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Post by Elindë on May 17, 2012 4:06:49 GMT 7
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Post by Elindë on May 25, 2012 16:38:28 GMT 7
This is the somewhat damp atm wreath I've made for my last day of school. Here's to hoping it hasn't wilted by the time I go in 1&1/2 hours from now (it's currently hanging over a bath full of water...) |
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Post by Elindë on Jun 2, 2012 15:03:46 GMT 7
I'm kind of planning these two fanfics which I'll write over the summer, probably. One's set in the First Age and the other within the first few centuries of the Second Age. I want to write them in chronological order but I don't think I will because first I'd need to get my head round the dates and well....
I swear time kind of collapses at the end of the Quenta Silmarillion, either that or Tolkien keeps slipping in the odd year/decade. At some point a lot earlier than I thought Nargothrond gets got by a dragon and Gondolin gets got by a balrog but even though I know how they fall I don't know the order. Then Doriath has the Dwarves and then Maedhros and co rock up like "Hey, second Kinslay, fun times!" So some oddly long peroid of time after that everyone's running to the Sirion like 'aaaah!' only I don't know the order of people running because I don't know which kingdoms fell in which order or when the refugees decided to go to the Sirion but I think everyone does and then months/years/decades later Maedhros is like: "Yo. I iz back" and there's the 3rd Kinslay and then shit happens but again I don't know the order and at some point everyone left dies apart from the people who don't. And at some point in this melee Elrond and Elros are born, their father sails with a simlaril and their mother dies/fades whatever and Maglor 'adopts' ie kidknapps them and they develop Stockholm Syndrome and their age basically cocks everything up. Elrond and Elros, how u 53 at end of the First Age?! And Maedhros... y u always in my head?!
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Post by Elindë on Jun 5, 2012 0:40:02 GMT 7
I finally found a timeline for the First Age (which was around 587 years long). I found out this:
502 - Thingol slain.
My instant reaction: f-ck.
I thought it was like 70 years later than that >.<
And Doriath was destroyed by Maedhros & co in 505.... so that's nearly a century of the Eluwaith just wandering around going 'now what?'. I think they went to the Mouths of Sirion... I've tried asking Eldu but he's repressed it and whenever he tries to remember it he goes all funny -sighs- Looks like I'm rereadng that part of The Silmarillion, which isn't helpful as tbh I had a hard time getting that chapter.
But seriously, as far as I'm concerned this timeline for the FA is confidence to write fanfiction set in Beleriand.
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Post by Elindë on Jun 5, 2012 17:04:14 GMT 7
 It's quite scary how often The Silmarillion just appears on my desk. This time it's landed on my revision folder, along with A Gateway to Sindarin. I will now have to triple my willpower to force myself to revise... seeing as I have to remove 2 books which are both saying 'just look something up. just one thing. quickly. you know you want to.' One does not simply look up just one Tolkien-related thing... |
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Post by Elindë on Jun 7, 2012 2:27:10 GMT 7
Writing a Silmarillion fanfic (Nenros' story if that means anything to anyone else) and I'd got to the part where Fëanor and his followers are in the swanships crossing the Sea and Nenros, atm called Fanefallasë, is sitting there well stunned by the First Kinslay (the fact that he's just watched his father being killed by vengeful Teleri while shouting at Fano for help, not so much) and someone walks over to him and goes:
"Many things must be sacrificed for this venture. But never forget ours is the noblest cause, and we are burdened with glorious purpose."
Hey, Loki; just walk into my Tolkien fanfic. Make yourself comfortable.
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Post by Elindë on Jun 7, 2012 14:45:38 GMT 7
Mum: Lizzie, it's 11 o' clock; time for lights out. (I sleep at sensible times, your point?)
Me: But I can't go to sleep; I'm too busy railing against the world!
Mum: Railing about what?
Me: Gil-Galad's to f--king young, that's what! So I have to rejig everything again!
Mum: riiiight.... well lights out soon,okay?
Over the past week she's got used to rants at the First Age timeline...
