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neverwhereLast saturday I went to a Lord of the Rings party! Wheeeeeeee!
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mirabehn and evil_nick decided to have an Entmoot of their own and invited loads of friends over to watch The Two Towers and enjoy an evening of fannish splendour. I didn't know anyone there except Elly and Nick, but all their friends were so nifty it didn't really matter. I was, of course, feeling extremely awkward as everyone else knew each other, but for the most part everyone was very friendly and tried to make me feel comfortable and welcome.
After watching the Two Towers in Reading town centre we all went to Elly and Nick's place in a little suburb called Thatcham, which just happens to be right near Upper Bucklebury! How insanely cool is that. *giggles* Their house dates back to the 17th century and was lovingly decorated with a LOTR theme. The living room was Rohan, with beautiful banners made bykmazzy, the bathroom was The Dead Marshes and had faces 'drowned' in the bathtub, the bedroom was Fangorn forest, complete with rather scary portrait of Treebeard, and the upstairs room (hidden behind a very appropriate 'Black Gate') was Barad-Dur. All around the house were pinned up quotes from the book, and the BBC radio series was playing softly in the kitchen. It was all exceedingly wonderful.
Everyone got dressed up, and some of the costumes were amazing --the_alchemist (who is very spiffy and fun, I can't wait to get to know her better) made an extraordinary reproduction of Eowyn's Helm's Deep costume, complete with a real sword! Elly was Frodo, Nick was Eomer, purplepiano (great name!) was Merry, kmazzy was a terrific Nazgul...everyone looked positively spiffing. Except me. I lost my Pippin scarf and coat, so I had no costume. I just wore the shirt I bought when I saw the stage version of The Hobbit with thecheekymonkey last year, which said HOBBIT in really big letters, and let the words cloak me in a costume of hobbityness. I know I don't need a costume to be hobbity, but it certainly would have been nice. Curse my inability to sew! I felt a very foolish Took indeed.
We had pasta and nibbles, and an 'Icingard' cake, and a suspiciously green Dead Marshes punch, talked alot about a great many things, played a fun game of Pass the Parcel where with each layer of wrapping paper removed we had to answer a Tolkien related question about someone in the room, i.e. Who is the most Hobbit-like, Who would most like to give Grima a swift kick in the bum, etc. We had two Tolkien trivia books and had great fun (at least, I did) answering quite difficult questions about all things to do with Middle Earth. Although I did do rather well, I kept embarrassing myself by stumbling over questions that I knew the answers. For example: To answer the question 'How were the Simarils made' I wanted to say: 'Feanor, greatest of all the Noldor, harnessed the perfect Light of the Two Trees of Valinor, and fashioned it into three shining jewels, which were the only remnants of the Laurelin and Telperion when the beast Ungoliant came forth bidden by Morgoth, to destroy the Trees and bring darkness upon Arda, and extinguished the Light forever.' But instead I said something like 'Trees...light...jewelthingy....yeah.' *rolls eyes* Gah. Sometimes I make myself out to be such an idiot. *laughs*
Thank you so much Elly and Nick, for inviting me to such a marvellous party. *hugs and kisses* :))
In case you've wondered where I've been, I haven't been able to use my computer all week because the hard drive is completely shagged. In fact, I'm not supposed to be using it now, but oh well. *grins* I hadn't been online for only two days, and I had to scroll through over 300 LJ entries. That just isn't right. *laughs* (I swear one of these days I'm going to pass out from lack of sleep or food reading all of them. ;-)
Of course, I do love making new friends -- please welcomesiriel, winters_rose and the (in)famous sunnysky!
