Thanks to a YouTube ad, I found a lovingly made Lord of the Rings fan movie called The Hunt for Gollum. The website is here. You can watch the whole thing (40 minutes) on the Web. It adheres to the styles of the movies, like it is meant to be viewed as a supplement to them, but I have nothing but warm, fuzzy feelings towards it.

Is it bad that, even though I became saturated with Middle-Earth a long time ago, I still can get lost in this picture? It's a drawing by Tolkien himself, of the Halls of King Thranduil, in Mirkwood. I rediscovered it today while looking for wallpapers at work. So much of my high school self was tied to this place. No surprise, then, that the ( Read more... )

So, in our D&D campaign, a nation known as Beleria is causing trouble in our current area. A person from there would then of course be known as a Belerian (Bulerian? Stupid schwa...). This was bothering me during session, and I couldn't figure out why. The word seemed to be missing something.

Only now did I consciously realize its closeness to ( Read more... )

Watching part of The Two Towers with byakko-chan this weekend somewhat revived the latent Middle-earth geek within me. I decided my desktop at work should reflect this with a map of the known lands. Appropriately, there are lines of Tengwar (elven script) along the border. I must stop myself from trying to read them. By failing to stop myself, I have realized ( Read more... )

More assembled poetry. I am easily amused. Or happily distracted.

three winds between
him and I
The ship Went on the bright sea

I think I should buy a set of magnets like this. We had them at the dorms, and they were fun. I would have played with them more had it not required me to sit in front of the fridge. ^_^