This may explain a lot

[cleolinda]

As a follow-up to yesterday:

Here's something that may help you understand my reaction to the Tonner Alice:

Comments

[hopeandmemory]

Compocalypses will do that to you; I've been through three laptops in as many years, so I totally get that aggravation. I might re-read the everything you've written on SLOD in the meantime, just so I remember where we left off. Something about the squirrel army gearing up, if I recall correctly...

I'm not writing The Secret Life of Authors I Have Issues With.

Laughed out loud at this. Frankly, I'm not sure I'd want to see the inside of her head...

That Galadriel doll is making my fingers itch for my credit card, and I honestly gave up collecting LOTR memorabilia years ago. Maybe for Christmas, hmm...

I know what you mean about turning that scene from FOTR into a crazy FX show. I love the movies - they were my first introduction to the series, since I'd never read the books - but I think Peter Jackson loves his monsters and battles so much that it did overshadow a lot of the subtler moments and minor character relationships. Not that everything can go into a movie like that, especially with a story as all-encompassing and detailed as LOTR... but I think that some of the relationships (between, say, all the hobbits, and not just Sam and Frodo) and character things (oh, Faramir... Éowyn and the Witch-King, too) probably could have been handled better. But I guess that's Hollywood for you.

[deepbluemermaid]

Frankly, I'm not sure I'd want to see the inside of her head...

If you've already read the Twilight books, I suspect it's too late to avoid such uncomfortable insight. What's that lovely phrase: "writing from the id"?

[hopeandmemory]

You've got me there. I guess I don't want to see the unadulterated contents of her mind, though. I mean, it's probably a lot weirder in there than what we see on the page... which is what freaks me out a little. Strange lady, SMeyer.