I finally completed this little story after 2+ years!

"An Unexpected Friendship", a short, complete fic posted on AO3.

According to the Tale of Years, when Thorin & Co. passed through Rivendell on their way to the Lonely Mountain, Aragorn (Estel) was ten years old. It seems quite likely that Bilbo would have met Estel during the two weeks they spent there.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks, DrummerWench

... turns out, Spoilers Are Good For You ...

I took the OTW Community Survey!

Hope you have a terrific day! Enjoy your theater outing and the company of your friends--you deserve it!

Hope it's full of good eats and drinks and company!

Have a great day and a terrific year!

MEFAs!

I had only two items running, but one did pretty well: #508 - Fair and Foul (Drama: General): Second Place, Smaug's Treasure, which was beat out by Surgical Steel's "Folly", First Place, so I'm in good company! Many thanks to all those on my flist who reviewed!

I was pretty amused at how many entrants competed against themselves; I can only think wistfully of having that many fics written in one year ...

Also, this year I surpassed myself in reviewing! I did three or four times as many as last year, for a grand total of eleven!!1!!11!

I wish you blessings on your day and on the coming year.
Have a terrific day!

So.  Here's this NYT list of 100 best SFF books / series / what-have-you.  Bold: I've read or tried to.  Italic: on my wish list.

( List under cut ...Collapse )

 Have been out of town for the past week, so got back to the LJ mail announcement from a few days ago...

Anyway, It sounds like you had a good time!  Hope you get over being sick soon.

Have a great year and many happy returns!

In a better-late-than-never* fashion, here are my MEFA results. I was pleasantly surprised, as I had not expected anything at all! I was up against some pretty stiff competition:

MAIN CATEGORY: ADVENTURE
SUB-CATEGORY: GENERAL

1st - Flame of the Desert by pandemonium_213
2nd - Blackbow by Isabeau of Greenlea
3rd - The Ranger and the Hobbit by Cairistiona
HM - A Son of Earendil by DrummerWench

MAIN CATEGORY: FICLET
SUB-CATEGORY: ERIADOR OR SHIRE

1st - Meeting of Quiet of Minds by Virtuella
2nd - The First One by Isabeau of Greenlea
3rd - In the Corner by DrummerWench
HM - Paradise Lost by Isabeau of Greenlea

As you can see, some pretty heavy hitters were playing in the same park!

I should add little MEFA notes here and there where my stories are posted. Maybe even add banners...


* I was out of town last week, & last weekend filled up with pre-Christmas events & activities. My home computer is extremely pokey, which makes navigating, not to mention posting, an exercise in patience. (My work computer is quite zippy, but I must give time priority to, uh, work...)

I wish all my f-list a happy Thanksgiving (including those in another country). May we dwell on our blessings and be thankful.

Happy Halloween!

to all my f-list.  Hope your evening is filled with treats!

Have a terrific day and a great year!

Have a wonderful day and great year!

Or at least, I hope it was happy, as I missed it altogether... (I was out of town! I had no computer access! Like that...)

Hope you have a terrific day, and that your various offspring, etc., conspire to make it memorable (in a positive way)!

Happy Birthday, Pandemonium!
Hope your night out is special and drawback-free!

May your year be filled with peace, joy, and comfort!

I swear, I answered everything honestly!!!11!!* And look! just look what happened!  *gestures dramatically*

You are The Tower

Ambition, fighting, war, courage. Destruction, danger, fall, ruin.

The Tower represents war, destruction, but also spiritual renewal. Plans are disrupted. Your views and ideas will change as a result.

The Tower is a card about war, a war between the structures of lies and the lightning flash of truth. The Tower stands for "false concepts and institutions that we take for real." You have been shaken up; blinded by a shocking revelation. It sometimes takes that to see a truth that one refuses to see. Or to bring down beliefs that are so well constructed. What's most important to remember is that the tearing down of this structure, however painful, makes room for something new to be built.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

*except where I wanted to pick more than one radio button, but nooo...

*looks at clock*
...
Hope it was a good one! And hope you have a terrific year!

Hope your day is / was / will be terrific!  About the Big 4-0--bah!, you are but a spring chicken.  I have you beat by over a decade.  Big congratulations on the weight loss--that requires serious work and dedication; so does taking time for yourself when you are used to spending on others.  Go You!

Hope it is / was terrific!

I figure I better make at least one entry, in case I get a visitor.

I signed up, basically, so I could make comments without being anonymous.

My only other on-line presence to speak of is Tolkien fan-fiction at HASA and TFF.

Mostly, though, I lurk.

DW