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noWizardme
Half-elven
Jun 22 2018, 8:15pm
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What user name do you wish you’d thought of?
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“Mad Baggins” in my case.
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Where's that old read-through discussion?
A wonderful list of links to previous chapters in the 2014-2016 LOTR read-through (and to previous read-throughs) is curated by our very own 'squire' here http://users.bestweb.net/...-SixthDiscussion.htm
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Petty Dwarf
Bree
Jun 22 2018, 9:10pm
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I wish I'd remembered that "Petty-dwarf" should have a hyphen. //
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"No words were laid on stream or stone
When Durin woke and walked alone."
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noWizardme
Half-elven
Jun 22 2018, 9:27pm
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Where's that old read-through discussion?
A wonderful list of links to previous chapters in the 2014-2016 LOTR read-through (and to previous read-throughs) is curated by our very own 'squire' here http://users.bestweb.net/...-SixthDiscussion.htm
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Attalus
Lorien
Jun 23 2018, 5:46pm
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"Prince Imrahil" would have been great
We are the fighting Uruk-Hai! We slew the great warrior! Well, yeah, first he killed a bunch of us and another whole lot of Mauhúr's lads, and we had to shoot enough arrows into him to drop a Mûmak. But we got him!
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sador
Half-elven
Jun 23 2018, 6:47pm
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I wanted to be Gwindor; but for some reason, I felt sure the name was taken, and haven't figured out how to check - I settled down on another name from that tale.
I probably should have just tried; in the worst case, I would be informed the name was taken. I didn't think of that, either.
There is a member named Gwindor now; but that user has joined five years after me, and hasn't posted once.
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L. Ron Halfelven
Grey Havens
Jun 23 2018, 6:48pm
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If I weren't already L. Ron Halfeven...
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... I'd want to be Ernie L. Pheriannath.
And Rose drew him in, and set him on the harpsichord bench, and put little Wilhelm Friedemann upon his lap.
He began composing a fugue. 'Well, I'm Bach,' he said.
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Greenwood Hobbit
Valinor
Jun 23 2018, 10:28pm
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which is no longer extant, I was Gardenersmate and was quite fond of that, as I am something of a Samwise fan - and a gardener.
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Jun 23 2018, 11:49pm
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At 'Who's Online' you can check the Membership Directory which reveals that there is indeed a Gwindor (but not a 'gwindor'). However, that member has never posted and has not logged back in since the day of registration: Mar 10 2012. So you had a window of about 4 1/2 years when that username was available! 
"I may be on the side of the angels, but do not think for one second that I am one of them." - Sherlock
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Aragorn the Elfstone
Tol Eressea
Jun 24 2018, 2:24am
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This name goes all the way back to the old....
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...Corona's Coming Attractions website. I don't know if anybody else around here used to frequent those boards or not. It was a movie news website, which gave detailed updates on films in various stages of development.
They had forums divided into different subgroups, and I spent a lot of time on their Lord of the Rings board. It was basically TORN for me before I discovered TORN (sometime in 2002, I think).
Anyway, I had desired to use the very simple username of Strider, but there was already a member there who used it (and the promotional image of Viggo similar to the art that I use as my avatar here). So I pondered different variations of Aragorn's names and titles, until I settled on Aragorn the Elfstone, and used as my avatar the promotional image of Aragorn holding his sword up at Helm's Deep.
Over the years, I've grown quite attached to my eventual choice and even use it on other boards not affiliated with Tolkien (except on AwardsWatch, where I'm Elessar).
"The danger with any movie that does as well as this one does is that the amount of money it's making and the number of awards that it's got becomes almost more important than the movie itself in people's minds. I look at that as, in a sense, being very much like the Ring, and its effect on people. You know, you can kind of forget what we were doing, if you get too wrapped up in that."
- Viggo Mortensen
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dormouse
Half-elven
Jun 24 2018, 6:53pm
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I don't think I do, really.....
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I've always been fond of the dormouse and his teapot. 
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green. . .
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entmaiden
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Jun 24 2018, 8:31pm
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This was my first message board
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and the whole User Name was new for me. I wanted something Tolkien, but there aren't a lot of female names. Eowyn, Galadriel, and Arwen were taken. I loved the Ents and wanted Fimbrethil, but that was taken too. So I chose entmaiden and kept it when we switched to the new boards (that was 11 years ago, and the boards aren't new anymore).
I have other names for other message boards I visit, but for this board, entmaiden is me.
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Aragorn the Elfstone
Tol Eressea
Jun 24 2018, 11:06pm
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...it HAS been 11 years, hasn't it?  
It really doesn't seem like it. I suppose the fact that "newboards" is still in the web address has kept me feeling like it wasn't as long ago as it has actually been.
