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Tolkien Music: Galadriel's Song of Eldamar
I stumbled across this on YouTube recently and wanted to share it with my Tolkien friends. Ever since seeing Brave, I've always thought this melody was perfectly gorgeous, and I've been hoping for someone to make an extended cover of the song--but I didn't expect this! I'm stunned at how well the tune works with the words (even if the author had ( Read more... ) -
OMG, it's Debbie!
Those of you who have known me for a while may remember the epic Mary Sue parody trilogy that I co-wrote with a college friend under the joint pen name of Gypsie Rose: "Debbie Does the Fellowship," "Debbie Does the Two Towers," and "Debbie Does the King (Among Others)." My friend "Gypsie" and I invented Debbie in a very giggly conversation ( Read more... ) -
Drabble: The Best Sauce
The Best SauceThe great cooks of the city, Faramir supposed, would have treated this haunch of venison much differently. He allowed himself a moment to imagine how they might have served it: encrusted with ground hazelnuts, perhaps, or steeped in wine, accompanied by a small sheaf of asparagus, and almost certainly covered in a complex sauce. ( Read more... ) -
Amazing News: Brothers of Gondor Zine #2 Available for Download!
It's been a long time in the making, but it's finally ready. The members of the Brothers of Gondor message board have produced a second collection of fanfiction focusing on Boromir and Faramir. It's freely available for download in PDF format, and we're even offering it in two different sizes (US letter and A4 paper size)! Go here to find a copy ( Read more... ) -
Drabble (Title?)
Once the peace agreements were signed, Aragorn sent a fine mithril helmet studded with jewels to Harad’s ruler. Now most of the city watched from the walls as the answering gift arrived: a splendid young mûmak draped in banners of scarlet and gold ( Read more... ) -
A Lovely Tribute to Tolkien
Over the past several months, I've been working my way through a friend's collection of Knights of the Dinner Table gaming magazine. It includes a column by Paul Westermeyer devoted to reviewing fantasy and science fiction novels. For the 150th issue special, that column listed Westermeyer's picks for the top twenty most important fantasy writers ( Read more... ) -
Double Drabble: The Wild Geese
Written as part of a drabble challenge with lilan14, subject: "Birds." (Her entry is here.)
The Wild GeeseFaramir had run merrily about the garden all morning, and now it was time for his nap. Finduilas sat by his bed, waiting for him to fall asleep. It would not be long, she thought. His eyelids were drooping already ( Read more... ) -
Tolkien-Related Podcasts!
My latest enthusiasm is listening to podcasts, especially while I'm at work. Recently, I stumbled across a link to some Tolkien-themed podcasts which are available free on iTunes, or as downloads from the lecturer's website. They're all done by a professor who teaches a course on Tolkien at Washington College in Maryland. It looks like there's ( Read more... ) -
Hobbit Music!
Since getting into a conversation with sealover_astara the other day about Bakshi's animated LOTR, I've been feeling an odd nostalgia for the Rankin-Bass animated movies from the 1970s. I never managed to read any of the books in that era, even though I started both The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring multiple times. I did, however, see all the animated ( Read more... ) -
Drabble: "Clean"
Yet another Celebrating Middle-Earth Month has slipped away (or will have, in twenty minutes) without much activity from me. Sadly, March has tended lately to be one of the busiest months of the year at my job, so I watch the month go by while wishing I had the time to do something creative. So that this one may not be completely dry, I am making ( Read more... )