Okay, you people are not helping me!

cunien, orlisbunny, baylorsr, lamadeliene, curefreak, and today's evil influence, the_headhunter, I'm talking to you.

Look what she did. Look. At. The. Icon. How am I supposed to ... anything?? with ...


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From what I can tell from my small window on the world, most of the people I know are struggling against winter doldrums in one form or another--most of them snowy and cold. I myself am lumbering through one of the most boring work weeks ever. (Part of my problem may be that, between days off and holidays, this is my first five-day week since Dec. ( Read more... )

So rather than detail my mind-numbingly dull week at work or moan about various moanables, I opt to describe the lovely birthday present my friend made for me.

The Mounted Boromir Snowglobe

And no, I can't actually say that without reverting to DirtyWrongThoughts numbers 3 (mmmmmBoromir's cloak...) and 242 (heh, heh, she said "mounted"So here's ( Read more... )

First off, I want to thank everyone who added sins to the Tolkein Confessional. Huge morale booster to read such funny, funny stuff upon my return to utter mundanity ( Read more... )

So today, instead of whining about my back (nearly mended, thanks) or jumping in little circles about having finally gotten my mitts on copies of the January issue of EMPIRE (I love them all!!), I will take a few minutes to talk about a subject very near to my heart:

Barbie's World of Middle-earth Smut. Which, by the way, is almost entirely to ( Read more... )

It is freezing freezing freezing here! Why did I move to the Midwest? What made my little CA-bred brain think I could hack 3 degrees F with wind chill ( Read more... )

Tolkien Hell. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm quite sure it exists and that I'm headed there. How do I know this? Well I'll tell you...

A while back, toward the end of Long Dark before the TTT EE's release--I discovered the Tolkien-sinners' version of saying penance. It came out of one of my favorite time killers, which is to go out to ( Read more... )

Just back from my fourth viewing. Will not natter about it in detail, as have over-discussed with friends for much of the afternoon to come to the same conclusion: I love all involved (except nasty warty-orc), and especially hobbits. Am also continually, viscerally surprised by how hot Eomer is. I'm partial to hobbits, but have always found book ( Read more... )