Odds and Ends

[Elindë]

^Sorry, I meant to reply here but forgot. I love how he talks! And no, I haven't. I wasn't interested when the series aired here and even so I don't have Sky, but the DVD should be out soon and when it is... XD I'm reading the book atm but though I'm really liking it it's going so slowly! -has little time to read-

Also I rediscovered this:

Selon moi, the pics of me taken that day are the ones I like best, ie the ones I like. The only problem is I'm currently growing my hair out but seeing those photos again makes me want to cut it 'short'. -sighs- When it comes to hair styles you just can't win.

[willow]

^that was a good day =D

[Elindë]

So on this website there's yet another interview with Bloom...

IDON'TCAREABOUTBLOOM!HEHASSUCHASMALLPART!WHERETHEHECKISHISDADALREADY?
IDON'TEVENLIKELEGOLAS;HELLIHATELEGOLAS!

-livid- WHAAAAAT???!

...shit

[Elindë]

OMG! The Spanish version of The Fall poster is soo pretty!

I prefer it to the English one.

[Elindë]

[Okay so this post could go in the Break-Up Make-Up thread but seeing as it's centred round something not related directly to the muses I'm putting it here.]

So I just read this fanfic about Fëanor by one of my buddies on NaNo and it was really odd; because our levels of obsession are similar she describes her favourite Elf Fëanor like I'd describe Thranduil so I relate to the unhealthly level of worship (and she's a good writer)... but it's odd cause I hate Fëanor.

-looks over at Eldu who's reading the 16th volume of Fruits Basket, he's been reading the series from vol. 1 basically all day-

Eldu you are pathetic! -isn't referring to his Furuba reading-

-sitting up- Well I'm sorry that I'm not in The Silmarillion!

Oh but you are.

I am not Thingol!

No... you're his Minime though.

-doesn't know what that means but 'knows' he's been insulted- -glares- Well then go and worship the Noldo with the rest of the Noldor-worshipping -censored-.

[Elindë]

So you would have thought the 15 actors credited on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey's main page on IMDb would be Gandalf, Bilbo and the 13 dwarves. Er.. no; it's altogether more random.
(copied exactly)

Evangeline Lilly - Tauriel
Luke Evans - Bard the Bowman
Orlando Bloom - Legolas
Cate Blanchett - Galadriel
Hugo Weaving - Elrond
Elijah Wood - Frodo
Benedict Cumberbatch - Smaug/Necromancer [should be a 'the' there... and in fact there is for the second film]
Martin Freeman - Bilbo Baggins
Ian McKellen - Gandalf
Christopher Lee - Saruman
Andy Serkis - Gollum
Richard Armitage - Thorin Oakenshield
Stephen Fry - Master of Laketown
Lee Pace - King Thranduil [for the second film it's just 'Thranduil', did he abdicate between films or something?]
Ian Holm - Old Bilbo

The second film - The Hobbit: There and Back again which is like saying River Avon (River River) in my opinion seeing as they're both the book's title - has a slightly different random assortment and a slightly different order. Legolas and the Master of Laketown have disappeared to be replaced by

James Nesbitt - Bofur
Brian Blessed - King Dáin (rumoured)

What gets me is this:

Dominic Keating - Galion (rumoured)
Craig Hall - Galion (uncredited)

WTF is that all about?! These films need Galion!

Actually... they don't. All I did was get wasted.

He's right, you know.

Thanks, guys. -cries-

[Elindë]

For this fic I had an idea of writing all the Elvenkings round a table in a Hallowe'en fic. They're all dead btw; Thranduil got drowned and Legolas (who was technically king for half an hour) was stabbed. Thing is there's a heck of a lot of them, and that's not including any of Fëanor's sons.

Finwë
Fëanor
Turgon
Thingol
Finrod Felagund
Orodreth
Gil-Galad
Celebrimbor
Oropher
Amroth
Amdír
Thranduil

I think that's it. -looks at list- -cries- I haven't written 9 of them before!

[Elindë]

Whenever I hear 500 Miles ~ The Proclaimers, I think of this. Tennant in a dinner jacket and a kilt -yay- Love him so much

And then there's this, done, I think, after Tate played Donna.

[Elindë]

[Elindë]

no explanation necessary

[Elindë]

You know sometimes, well all the time, I wish basic ideas of scenes for LotR/Silmarillion fanfics didn't pop into my head in the venacular. Some are rather hard to Tolkien-ify

This is okay:
- Owl shows Phoenix the letter from [Owl's] family disowning him just beyond the bridge over the Sirion after Owl has epically saved Phoenix’s bacon at [Phoenix's] trial

So are these, apart from the mental note in the middle of them:
- Phoenix finds Owl preserved in the dry dust outside Angband (only not Angband… that long word I can’t spell because I fail at life) and buries him properly

- Owl tells Phoenix about how he came to Beleriand via a letter he hid in Phoenix’s cloak (how the heck did Phoenix not notice earlier?) only Owl’s already dead :’(

But this one is... well... NaNo-worthy:
- Phoenix wears green when helping with the dissolution of the Thoronedhil and Owl has an ‘O.o!! you’re the Sinda who helped me in my dream and omfg I know who’ll you become!’ moment

Yeah, that last one is going to be fun rendering into LotR language.

[Owl [aka [in order of use] Fánfallë, Hecilo, Nenros] is one of my OCs and Phoenix... well you know who Phoenix is. Owl becomes Emlyn in my NaNo novel, fyi. Phoenix becomes Amber but he's hardly in it.]

[Elindë]

I kinda hope they don't say 'Thranduil' in The Hobbit films cause they don't in the book... but I know they will. And there'll be loads of fangirls' going 'ahmahgaad, he's so cuuute!' They'd better hope they don't meet me; it'll be a case of 'who was his dad then?' 'err...' 'Phoenix, may I borrow your staff?' They've ruined Legolas, they can leave the Hobbit Elves alooone! >.<

Actually they might all be too busy squeeing over Garett; we live in hope.

[willow]

^and the dwarves will distract them... for example Aidan Turner's fanbase is surprisingly large... for a vampire on BBC3...

[Elindë]

^true... though I think Pace's is bigger because he's been in more stuff.


Elvenquest, Series 3, Episode 2

Sam: You can't be a barbarian.

Penthiselea: Why not?

Sam: Well you don't get female barbarians, do you? You'll stick out like a sore thumb.

Vidar: Why is that?

Sam: Well I suppose women just aren't very barbaric-

Vidar: No, I mean why do sore thumbs stick out? I've had sore thumbs and they don't really stick out at all.

Dean: Aye, that's a good point.

Vidar: Do you remember that time when I caught my thumb in my longbow-string?

Dean: Yes, my lord; that was ever so red, wasn't it?

Vidar: It hurt dreadfully!

Dean: ...But it didn't 'stick out'...

Sam: Can... can we...

Dean: I can't think of anything that 'sticks out' when it's enflamed.

Sam: Look, can we get back to being barbarians?!

[Elindë]

Lovia's song just came up and slapped me in the face:
Toi + Moi ~ Grégoire

Avec l'envie, la force et le courage
Le froid, la peur ne sont que des mirages
Laissez tomber les malheurs pour une fois
Allez, venez, reprenez avec moi

Toi plus moi plus eux plus tous ceux qui le veulent
Plus lui plus elle et tous ceux qui sont seuls
Allez, venez et entrez dans la danse
Allez, venez et laissez faire l'insouciance