so far) since joining the downs in August of 2003.

He is a Christian, has graduated from that blasted institution that is high school & works as a slave laborer at a convenience store (correct me if I'm wrong).

[Nimrodel_9]

The Only Real Estel likes collecting little green boxes, and enjoys basketball and football. He shares three of my interests: music, movies, and I believe Nintendo.

[mormegil]

Nimmy is a fellow Utahan although she's from a small town. She works at a local drive in, which all small towns in Utah seem to have. She's probably the only person in her whole town that is fanatical about Tolkien. Traditionally people from small towns here know just about everybody in the town. But most importantly it seems that she enjoys playing video games.

[Firefoot]

Mormegil, commonly known as Morm, is a well-liked member who has earned quite the reputation for himself in just 3 1/2 months since he joined. He posts most frequently in the Palantir of Fortune, Crazy Captions, and Werewolf threads, though he also posts fairly often in other Mirth threads, the Quiz Room, and in the Barrow-Downs, as well as a few in N&N and the Books. His favorite character is Turin, though his favorite hobbit is decidedly Sam (not Bilbo, whom he calls "a senile old coot").

Morm dislikes incorrectness of speech (such as the use of double negatives), racism, black licorice, busy work, and British spellings.

He is in his upper 20's and has a wife and young daughter, both of whom are included in his picture on the picture page. He is quite tall, 6'5". He lives in Utah and apparently likes video games.

[the phantom]

Despite having been named after a horse and displaying a horse avatar for quite a while, Firefoot is not actually a horse.

She is a centaur.

And don't let her name fool you. Her feet are not on fire. The "foot" part of her name represents her great speed (she once ran in the Kentucky Derby), and "Fire" represents her extreme hotness.

She posts a lot- 7.35 posts a day as of right now. That's a bit much if you ask me, but everyone has a fault or two.

Well...except ...

Firefoot enjoys playing in games of Werewolf here on the Downs, though not so much now that I am not playing. She is extremely excited about my return.

She is also extremely thoughtful- she sent me a lovely pm on my birthday (which some of you forgot to do!).

Overall, Firefoot is a top notch young lady.

...err...young centauress...I guess...

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Le Fantome has recently been out of town on vacation, much to the eternal dismay of his fanclub, who even more recently purchased him a place of advertisement in Dancing Spawn's signature. He responded positively upon his return.

Though he promised to throw a particularly interesting (read: lovely ) fellow 'Downer a graduation shindig on the Dinner Parties thread, he fell through with this and she was sad.

His ego is reportedly the size of a small planet which vastly outstrips Gil-Galad's which is simply visable from space. This made Gil-Galad (TTM) sad.

His presence has been reportedly missed on WW threads, and he is well known for his talent at procuring mischief there and other places. His absence due to vacation made many... sad.

He is a sportsman (though dear lord not soccer) and takes some rather nice photos of the places he has seen.

He dares not journey (read: vacation) to the East, for that is where lies Mordor. And the blue states.

He suggests that many of us shall rue not following his requests.

[Formendacil]

Feanor of the Peredhil is just about 18 years old. According to her profile, her birthdate is fifteen days hence. She recently graduated from High School- an event that she presumably awaited with great eagerness.

Fea is most associated on the 'Downs with the Phantom, and the rumours continually recur that they are an item- a fact that is constantly being denied due to practical reasons like 1000 mile distances between. Fea has also been known to state that if relationships at home don't work out, how would one spread that far apart.

From that, it would appear that we may surmise that Fea has thus far been unsuccessful in love- although we may hope that that will prove otherwise in the future ("we" does not include the Phantom, of course). Fea is certainly, from her posts, a very intelligent young lady, and (from her pic in Tigerlily's gallery) a very pretty one.

Now. Someone has to try and figure ME out.

