Fannish stuff
Dec. 31st, 2003 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieY'know, when I saw ROTK and got to the credits, I couldn't associate Annie Lennox with LOTR. The mental disconnect was just too much. But the more I listen to "Into the West" on the soundtrack, the more it's growing on me. Is pretty...
Shockingly enough, I'm making headway into The Silmarillion at a pretty good clip. I'm somewhere in the "Of Eldemar" chapter; Galadriel just made her first appearance in the listing of the children of...uh...well, his name starts with an F, and his brother is Fingolfen and his father is Finwë. Too lazy to go into the den and look it up.
Anyway, as you may notice, I'll never remember the vast majority of these names. But once you realize that this is essentially some funky combination of the Christian Bible, Norse mythology (*snicker* the Valar are the Asgard), and Saxon and Viking history (at least as far as I can tell), it's not too hard to read. Plus now I finally know who this Aulë that every mention of dwarves eventually refers to is! Yay! And who knew that Middle-Earth was merely a continent, not a world? *pause* At least, I think it's a continent. It's possible that reading this will provoke more questions than it answers.
And for some completely unknown reason, I feel like finishing my semi-massive Farscape AU that I started way back in early 2000. Dude, I have no idea. Basically, Aeryn, not John, goes through the wormhole, and gets major culture shock when she crash-lands on Earth. Heh.
And because of all this I have had to say far away from all the pretty new brushes I discovered in Photoshop. So yes,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chiroho, I'm actually seeing the light of day. Well, I'm seeing the light of day through a different window than the one by my computer, anyway. ;)
Happy New Year!
Shockingly enough, I'm making headway into The Silmarillion at a pretty good clip. I'm somewhere in the "Of Eldemar" chapter; Galadriel just made her first appearance in the listing of the children of...uh...well, his name starts with an F, and his brother is Fingolfen and his father is Finwë. Too lazy to go into the den and look it up.
Anyway, as you may notice, I'll never remember the vast majority of these names. But once you realize that this is essentially some funky combination of the Christian Bible, Norse mythology (*snicker* the Valar are the Asgard), and Saxon and Viking history (at least as far as I can tell), it's not too hard to read. Plus now I finally know who this Aulë that every mention of dwarves eventually refers to is! Yay! And who knew that Middle-Earth was merely a continent, not a world? *pause* At least, I think it's a continent. It's possible that reading this will provoke more questions than it answers.
And for some completely unknown reason, I feel like finishing my semi-massive Farscape AU that I started way back in early 2000. Dude, I have no idea. Basically, Aeryn, not John, goes through the wormhole, and gets major culture shock when she crash-lands on Earth. Heh.
And because of all this I have had to say far away from all the pretty new brushes I discovered in Photoshop. So yes,
chiroho, I'm actually seeing the light of day. Well, I'm seeing the light of day through a different window than the one by my computer, anyway. ;)Happy New Year!
