How wonderful that you and Jan got to meet at last! She sounds like a warm and generous person.
I definitely agree about Este -- I wrote her subtle influence on Frodo's dreams and healing into several of my stories. It's lovely to think about the Valar caring about someone as special as Frodo.
I'll have to come back later to view the prints, since my dial-up is being slower than usual today. But I do love reading your posts.
It was truly a pleasure, Shirebound. I have only been with Ariel (Elasg) for as long a time, sharing a room with her and her daughter at the LotR Museum installation last fall in Indiana. I had never met her in person, either. That was another huge treat. But it was even cooler to meet an e-friend on one's own "soil", so to speak.
So, you have written Estë into your fics? Good for you! It must be inevitable that fans who really love LotR and read the backstory materials come to feel that Estë was hovering around the edges of the story all the time. She is definitely one of my favourite Valar, one who means nothing but good toward our favourite hobbit.
I hope you will be able to look at the copies of the prints Jan found, as well as Whiteling's portrait. They all are beautiful.
Why, thank you, Mews. And it's so good to see you posting again. I am hoping your ankle continues to feel better and better.
We did have an excellent time, but far too short. Both of us were nervous, I think. It's one thing to carry on a written correspondence, and another to actually meet. I have met very few fans in real life. Mostly it has been a very good experience, but there have been difficult meetings, too.
I LOVE the artworks, and marvel at the uncanniness of how well the illustrations fit.
Isn't it uncanny? I was just remarking to Mews, it's amazing how well illustrators anticipated Frodo in art. You have seen it too. Perhaps we each have our own special Frodo-seeking Palantiri
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I'm so glad you and Jan got to meet! She is indeed a wonderful, warm and very interesting person, and I'm blessed to be able to call her my friend as well.
Well, don't hold your breath, Frodo's Smile, although that was a warm wish. If we can't afford new picture frames, you can guess that plane tickets are even more unaffordable. We have a daughter in college now and have plunged ourselves into Deep Debt and the bills for that loan are going to start arriving in the new year. Oh, well! That's parenthood in the New Age. Me, I went to school a gazillion years ago far more cheaply, even allowing for the difference in what money is worth, and with loan programs that were far more lenient. So we are not unique. Still, it's worth it.
we'll have no one-sided thank-you's here!
anonymous
November 20 2006, 01:55:29 UTC
Dear Mechtild: I simply can't let you tell but one side of this story! There aren't many people who would put their lives on hold for a couple of days for a complete stranger, yet you did, and made the little time we could spend together wonderful. Your home and town are so lovely. I felt like someone who had returned to a place dear to their heart after a long journey: everything was new, but everything was somehow familiar as well. When the too-soon time came to leave, I found that my feet must needs go forward, but a bit of my heart insisted upon remaining behind.
I can only thank you and your husband again for your kindness and hope that one day I may be able to return the favor.
jan
ps: I must add I also *loved* the Minnesota version of a mosh pit. I'll have to go punkin' in the Land of 10,000 Lakes more often.
Re: we'll have no one-sided thank-you's here!mechtildNovember 20 2006, 02:48:04 UTC
Oh, Jan, you're the greatest. That was some mosh pit at "Flogging Molly", eh? Surely there's never been a kinder and gentler one. It just goes to show that "Minnesota nice" extends even to mosh pits.
And you don't have to "return the favour", silly. You did much more than that merely by showing up.
Re: we'll have no one-sided thank-you's here!
anonymous
November 20 2006, 02:58:56 UTC
and here i always thought it was Jackie Gleason who was The Greatest....
yeah, heh, that WAS mini-mn.-mosh, to be sure. The Cali poseurs should get an eyeful of that "kinder, gentler" action. Music should only kick you in the head metaphorically.
When it comes to Minnesota "nice" btw, there ain't none nicer than you, dear Mechtild. But I hardly think that has anything to do with Minnesota, and everything to do with *just* who you are.
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I definitely agree about Este -- I wrote her subtle influence on Frodo's dreams and healing into several of my stories. It's lovely to think about the Valar caring about someone as special as Frodo.
I'll have to come back later to view the prints, since my dial-up is being slower than usual today. But I do love reading your posts.
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So, you have written Estë into your fics? Good for you! It must be inevitable that fans who really love LotR and read the backstory materials come to feel that Estë was hovering around the edges of the story all the time. She is definitely one of my favourite Valar, one who means nothing but good toward our favourite hobbit.
I hope you will be able to look at the copies of the prints Jan found, as well as Whiteling's portrait. They all are beautiful.
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We did have an excellent time, but far too short. Both of us were nervous, I think. It's one thing to carry on a written correspondence, and another to actually meet. I have met very few fans in real life. Mostly it has been a very good experience, but there have been difficult meetings, too.
I LOVE the artworks, and marvel at the uncanniness of how well the illustrations fit.
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I can only thank you and your husband again for your kindness and hope that one day I may be able to return the favor.
jan
ps: I must add I also *loved* the Minnesota version of a mosh pit. I'll have to go punkin' in the Land of 10,000 Lakes more often.
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And you don't have to "return the favour", silly. You did much more than that merely by showing up.
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yeah, heh, that WAS mini-mn.-mosh, to be sure. The Cali poseurs should get an eyeful of that "kinder, gentler" action. Music should only kick you in the head metaphorically.
When it comes to Minnesota "nice" btw, there ain't none nicer than you, dear Mechtild. But I hardly think that has anything to do with Minnesota, and everything to do with *just* who you are.
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