[Lhunardawen]

We nailed him, yess. In the 'How do you imagine other BDers' thread, Formendhacil (a.k.a. Michael A. Joosten) is revealed to be a homebody, a bookworm, and an not-so-athletic guy who wears glasses. This Canadian (from Olds, Alberta) is but 18 (born on February 12, 1987), yet his disposition and intelligence are beyond his age.

He decided to take the plunge and join a reputable Tolkien fan group (assuming he refers to our beloved Downs) January 7 of this year. Merely almost 7 months dead, he has already scaled the heights of the reputation system and now sits on high Taniquetil, showing himself to be a real Tolkien freak that he claims to be. Recently he has joined Eomer & Co. in showing their appreciation for the Wargs and their Riders, adding yet another item in his well-stocked profile - as a specialist in the field of First and Second Age Warg History.

On a more serious note, he mentioned in the Books thread 'And it slips through our fingers' that he is a Type 1 diabetic. It is certainly a wonderful thing that he is still around, and a member of this forum at that. Speaking of the Books, he has taken on the form of a Devil's Advocate quite several times in discussions.

Oh, and he has disproved my assumption that my brother Nilp is the only teenager in the world who still plays with Lego. You will see an admirable exhibit of Middle Earth rendered in Lego, if you will click this link.

There would have been more, but this is all I can come up with for now. Did I do you justice, sire?

[Lhunardawen]

It's probably pointless to say this, as it is already too late a comment, but...

Originally Posted by Gil-Galad

Lhunardawen has the great club of near-sighted elves which is a rather ingenius idea...though i'm pretty sure she was the one that had the Arwen with Glasses Avvie for a bit there...which was worthy of Gil-Galad's laughter

That wasn't me but Maeggaladiel, Founder of the Nearsighted Elves Society.

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

There would have been more, but this is all I can come up with for now. Did I do you justice, sire?

T'is me to the hilt. Excellent job done. It appears I have left more scattered information about me on the 'Downs than I had thought. Should I ever pop in here again though, coming up with something not already mentioned will be a bit more of a difficulty.

Next person up, you may commence with figuring out Lhunardawen

[Orominuialwen]

Lhunardawen is a self-professed Lhunatic, and she has played this role in several Werewolf games. She lives in the Philippines and is the younger sister of Nilpaurion Felagund. Many people have trouble with her name (possibly becase of the h?), which means "blue earth woman." She is a biology major and was born on January 4th, 1989. She says she would be the strangest member of her family, if it weren't for Nilp, and so has to take second place. Despite the mental image that many people (myself included) have of her, she looks nothing like Eowyn.

[Nimrodel_9]

Nimmy is a fellow Utahan although she's from a small town. She works at a local drive in, which all small towns in Utah seem to have. She's probably the only person in her whole town that is fanatical about Tolkien. Traditionally people from small towns here know just about everybody in the town. But most importantly it seems that she enjoys playing video games.

Yes, I enjoy video games, but I don't play very often. I forgot you were from Utah, Morm. That makes about 5 of us.

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

Orominuialwen is a sweet young lass who celebrates her birthday in September. She has wonderfully curly hobbit-like hair and "creepy" is the last adjective you could use to describe her - unless you play Werewolf with her.

Oromin is a very musical girl with a huge amout of hobbies including playing several instruments and fencing.

She has made her and her brother's avatars by herself. On the basis of the great avvies you could presume that she's quite talented with computers.

Oromin is walking to Rivendell and she has already passed Abandoned robbers den which is good since it isn't a very nice place to stay long. But in the wilderness she has also another way to defend herself against enemies than by using a sword: she can scream and apparently very loudly. According to Oromin's Live Journal she won a Howard Dean screaming contest in July! Congratulations, we are very proud of you!

[the guy who be short]

Dancing spawn is a Finn, and a far more attractive one than I, until reasonably recently, realised and gave her credit for. She lives in a perilous land full of snow and ice, though it is quite likely she has access to central heating, which renders this bearable.

