HAPPY HOBBIT DAY!!! For those of you not in the know (I wasn't until I noticed it on mormiriel's facebook this afternoon lol) September 22 is Frodo and Bilbo's birthday ( Read more... )

Roommate Kyle to her class: What did you do this weekend?
Irritating student: Your homework.
Kyle: It's your homework ( Read more... )

Official Hobbit casting call for elves! I'M ACTUALLY TALL ENOUGH!!! The height minimum comes out to 5'5", which is my height in the morning! lol

A species of jellyfish with biological immortality

Pierre de Fermat and his unfinished theorem

You know how my birthday is St. Sebastian's Day? Well, apparently it's also St. Paula the Bearded Day. ( Read more... )

BRILLIANT Time Magazine article about fanfiction!

Did you know there are two Snow White movies in the works? The Brothers Grimm: Snow White with Sean Bean, Julia Roberts, Nathan Lane, et al, and Snow White and the Huntsman with Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Nick Frost (?!) et al. Looking at photos for 'Huntsman', one commenter asked why Snow ( Read more... )

I don't know if you guys have heard, but they've been releasing photos of the dwarves of The Hobbit a few at a time. All they have left is Balin, Dwalin, and Thorin. But they've just released photos of Kili and Fili. I don't know if you remember me squealing over Aiden Turner and wondering how he ended up getting cast as a DWARF since he has such a ( Read more... )