Username meme

[liresius]

Tagged by dopeydora_67 on this meme.

"Rules: Post the explanation of where your username came from. Then tag TEN users whose explanations you'd like to hear. If you are tagged, post the explanation to your page."So, I'm not really a girly-girl, feminine type woman and for some weird reason I wanted to make that implicit in my username. I definitely have

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[lilithilien]

Yeah, the "Ithilian" part of my username is pretty easy to nail. I joined LJ in the throes of a LOTR obsession (that's where I first consciously noticed slash too (how could you not!) and I was all over the Gondorcest.

Lilith is an older interest of mine, back when I was studying The Gnostic Gospels and alternative interps of Christian theology. The whole mythos of Lilith really appealed to me. (If you don’t know of her, do a google -- she was Adam's first wife in the Garden of Eden, created of the same stuff that made him, but she left him because he wouldn't let her be on top during sex. God begged her to return to him, but she refused, so God then created Eve out of Adam so she'd be subordinate. Lilith meanwhile went on to stir up all kinds of trouble. So that seemed fitting.

(Another tiny part of my name is credited to the way David Wenham said "Lil" in Dust. His cowboy accent was wretched, but boy is he attractive when he's whumped!)

[liresius]

The line in Tolkien "Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolate kept still a dishevelled dryad lovliness." has always stayed with me.

Ah, I have heard of Lilith - I've read about her somewhere ages ago. My memories are vague but it certainly strikes a chord ... the part about Adam's first wife. I think the same Lilith was also a character in some film David Hewlett was in. I'd have to look it up on disk. It was a pretty terrible movie.

Hmm, now that I think about it, I might have read about her in a series of alternative gospels that were very New Age about 25 years ago. I can't remember the name of the woman who wrote about them. I think her name was Ann something, for some reason. I'll have to ponder it a while and dredge up the name proper.

And yes, to David Wenham being attractive ... whumped or not! *g*

[liresius]

Gah! Not Ann. It was Corinne Helene.

[lilithilien]

Oh yeah? I don't think I've read that one -- I'll have to check it out. Was it any good?

[liresius]

It was pretty new age-y. There were 6 volumes as I recall, but I didn't read more than snippets. But I got the overall impression that it was a well thought out 6 volumes, despite the fact I didn't read them fully.