In her profile, the spawnéd one claims to like lightning, thunder, music and drawing. She also claims to have been affected by the Chenobyl disaster.

As well as her interests listed above, she has a perfectly healthy obsession with the werewolf games. Who doesn't?

Spawn joined BD in 2003, yet has only managed circa 700 posts, less than one a day. Almost everybody will demand that she appear more often. More, I say!

Despite her relatively low post count (compared to her residence, anyway) she is very reputable (29th, actually, and dogging me). Her reputation will continue to rise as admiring hordes throng her, for she has a very good sense of humour and spends much time in Mirth (which she will doubtless remember as Mayhem, as it wall called in the Days of its Youth. Ah, sweet reminiscences.).

Spawn also likes the Movies, most of the threads she has created dwell therein.

Dancing Spawn has recently been the subject of much envy among the Quenya learners, for being a Finn, she should (and claims she does) find pronunciation and grammatical forms in Quenya easy. She is paired with Lhunardawen in the Quenya Club (Ooh, we're a club now, how select ) and enjoys it very much, though she laments the absence of cookies. She does not mind my using this as an opportunity to recruit new learners, and certainly doesn't disapprove of subliminal messaging.

Finally, she often rents her signature. I'm not sure what the going price is, but if anything needs advertising, she's your girl.

[The Only Real Estel]

TGWBS.

The stunted one has had more than a few avatars, recently switching his Mary Poppins related Ghandi avatar out for his newest one.

He is a frequent werewolf player (frequent enough that he has decided to sit out the newest one) & he's been a wolf at least once.

He started a project to learn Quenya on the Downs.

He is referred to as "the stunted one" & is intelligent. He has MSN messanger, but doesn't appreciated unknown guests suprising him with unexpected PMs.
Dec. 30, 89

Reading, writing, poetry, Tolkien, politics, Western history, computer games, Downs, & languages are also some of his favorites (I'll admit I copied that last sentence almost entirely out of his profile ).

The most recent example to me of TGWBS knack for the intelligent was when he coined the phrase 'Cobwolves' to refer to two certain WW players with one word instead of having to write out Cobbler & Werewolf.

He's bound for the straight road...for now, & he's a great BDer.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

His real name is Aragorn.

No, it isn't. It's Chris.

Right. Well, he was born March 1, 2931 . . .

Where are you getting these things?! His birthdate is February, 25, 1988!

I think he's confused. He's referring to the real Aragorn.

Ummm . . . yes.

Die! Just die! You have no brains at all!

Adam, that's not a nice thing to say.

I'll take over before you get it all wrong again.

~*~This is where it really begins~*~

Estel (or Chris) is 17 years old. He joined the dead wights on April 11, 2003. He is from Kansas. He enjoys quite a number of sports: basketball, basketball, football, and basketball--oh, wait. Basketball was repeated thrice. That might mean something.

There's a song stuck in his head right now (as his biography says): This is How a Heart Breaks by Rob Thomas.

He's the third top poster in the famous Crazy Captions thread. I dare say his humour is quite excellent. Better than my host, at the very least.

[the guy who be short]

Actually Estel, I've never been a wolf... the most interesting thing I've managed is Shirriff. Other than that, I have some sort of "Ordinary Villager" curse.

[Gurthang]

(Skipping TGWBS, as he was just clarifying.)

*Ahem*

Nilpaurion Felagund.

Nilpaurion, affectionately called Nilp by his friends on the Downs, has just turned 19 (an excellant age ) as of yesterday. He's been on the Downs for nearly two and a half years. In that time he has posted 3,333 (last I checked) and has become the 12th most reputed member on the Barrowdowns.

He has been involved in the Werewolf games, I believe the first few times just to see himself get lynchd. More recently in WWIX, he decided to try to survive rather than get himself killed and took part as a Shirrif.

