Newbies & Introductions

[Silky Gooseness]

Welcome back! Can we expect to see you in the Shire soon?

[Lail]

hiya @AnsonLongbottom!! welcome back! I do recall you sporting a pipe (and a hobbit face) back in the day!

[LegolasTheElf]

Can I get a Discord invite too?

[shybookworm]

Hello everyone! My name's Jasmine. I just joined this community. I'm really new to the fandom. I am currently reading the Hobbit. I'm 30 and my pronouns are she/they. My hobbies are reading, drawing, creative writing, playing video games, watching anime and cartoons, and listening to music. I want to make new friends here.

[Drífa]

Welcome to the NuPlaza, @shybookworm! Drifa at your service! I have a few similar hobbies. Enjoy your stay!

[Lhun Elcharion]

Hi Everyone. I joined the OG Plaza back in the early 2000's. Probably somewhere around 2002 or 2003. I was really active for a year or two (maybe more) in Gondor. Especially as a Ranger. I think for a time, I was even Captain of the Hyandaner. Then, RL happened, and I slipped away with a few brief reappearances. I gotta say. This site looks a ton like the original. Honestly, I have no idea what I'm doing here because I have kids in way too many activities, a wife, and a job. All of these leave me no time to do something like RP on here. I just randomly googled the site today, and found it.

[Drífa]

Hi, there @Lhun Elcharion! Welcome to the NUPlaza! Yes, it is pretty similar to the Old Plaza. I joined in 2003. Congrats on your achievements, job, wife and kiddies. This plaza runs at a much more relaxed pace. Gondor still has wonderful rps and RPers. Maybe we will see you from time to time.

[Lail]

hi @shybookworm, welcome! :) It sounds like you have a lot in common with us! Hope you are enjoying The Hobbit.

@Lhun Elcharion hello welcome! Its stunningly similar, isn't it? no worries on joining RPs, feel free to stop by and say hi or post or whatever anytime. it's much slower paced than back in 2002/2003.

[Silky Gooseness]

Welcome @shybookworm! We’d love to see you share your creative side in the Cottage of Lost Play forum: just start your own thread and we will come and visit!

@Lhun Elcharion welcome back! Many of us are busier than we used to be; but it’s always nice to drop in and chat even if you don’t have time to RP!

[Arnyn]

I saw the username and I thought: "wait, Lhun? Lhun ELCHARION?"

"Wasn't he my Hyandaner Captain, back in the day? When Arel Kiseria was a Lieutenant?"
*must search user posts* And your one and only post confirms it!!

*giddy with nostalgia*

[Lhun Elcharion]

Thanks all for the welcomes. I'll try to stop by to say hello from time to time at a minimum. By the way, I didn't initially mention when I said I had kids, but my daughter (I have a son and a daughter) is named Eowyn! So, while I drifted away from the Plaza, I didn't lose my love for LotR.

@Arnyn I saw your name, and immediately remembered you. Thanks for confirming that I was indeed Captain of the Hyandaner once upon a time. Simpler days for sure. Lol! It's great to reconnect though.

[Lhun Elcharion]

Wait a minute! Is @Lail Bo Peep LAI from the OG forum? As in former Queen Arwen from the 4th age timeline days???

[Silky Gooseness]

Wait a minute! Is @Lail Bo Peep LAI from the OG forum? As in former Queen Arwen from the 4th age timeline days???

Think that was Laie? who is not active on this forum, I don’t think…

[Lail]

Nope, can confirm I am definitely not Laie and never been Arwen!

[Lhun Elcharion]

Thanks to you both @Silky Gooseness & @Lail Bo Peep . Apologies for the confusion. It was definitely Laie that I was thinking of.

[Karis Ziranphel]

Good to see you Lhun!
It is fine to pop in as you are able. I go through phases of being more and less active due to work and life commitments, so I get it. Still nice to say hello or join in a story every now and then.

[Elencundu]

Hello, just a newbie checking in. I was never super active on the old forums but found this place through google on a whim. I'm so happy to see people coming back together, there is a lot I miss about back then. Crazy how much time and life has passed. Glad to see the Tolkien fanatics are still out there!

[Drífa]

Hi @Elencundu, good to see you! Quite the trip down memory lane, eh?

[The Good Hunter]

Wait a minute! Is @Lail Bo Peep LAI from the OG forum? As in former Queen Arwen from the 4th age timeline days???

Think that was Laie? who is not active on this forum, I don’t think…

So now the hunt begins for Laie's burner account. I promise it's not me

[Silky Gooseness]

Welcome @Elencundu! Nice to see you! It’s certainly more quiet than it used to be but a lot of us like to lurk around here and reminisce about old times.

Not Laie though… to anyone’s knowledge… yet.

[Lail]

hello and welcome @Elencundu!! it is a little like stepping into a time portal, isn't it?

[Saranna]

@Serveanthesia
Servy!!!! How have I gone this long without finding (a) this thread and (b) you. I remember the old days in Imladris and my Tuesday afternoons - tea parties in my little Forest Hut.
The truth is I suppose that I haven't really settled in in the way that was possible in the Old Plaza. A cosy sort of way that's true, but something to build on. The Library of Elrond gave me a ready-made identity and an association with Lore which eased me in. I only got here today in search of somewhere to apologise for not being on line much lately, or indeed generally since the Plaza came back. At the moment I am, I hope, recovering from a nasty two weeks of respiratory illness and feebleness resulting from that. Lore can and will still grow as the new Plaza grows, I devoutly hope. Good to find you again, mellon.

