Class of '02 v4: 2020 - now we are 18

[Rholarowyn]

*Opens the door and enters slowly*

Hello?

It is good to see some familiar faces here as it has been too long. Vana your post on FB on oldtoby saddened me deeply and reminded me of how special TORC was to me. Many good times and good memories here.

Kaya, glad to know your pirate is still around and does he still have his parrot?

Can someone explain to me what I need to do to get rid of that 3rd party hosting picture and replace it with a proper one?

[Ladykat]

Can someone explain to me what I need to do to get rid of that 3rd party hosting picture and replace it with a proper one?

Yeah, Photobucket doesn't work anymore. You have get something else like Imgur or Phototrail.

LK

[Vanaladiel]

Guess I will have to work on something else too!! A good Spring project to find me some new photos to upload as sig pics!

[PatriotBlade]

Vana,I think that is a lovely idea!

[prmiller]

Sweet sixteen...at Christmas!
What a pair of joys,
sharing Christmas greetings
with grandgirls and boys
being Father Christmas,
in some fun-filled way,
sending all m blessings,
on this splendid day!

Christmas joys to all,
Parm

[Vanaladiel]

Wishing all my brothers and sisters from the Class of 02' a VERY HAPPY AND JOYOUS NEW YEAR 2019!!!

[prmiller]

I love the gladness in this place
I love the hugs when grief draws near,
I love the laughter, thunder-strong,
I love the friend who wipes each tear.
I love this place, and ever shall,
I love the roads that bring me back.
I love and love and love much more,
for joy that does not ever lack.

Blessings,
Parm

[earendil81]

Apparently my post didn’t go through last week. Just an excuse to return to these hallowed halls.

I shall be 17 next Thursday; and the week after that I’ll turn 38.

I wanted to take a moment to tell you all how blessed I am to have come to this place.

I treasure the memories, and I was lucky to find lifelong friends whose love, support and presence (close or far) have guided me through the path from a scared, awkward young tween to the woman, wife and mother I am today.

With us still or on the other side of Night, you are all like “a handprint on my heart”. And for that I thank you.

Hugs and much love from France

[Frelga]

Eari! Great to see you!

[luthienelflover]

Hi Eari!! (And Frelga, too!)

I turned 17 and I missed it. I did get to hang out with Jewelsong for a day right around that time, though, so I'll take it.

I've been having a lot of feelings lately about how lucky I was to find TORC when I did and how instrumental it was in my life and development. A lot of nostalgia which -- as I'm sure many of you know -- originally referred to not just general longing for days past but specifically to homesickness, and TORC really was my true home for many years. It's not anymore. And that's not a bad thing -- my home is my family and my kids now, as it should be -- but I do miss it and probably always will.

Also nowhere on the internet is there a smiley as good as

[Vanaladiel]

Hello my fellow class mates of 2002.

It just seems so unbelievable that we have had TORC as a home for so very long!

Eari congratulations on the new addition on it's way to your home. When are you due? I do not remember. I am getting old after all!!

Luthie your children are growing up so fast!! I remember meeting you and Eari in Toronto! What a great week of memories!

Frelga how great to see you again!! I pray life is treating you well!

Brother PARM you are always a light unto our paths!! Miss you my brother and give my love to Mrs. PARM!

I can only hope that more of our class will appear and say Hello once more!!

[Quimrill_Renctar]

Hello...

I love this place, and all you guys. I never would have emagined I would stick with a forum this long, but something about this place and everybody here just always keeps me coming back! And we are talking all the way through the angst of the teens and the busy crazyness of the twenties and into the thirties.

Back in the day I joined three or four writing forums and all the rest are long gone and sunk into the mire of expired domains and url errors. Something about Tolkien just seems to endure.

Good times, folks, seriously good times.

[Tookish_Traveler]

Yea... a few of us '02's have hung around here for a loooong time.

[Vanaladiel]

And planning on hanging around a lot longer too!

[Kaya]

It's the weather, no doubt - gastly, rainy, windy... perfect cocoon weather, just how I love it. But it makes me want to go home, even though I'm sitting in it right now, huddled up in a fleece sweater and with a cup of tea nearby. I guess this means this always was kind of a home to me, no matter what. Miss the old days. Miss the writing sessions and being able to go on hardly no sleep for months in a row (now I get headaches if I even so much as try to have a couple of nights with less than 7 hrs ). Miss the connection there was, the drive that pushed us, even though I'm still in touch with many I've met through these boards. Miss not having those silly disturbances in the body with more 17 years under my belt than I did when I joined, too.

Anyways, my laptop still remembered my password (PHEW! Because otherwise it would have been safely protected by my own amnesia ) and I wanted to say hello to each and all while snooping around. Hope you all are well and happy!

[Vanaladiel]

KAYA!!!!!

It is so good to see you hear again! I loved all our conversations! I hope that you are doing very well!

[SilverScribe]

. . . wanders in . . .

Good gravy, it seems like an age since I first peeked into these Boards before screwing up the courage to sign up.

to all the returning '02-ers and also to the more recent additions to the TORC army!

. . . saunters out muttering . . . "I really have to get back here more . . ."

[Herger]

Saunters in with a wily grin

Looks like they'll let just anyone come back these days.

[RoseMorninStar]

Saunters in with a wily grin

Looks like they'll let just anyone come back these days.

I see you there.

[Herger]

Hello, dear!

[Vanaladiel]

Welcome back Herger!!! Nice to see you wandering about the boards once more!

Hey Scribbles darling!!

[Herger]

Heya Vana!

[Jaeniver]

Just wanted to pop in and clear some cobwebs from this place. I am feeling nostalgic.
Hope everybody is well, where ever you are.

[Herger]

My dear friend Jae! So wonderful to see you here.

-elengil

[Vanaladiel]

Hey Jae it is great to have wanderers coming back even if just to check out who is about!! Missed your face hon!

Herger you old Norseman you!!

It's weird to think we have gone another year now. Let's see we all joined some 18 years or so ago!! We were so young and scared and now we are ol.... never mind! We are not scared anymore, I don't think anyways. But we are wiser or try to be it seems. Waving at everyone!!!

[Bréhon]

Eightteen, and starting to feel it. How is everybody doing?
This guy has been summoned. It’s been a while

[Herger]

Ooh what's this, another rider? I wonder if we can collect the whole set? C'mon, brothers, where's my e-ored?!

[Bardhwyn]

* Dusts off her cloak as she enters, looks about *

Well, this place hasn't changed much. Still pretty much the same and it's lovely to see.

[Old_Begonia]

**stumbles in, nearly falling over; looks about, squinting**

I have no memory of this place...and yet...surely this is part of the old path...

[Bardhwyn]

* Lights a few candles *

There, is that better. Greetings, Old_Begonia! Lovely to see you. And yes, this is part of the old path and sometimes they need wandering down, every now and then.

*Hangs her cloak off the antler of an elk's head, affixed to the wall*

I do believe Scribbles killed that with a piercing, sideways glance. It dropped dead as stone. Now, the wine cellar. We had one, if I recall. Red, White, Rose or Fizz, Begonia?