How did you find TTF? [Archive]

Ledreanne313

06-04-2003, 09:59 PM

I belonged to this reallt stupid msn LotR group and liked the message boards (but everyone there was...um...stupid). Then I got comcast (I LOVE COMCAST!!!) and couldn't post there anymore (I really didn't care), so I searched on google for a Tolkien Message Board that I would actually like...and I found this! Thank you Google!!!!

Anne

Khamul

06-04-2003, 10:03 PM

Well, I actually found it on google. It was alot easier to find LOTR stuff back then.

Anamatar IV

06-04-2003, 10:09 PM

Well it was back when I knew nothing about computers or the internet so I just typed in thelordoftherings.com. From there I clicked message boards and bingo bam TTF!

Bethelarien

06-04-2003, 10:09 PM

Erm....yahoo? Or hotmail? Or google? I don't remember. A search engine. I was bored.

Aragorn21

06-04-2003, 11:01 PM

My bro was on it. After I read LOTR I decided to join. I don't know how he found TTF though.

Celebthôl

06-04-2003, 11:03 PM

HAH i found it the same way as Matar did :D

Ithrynluin

06-05-2003, 12:00 AM

Originally posted by Khamul
Well, I actually found it on google.

Same here. And it is the best Tolkien forum around. :D

Talierin

06-05-2003, 01:38 AM

I got here cause Asha'man told me about it... that was 2 years ago in 9 days :eek: Gosh, I feel like a relic of TTF

FoolOfATook

06-05-2003, 01:42 AM

I found thelordoftherings.com through google, and then found TTF through that site- pretty conventional, I suppose...

Rhiannon

06-05-2003, 01:59 AM

I didn't so much find TTF as Tal practically hog-tied me and dragged me here.

And of course I am eternally grateful to her.

Mablung

06-05-2003, 03:24 AM

Kell

GuardianRanger

06-05-2003, 03:44 AM

Almost a year ago, I started looking for a forum where I could discus/debate/postulate/learn about Tolkien. I spent four to six months using google and going to many many forums trying to get a feel of the flavor and community of the various places. In the later months, my search pretty much went like this:

I was at TheOneRing.Net for while; not as a poster, more of a lurker...and I mostly read the news.

Then I tried TheOneRing.com to see if it exists and found Tolkien Online. BIG BIG Site. Too big. And I didn't want to go through all of the rigamarol (sp?) to become a member there. But that site shaped a lot of what I was looking for in a forum.

Back to google. I had weeded out a lot of forums as just a plain waste of time.

While still reading TORN, and using Google, I came across TTF. I followed the threads for about a month and a half before I decided to join. And I'm glad I joined. I don't even look for other forums anymore. Though, I still read the front page of TORN for news.

(Actually, I'm a member of Games Workshop LOTR forums, but I only use that forum for game related material.)

So that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Elbereth

06-05-2003, 03:48 AM

I found TTF on a search engine.

Here's my story:

I had just returned to my apartment in NYC, after a month long visit in Maine. During my stay in Maine, I was forced to find something to do, since that winter I was snowed in by a series of really big snowstorms. LOTR's had just come out in the movie theatres and my brother got the book for Christmas. This had always been a book I wanted to read, but never got around to it, so I read it from front to back in a week. Then I went to the book store and bought the Sil right before I got on my bus back to the city. I was halfway through the book by the time I arrived in the city and was hooked. I had to get more. So I hopped on my computer...typed in Tolkien...and started visiting sites. I think the Tolkienforum was the fifth site I found....but the only one that caught my attention and kept me. I joined that night...and the rest is history.

(Hehehe! How's that for an explaination! :D )

MacAddict

06-05-2003, 04:49 AM

I found TTF through my good friends Azog and Khamul. They got me here. Thanks guys! :)

~MacAddict

Eliot

06-05-2003, 04:51 AM

Well, I had seen my older brother type on a message board for the TV show Cops, so I eventally learned how to use them.

So, I did a google search for some miscellaneous Tolkien-related websites, and accidently stumbled on TTF. It looked ok, so I joined. I was kinda bored, until I discovered the "View New Posts" link. :D I started out kinda slow, and I almost had 1,000 posts, until some crazy mods came along and deleted a bunch of threads that contained many of my posts!!! :D :p :)

I was pushed back down to about 700, but I know that it's better to have the best quality of posts, instead of the best quantity. :)

Beleg

06-05-2003, 06:22 AM

Wow-I gather most of you found it through Google.

