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entmaiden
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Mar 11 2007, 3:30am
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I'm feeling a little sentimental
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over the old boards being archived, and that started me thinking about all the events we shared on those boards.
Some of the highlights for me was:
- FIGWIT - that was probably one of the crazier sequence of events I've experienced. From a little board silliness to an HBO series, FIGWIT is too strange to not be true.
- The community that came together when we lost TORNadoes. Widfara, Reverend, and Balin, we will never forget you.
- The Weddings! UT and GTX, Ro and NZS, Varda and Pukel. Wow - the internet is an amazing place.
- ROTK premiere in Wellington. Even though NZ is thousands of miles from me, I felt like I was there
- Oscar parties. Who ever thought a party sponsored by an internet site would become a party so cool that Paris Hilton tried to crash it?
What were some of your highlights?
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
Balin Bows
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Finding Frodo
Tol Eressea
Mar 11 2007, 6:18am
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Well, I lurked for a long time before joining, so my first memorable moments go back to before I'd made any connection to people here -- it was TORn humor. I remember sitting at my computer and laughing until I cried at Talk Like a Pirate Day, Pants threads, and some fantastically dry Darkstone response to a discussion thread on Movie. Another highlight was when I finally bit the bullet and registered so that I could jump into a movie discussion and defend "nuclear Galadriel". Magrat and erather welcomed me to TORn. ORC and Indymoot and the Tom Shippey lecture I attended, though not board highlights, were definitely highlights in my life, and I hope for many more!
Where's Frodo?
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Drusilla Darling
Bree
Mar 11 2007, 4:28pm
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Pants threads for the win! Estrogen Island was always fun, with Aragorn vs Legolas vs Boromir, and so on. Ohh, and the caption posts, always a good time.
~Dru~
The user formerly known as Ayaediran
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
~ Albus Dumbledore
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Greenwood Hobbit
Valinor
Mar 11 2007, 4:41pm
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I think the quality of the humour here on TORn has been outstanding over the years; it's brightened up many a weary evening for me. Captions, SFTH, conspiracy theories etc etc. There are some witty, wicked people here!
The way people rally round if anyone has posted about a problem, a family illness or bereavement, or just being sad, has been heartwarming and made the place feel like a real, strong community. All the folks who set it up and keep it going should feel very proud of having enabled that to happen. Support is there for people when they need it, and they can perhaps open up here in a way they can't with people physically closer to them.
In short, this place - this new place as well as the old place - is very special.
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elvenhobbit
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Mar 11 2007, 5:57pm
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Joining in the sentimental atmosphere...
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Just a few...some you mentioned...
The weddings mentioned - predominantly Ro and NZS.
The way TORN came together to mourn losses of some members.
also,
Pants game
the first time i came on the TORN board - my first post, and the welcome i recieved.
and now, to see a new age of TORN
and to reminisce the older days
-e_H-
Elven by name, Hobbit by nature
'Road lead ever on and on
down from the door where it began
now far ahead the road has gone
down from where all began' -FOTR-
and through all the world has changed
the ages come and go with time
and yet those remain unchanged
unto they journey westward
over the sea...
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Annael
Elvenhome
Mar 11 2007, 6:54pm
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I think the single most meaningful thing for me was discovering other Tolkien fans. In over 30 years I'd never met anyone in RL who felt as strongly as I did about LOTR. TORN was an oasis in the desert for me. I remember what a delight it was at first just to talk about the book; just to be able to say the things I'd thought about to other people who wanted to hear it. What a joy.
Later of course we all found points of difference that we argued about passionately, but I soon realized that people get most upset with each other when it is a small difference in a shared passion. We'd never argue as vehemently with someone who didn't love the story, period. Funny that.
“I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another where the best fruit is."
-- Terry Pratchett,
NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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entmaiden
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Mar 11 2007, 10:12pm
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I had the same feeling of wonder that there were other people who were as passionate about Middle-earth as I, and how we could disagree so strongly over such minor points. It was and remains a joy.
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
Balin Bows
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Ataahua
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Mar 11 2007, 11:01pm
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Realising there were others on the planet who also loved this book was a big revelation to me, and it was a joy to join the community.
My greatest love for TORN is due to the ability of its members to dissect esoteric points in the book one moment, and be complete nutbars the next. I love this place.
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 b*****d with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Ataahua's stories
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Annael
Elvenhome
Mar 11 2007, 11:23pm
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the ability of its members to dissect esoteric points in the book one moment, and be complete nutbars the next
we're nuthin' if not versatile!
“I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another where the best fruit is."
-- Terry Pratchett,
NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Lorien
Mar 12 2007, 12:59am
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it was so surreal to be part of this....spontaneous, united fan movement.
I mean the "mainstream press" just was astonished about how we all came together out of the woodwork.
I mean I only did some ridiculously obscure, small thing; one of the fight coordinators did a talk at my college before ROTK in fall 2003 and I mailed in a report. But then I showed it to my parents and my sister and their friends and we were just walking around with this perpetual grin on for a whole day that there was a report "by Draug" on the news section, which I also posted on the old boards.
Still, I've been on messageboards alot, and I can tell you that this new type of boards (I don't know the technical name) where you can read them all at once instead of having to click on each actually makes it easier to communicate with everyone.
I'm not the biggest poster here, but still there's "the people who saw the theatrical version" and then the big fans who have posted here at least once, seen the Extended Versions, listened to the DVD commentaries (as if they were a movie in and of themselves; the cast is so funny yet insightful).
Well, one Age ending just means another Begins.
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grammaboodawg
Immortal
Aug 12 2009, 12:38pm
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True friends and communities get past the hard times and celebrate the good times TOGETHER!
"There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West."
~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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