From what I've seen, he's got a rather interesting case of split personality. Adam and Lucy(I think; could be wrong) are two of his alteregos. They sometimes surface together and provide very entertaining discussions. One of which may be found two posts up.

Nilp has started a few threads in his day, Gamling's Book of Middle Earth Records and Familial Ties (with no shoelaces!) to name the most popular. He stays mostly in Middle-Earth Fun and Games, but does travel to The Barrowdowns on occassion and has been known to look into The Books every once in a while.

He's got a very good mind about him (despite it being divided at times ). He likes to use humor quite a bit, especially in Crazy Captions, and seems to like short, to-the-point posts rather than lengthy explainations. Oh, and Nilp also intends to use a copied signature forever.

[Glirdan]

Gurthang

Gurthang is a 19 year old as of July and he's been dead for about 2 years and 1 month if my math is correct. He is the most reputed moember among the G's and is the 27th most reputed member out of all. Within that amount of time he's posted about 536 times and has started 28 different threads.

He's participated in the WW games and was the first Werebear. In that time he got 6 villagers and 1 chicken.

He's an active participant in the Crazy Captions and other Mirth threads. He really likes to boast about the fact that he was the Werebear, not that I mind.

[Gil-Galad]

Glirdan is a rather new member that posts alot... and i mean alot... and as stated by himself, he posts contradictive, and just because i can, here is my version of his life:


Glirdan was born into a family of sheep-herders from Dunland, though the family has a great ancestory of herding sheeps, Glirdan dared to challenge that by trying to herd trees, Glirdan could be seen after school stomping around the tree by the park yelling Haroom, his parents how ever put an end to it quite immediately.

though the herding aspect in Glirdan was still strong in the lad, so he began waking the sheep up at 2 -3 AM to talk to them about how he dreams of the big life in the spotlight, so he left his family of sheep herders and headed north,but he woke up on his first night so he went the wrong way and ended up in Dol Amroth, there he was catapulted back to Dunland, and he marched on towards Arnor, where he stumbled over a cabbage patch and fell into an empty Barrow, thus begins his life in the Barrow-Downs where he shows that hes still alive by talking and talking and talking, making The Phantom to mutter "urge to kill...rising"

while Glirdan is becoming more noticed, the WW games opens up and Glirdan decides to join them, being branded as a Beorning and dieing because of that, he continues the WW games


plus Gil-Galad rocks

cheers

[Glirdan]

Hilarious Gil!!!! BUt you know you don't rock, so why did you bother saying that??? And I can't help but talk. Again, it's in my nature..... Now I have a funny death!!! YAY!!!

[Alcarillo]

Gil-Galad is almost sixteen years old, having been born on October 30th of 1989. He has been on the Downs since 2003, and posts about three times a day. His main haunts are Middle-Earth Mirth and the Quiz Room, although he does visit the other fora.

He enjoys the Lord of the Rings (obviously) and computer games. He is also a self-styled Pun-master of awesomeness. Gil-Galad also is fond of the movies Spaceballs and Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail. And he has a healthy sense of humor.

He is the ladies' man of the Downs, and has a blossoming relationship with Lily Bombadil, another Downer.

[The Perky Ent]

Glirdan, I hate to break it to ya, but there's one tree in all or Arda you can't heard. Me! This is because I am head of the TGWBS Beauro, or the Tree and Grouchy Willow Beauro of Shepherding! So sorry, but we're out of the green form. You'll have to fill the purple one if you would like to requesition the green, which must be cross-checked by both parties and ratified in a bicameral legislature, then approved by the MORK (Ministry of Onodrim, River-women, and Kibil-nâla). Once approved by the MORK, you will have ten days to turn in the completed form, along with the red form, which you can only get after receiving the green form (Note. The red form takes 11 days to fill out). Have a nice day!



I don't know much, except that Alcarillo is the former mayor in swankytown...unless there's a swannkytown in the afterlife, in which case get rid of 'former'

[Glirdan]

Do not worry Perky, I will not try to heard you. Only the Hurons.
And the other Ents. I don't really feel like going through all that paper work just to be able to heard one Ent.