Of course, I wasn't a member back on the old boards (joined in '09), but I was a longtime lurker.
It's rather amazing how long you guys have been part of my life. It's just now occurring to me that next year will be my 10th anniversary as a member!
"The danger with any movie that does as well as this one does is that the amount of money it's making and the number of awards that it's got becomes almost more important than the movie itself in people's minds. I look at that as, in a sense, being very much like the Ring, and its effect on people. You know, you can kind of forget what we were doing, if you get too wrapped up in that."
- Viggo Mortensen
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Ataahua
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Jun 24 2018, 11:25pm
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I've admired a lot of nicks on TORN,
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especially ones with a pun, such as Haldir in Headlights. But I've been happy with my choice of nick.
Like Entmaiden, this was my first discussion board (actually it was the first website that I registered for anything and I had no idea what personal information I was making accessible by clicking 'register'!) As it happens, I've since used Ataahua on a variety of other websites - it's become my standard 'other' identity. :)
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.
Ataahua's stories
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Jun 24 2018, 11:55pm
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I never really considered a different username.
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I rather liked the idea of a username that could be easily recognized across multiple message boards, so Otaku-sempai in some form has followed me from forum to forum.
"I may be on the side of the angels, but do not think for one second that I am one of them." - Sherlock
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Attalus
Lorien
Jun 25 2018, 4:47am
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I was active on SF-Fandom and Entmoot before. 
We are the fighting Uruk-Hai! We slew the great warrior! Well, yeah, first he killed a bunch of us and another whole lot of Mauhúr's lads, and we had to shoot enough arrows into him to drop a Mûmak. But we got him!
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sador
Half-elven
Jun 25 2018, 7:33am
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I've actually searched the boards, and found out that I've earlier remembered the story in a different way.
I did once ask the admins how to change my username (I can't find that post), but I was advised to keep the existing one, as I was already known by it, and it would be problematic to search older posts and associate them with me (some members did change their usernames when TORn moved from the old boards to the new ones, but I wasn't around by then). So here I am.
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Jun 25 2018, 4:46pm
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Totally unimaginative when registering.
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I think I was starting LOTR for the umpteenth time, and reading Bilbo’s farewell speech.
But our nicks do grow on us do they not?
There are SO many clever names on TORn. noWizardme and L. Ron Halfelven spring to mind, and of course grammaboodawg – quite crafty!
Playing with names:
Bo Romear
Perry Grin
Harry Gorn
Dís n Dat
Denny Thor
Beth Akalla
Ollie Fant
Brock Badger
Bungo Straight
‘. . . 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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Eledhwen
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Jun 25 2018, 9:53pm
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I deliberated for a while over mine. I chose Eledhwen because Túrin is my favourite Silmarillion tale, but 'Morwen' didn't seem to fit. Apart from the fact it's a bit tricky to pronounce IRL (the 'dh' being 'th') I like it a lot. I was incredibly miffed when I joined LiveJournal and someone else had pinched Eledhwen before me, but it's my pen-name for all the fanfic I've ever written online and it's my username on a couple of other websites too. I can't imagine being anything else now.
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N.E. Brigand
Half-elven
Jun 26 2018, 3:20am
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Although not my first time being a member of a large community where almost everyone was known by a nickname.
When I joined TORN, I first tried for some of the more common and uncommon names of Gandalf and Aragorn, all long taken by December 2003, before this one occurred to me.
Treason doth neuer prosper? What's the Reason?
for if it prosper none dare call it treason.
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CuriousG
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Jun 26 2018, 5:45pm
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Celeborn's original name, Teleporno
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It would be funny at first, but it would get old after awhile, especially if people shortened it and quoted me in posts. "As Porno said about the balrog and its wings."
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Jun 26 2018, 11:18pm
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Yeah it's probably for the best that you didn't take that. If I remember right, I think there was a Teleporno at IMDB that frequented the boards for the LotR and Hobbit films (until IMDb dropped their forums).
"I may be on the side of the angels, but do not think for one second that I am one of them." - Sherlock
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Annael
Immortal
Jun 27 2018, 2:55pm
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I was here early enough that I could have snagged it, but started out using another nick (ritergrrl) that I used on other forums. Then I decided to find a Tolkienish one instead, and because I also use variations on "Annie" on other forums, I looked in the Encyclopedia of Arda and found Annael, which AT THE TIME was defined as a female name (it's not, and they've changed the definition). But I'm used to it, even if a lot of people find it impossible to spell correctly (no, it is not "Anneal").
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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CuriousG
Half-elven
Jun 28 2018, 6:56pm
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Maybe you could kryptonize "Annael"
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And tell people you're the sister of Kal-el, Anna-el. But then you might get stuck with Anna L.
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Oh, dear god...
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