come feed the rain

I was telling a friend about how I became a Tolkien geek, and I thought it might amuse some of you. =P

Me: So, back in 2002, when I was a wee middle schooler, a friend of mine was obsessed with Lord of the Rings and kept going on and on about how hot this guy Legolas was.
Me: Now, being very offended that anyone could like The Lord of the Rings over Harry Potter, I rolled my eyes and scoffed at her.
Me: In response, she whipped out a bookmark with this picture on it: http://www.posters.ws/images/357847/lord_of_rings_two_towers_legolas.jpg
Me: And my wee middle schooler self was like, "I NOW SEE THE ERROR OF MY WAYS."
Me: Except, that didn't necessarily translate into wanting to watch LOTR, because, well, Harry Potter was still totally cooler and those Orc things were so ugly, you know?
Me: But as fate would have it, I slept over a friend's house later that week on the same night her brother and father happened to be watching The Fellowship of the Ring.
Me: And we were trying to go to sleep, but shit was going down in Moria and all we could hear were swords clashing, people yelling, random creatures screeching, and whatnot.
Me: So, we decided to go downstairs and see what they were watching. And when we found out, I said to her, "Hey, that's the movie with that really hot Elf [our friend] showed us! Let's watch it!"
Me: And... that's how it all started.
Me: Also, I totally couldn't tell Aragorn and Boromir apart the first time I watched FOTR.
Him: Facepalm.

Anyway.

( MAJOR FUCKING HOBBIT CASTING NEWS, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT INVOLVE SOMEONE FROM LOST )

Also, the first pictures from The Hobbit have been released, so squee to your heart's content!!!

Okay, here are the official stats for my story on FanFiction.Net.


Note the proportion of REVIEWS to HITS.
Now, I just posted chapter 58 last night at, like, eleven. I viewed the chapter ONCE, so thirty-one other people have since read it. Out of all of them, only ONE left a review.

Can you believe that? I mean, I love every review I get, and I'm not going to be like, "Review or I won't post!", but I'd love to be getting a hundred reviews a chapter.

Why can't people take the time to at least let me know that they're reading my story? Ugh.

P.S. I still can't believe that over a hundred people are reading each chapter! *is shocked*

Guess who just ordered The Lord of the Rings: Limited Edition DVDs from Amazon.Com?

That's right--me!

JDFJKJGK;JKSDGKDGKDFGFDKLS;JGKFD

And what's even better, I got them only for $16.98 each. Plus, since I ordered them altogether and the purchase totaled more than $20, I got free shipping and handling! It'll take longer than standard shipping, but at $50.94 I felt I'd already spent enough, so I decided to wait.

In case you haven't heard, the limited editions combine both the theatrical and the extended versions on one disc. I've been looking to collect the theatrical versions, and this was definitely the best way to do it--not to mention the fact that they have uber-sexy covers. Furthermore, they're releasing this 300-minute, mostly unedited documentary some guy was given permission to do about what really went on behind the scenes of The Lord of the Rings.

*ish teh happy*

Unfortunately, this means that I seriously have to get a job, because I also want to buy LOST: Season Two, along with a bunch of CDs and books. *woe*

*is peeved* I cannot believe the number of outright Mary Sues at FanFiction.Net. Most of the summaries are like, "abused elf......can she find love again??? legomance," and yet they have hundreds (literally, hundreds) of reviews. I don't understand the attraction! I've read some of them, and with the exception of a rare few, they're not that good.

Now, what mystifies me is that all four parts of my story, which is a ridiculously blasphemous Mary Sue (Eowyn/Eomer's sibling, great warrior, angsty!past, etc.) don't even have a total of one hundred reviews. I know I'm being ungrateful, but at least my story's properly edited and has decent grammar. Whereas the pieces of shit that I see at FanFiction.Net, stuff that I could clean a toilet with, are all getting hundreds of reviews!

WTF. I do not see how a poorly-written Mary Sue can be considered in the least bit attractive.

...

Yeah, that was an unnecessarily bitchy post, and probably made me seem like a whining brat. I really do love the reviews I get, because most people take the time to write more than a sentence or two. At the same time, though, I can't help but be jealous that other stories (ones that have horrible spelling and grammar, no less) have such a huge fanbase. It starts to make me wonder if my fanfic is boring or too slow-moving or something.

*sighs* Now I'm just dejected.

Wow, it's been a long time since I updated, lol.

To start off with--has anyone seen the LOTR stage show? The newspaper around here gave it an amazing review, but of course it's in frigging Canada, and I can't see it. *kills* Plus, they don't have a soundtrack out. Roar.

Second of all, I finally saw that Romeo + Juliet movie (1996, Leonardo DiCaprio and Clare Danes), and guess who was in it? Harold Perrineau: Michael, from LOST! *dies happy* Other than that, of course, the movie absolutely sucked. Enough said.

And finally, for a fanfic rec (Eomer/Lothiriel).

Warrior Queen

Very good, even though I'm not normally an Eomer/Lothiriel fan. *is desperate for Rohan fanfiction*

Well, that's about it for today. I'm going back to working on my story! =)

Remember this? February 28th, 2006? Fifteen days ago? The completion of the first part of my LOTR fanfic trilogy?

Well, as of today, March 15th, 2006, I have officially reached...

ONE HUNDRED PAGES!!!!!

*dies happy* I have no life.

OMG. IT IS DONE.

As of February 28th, 2006, I, anolinde, have officially finished my LOTR fanfic, Alone, being the first part of a trilogy, with a total page count of 522.

I win, thank you.

OMG.

Remember this? 1/12/06, 300 pages of my LOTR fanfic?

Well, as of today, 2/7/06, less than a month later, I have reached page...

FOUR HUNDRED!!!!!

*dies*

As of 1/12/06, I have officially reached...

THREE HUNDRED PAGES

of my LOTR fanfic! =DDDD

Actually, now it's 313, but hehehe.

*is accomplished*

Yeah, this was a kind of pointless post, but I'll update later--probably with a rant about my Digital Photography teacher. Ugh.

But 313 pages! =DDD