^My contest to be exact... heh... Lovely by the way.



Another thing we have in common JF. Wouldn't it be wonderful if all men were like those. I sometime's wish I had been born in a different era, so that I would have the chance to see such men. Mr.Darcy... *swoon*

Lol, yes another of your wonderful and well managed contests...if your interested in an idea I had about the contests, look at the suggestions board.

Another thing indeed. I am always saying I was born too late!! And your saying practically the same thing. Uncanny. I think if you set your ideal as being someone like Mr. Darcy you'll never find anyone. But still, we'll always have Mr. Darcy & Co.

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^ By me and my SS *squiggle hugs*

Wow, we made it past 70! Well done guys 'n' girls!

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I saw you look away
Is what you've seen too much to take, or are you blind and seeing nothing?
(I saw you run) I saw you run away
Is what I've done too much to take or are you scared of being nothing?

^YESSSS
GO us!

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^haha, no worries...
anyways, did we have a topic?

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I don't know......what can be a good topic to talk about...

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I was cured all right.

hmmm

Something positive?

well..maybe LOTR related too?

General reaction the first time you saw LOTR?
Had you already read the book and were dissapointed in the movies?
At first you thought they were boring?
Absolutely fascinated?
What did you think? Either the first movie, or when you saw the whole trilogy....

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resistance is futile...
avvie by mrs.gamgee photoshop genious!

^and then I came in and made you realize that you had more LotR in you than you expected.
Just kidding.


As for me,
I'll admit, I only read the Hobbit before the movies, and I loved it, of course.
BUT my whol family has been a LOTR loving family since I can remember, so Tolkien's always been circling around.
After seeing FotR, i was really excited, after seeing TTT, even more so!
I admit though, that my real nerd-dom began after RotK, I read all the books, re-made my room, began wearing my "one ring" ever day to school, read the Sil, stole magazine clippings, this was after Rotk, yeah...but hey....here I am now.

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I read both The Hobbit and the entire trilogy before the movies came out. But I waited til after the movies to read The Silm for some reason. I guess I was just being lazy...

On the topic of you girls wishing you were born in the era of Jane Austen's stories, well I wish I was born earlier too. Back in the days when it was possible to earn position and honour through valourous deeds. Back when skill was actually required on the battlefield. With actions you performed in those situations you could earn respect.

I know that many people will disagree with me on that, but I am sure I would do better in those times, than I will in these, where your life and job, and position is based on your performance in examinations....

^aawww
*pats on ack*
yeah, i agree, silly exams *hits*

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I had no idea that you gentlemen wished for things like that also. That time period is just so much more innocent, and it has so many special qualities. The way people dressed, the way the opposite gender's acted towards one another, and the way society worked in general. It seems as if it's a whole other universe...

I know that whenever I watch Pride and Prejudice [the '95 version, of course] I feel so envious of the people. How kind and gentlemenly the men are, and how pretty the women's dresses are. It all looks, as Larael put it, like another world.

But my belief is that life was still as hard as it is now. Not every girl found a Mr. Darcy. And frankly, I don't believe in flawless gentlemen -- I don't believe in flawless people! Every single person who lives and has ever lived is no where near perfect. And think about life back then. There was no electricity. No conditioner to smooth out our hair! And by watching P&P, do you know what girls did all day? Sewed, read, played cards or the piano. I know that I would get bored very quickly. I wasn't made to do that all day.

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^Thanks Gily!
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Pathetic I know but still when you first met a member of the opposite sex, how do you start a conservation?

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I was cured all right.

Back then?

It would have been very hard I'm sure, with all the formalities you must observe and the honour and propriety of your family and yourself that you must keep up at the same time. No one wanted to look a disgrace.
People back then were so reserved, yet they didn't want to be. I'm sure many of them longed to do things that wouldn't have been proper at all.

And Gwen, you're right. Life back then would have definitely been boring for us women. We weren't aloud to work, so there wasn't much else we could. Our job in life back then was to marry, have children, and run the household. You were lucky if you married for love at all.

It's so unlike our society today, yet it's so refreshing and different. Even for all those downsides, I'd still have liked to live during that time.