While my job-searching is failing madly, my fandom life is flourishing at least xD

So!! You know that friggin awesome LOTR EE Blu-Ray thing in LA that is having a costume contest, hosted by TORn, that includes a friggin prize to New Zealand?! Yea, that? I'll be one of the judges for the costume contest. Bwahahaha. That was an unexpected email to ( Read more... )

I was finishing up writing a prompt fic that takes place in late 3021 (which really does not exist, since it became FA 1 in spring). The date of the story matches the date of something in canon, so I was trying to figure out how this Shire Reckoning date (since all days/months are listed as such in Appendix B) would be as a FA 1 date, since March ( Read more... )

TheOneRing.net, in October/November of last year, wanted to send a thank you letter to Peter Jackson, the folks at Weta, and the rest of the crew for fighting so hard for 'The Hobbit' films. Last year there were a lot of problems with MGM, the NZ Equity actor's union, and other hub bub, and folks such as PJ, Fran Walsh, Richard Taylor, and others ( Read more... )

The last 6 days of my life have been spent working on this thing. Seriously, 8 to 10 hours a day I spent on it. Last night I was up until 5am getting it done. My first Flash animation.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. There is sound (Howard Shore, so good sound), so have the speaker on.

Click!


Flash: The One Ring by ~AinuLaire ( Read more... )

I did not realize how long this was until I finished it, but I think it's really interesting, and for those who like working with cross-cultural relations in Middle-earth, I think you'll find this of interest... anyways, read on ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to do a post about this for a while, but haven't got to it until now.

So, Tolkien and capitalization has always been something that has confused the ever-loving heck out of me. Until finally, FINALLY, I found a post that explained it, from the Barrow Down forums by a poster who calls himself Legolas:

When referring to the race ( ( Read more... )

I have lots of fun things that I've collected from other people...

cirtholien is a wonderful artist, and for Christmas she made some gift art... and drew Aragorn! Looky! Ahhh, love that Ranger...

This edited gif had me laughing for ages:


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Hahaha! Ha! Bet you guys weren't expecting me to finish so soon, yea? :D

Anyways, Aragorn and Halbarad.. I finished the drawing last night, and then I colored the whole thing in photoshop the same night.

Colored version:


Rangers: Aragorn and Halbarad by ~AinuLaire on deviantART

Black and white, pencil only under-drawing:


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Weird weather. Hot- and humid, ugh!- to the point of unbearable last week, and it rained on Monday and it's raining now, early Wednesday. Weird weather indeed.

Anyways, here are some of the more interesting articles/videos I've come across recently. Any thoughts, feel free to comment:

The Funny:

The Safety Dance, the literal version. I was only ( Read more... )

Yesterday was September 1st. It was a strange day- still slodging through the first week of classes, going through the Parking Dance of Hell, and running late to my first class because a herd of 4 to 5 deer thought it would be a great idea to prance down the mountain road I take to get to the college. Honking did not deter them. Yea, deer. For some ( Read more... )