AMC--Chapter Fifteen

[dawn_felagund]

Well, it's that special day of the week...posting Friday!

I'm going to keep it short for once: We're still in Tyelkormo's point of view. We're still in Formenos.

Warnings for the chapter: Nelyo!gropage. Again. The boy can't keep his hands to himself. Also, Tyelko mentions "spawning." Yes, really, if you thought I was kidding in the Ask My

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[frenchpony]

I'm so sorry I'm late. My home computer can't deal with your layout for some reason, so I have to read and comment when I'm on campus, and I spent this weekend mostly at home.

Loved the performance. Macalaure in drag is just priceless, and it's good to see Tyelkormo appreciating that, even if he doesn't get all the jokes. Although it's kind of hard to see how he wouldn't have figured out where babies come from, what with all the Feanorian casual nudity, one younger brother, and a couple of hormonal older brothers. Maybe he's just slow that way.

Who exactly thought that telling the gimp to look after two excitable small children was a good idea? Perhaps this is that they have in Tirion in lieu of dinner theater. "And for his next trick, Macalaure will attempt to mind two shrieking toddlers -- with one hand tied to his chest!"

Looks like Findekano's become rather possessive of Nelyo.

The meal is interesting. Lots of New World foods and what I'd swear is Manischewitz in their goblets.

[dawn_felagund]

No problem about being late! I always love your comments, whenever they arrive. Sorry my layout messes with your home comp. Some of my friends' layouts don't display properly on my work comp. I thought there was a way to set your LJ so that your friends' pages display in the layout you've chosen, but perusing around the site, I can't seem to find that now. Perhaps it was all in my imagination; I'll look around more later, when I'm not supposed to be writing (which I what I'm supposed to be doing now! Oops....)

Although it's kind of hard to see how he wouldn't have figured out where babies come from

He certainly knows where babies come from--"spawning," right? ;D--but he just doesn't understand all the naughty jokes yet. I can't remember a time when I didn't know about sex, but I remember being clueless in middle school, when dirty jokes first started getting a lot of attention from my classmates, and I--ever the socially slow one--rarely got them. Especially--cloaked as are the Feanorian's jokes--in euphemisms about rocks and stones

[frenchpony]

I can never think of interesting menus for my Elves.

A selection of foreign/old-fashioned cookbooks helps here. I think I have a list on my computer of what foods might grow native in Mirkwood, then I add small amounts of wheat flour, dairy products and apples as expensive, imported luxury treats. Consequently, much of what my Mirkwood Elves end up eating is glatt kosher, which is funny, because I'm nowhere near religious enough to keep glatt kosher.

For a feast at Elrond's, I pulled recipes from a reprinted cookbook of recipes from colonial Williamsburg. And if I need interesting foods for other peoples, there's always my two favorite other sources: whatever people might be eating in the Little House books and recipes from what is possibly the most fun cookbook ever, Claudia Roden's The Book of Jewish Food; an Odyssey from New York to Samarkand.

[dawn_felagund]

Wow, that's an excellent idea! My husband is the cook in the family, and so I rarely venture into the realm of creative cooking, ice cream and candy being the exception for me. Which is why my Elves occasionally enjoy lush sorbets and chocolates...and then have humble and bland meals that sound like what my dad used to cook nightly for my family when I was younger. (No offense to dad, who is an excellent cook but not too creative.)

I have several vegetarian/vegan cookbooks around the house that I've never read, leaving that to my husband, so part of my revision process will be to peruse these for some ideas and visit the library for some ideas for meats. (Because my husband accuses me of making all my favorite characters vegetarian, so I was determined that none in this story would be! :D)