My story is a bit different.
I started looking for Tolkien related forum last fall. But I found none that was serious enough and not filled with the "movie litter" as I termed it a while back. Anyway while searching on Yahoo I stumbled upon Tolkien debates, then recently launched. I studied it for a while, participated there and after PM'ing one or two people I finally learned what "TTF" was. So I guess I found thetolkienforum.com through Tolkien debates.

Yay for both.

Aerin

06-05-2003, 06:24 AM

Well, my bestest friend (the crazy one known as Talierin ;) :D) had been bugging me about this site before I got the Internet. So, when I finally did get online, one of the first things I did was get on here and register... which turned out to be a good thing. :D I met two other people who are now some of my closest friends on here.
I've been here for a long time; closing in on two years. :eek: Geez, that's a long time....

Niniel

06-05-2003, 08:59 AM

I was also looking for Tolkien-related sites on the internet. I was actually looking for sites with info about Tolkien's works, not a discussion site. I found www.thelordoftherings.com and there was a link to TTF. So I came here a few times and then I decided it was fun to join a forum, and now here I am....

Arvedui

06-05-2003, 12:01 PM

I came here after having been at LoTROnline for a little while, when Grond informed me that TTF was a better place.
So, I visited this Forum, and have been here since. Which is more than I can say about LoTROnline..........

Lantarion

06-05-2003, 01:26 PM

Woah, I don't remember..
Ah wait.. There was a site, the sister-site of TTF, a veeery long while back.. I stumbled upon it througha palce called MyPrecious.net, or something like that, which had a weird open forum called the Green Dragon, and another similar one. That's where I first used the nick Lantarion. :)
But it's all very fuzzy, so far back. I registered on the Olde Forum, which was in existence before this current one (all I remember is that Mike B. was there, and that the colour scheme was orange! :D), and I was the ninth to join up when it changed for the better, into TTF.
:)

Kementari

06-05-2003, 04:54 PM

I found the older version of this forum in March 2001..so ive been here 2 years and 4 months :eek: :eek: . Back then it was reddish and white and it was actually a part of TLOTR.com and didnt have an address of its own. Anyways I found it through a search engine ( Im pretty sure it was Google but its really hard to remember..), and I joined it because it was small and only had a few regular members and they were all close (i found that all the other forums were to crowded and cold). There are only *2* members that i remember that were on the forum before me that still post now: Cir and Lanty...wow I feel like such a geezer

Morgoth

06-07-2003, 12:04 AM

My finding TTF is chronicled by the bard Derek:
'Twas a happy day that day
All cares and fears were tossed away
And the children played, free and gay
When Morgoth marched their way
*****
And the people of the forum sang
And the Bells of churches rang and rang
And the lutes gave a merry twang
The day that Morgoth came
*****
He found it through Google search
Using a laptop on a chair of birch
"Alleluia" sang the choir in the church
And he resides here to this day
*****
And the people of the the forum sang
And the Bells of churches rang and rang
And the lutes gave a merry twang
The day that Morgoth came

P.S. some of the song may be exaggerated. i cannot afford birch chairs

Elbereth

06-07-2003, 03:17 AM

*Claps in full appreciation of Morgoth's tale*

That was just *wipes tear from eye*....SPECIAL!:D

Lossengondiel

06-07-2003, 03:38 AM

For me, I was looking through thelordoftherings.com, I clicked on 'message boards', and voila...I found TTF

Aglarthalion

06-07-2003, 03:52 AM

I found this forum through a link on the Myst Community Forums (http://www.mystcommunity.com).

Lúthien Séregon

06-07-2003, 11:15 AM

Well, a while ago on thelordoftherings.com there was a link to another forum attached to the site, a rather small forum that was also moderated by Beorn...after being there a few months, one day I couldn't be bothered checking my inbox for any message notifications, so I decided to try and find the forum again. Back at lordoftherings.com, that was no longer any link to the forum so I clicked on the Forum link and came here. I joined a few days later.

Turin

06-07-2003, 08:47 PM

Mac told me about this place and I decided to check it out. It took me a while to get into the swing of things but just look at me now. ;) :D

Beleg

06-08-2003, 01:12 PM

a rather small forum that was also moderated by Beorn...after being there a few months, one day I couldn't be bothered checking my inbox for any message notifications, so I decided to try and find the forum again.

Are you talking about Tolkien Debates?
If yes then what's your ID there?

