KD Abbreviations

• DAG: Dwarven Art Guild (formerly Dwarven Architecture Guild)
• DAR: Dwarven Association of Recruitment
• DDT: Dwarven Drill Team
• DotM: Dwarf of the Month
• DWC: Dwarven Welcome Centre
• GuF: Gathol u Futrubul
• KK: Kaption Kontest
• MR: Mirrormere Reflections (KD's newsletter)
• TR: Throne Room

Plaza Abbreviations

• Admin: Administrator
• AL: Advanced Lore
• AM: Admin Messages forum
• ATR: Admin Tribute Rank
• BA: Battle Arena
• BL: Basic Lore
• Foo: A state of mind whereby people use flashy colours (typically pink) and do silly things
• Freep: Used in Mordor; 'Free People'
• IK: Inter-kingdom
• KD: Khazad-dûm (occasionally 'kingdom')
• KPs: Kingdom Pages
• LLL: Legolas Love Letters forum
• MT: Minas Tirith
• N&I: Newbie and Introductions forum
• OOME: Out of Middle Earth
• OP: Opening Post
• PC&AFF: Poetry Corner and Art and Fanfiction Forums
• PM: Private Message
• R/As: Rulers/Admins
• Rivvy: Rivendell/Imladris
• SCR: Special Character Rank
• SM: Supporting Member
• TaBA: There and Back Again forum (the Hobbit forum)
• WC: the White Council (kingdom of Isengard)

Book Abbreviations

• BoLT1: Book of Lost Tales 1
• BoLT2: Book of Lost Tales 2
• CoH: Children of Hurin
• FoTR: Fellowship of the Ring
• HoME: History of Middle Earth
• LoTR: Lord of the Rings
• ME: Middle Earth
• RoTK: Return of the King
• Sil: The Silmarillion
• TH: The Hobbit
• TTT: The Two Towers
• UT: Unfinished Tales

RPG Terms

• GM: Game Master
• God-Moding: Where you control another person's character in an RPG- strictly forbidden in most situations without prior permission
• IC: In Character
• OOC: Out of Character
• NPC: Non-Player Character/Non-Person Character
• RP: Role-Play
• RPG: Role-Playing Game
• Timeloop: Used to denote different time periods within the same thread

Other Common Abbreviations

• Blah: Used when something is boring or when you can’t really think of anything intelligent to say.
• BRB: Be right back
• BTW: By the way
• Bump: Used to place thread on top without spamming
• Confuzzled: Confused
• *g*: Grin or giggles
• Glomp: To run at the target, leap animatedly into the air and dive-tackle them, resulting in a great hug
• Hoom: As 'bump' - particularly for Ents
• Huggles: Cross between a hug and a snuggle/cuddle
• Ickle: Little
• IM: Instant Message/Instant Messenger
• IMO: In my opinion
• IMHO: In my humble opinion
• LMAO: Laughing my a** off
• LOL: Lots of laughter, laugh out loud
• N/M: Never mind
• NP :No problem
• Poke: Used to get attention, often in an annoying way
• ROFL: Rolling on the floor laughing
• ROFLMAO: Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off
• Simulpost/Simul: When two (or possibly more) people post at the same time, or almost the same time, neither knowing that the other posted
• TY: Thank you
• WB/wubs: Welcome back
• YW: You're welcome