Non-Tolkienists probably won't want to know.

So, completely by coincidence and through channels that shall remain unnamed (*cough* dA *cough), today I learned how the Chinese translators of the Silmarillion rendered Maedhros in Chinese, namely, 梅斯罗斯 (mei(2)si(1)luo(2)si(1)Of course, that translates to nothing sensible, just being a rough ( Read more... )

Alles Liebe nachträglich zum Geburtstag, fusselbiene,
und Herzlichen Glückwunsch, zorn und joyful_molly!It also appears to be Neil Gaiman's birthday. And the first day of carnival. And Martinmas, of course! Next year, I'll probably start attending Martinmas parades again. That I'm actually looking forward to - Martinmas was one of my favourite feasts as a child, but alas, ( Read more... )

Cut for length according to topics.

( Fun (or not) with pragmatics )

Sometimes the kind of things that delight a mediævalist student are... astonishing.
Especially if it's really small things that shouldn't have such power to excite you as they do.
This is probably interesting only to me, but I must store it somewhere anyway.

So I've been looking up Genesis in Latin because I have to do a presentation on Pengoloð ( Read more... )

With only three months to go until Rohan LARP IV, I figured I should start preparing. Three months in advance may be a bit early, but if I wait until there's only two weeks left, I'll doubtlessly be bogged down by term papers and building (March is a cruel month), I may as well start now and be less stressed and perhaps then I can relax in the ( Read more... )

I think the point of watching The Tudors is not playing the "recognise that tune" game. It's like Renaissance dancing class. "Wait, is that Upon a Summer's Day?" - "That sounds like the Pavane la Bataille. Ahahaha, it IS!"

It's fun though.

Much like half the fun in The Merchant of Venice was the "Tourdion! ... Folia! ... Bransle Cassandra!" ( Read more... )

On my way home I heard on the radio that the Buran had just passed Zons ( Read more... )

( Cut for fandom/fanart rambling. Now with free Kanji and Keigo! )

Next week, a new Death Note movie is going to hit theatres.

I don't know that because I care about Death Note but because there are trailers on TV.

Now as you may or may not know, the main character in Death Note is named L. That was not the smartest choice of the creators seeing how the Japanese language doesn't know an L ( Read more... )

Found via fileg.

Backstory: ironychan, brilliant maker of the webcomic get_medieval (it's just reached the end and she's re-running it with commentary, so this is your chance to step in if you don't know it yet), does another webcomic. Weekends get fillers instead of comics, though ( Read more... )