Aulë

06-08-2003, 01:26 PM

I found TTF whist searching Google for some reviews on PJ's "The Two Towers"

Lúthien Séregon

06-09-2003, 03:25 AM

Nope not Tolkien Debates, it was just lordoftherings.com message board. It only had 3 sections, one for each of the films. It got closed down a bit of a while ago though.

HLGStrider

06-09-2003, 04:45 AM

Well, I was an online baby who didn't really know how to do much at all. I could e-mail and use MSN messenger, but I didn't know about chat rooms (still don't) or boards. . .then I joined a small Steven Curtis Chapman board and learned how to do boards. . .then I got sick of it and left that board.

Then I was trying to remember the site name to find movie listings (when movies come out) so I got sick of it and typed in The Lord of the Rings hoping I could find out when the fellowship was coming out. I found this and started poking around. . .

It didn't take me long to become infamous. ;)

Arthur_Vandelay

04-22-2004, 08:39 PM

I am (or used to be) a regular contributor to the TolkienWiki (a big hello to Walter and Lhunithiliel :)). The Wiki has a link to this site.

Ol'gaffer

04-22-2004, 09:12 PM

I tagged along with Lanty

Sarah

04-22-2004, 09:56 PM

I'm pretty sure I found it with google. I think.

Saermegil

04-22-2004, 11:33 PM

Im sure I followed a link to a link to a link to a link to a link which brought me here. That is how usually I browse the web.

Narya

04-23-2004, 05:50 AM

I was in LOTRO, Greenwood was in LOTRO, I got banned by our administrator from LOTRO, informed Greenwood, Greenwood brought me here, I left LOTRO for good. Not because it's bad, but because by the time I got back to LOTRO the rules have changed DRAMATICALLY, I don't even recognize the site anymore.

And in LOTRO I was Vilya Brandybuck, here I am Narya brandybuck, and in another Message Board I was Nenya Brandybuck.

Yeah...boring pattern...I know...

Ciryaher

04-23-2004, 09:06 PM

Hoo now! Hmm...let me think here...it was my 9th year of school, so that makes it almost 5 years...it was october or so, I think.

Back then I was really into a text-based role-playing game based on Middle-Earth, which I had started playing almost immediately after reading the Silmarillion. The game got me more interested in things Tolkien, and I used the Lycos search engine (because everyone else used Yahoo at the time) and searched for "Tolkien". I found a few other sites, including Rolozo Tolkien (a Tolkien-based art site) and thelordoftherings.com, which had its own message board system.

As you may know, this board used to be integrated with thelordoftherings.com, Mr. AP's "main" Tolkien site. I had to use the search engine for a while until I got more used to the Internet and figured out how to just type in the address, and so here I am. :D

33Peregrin

04-24-2004, 10:34 PM

I know I first found TTF pretty soon after I saw FOTR, but didn't register until almost a year later. It was when I just saw FOTR... just began reading LOTR. I loved everything about, and I would go everywhere just trying to find pictures from the movie because I loved it so much, and was so amazed by it. I think I typed Tolkien somewhere, possibly on google, then one day I clicked on The Tolkien Forum. Anyways, I had no idea what a Forum was or anything, but I kept coming back here. I would always act like I was registering, than quit at the last second. So one day, I think right after I ot my email address, I just registered. I remember thinking how stupid the name 33Peregrin was, and wishing I had put more thought into it... but I like it now!Then I got more and more addicted. And that was over a year ago. :D

Firawyn

04-24-2004, 11:12 PM

Honastly, my day was on a forum and I was in love with Tolkien and so I typed in "thetolkienforum.com" on my browser...and wa-la! :D

Ambartur

04-26-2004, 01:59 AM

I actually found this from MERPG.com. I can't remember how I found that (bad memory, I know...), but I remember everybody always making references to TTF. So naturally I was like, "I've gotta go check this place out!" Of course, I still don't really post that much. I mainly just look around and read what everyone else says. Sometimes I post if no one else there has expressed my views (e.g. How did you find TTF?). But typically, someone already has, so I just read...But yeah...Go MERPG.

