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vivienSigh, I have been broken by wonderful writers writing stories that contain things I swore I'd never read. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
circe_tigana has an AU LotRPF fic I am dying for her to update. It is crack. I never thought I'd read RPF at all, but you know how much I read now. And LotR fic was the latest taboo area in which I've been seduced. Damn. I might even read an AU fic in that genre now. I'm scared.
Speaking of crack,spicedrum sent me the link to download "Half Fling". I was amused and vaguely terrified by it. I heart spicedrum! I was telling her on AIM last night that we must find a way to meet one of these days.
I will so be buying Billy's album the first moment it's released. Squee.
Ha! I knew it was Smay-gol instead of Smee-gol! Cos there's the accented e there and all. Ah, my geekiness prevails!baylorsr was able to attend a lecture by Tom Shippey (Tolkien scholar extraordinaire) and writes about it here The title of the lecture was From Page to Screen: Problems Tolkien left for Jackson and it sounds like it was a really interesting lecture.
I'm reading The Little Engine That Could this week for school (we do one book for one or two weeks), and I think I know where my flexibility in the face of life craziness comes from. I wore out a recording of this story when I was 4 going on 5 (the age of the kids I now teach). "I think I can, I think I can..." Not a bad motto to live by.
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1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
Page 18 is a map of the Shire.
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
The kitchen counter
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
The local news
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is:
8:40 PM
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
8:27 PM
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
Clock ticking, water runnning in pipes, murmur of tv, hum of refrigerator.
7: When did you last step outside? what were you doing?
I got out of my car to walk to apartment building door.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
The first friends entry.
9: What are you wearing?
Light blue sweatshirt, grey sweatpants, house shoes, and new glasses. And underwear. No bra, though ;)
10: Did you dream last night?
Yes. I was moving into a new three bedroom, three bath condo in the desert, but on the day I was to move in the building was suddenly by the ocean and there was flooding and I couldn't get to it.
First night in about three that I did not have a hobbit flitting through my subconscious at some point.
11: When did you last laugh?
We were laughing at our foolish cat earlier in the evening.
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
A Tolkien calendar (With Eowyn about to slay the Nazgul's beast), two family picture collages, the phone mounting, and a wall clock.
13: Seen anything weird lately?:
Weird and sad. An uncle came to pick up a child reeking of alcohol, and not anywhere listed on the permission to pick up forms. I left it for the social worker to deal with, thankfully.
14: What do you think of this quiz?:
It passes the time, and hardly anyone will read it. But that's okay.
15: What is the last film you saw?:
"Spirited Away"
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:
Oh, tickets, definitely. I'd be doing some major visiting.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
I've thought about starting a family history recording business (the kind that interviews oldsters, makes the genealogy and family history books, etc) but I'm too chicken to try it at this point in my life. I'd be good at it though.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
I'd make good health care free to everyone.
19: Do you like to dance?:
I love to dance. I miss going out dancing. We have to go out dancing, TNGC!
20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?:
Power hungry nutcase.
21: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?:
Claire Helena
22: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?:
Ian Lennon
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?:
I would. Somewhere in the British Isles, perhaps. Or New Zealand.
circe_tigana has an AU LotRPF fic I am dying for her to update. It is crack. I never thought I'd read RPF at all, but you know how much I read now. And LotR fic was the latest taboo area in which I've been seduced. Damn. I might even read an AU fic in that genre now. I'm scared.Speaking of crack,
spicedrum sent me the link to download "Half Fling". I was amused and vaguely terrified by it. I heart spicedrum! I was telling her on AIM last night that we must find a way to meet one of these days.I will so be buying Billy's album the first moment it's released. Squee.
Ha! I knew it was Smay-gol instead of Smee-gol! Cos there's the accented e there and all. Ah, my geekiness prevails!
baylorsr was able to attend a lecture by Tom Shippey (Tolkien scholar extraordinaire) and writes about it here The title of the lecture was From Page to Screen: Problems Tolkien left for Jackson and it sounds like it was a really interesting lecture.I'm reading The Little Engine That Could this week for school (we do one book for one or two weeks), and I think I know where my flexibility in the face of life craziness comes from. I wore out a recording of this story when I was 4 going on 5 (the age of the kids I now teach). "I think I can, I think I can..." Not a bad motto to live by.
einini">1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
Page 18 is a map of the Shire.
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
The kitchen counter
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
The local news
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is:
8:40 PM
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
8:27 PM
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
Clock ticking, water runnning in pipes, murmur of tv, hum of refrigerator.
7: When did you last step outside? what were you doing?
I got out of my car to walk to apartment building door.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
The first friends entry.
9: What are you wearing?
Light blue sweatshirt, grey sweatpants, house shoes, and new glasses. And underwear. No bra, though ;)
10: Did you dream last night?
Yes. I was moving into a new three bedroom, three bath condo in the desert, but on the day I was to move in the building was suddenly by the ocean and there was flooding and I couldn't get to it.
First night in about three that I did not have a hobbit flitting through my subconscious at some point.
11: When did you last laugh?
We were laughing at our foolish cat earlier in the evening.
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
A Tolkien calendar (With Eowyn about to slay the Nazgul's beast), two family picture collages, the phone mounting, and a wall clock.
13: Seen anything weird lately?:
Weird and sad. An uncle came to pick up a child reeking of alcohol, and not anywhere listed on the permission to pick up forms. I left it for the social worker to deal with, thankfully.
14: What do you think of this quiz?:
It passes the time, and hardly anyone will read it. But that's okay.
15: What is the last film you saw?:
"Spirited Away"
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:
Oh, tickets, definitely. I'd be doing some major visiting.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
I've thought about starting a family history recording business (the kind that interviews oldsters, makes the genealogy and family history books, etc) but I'm too chicken to try it at this point in my life. I'd be good at it though.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
I'd make good health care free to everyone.
19: Do you like to dance?:
I love to dance. I miss going out dancing. We have to go out dancing, TNGC!
20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?:
Power hungry nutcase.
21: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?:
Claire Helena
22: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?:
Ian Lennon
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?:
I would. Somewhere in the British Isles, perhaps. Or New Zealand.
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GodDAMN the pusherman!
Date: 2004-04-06 11:52 pm (UTC)Following the Other Wizard: Journey Into Healing" (http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=2500) In which Frodo doesn't sail over Sea, but can't stay in the Shire either. He winds up on a long journey with Radagast the Brown, learning woodcraft and the healer's arts--which involves, among other things, planting grass and trees in Mordor. Really nicely-paced adventure, great OCs (Orcs!), and a three-hanky warning for the end. (No smut)
HP/LOTR crossovers I pimp when I get a chance:
Also well-paced adventures, funny and scary by turns. Rather kitchen-sink, and a little dazzling how much Rowlingverse and Tolkienverse lore she manages to work in there. As well as all the rest of it, I think the whole thing is worth the trip just for the astonishingly creepy and beautiful Azkaban-escape sequence in the 2nd story. (Been waiting to see a Dementor/Nazgul fight? There it is. It's very short.) Hope you like horses, though -- she sure does. (And as it happens, she wrote the thestral in before OotP.)
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Date: 2004-04-06 11:54 pm (UTC)"Clouds Over Snow."
"Stars In the River."
Been at work too long.
Re: GodDAMN the pusherman!
Date: 2004-04-10 12:22 pm (UTC)