[Morfindel]

Hello all! I originally joined in 2004, and something made me look the place up again tonight. Amazing to see so many familiar names! 20 years have brought many changes to my life, but not to my enduring love of all things Tolkien. Maybe I can actually get back to writing again... It's good to be back.

[Rivvy Elf]

Welcome back, @Morfindel! I remember you from the Fall of Gondolin RPG.

[Morfindel]

Welcome back, @Morfindel! I remember you from the Fall of Gondolin RPG.

Thanks. Those were the days!

[Moriel]

Welcome back, Morfindel! Another familiar name

[Morfindel]

Welcome back, Morfindel! Another familiar name

Hi Moriel! Long time no see...

[denisan]

Hello!
I was a part of the plaza a loooong time ago, Probably around 2005-2006ish. Can't even remember my username to be honest, all I remember is I was a Lothlorien elf at first and then changed to a Hobbit. I wasn't that active and was terrible at roleplaying and socializing, but I enjoyed hanging around reading everything everyone posted, learned a lot and had fun in general just being mostly a spectator. I'm so happy this is a thing again, I'd love to participate more this time, thank you so much for bringing this back to life. See you all around, glad to be part of this beautiful community again. :)

[Karis Ziranphel]

Welcome back!

[Rivvy Elf]

@denisan I was too busy at Adepticon to see this but, a belated welcome back! Feel free to ask us any questions.

[Silky Gooseness]

Welcome @Morfindel and @denisan!

Fall of Gondolin was super epic and … very long

[Romeran]

@Rivvy Elf Adepticon!!! Jealous! I mostly paint minis nowadays but that's very cool. I hope it was fun.

[Lily Gardener]

Hi Everyone!
I'm late to the party but so glad I made it back. I joined the Plaza in 2002 and spent so much time here! I was adopted by Quill, my sister was Starflower and I was a member of the Dunami family/clan. At one point, I didn't even know everyone I was related to, there were so many of us. I ran the Society of Faramir Fanciers which is still one of my proudest achievements in life. Anyways, I have missed all of you and hope I can find time to role play again. Peace!

[Morfindel]

Welcome back, Lily and denisan!

[Fuin Elda]

Welcome back @Lily Gardener ! I remember the Faramir Fanciers glad to have you back with us!

Also welcome back @denisan

[Lily Gardener]

Thank you @Fuin Elda and @Morfindel

[Mithmegil]

Oh, gosh. I was talking with another former Plaza member and thought I’d do some searching to see what became of this place, and lo and behold! I see some names I remember in this thread, but it’s been a loooong time.

My name was Araweth, and I was an admin for the poetry and fanfiction forum sometime in the mid-aughts when I was of fifteen. It feels very odd, posting on here after twenty years, but how nice to see these familiar colors again!

[Aikári Salmarinian]

Hi Araweth, welcome back! Indeed a very long time, twenty years. But yes the community is still here.

Lily: I do remember you from the old days, socialising and activities was not hard back in the days. The memories are like gold, very dear. Sure I hope you'll find pleasure again in RP.

[OlorinW81]

Hello peoples of Arda, I was actually a member of this site a long time ago and remember the cool ranking system and halls of knowledge. I've read all the books The Hobbit, LOTR, Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and volumes of the History of Middle-Earth. Happy to return among such excellent and fine peoples as yourselves.

[The Good Hunter]

Welcome back OlorinW! Nice to see peeps still filtering back in years later.

[Arnyn]

@Lily Gardener Oh my, Faramir Fanciers! You should get along great with @Pele Alarion then Welcome back!

@Mithmegil Araweth, I remember that name! It's super nostalgic, isn't it. Are we that old that it makes us 'feel young again'?

Hey @OlorinW81! Happy to have you return, too! I never quite got to the volumes of HoME, I'll admit...

[Pele Alarion]

*wanders in* Faramir is great!

[Calimehtar90]

Well if this isn't a blast from the past. I haven't checked on the progress of the rebuild for an age but for some reason, my brain decided that today was the day. Some may remember me, some may not, who can say. I was real active back around 2006-2009(ish) with pretty much the same name. How many of the OG's are still kicking that I may remember?

[Pele Alarion]

I think I remember seeing you around, @Calimehtar90 , though not sure if we ever interacted.

[Calimehtar90]

@Pele Alarion I believe we did interact back in the day. Most likely at the Rangers Training Grounds if it would be anywhere. Also, not sure if you are UK based so potentially may have met you at one of the Oxford meet ups that we occasionally had way back when.

[Pele Alarion]

Hmm, that might be it, now that you mention it!
I'm in Latvia, and of all the plaza folks have only met Laielinwen and Karis Ziranphel.

[The Good Hunter]

Welcome @Calimehtar90! I was around in the 2006-2009 names here and there. At that point I was going by the name "Lews" and split most of my time between Gondor and Mordor (in retrospect a fun juxtaposition). I seem to recall your name but I can't remember if we ever actually interacted.

[Giliathriel]

I'm not really a newbie but I'm back!! My life has finally settled down some and I'll hopefully have the time to post more regularly now haha, it's nice to see all the familiar faces again!

[Aikári Salmarinian]

Giliathriel: That is nice! Welcome back. Once a week is okay, some of us do.

[Turien Took]

Hello all! I was on the old plaza in 2005-2006 and attribute my love for roleplaying and LOTR to this group. Almost twenty years later, this is such a treat <3