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Kimi
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Jun 21 2017, 6:14am
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I've come of age in TORn years! A birthaversary post.
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Today marks my birthday, and also my commemoration of finding TORn back in 1999. 18 rewarding years have followed, getting to know so many great people, including meeting some of you in person.
To celebrate my birthday, we've left the rain and sleet back home and are currently on the lovely island of Santo in Vanuatu. Unfortunately I can't magic you all here, but as a small compensation, some photos:
Gorgeous ni-Vanuatu children.
A blue hole: we swam in 15 metres of gloriously clear, startlingly blue water.
Port Olry, where we had a swim, then lunched on lobster by the beach.
This has already gone down in my personal history as one of the great birthdays, and there's still chocolate cake to come! The staff where we're staying want to make me a cake, and chocolate seems perfect.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
(This post was edited by Kimi on Jun 21 2017, 6:24am)
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Eledhwen
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Jun 21 2017, 8:41am
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Vanuatu looks stunning. *Adds to long list of places to visit*
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NottaSackville
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Jun 21 2017, 11:39am
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Does TORN give us all that on our 18th anniversary?
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Looks like an amazing place to be!
Congrats on putting up with us so long, and thank you for everything you've done to help make TORN exactly what TORN is today.
Notta
Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville
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Darkstone
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Jun 21 2017, 2:05pm
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Once Radagast dreamt he was a moth, a moth flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Radagast. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakably Radagast. But he didn't know if he was Radagast who had dreamt he was a moth, or a moth dreaming he was Radagast. Between Radagast and a moth there must be some distinction! But really, there isn't, because he's actually Aiwendil dreaming he's both Radagast *and* a moth!
-From Radagasti: The Moth Dream
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Lily Fairbairn
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Jun 21 2017, 2:05pm
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You share a birthday with my husband. But then, special people have solstice birthdays 
What a lovely place! Enjoy it and the chocolate cake as well. (Yummm, chocolate cake....)
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow....
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Ciars
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Jun 21 2017, 5:46pm
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Wow! Two important events collide, I'd hold out for two cakes, one for each occasion  . Stunning pictures, thanks for sharing, I'm almost sure that I'm not one tiny bit jealous!
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Ataahua
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Jun 21 2017, 7:10pm
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What a beautiful place to mark your birthday.
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Good call.
You'll be pleased to know that the traditional post-winter-soltice front of crapola weather is hitting, with the upper half of the North Island getting drenched today and tomorrow. That should make your sunny basking-weather doubly enjoyable!
Happy birthday, dear Kimi.
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Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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Jun 21 2017, 7:13pm
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It's my sister's birthday today too - growing up we always thought how lucky she was to have her birthday on the longest day of the year. But I guess for you it's the shortest day!
They went in, and Sam shut the door.
But even as he did so, he heard suddenly,
deep and unstilled,
the sigh and murmur of the Sea upon the shores of Middle-earth.
From the unpublished Epilogue to the Lord of the Rings
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Ginger
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Jun 21 2017, 10:17pm
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Silverlode
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Jun 21 2017, 10:54pm
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Goodness, how could 18 years go by so fast? Must be the pleasure of excellent company such as yours! It's great to hear your trip is going so well already, and with cake still to come. 🎂 May the rest of your trip be just as wonderful, and your travels home smooth!
Silverlode
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
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dernwyn
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Jun 22 2017, 1:34am
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Many happy returns of your birthaversary, Kimi!
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What a lovely place to spend it at! Let us know how the chocolate cake turns out!
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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Jun 22 2017, 3:09am
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Hope it was a wonderful one.
Join us every weekend in the Hobbit movie forum for this week's CHOW (Chapter of the Week) discussion!
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Altaira
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Jun 22 2017, 5:09am
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Best wishes for the birh-a-versary girl!
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My goodness! I can't possibly think of a better birthday with the exception of me being on the other side of that camera instead. 
Seriously, thank you for sharing the absolutely gorgeous pictures of Vanuatu with us (in lieu of chocolate cake), and I hope the rest of your birthday trip just keeps getting better and better!
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"Life can't be all work and no TORn" -- jflower
"I take a moment to fervently hope that the camaradarie and just plain old fun I found at TORn will never end" -- LOTR_nutcase
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entmaiden
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Jun 22 2017, 2:18pm
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And Happy Birthday too . Can't believe it's been 18 years. It's been 15 for me - yikes! I remember way back when you First Agers were passing your fifth anniversary, and I never thought I would get there.
Here's to many, many more great years on TORN!
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Otaku-sempai
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Jun 22 2017, 3:35pm
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A belated 'Happy Birthday' Kimi
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I hope you enjoyed your birthday and TORNiversary,
"He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows." -- Favorite proverb of the wizard Ningauble of the Seven Eyes
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Kimi
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Jun 22 2017, 8:23pm
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You'll just have to wait and see. :)
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People like you make the job more than worthwhile, Notta.
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Kimi
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Jun 22 2017, 8:30pm
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Solstice solidarity :)
Vanuatu is gorgeous, and the cake was a lovely end to a lovely day.
The Passing of Mistress Rose
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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Kimi
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Jun 22 2017, 8:31pm
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It was a nice enough cake to work for both occasions. And served in a very lovely place.
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My historical novels
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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Kimi
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Jun 22 2017, 8:32pm
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make it all the more enjoyable. :) It does sound worth missing.
Thank you!
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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Kimi
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Jun 22 2017, 8:39pm
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Yes, it's the shortest day of the year at home, although here in the tropics that makes almost no difference.
When I was little I didn't understand what was meant by "shortest day", and thought the adults meant my birthday actually had fewer hours in the day than other days of the year. I remember feeling very hard done by until I figured that out. It does mean, though, that apart from the three (I think) birthdays I've spent in Europe, they've all been in bleak weather - until this one!
The Passing of Mistress Rose
My historical novels
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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