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I like all the fiction writings of J. R. R Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, as well as their more scholarly non-fiction work, amongst other fantasy writers.

Probably I should mention where the bit about being a half-elven (and thus by extension) a half-hobbit and a princess to boot comes from. *grins* Ages and ages ago a number of my friends and I, on a web board/forum devoted to a particular musical group, discovered that some of us were also fans of the LOTR books and films. The board had weekly chats, and one had to make up a name for the chat room. Thus the concept of a half-elven half-hobbit persona was born, and what fun to make her a princess! There, aren't you glad you asked? LOL! Just a joke, son, just a joke. ;)

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This Friends-Only journal is mine for musing on the following:

The Lord of the Rings, both book and films, same for The Hobbit, and any other fantasy writings and movies that strike my fancy, including of course all of Tolkien's works. I write some meta and poetry in the LOTR fandom, and my OTP is Aragorn/Legolas, followed closely by Frodo/Sam, and Merry/Pippin, and then Faramir/Eowyn, and also Aragorn/Eowyn, and also Haldir/Eowyn (because of a wonderful fic, whose name I will post later), and Aragorn/Arwen.

Also, anything having to do with the Fellowship of the Cast. This means, for example, Dom in Lost, Viggo in Hidalgo, or Orlando in Pirates of the Caribbean, or any of them in any work, old or new.

So a warning is in order. This LJ might have a little bit of erotica, though not that much, and maybe a little meta about slash. I do put all such posts under a cut, however. That way, if a reader wants to skip, she is warned in advance. It's only the polite thing to do.

Comments on any films or TV shows or books. Can be anything from science fiction to Brit-coms to musical comedies and traditional Regency romances--but probably my major emphasis here will be on fantasy writing. Favorite fantasy authors include Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Susan Cooper, Pat Wrede, Steven Brust, Robin McKinley, and Diane Duane.

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A favourite set of quotes from G. K. Chesterton:

Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

from Tremendous Trifles (1909), XVII: "The Red Angel"

Variant: Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

{ Earliest known attribution is an epigraph in Neil Gaiman's Coraline (2004)}






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Favorite characters in my main fandoms:


In POTC: Jack, Will, and Elizabeth. (Maybe the One True Trio?)

In LOTR: Difficult to choose between Book!Strider and Movie!Strider. Viggo is a wonderful actor. The Fellowship worked well on screen, in the novel, and in real life amongst the actors. Sean Bean was almost perfect as Boromir, and David's Faramir would have been perfect had PJ not deviated from Tolkien. If I lived in M-E, it would be in Rohan. (I was and still am horse-mad.) Still bummed over Karl Urban's small part as Eomer, but Miranda Otto's Eowyn is a more likable character than Book!Eowyn, who I still think is wonderful in her own way. The hobbits are madly cute, as themselves or their characters.




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