I just found out that on 1 Feb the Sci-Fi London Film Festival will not only be showing the documentary Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams, but Sniper 470, the infamous short film staring Billy Boyd! YES!!!! *leaps into the air with glee* :D
Anyone want to come with me? :)
The utterly delightful
mirabehn and evil_nick decided to have an Entmoot of their own and invited loads of friends over to watch The Two Towers and enjoy an evening of fannish splendour. I didn't know anyone there except Elly and Nick, but all their friends were so nifty it didn't really matter. I was, of course, feeling extremely awkward as everyone else knew each other, but for the most part everyone was very friendly and tried to make me feel comfortable and welcome. After watching the Two Towers in Reading town centre we all went to Elly and Nick's place in a little suburb called Thatcham, which just happens to be right near Upper Bucklebury! How insanely cool is that. *giggles* Their house dates back to the 17th century and was lovingly decorated with a LOTR theme. The living room was Rohan, with beautiful banners made by
kmazzy, the bathroom was The Dead Marshes and had faces 'drowned' in the bathtub, the bedroom was Fangorn forest, complete with rather scary portrait of Treebeard, and the upstairs room (hidden behind a very appropriate 'Black Gate') was Barad-Dur. All around the house were pinned up quotes from the book, and the BBC radio series was playing softly in the kitchen. It was all exceedingly wonderful. Everyone got dressed up, and some of the costumes were amazing --
the_alchemist (who is very spiffy and fun, I can't wait to get to know her better) made an extraordinary reproduction of Eowyn's Helm's Deep costume, complete with a real sword! Elly was Frodo, Nick was Eomer, purplepiano (great name!) was Merry, kmazzy was a terrific Nazgul...everyone looked positively spiffing. Except me. I lost my Pippin scarf and coat, so I had no costume. I just wore the shirt I bought when I saw the stage version of The Hobbit with thecheekymonkey last year, which said HOBBIT in really big letters, and let the words cloak me in a costume of hobbityness. I know I don't need a costume to be hobbity, but it certainly would have been nice. Curse my inability to sew! I felt a very foolish Took indeed. We had pasta and nibbles, and an 'Icingard' cake, and a suspiciously green Dead Marshes punch, talked alot about a great many things, played a fun game of Pass the Parcel where with each layer of wrapping paper removed we had to answer a Tolkien related question about someone in the room, i.e. Who is the most Hobbit-like, Who would most like to give Grima a swift kick in the bum, etc. We had two Tolkien trivia books and had great fun (at least, I did) answering quite difficult questions about all things to do with Middle Earth. Although I did do rather well, I kept embarrassing myself by stumbling over questions that I knew the answers. For example: To answer the question 'How were the Simarils made' I wanted to say: 'Feanor, greatest of all the Noldor, harnessed the perfect Light of the Two Trees of Valinor, and fashioned it into three shining jewels, which were the only remnants of the Laurelin and Telperion when the beast Ungoliant came forth bidden by Morgoth, to destroy the Trees and bring darkness upon Arda, and extinguished the Light forever.' But instead I said something like 'Trees...light...jewelthingy....yeah.' *rolls eyes* Gah. Sometimes I make myself out to be such an idiot. *laughs*
Thank you so much Elly and Nick, for inviting me to such a marvellous party. *hugs and kisses* :))
In case you've wondered where I've been, I haven't been able to use my computer all week because the hard drive is completely shagged. In fact, I'm not supposed to be using it now, but oh well. *grins* I hadn't been online for only two days, and I had to scroll through over 300 LJ entries. That just isn't right. *laughs* (I swear one of these days I'm going to pass out from lack of sleep or food reading all of them. ;-)
Of course, I do love making new friends -- please welcome
siriel, winters_rose and the (in)famous sunnysky!I just found out that on 1 Feb the Sci-Fi London Film Festival will not only be showing the documentary Life, the Universe, and Douglas Adams, but Sniper 470, the infamous short film staring Billy Boyd! YES!!!! *leaps into the air with glee* :D
Anyone want to come with me? :)
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Date: 2003-01-23 01:33 pm (UTC)The film festival also sounds very cool. Wish I could go, but I don't think I can afford a plane ticket on such short notice. :)
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Date: 2003-01-23 02:11 pm (UTC)Thank you for the welcome ^^;
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Date: 2003-01-23 02:41 pm (UTC)why am i infamous?!
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Date: 2003-01-23 02:46 pm (UTC)*hugs*
Akira
SQEEEEEEEEE
Date: 2003-01-23 04:08 pm (UTC)What I wouldn't give to go to social gatherings like the ones you attend!!!!! Something with intelligence in this sort of party... affair ... event ... THING!
Love you, harpy!!!!
*squosh*
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Date: 2003-01-23 04:11 pm (UTC)Re: (insert ljthumbsup here)
Date: 2003-01-23 04:34 pm (UTC)*laughs*
Thanks! I wanted to be just Neverwhere, as that's been my nickname for over six years, but some ponce stole it from me! And he never posts in his bloody journal either, grrr.
