Another ficlet-thingy. LotR, this one!

• The Arda Times Classifieds [general]: Extracted advertisements from The Arda Times, at the end of the Third Age and early in the Fourth Age. Here at IJ. Here at DW.

• More Things in Heaven [Harry, Frodo, general]: Suddenly Harry's not in the Leaky Cauldron any more. Here at IJ. Here at DW.

Happy New Year, all! May 2005 bring health, happiness, and peace ( Read more... )

I wrote yesterday and today, while visiting. I actually finished chapters of two stories, and I'm so excited and pleased about it that I'm putting them up right now as they stand, although both could probably use some polishing:

Faramir Decides, chapter 2 of Consequences.

Looking Ahead, chapter 40 of Passages (and the usual NC-17 smut warnings ( Read more... )

Well, I didn't really manage to get any writing done. Partly time ran out, partly I just had no inspiration whatsoever. Wrote about half a fairly crappy page on the Legolas-during-The Hobbit story and that's it ( Read more... )

( Another longer one, so I’m cutting; writing and tourism mostly )

Four... three... two... one...

While it may seem perverse if not downright bizarre in some ways to compare anglachel1 to Galadriel, having begun to read the former’s current WiP novel “Hands of the King,” I am moved to say that the story could well uphold Galadriel’s words: “Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair ( Read more... )

This question has been asked of me several times recently; or rather, in various fan-writing conversations I’ve heard the comment, “I don’t understand the Haldir phenomenon, why he’s so popular?” In some phrasing or another. Sometimes with the added point that the person doesn’t think the actor who played Haldir terribly attractive, so that doesn ( Read more... )

I’m feeling very pleased with myself today (Monday). I didn’t sleep well last night - somehow, somewhere, sometime in the past 24+ hours I got bitten in more than a dozen places by some unknown insect, so I itch all over, very annoying. When my alarm went off and I felt as if I’d hardly slept, I decided to forget going into the Guildhall as I’d ( Read more... )

A long post again, so cut several times to different bits.
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