Odds and Ends

[Elindë]

Epic picture is epic. How many days before the Olympics, again (on the 18th)?

[Elindë]

(In no order:)
The Sons of Fëanor
Kvothe
Lestat

I'd just need to convince the Fëanorionan that the zombies have stolen the Silmarils and I'd be laughing.

[Elindë]

Hahaha the self same reasons why I'm sh--ting myself. -takes refuge in The Silmarillion- -hopes and prays the rabid fangirls leave Thranduil and Bard alone- -remembers that Thranduil is an Elf and Bard is basically The Hobbit's version of Aragorn- -weeps-

[Elindë]

It's the combination of the crown, Viggo's face and Orlando's bandana that does it...

[Elindë]

Of course... I had maps of course. You must.... if you're ever going to compile a story you must work to a map, otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

~ Tolkien

[Elindë]

Just Gil-Galad pouting

[Elindë]

I was rereading the long stand-alone version of The Children of Húrin and when I read how Anglachel came to be in Thingol's keeping, I thought: sohe has Anglachel the accursed sword (which Eol oh-so-kindly gifted to him) and as soon as Beleg and Túrin... remove that problem Thingol gets Nauglamír the accursed Dwarven necklace (which Húrin basically sentenced him to death with), and of course he has one of the Silmarils. It is a bit like

I know he actually asked for the Silmaril but even so, he only asked for it because he didn't think Beren had a hope in heck of getting it so he wouldn't have to lose his daughter. Well that backfired spectacularly. And exactly why he decided putting said accursed jewel into the aforementioned accursed necklace was a good idea I'll never know.

[Elindë]

I was doing an Elves of Arda quiz (I didn't get them all but I didn't do too badly) and most of them were like this:

Awoke at Cuiviénen. First High King of the Noldor. Father of Feanor, Fingolfin, and Finarfin. Slain by Melkor at Formenos.
~ Finwë

Creator of the Rings of Power in Eregion. Last direct descendant of Feanor.
~ Celebrimbor

Eldest son of Fingolfin. Rescues Maedhros from Thangorodrim. Became High King of the Noldor in Beleriand. Slain by Gothmog in the Nírnaeth Arnoediad.
~ Fingon

All (rightly) high and mighty etc. ...And then there's mon p'tit bébé:

The butler of the Elvenking's halls in The Hobbit, whose fondness for drink allows for Bilbo and the dwarves' escape attempt.
~ Galion

N'awww, bless! =P

EDIT: Elvenking is one word, damnit! Some folks just wanna watch the world burn.
I also love how, despite the fact that compared to Elf-kings of old like Finwë, Fëanor and Thingol he's pretty unimportant and uninfluential, 'the Elvenking' on its own without extra context refers to Thranduil. Mind you that's probably because a) The Hobbit was written first and b) by the time of LotR he's the only one left.

[Elindë]

I know I said somewhere that I was gone for a month but I just had an 'I wish I could draw' moment. I was wondering what would happen if I got Fëanor as a muse and I had this image of Thranduil running through his, Lovai and Hallen's house like a maniac with his hands in the air, screaming: "Fëanor's coming! hide ALL the jewellery!" It did amuse me greatly.

And here's a gif of Bloom film bombing Bernard Hill

...And another question: I deleted my bookmark for WTRP so how on earth did I get here?! O.o -realises WTRP is one of her most visited sites on the new tab page... yeah I may well be back before the end of June >.<-

[Elindë]

[This whole no-posting thing isn't working out...]

-sarcastic clapping- It's taken you guys this long to realise?! Seriously? Besides, Hollywood villains aren't British; they're English. haha! -dons suitably evil grin- And even if you don't like Loki you have to admit Hiddleston is epic so I'm cool with this. Not that my opinion counts for anything...

[Elindë]

But if you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as the link. If then you wanted a large tale, the Ring would at once acquire a capital letter; and the Dark Lord would immediately appear. As he did, unasked, on the hearth at Bag End as soon as I came to that point. So the essential Quest started at once. But I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the comer at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothlórien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horse-lords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn Forest was an unforeseen adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the Stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystified as Frodo at Gandalf’s failure to appear on September 22. I knew nothing of the Palantíri, though the moment the Orthanc-stone was cast from the window, I recognized it, and knew the meaning of the ‘rhyme of lore’ that had been running in my mind: seven stars and seven stones and one white tree. These rhymes and names will crop up; but they do not always explain themselves. I have yet to discover anything about the cats of Queen Berúthiel. But I did know more or less all about Gollum and his pan, and Sam, and I knew that the way was guarded by a Spider.
J.R.R. Tolkien in a letter to W.H. Auden (7 June 1955)

OMG I love him so much -squees- He was so sweet and impish and learned. Even when he's saying he didn't know what to write he does so in a way so pleasing to the ear. From now on I'm going to read this when I have no idea where a story's going and it will give me hope.

[Elindë]

If only this kind of thing really happened. Apparently it's the Queen's diamond jubilee this weekend. Everyone throw a street party! Haha no; have you met my neighbours? I'm surprised a street as short as mine can contain so much neighbour!politics.

[Elindë]

I think I've figured this out, to my own satisfaction anyway:

The Shire is in the pre-industrialisation English C18th minus a few things like gunpowder.
Gondor is in the late Medieval period.. with things like gunpowder. Tolkien said it was like a dry Venice so there we go.
Imladris, Lothlórien and the Grey Havens are like perect Renaissance civilisations.
And then there's Rohan and the Wilderland (Beornings, Greenwood, Esgaroth, Dale, Erebor), which are stuck in the Dark Ages between C8th and 9th.
Rohan is richer than the Wilderland, I think, because of the trades and stuff, and probably that bit more advanced because of influences.
The Wilderland is out of the way; you go there, never through it to somewhere else because there's nowhere else to go. So everyone there's happily doing their own thing in their not technologically advanced cultures.

And of course Eldu's living out in the sticks slap-bang in the middle of Wilderland. And people wonder why C21st tech freaks him out.

[Elindë]

Lee Pace interview for The Fall.

Two things:

1) Lee talks and 190mph. It's like: he's about to start. Get your ears ready... here we go... and he OFF! Now everyone shut up; I have to concentrate to keep up with him.

2) this comment:

I can't wait to see him as Legolas's dad

Excuse me while I flip tables.
HE HAS A NAME, YOU KNOW! It's not hard to find it out! Especially if you profess to not be able to wait to see him... -huffs-

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