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Post by Elindë on Jun 7, 2012 23:41:39 GMT 7
-Eli fights with uni accommodation application- Why you shouldn't do these things when tired -warning: excessive swearing- Log in or click here to create an account Fine -types in usual password- Password cannot be more than 10 characters long But my password is more than 10 characters long! Deal it with! Oh, fk it fine! Geez I'm going to have to bloody remember it now! -logs in- You haven't begun an application process with us for this year. Well done, Einstein, how long did it take you to work that out?! What a pointless page -clicks 'begin application'- is this information correct? No! UK is my country of residence, not my nationality, pricks. -page takes a year and a day to load- -fills in options she knows- How long do you want your let to be? 38 weeks, 40 weeks or 43 weeks? How the hell should I know?! I don't know when my course ends! And oh, don't help me out by giving me info about when you want which length or something! I'll go for 40 weeks IE is not responding.... what?! A problem has caused IE to close and reopen the tabOOHHHH -all the way back to the login page- -has to fill in everything all over again- You know what? Fk it; I'll get a C in French a go to Bangor  |
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Post by Elindë on Jun 11, 2012 0:24:12 GMT 7
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Post by Elindë on Jun 15, 2012 4:02:08 GMT 7
It's weird when a country I have friends in comes up.
I just ordered a book from the USA (because it was cheaper to buy it from the US and have it shipped over than by it in the UK for some odd reason).
The States. twitch
-a while back-
Dad: "You have folks in Melbourne, by the way"
Australia. twitch
Dad: "and South Africa"
South Africa. twitch
Why can't anything in my life be of itself and not linked to anything?!
The Vampire Chronicles:
"Stuart Townsend played Lestat in Queen of the Damned"
Why was that film made? One does not simply recast Lestat.
"And he was the original actor cast to play Aragorn"
twitch
"I see you like Loki; let me remind you that Hiddles was in the line-up to play Thranduil."
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"As was Tennant"
.... mother of all twitches
EDIT:
also this just happened...
Thanks for that one, Thranduil >.<
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Post by Elindë on Jun 18, 2012 23:27:48 GMT 7
I have a French exam tomorrow for which I have done basically no revision: |
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Post by Elindë on Jun 19, 2012 23:23:38 GMT 7
I've realised that I'm the only person from my close group of friends going to this post-exams party. I mean it's no big deal because I know and get on with everyone else who's been invited and I'm good friends with two or three of them but there's the host's clique, the clique she's on the peripheries of, and me... I'll just have to awkwardly stand there looking awkward. Or get tipsy - I have no real idea what would happen if I did that.
I also wish the spellchecker accepted UK english as well as American English... no, I have spelt 'realised' right; get over yourself.
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Post by Elindë on Jun 19, 2012 23:42:01 GMT 7
So something's been bugging me about this (quite apart from the consistent misspelling of Elvenking): In the book it was given to Bard because Bard was in charge and Thranduil was just like 'yo I iz supporting Bard innit' even though the only time he would say something like that would be to wind me up. But is this just a mistake or, because this is a website dedicated to the films, does this mean that in the films Bilbo gives the Arkenstone to Thranduil? Because if so that is serious déjà vu, and I have been reliably informed that that would never have happened. Because obviously thinking about this is more important than my English Lit A Level... |
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Post by Elindë on Jun 21, 2012 2:50:34 GMT 7
The awkward moment when Lee looks quite cute as a sparkly fairy: -Eli and Eldu regard this image for a long while, heads cocked to one side, with matching expressions of conflicting emotions on their faces- See I hate Twilight, but, like Michael Sheen's awesomeness, I can't deny Pace's cuteness. I feel obliged to hate this person, but, even though he looks like a labrador again in this, he doesn't look bad.-they glance at each other and bite their bottom lip- We have a problem, don't we?Mhmm.... |
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Post by Elindë on Jun 22, 2012 4:03:22 GMT 7
You know you're a Tolkien nut when you have a massive fan squee over a HUGE, pretty much incomprehensible page showing the genealogy of all 904 of his characters. It's so epic! I have no words! SO many feels! This project is awesome! The Lord of the Rings Family Tree Project |
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