Glad you approve. ;-)
Re: SQEEEEEEEEE
Date: 2003-01-23 04:36 pm (UTC)Hehehe you said 'dude'. *smirk*
*kissies for the Daemon Cow*
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Date: 2003-01-23 04:37 pm (UTC)Aren't you? I could have sworn you were v. infamous in the LJ lotr community...;-)
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Date: 2003-01-23 04:39 pm (UTC)Are you going to the all night anime session?
I plan on seeing the Douglas Adams documentary at 4pm, and the short films at 6pm, and Sniper 470 will probably be in about the middle of the run, and is less than a half hour -- does that fit in with your schedule?
The party was a BLAST! Everyone should organize one. Want to? *grins*
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Date: 2003-01-23 04:40 pm (UTC)*squish!* :D
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Date: 2003-01-23 04:42 pm (UTC)Oh, go on -- you know you want to come! London is so beautiful this time of year after all...;-)
Can't cope, off ot Mordor..........
Date: 2003-01-23 05:16 pm (UTC)2. I did the same thing in philosophy class, and it was WAY more embaressing because we have about 60 students in the class, and I couldn't spit out the answer to "what were the crusades?". I felt like a complete ass
3. That party is the WICKEDEST IDEA EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just another example of why I hate my dull life. I never get to do anything fun. The most fun I've had in the past month was going out with Kara at 10:30 and going to Lakeshore McDonalds to get free flat breads. That was it.
*festering away*
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Date: 2003-01-23 05:17 pm (UTC)*shrugs* i dunno!
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Date: 2003-01-23 07:29 pm (UTC)why can't americans have pretty, tolkieny parties?
*sniffles*
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Date: 2003-01-23 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-23 09:00 pm (UTC)and i'll have to look you up next time im in england visiting the relatives. you seem to have quite a bit of fun.
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Date: 2003-01-24 05:34 am (UTC)Eeeee! I'm so glad you came to the party. Everything was made that little bit more sparkly by your thorough hobbitiness and Huge Geeky Brain. :)
Darn, don't think I'll be able to make the films for the Usual Reason (ie, health - and Nick and I are having quite a few weekends away in the near future, and Nick's also not too well etc.) but I won't say no just yet... I really want to see Sniper 470, and the Douglas Adams documentary sounds cool. Hmmmm I'll talk to Nick about it. :)
*more hugs, hobbitness and Naked Billeh*
Ellyyyyyy
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Date: 2003-01-24 10:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-24 11:16 am (UTC)You know I would have wanted you to come with me! *grabs her slagmonkey and holds her tight* :D
Mmmmmmm Billeh...
Date: 2003-01-24 11:18 am (UTC)I'm so glad I came too! Thank YOU for hosting it, and letting a very geeky hobbit into your home. *giggles*
If you could come down next weekend that would be so brilliant, but please don't worry if you can't, I definately wouldn't want to make you feel ill. *squeeze*
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Date: 2003-01-24 11:19 am (UTC)No, you didn't mention it -- thank you very much! *beams happily*
And yes, I am rather alot of fun. Go me! *giggles* :D
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Date: 2003-01-24 11:20 am (UTC)You can!
You just need to host it yourself, or find a friend who is willing to turn their house into Middle Earth. *grins*
Re: Can't cope, off ot Mordor..........
Date: 2003-01-24 11:24 am (UTC)*laughs*
It's not a very good quote though, as it leaves out about 100 pages of dense mythology. But thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. :)
Don't fester! Just think about the amazing ROTK party we're going to have! Oh yes. It will be done.
Bwahahahahaha.
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Date: 2003-01-24 11:32 am (UTC)I know, when I joined the community early last year I thought you were the only other person on LJ who liked LOTR, as you posted there so much. *grins* ;-)
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Date: 2003-01-24 11:43 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-01-24 11:55 am (UTC)*giggles*
It's an affectionate yet slighty naughty term of endearment. ;-)
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Date: 2003-01-24 02:22 pm (UTC)well, our house isn't very tolkieny. though my mural of manhattan in my room can always be minas tirith. *snicker*
actually, i'd do a tolkien party, but not enough of my friends like tolkien. and half that do haven't even read the books.
Oh, *there* you are..!
Date: 2003-01-28 02:26 am (UTC)Lucky you, to have LOTR fan friends throwing a party like that! How I wish I could've been there! Here I sit, totally isolated from anybody with the same interests as I have. Maybe I should re-join the Tolkien Society I was once a member of..? But I don't know anybody there anymore, and it's so difficult making friends if you have very little time or energy to go to their meetings! *sighs* Very few things come without effort.