It was like turning the key for the last time to a beloved cottage….

[mechtild]

Today, after fretting about it for a month or two, I cancelled my Premiere Membership to TORc. It was far more emotional for me than I had anticipated, even as the diehard fan I have been. I felt as though I had experienced a death.

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[ylla999]

Oh Mech
How very sad...I got teary as I read that post. But I understand why you did it..and like you said it doesn't mean you can't continue to post there. I do hope you find some solace in the fact that KD is still going strong,although The Faculty is more Elijah driven then the Frodo driven theme that moves your soul. We do love you on that thread.
Your manip is truly spectacular...one of the best I've ever seen. I never save manips...this one is the first one that is too good to pass over. Thanks for sharing that!

[mechtild]

Iorhael (Ev), thank you for that. Your words about LJ are encouraging. (I just accidentally deleted what I just posted to you, somehow - grrr!)

I think you were at the Harem more when I first got there last summer. Yes, folk at K-D are great. It's a different atmosphere than at TORc in its heyday, which was huge and rambling. More people seem to know each other in real life at K-D, too, perhaps because so many of the fans are from northern Europe. I am only guessing.

[mechtild]

Yes, Maeglian, we have talked very much, and with much hand-wringing about the dwindling of The Harem. You have been a faithful, inspiring and entertaining light in that thread, and I have appreciated your input immensely.

But the TORc thread is past the "dwindled" state. One just rattles around in it, and it was tiny to start with! I mean, if a so-called Frodo/Elijah thread can't even get excited about EW's latest premiere, it doesn't look very encouraging. I am not saying NO ONE is excited there; there just aren't enough of them to make it a viable thread. I don't count the sort of people I mentioned above, those who post there, but who are only duplicating what they have read and said elsewhere -- mainly in The Faculty (people like me). After my tenth link to The Facutly in half as many days in the TORc swoon thread, I had to say to myself, "For heaven's sake! Why don't they just read The Faculty, and skip the bloody middle man?!?!?!?"

~ Mechtild

[mechtild]

Hunh. Somehow my post didn't post. Anyway, Maeglian, although I never saw your comment posted here (still doing my "revision of the first seven chapters" project -- anal, I know), I see that it was preserved on my notification of reply for the Entry. I just read it and I would like to respond to it.

Would you care to email me?

mechtild1@gmail.com

Or, I could copy what you wrote and answer it tonight in a PM...? (I have work soonish).

(((((hugs))))) Mechtild

[mechtild]

"I see you snagged one of falling silver's gorgeous icons. Heh."

You showed it to me, cute'ums. Don't let them do it too short, y'hear?

[mechtild]

Ah, Pearl, I saved that image, too. I clicked "properties" on your icon as soon as I saw it, because I had not remembered it from the icon makers you had pointed me to. So I found and gazed upon ressie_noldo's things. Whew! I picked one other, but I also saved the one you used. It's a beaut. And I LOVE that moment in LotR. What a look! I could never never never have left Frodo had I been Gandalf at that moment. So, it's a darned good thing I wasn't he.

[maewyn_2]

Mechtild, It's a sad, but true saying that "all good things must come to an end". It has been a pleasure posting with you (and probably still will be for a while in the future) in TORC

[mechtild]

Maewyn, good morning, and thanks for speaking. I have so much appreciated the way you were willing to hang in there and give it your "college try." And, yes, I am sure I will still post there, but I won't put the kind of effort I did into all this time, especially these last several months. I am going to try and just let it be whatever it is going to be. Perhaps it will, in a state of relative dormancy, actually attract a new set of posters, looking for such a home with room to spare.

As for being to old, I must share this image with you. I was looking in kindling's LJ (hers is a strongly-EW centered LJ), to ask if I could use one of her racy icons that really makes me snort. (See bottom of post.) While I had her User Info window open, I saw the following image. I traced it to its source on the web, and it is from an artist named Anne Tainter. Her specialty seems to be affixing amusing texts to older photos, mostly from the forties and fifties. Here's a link to her site: there are many humorous gems

[maewyn_2]

How appropriate, yes! One of my friends has a birthday next week. While I was browsing around in the card shop today, I found a display with lots of funny fridge magnets. I couldn't resist one that said,

"Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional".

How true! It shall be on its way to her on Monday! I know she'll appreciate it.

And that icon, well yes...! (where are the emoticons!) I need one with googly eyes! I'll just have to have a look at pocket_icon's site!

[mechtild]

Hmmm! I just got the note that you replied, Maewyn, and I see my icons all fell out! I will have to check on that. So much for pocket_icon's icon. The crotch shot was found at kindling's site. Here's the full picture. I swear, I never would have noticed, but her little icon is quite provocative

[bagendbabe]

((((((((((hugs))))))))))) Mech.

I haven't been to the Harem for a long time, and I must get back there. Now RL is sorting itself out for me at long last, I am a free hobbitlass!!!!!

And LJ is such fun too!!! Sorry I am talking rubbish, mind wandering in relief!!! LOL.

[mechtild]

Thanks, bagendbabe. ((((Hugs)))) right back to you. I am feeling restored this morning. I hope your summer has been WONDERFUL!!!

~ Mechtild