[Firefoot]

For having only joined in July, Alcarillo is a well-reputed member of the Downs. He posts mostly in ME Mirth and the QR, though he also posts here in the Barrow-downs and occasionally in the QQ, N&N, and Books, as well as being involved in a Shire RPG. He has enjoyed the games of Werewolf, though he is sitting this one out. His favorite hobbit is Sam.

Alcarillo was born on November 23. He lives in Seattle and likes Lemon-flavored candy, Rome, history, collecting ancient coins, and the like. Like me, he apparently has a liking for those conventionally useless languages, and is currently learning Latin and Quenya.

He is a student, was the former mayor of Swankytown (until they lynched him), and is the King of Moskovoka (wherever that is).

[Thinlómien]

Firefoot is on of the "most famous" downers (=having one of the best reputations). She is a student and she likes animals, especially horses. She is a werewolf-addict and she is mostly found in Middle-Earth Fun and Games -section, especially in the quiz room.
Her birthday is 28th of September. Her hobbies are (alongside with hanging in Downs and playing WW-games) soccer, writing, reading and puzzles. She has a brother, who has just turned 14.
In the Barrow-Downs, she has posted a lot of posts and started several threads, including Werewolf VII. She is an active member and posts usually clever and/or funny posts.

[Lush]

Thinlomien has a gorgeous nickname. She thinks that Elrond should be voted off the island. She makes me feel quite old. She recently made some LotR t-shirts with her friends and her mother does not approve. She believes in poetry and the environment and on this, I agree with her. Cheers.

[The Perky Ent]

Lush likes drinking beer, was originally from Kiev, and majors in russian. Her title (Fair and Cold) is incredibly cool. Also, Lush is a very acomplished writer in the downs, and current writes in Gondor!

[Gil-Galad]

A-Hem... Perky and me were a troublesome Duo, but then he died a second death, but now hes back...

Perky was an only child in a strict family, his father worked up in the mountains, whilst his mother left him at a very young age for a young aspiring Corporal Gothmog of Mordor, Perky's father became very depressed after that and Perky never saw him again.

Treebeard saw this and tried to comfort Perky, but Perky couldn't fully cope, and kicked treebeard in the shin because Treebeard accidently swatted his pet Kiwi bird over Orthanc while Treebeard was star quarterback on the Fanghorn Wildcats. Perky tried out for the team, but could not continue after he got hit in the head and started walking around "i'm an Albatross! I'm an Albatross! I'm flapping my Albatross wings, I'm flapping my Albatross wings" so the ents decided to kick Perky out and let him go as his own, that took a couple months cause Perky tried to capture Dunlendings for experiments in his den, which was invisible cause i said so.

Perky marched off towards the Anduin, saw a bird and ended up in Edoras, where he burned it, so they had to cover up the burn marks, thus the Golden Hall is born!

After being chased by the Rohirrim and with 13 and a hlaf spears in his back, he wandered up north to Tharbad and burned that too the ground too, then Perky beleived he was on fire, and he was, for 12 years Perky was on fire and thats why everything burns, Perky felt he was alone forever.

Perky then met Bob the troll, and they became good friends, always running around, playing hopscotch, drop-kicking poor curious hobbits, but one time when they were playing near the Downs, Perky accidently kicked a stone at Bob, and Bob pretended to be dead, so Perky dug a troll sized hole and put Bob in it, said his eulgy and turned away, but then Bob decided to snap out and popped up yelling 'Boo!" and pulled Perky, Perky ironically put on his jacket full of pointy object and Bob died, Perky then had a sudden heart attack and the ent was no more and lives now in the downs.


cheers

[The Perky Ent]