Maeglin

04-26-2004, 03:34 AM

I had just moved into my new town and didn't know a soul, so I was bored out of my skull, and I loved Tolkien but never had anyone to talk about it with. Anyway, I think I was actually looking for Tolkien artwork, so I typed in something like "Tolkien Inspired websites", and this popped up. And voila! here I am

pipin

04-29-2004, 05:56 AM

well I found the site when I was doing scholl progect on Tolkien :D

Gandalf White

04-29-2004, 06:04 AM

I honestly have no recollection whatsoever. :eek:

Elessar II

04-29-2004, 06:28 AM

A couple pals of mine told me about it (to prevent the embarrassment of the parties involved, I will not name them ;) , Hey! did I just hear a sigh of relief? :rolleyes: )

Anyway, I was bored to tears one afternoon, and for some reason, the conversation I'd had with G....oops! ...er... the parties involved, about some LOTR forum popped into my head, yet I couldn't remember the web address of the site for the life of me.
But, as usual, good 'ol google bailed me out, and here I am. :D

Ingwë

02-09-2005, 02:55 PM

It was 6 months ago. I have used Google and I was searching 'free american tolkien forums' and I find TTF!

Varda35

02-09-2005, 04:46 PM

Actually I wasn't even looking for a Tolkien Forum. I was bored at work so i decided to set up my personalized yahoo page, but i didn't like the default settings so i searched for tolkien related sites and there it was. I said what the heck let me take a look and well here i am :D

Firawyn

02-09-2005, 05:06 PM

I'd be proud of the fact I recruted yet another TTFer. Whoever got you here, ElssarII, I would think that aught to be man (or woman) enough to stand up and yell "I got ElsserII here!!!" and be happy! :D :p ;)

Wolfshead

02-11-2005, 01:02 PM

I was on the The Tolkien List first - the email discussion list that was part of www.thelordoftherings.com like TTF is. Think I found that through searching for LOTR stuff online. And I either got onto TTF as a natural extension of that, or because one of my friends was on at one point. I honestly can't remember, it was almost 3 years ago after all!

Hobbit-queen

02-12-2005, 03:17 AM

I just stumbled upon it while doing my regular LotRs searches. It just kind of happend. I fell in love with the site when I first layed my eyes on it. I've recruted a few of my friends but they don't use it as much as I do. It's the best site ever!!!!!!!!!

baragund

02-12-2005, 05:06 AM

A while after TTT hit the theaters, I was looking for New Line's web site for the films. That web site is www.thelordoftherings.net. I typed www.thelordoftherings.com by mistake. As quite a few people mentioned above, that is the "ancestor" of this site.

Call me clueless, but I had no experience with message boards or forums before I stumbled on this site. Before then, I never encountered anybody who shared my love for Tolkien's Middle-earth so you can imagine I was like a kid in a candy store the first time I wandered around.

I understand there are quite a few Tolkien dedicated fora. I've stuck my nose in a few and joined a couple over the past 23 months but I feel most comfortable here. There is a nice balance of young and old folks, discussions ranging from lecture-quality serious to the goofy, and members from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds. And as long as we don't talk about religion or politics, everybody seems to get along really well!

Wolfshead

02-12-2005, 08:30 PM

It's the best site ever!!!!!!!!!
That could be pushing it a bit... But I'd say the best Tolkien site is infact The Flying Moose of Nargothrond (http://flyingmoose.org) with it's world-famous Tolkien Sarcasm Page (http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/tolksarc.htm) :D

e.Blackstar

02-14-2005, 01:19 AM

I was browsing www.myprecious.co.uk and came across it in the links page...I was still new to the interent at that time..actuallt, TTF has educated me 'bout all the forum-y type stuff. Cheers!

Glory

02-18-2005, 05:23 AM

I remember I saw quite eagerly the first trailer of the very first LotR movie and it came to my attention a website adress that appeared at the end so being curious as I am, I decided to visit the web site next time I went online and:
A while after TTT hit the theaters, I was looking for New Line's web site for the films. That web site is www.thelordoftherings.net. I typed www.thelordoftherings.com by mistake. As quite a few people mentioned above, that is the "ancestor" of this site.
I kinda did the same thing wrote wrongly the adress anyway a very good day visiting that page I clicked on the link to here and I liked it, so I registered.

Jesse

02-24-2005, 12:16 AM

I don't remember how I found TTF....

Nienna Súrion

03-18-2005, 02:49 AM

Google...the almighty search engine. *bows* I was looking up stuff about the movies and I got this.

Barliman Butterbur

03-18-2005, 03:54 AM

How did you find TTF?

Through any search Engine, through a friend, through any other website..whatever..

I googled TOLKIEN, and this was one of the entries.

Barley

Urambo Tauro

03-19-2005, 01:50 AM

I was discussing TLOTR on another forum, and wanted to rind a Forum dedicated to TLOTR with many members. I quickly decided that I should search for Tolkien rather than just TLOTR. So I looked for a somewhat "official" forum that dwarfs the rest. I found TTF!