I'm sleep-deprived and high on caffeine again, so what I say might not make much sense, again...
I joined CoE on autumn 2002. I first found the site in the same way most our CoE members do: just came to look for something (in my case it was the sindaring dictionary) and realized I could no-longer leave!
During these past months I have made so many new friends - very dear friends I mights add - and I can honestly say CoE has changed my life. It's my home inside home, as Rivka put it!
I now work in CoE as a gallery shirriff (yes, the person who deleted your comment "I love Legolas he's sooooooooooooo HOT!" was I!) and love my job. CoE is such a wonderful community, and I am happy I can be of some help to it.
In my free time I hang around in CoE's chat room, read (even other books than LoTR!), and design insane websites such as this! I'm also an amateur actor, and am currently trying to re-educate myself to the admin. positions in travel industry. I love travelling and my dream is to visit all the countries of the world (so far I've been in pathetic 30 countries so I still have over 200 to go...)
As you can see, my days seem rather full, and my way of buying my self more time is skipping sleeping. I stay awake by the divine power of coffee and cigarettes, and believe am well-known at CoE by my chain-smoking habbit...