Gil-Galad gets my bio wrong and is a homestar runner fan. His forums of strength are in Middle Earth Fun and Games, the forums being the Quiz room and Mirth. And judging by his bio, a Family Guy fan as well. For a long time, Gil-Galad and myself have always been jumping ahead and behind each other in terms of # of posts. His real name (at least I think it's his real name) is Glen

[Gil-Galad]

Originally Posted by The Perky Ent

Gil-Galad gets my bio wrong and is a homestar runner fan. His forums of strength are in Middle Earth Fun and Games, the forums being the Quiz room and Mirth. And judging by his bio, a Family Guy fan as well. For a long time, Gil-Galad and myself have always been jumping ahead and behind each other in terms of # of posts. His real name (at least I think it's his real name) is Glen

Perky, your suppose to give about 7-10 posts til lyou can post again, i suggest that you either delete that post or people ignore it

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Lush

She makes me feel quite old.

Really?

[Gil-Galad]

just like too point out that i'm suppose to be next and that i don't reccomend chatting on this thread

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Gil-Galad is the 'Downer that everybody knows of and secretly (or not so secretly) is in love with. There is strong affection for his punnery and his Trogdor avatars. Gil once was resurrected as Sophia the Thunder Mistress, which, for the curious, is why his name is sometimes followed with the mysterious (TTM).

[wilwarin538]

Fea is eather the phantom's secret(or not to secret) bride or the phantom himself. She is talented with changing pictures, the pupil in my eye avatar was changed from a heart thanks to her. She likes taking photos I believe. Fea is als the most frequent poster on "What do you assign to Mordor?", that makes me think everything and everyone gets on her nerves, I can relate.

[Glirdan]

I would do something on Wilwa, but seeing as me and her are best friends, I don't think it'd be fair. So I'll let someone else do it. I'm nice that way.

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Gil-Galad

just like too point out that i'm suppose to be next and that i don't reccomend chatting on this thread

I wouldn't say the post before yours was 'chatting'...after all, a lot of similar comments have been posted in the previous pages. It's completely natural for people to wonder about some of the things written about them. And it is not as if her post was off-topic.

[Gil-Galad]

lets see....


Wilwa was an enchanting girl in Valinor, born into a famous family (her father invented Make-Up that makes your eyebrows like Elronds) and was sought by all the hot-blooded male elves of the Undying Lands. Her mother wanted her to wed a Prince so she can gossip about how her daughter married a prince!!! Her father was never home though, always looking for new make-up ingrediants.

Wilwa never wanted any of this fame though, she wanted to be special in her own way, so she went through a multitude of jobs, being that crazy squrriel lady, to Ciggarette Butt cleaner, to Valinor Idol and so on and so forth. she heard news of the great battles that has been going on outside of valinor, of the great and handsome Gil-Galad and how she wanted him so bad.

One day, she visited Varda and asked her if she could go visit Middle Earth, Varda said 'No you crazy squirrel lady now leave me alone or i shall taunt you a second time!'(ha! varda is a french soldier!) so Wilwa used her wits and called varda a Witch and burned her at the stake for witchcraft, thus the fall of the Undying Lands begin as everyone accuses everyone of witchcraft. Seeing this, Wilwa still wanted to meet the brave Sir Galahad, i mean Gil-Galad, so she was walking through the forest and stumbled over Irmo that was hiding there, she said that if he turns her into a small flying insect, that she won't accuse him for witchcraft, Irmo did this, turning her into a Mosquito, but Wilwa was mad, took some blood from someone, and described where Irmo was hiding, what he has been doing, her encounter and a 24 page story-book for the kiddies(that someone was Mormegil and he is now dead through lack of blood - :P ).

After Irmo was captured and burned at the stake, he turned Wilwa into a Butterfly and Wilwa flew over the sea, she was amazed at Middle Earth that she did not see the stone, flew right into it and fell down into a miniture Barrow designed for some weird guys bugs... and thus began her life ath the downs, the magical Butterfly that can type!!!