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Ataahua
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Oct 14 2017, 8:39pm
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It's a TORNiversary mathom!
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Somewhere around here, 17 years ago, I joined an internet community for the first time. I remember being deeply uncertain about clicking the 'register' button because, being entirely naiive about the internet, I didn't know what access this would give the people behind the website to my computer. Little did I know that this Tolkien community would take me on the exerience of a lifetime, opening me up to travel, discussions and friendships that I would have otherwise missed out on.
So in the spirit of friendship and the great traditions of the Shire, I offer you this mathom on my TORNiversary: a clip of what is possibly the funniest moment on the English TV show QI.
Enjoy! And cheers to our great community of Tolkien fans! 
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
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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Kimi
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Oct 14 2017, 8:47pm
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I'm very glad TORn has given me the chance to meet you, both online and in real life.
Wonderful clip!
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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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Silverlode
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Oct 14 2017, 8:53pm
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It's been a delight to share those years with you! And thanks for the mathom; that is one of my favorite things and never fails to make me laugh. 
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.
(This post was edited by Silverlode on Oct 15 2017, 1:25am)
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Ethel Duath
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Oct 14 2017, 9:28pm
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Stephen fries (before our eyes). Happy TORniversary!
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And thank you for making my day!
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Ataahua
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Oct 15 2017, 12:39am
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Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
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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Ataahua
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Oct 15 2017, 12:40am
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Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
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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entmaiden
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Oct 15 2017, 1:39am
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It's been a pleasure knowing you for many of those seventeen years. Sometimes I have to remind myself we've all been around this long - seems more like five years, not seventeen for you and nearly fifteen for me.
Here's to many more!
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Starling
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Oct 15 2017, 4:43am
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Wow, 17 years is pretty fab. I reckon it deserves a celebration.
Loved that QI clip, which somehow has escaped my attention. 
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Ataahua
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Oct 15 2017, 8:47am
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I  David Mitchell, especially when he has a rant.
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
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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Bracegirdle
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Oct 15 2017, 5:49pm
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Happy TORniversary Ataahua. . . and by the by...
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There are no straight lines in the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is... 
‘. . . the rule of no realm is mine . . .
But all worthy things that are in peril . . . those are my care.
For I also am a steward. Did you not know?'
Gandalf to Denethor
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dernwyn
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Oct 16 2017, 12:39am
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17? Many happy returns of your TORniversary!
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Oh yes, it's a purely Tolkien thing to be uncertain about clicking that button! It's a dangerous business, Ataahua, logging onto TORn: you step into the website, and if you don't keep your fingers, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to! 
Thank you for that "oldie but goodie" - can anyone ever top Stephen Fry, even at his most embarrassed?
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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cats16
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Oct 16 2017, 12:51am
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17 years...wow!
Join us every weekend in the Hobbit movie forum for this week's CHOW (Chapter of the Week) discussion!
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CuriousG
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Oct 16 2017, 1:59pm
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And here's to many more!
Oh, and don't worry, we've already exploited your internet connection long ago. It's how me and all my family and friends have financed 141 vacations in Europe. They all send thanks too! :)
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Eledhwen
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Oct 16 2017, 7:45pm
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17 years ... where does time go? I completely missed mine this year - I think I'm on 18 years. Eeek.
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Auxerre
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Oct 16 2017, 8:10pm
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Ever heard him do his "man in a box" impression? It's hilarious, and not just a little creepy lol.
Happy TORN-versary! It's my pleasure to have had the chance to meet you, both here and in your beautiful city
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Greenwood Hobbit
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Oct 16 2017, 8:41pm
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Congratulations - and huge thanks
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for all you do to keep things running smoothly - unlike Stephen Fry in that clip! Pffftt! Great stuff...
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Ataahua
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Oct 17 2017, 4:06am
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I was trying to determine who would be the eldest among us now.
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You? Hengist? Kimi?
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
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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Kimi
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Oct 17 2017, 4:23am
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I know I was already here by June 1999
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(my birthday). I think I first found TORn in May, or even late April, but I didn't post for some weeks (shy :)).
I remember Annael from those very early days, and also Patty (who I haven't seen here for a while). I recall Eled's arrival - very soon after mine, I think.
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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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Eledhwen
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Oct 17 2017, 8:23am
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Pretty sure Hengist was after me although probably not too long. Draupne likewise. I was late August 1999, because I was at home from uni but it wasn't long until I went back for my second year when I had an internet connection in my room for the first time (woo).
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Annael
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Oct 17 2017, 3:31pm
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Kimi beat me to it. I think Inferno did as well.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the words begin to move around … The words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young.
-- Gaston Bachelard
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entmaiden
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Oct 18 2017, 4:23pm
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was the first.
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NottaSackville
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Oct 18 2017, 6:20pm
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Thank you for your huge part in making Torn into Torn. There's such a solid core of long-time active users on this board, and we are grateful to all of you.
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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Patty
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Oct 20 2017, 9:20pm
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Actually, inferno may have been first.
Permanent address: Into the West
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Happy TORNiversary, Ataahua!
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