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Post by russandol on May 25, 2010 16:40:49 GMT -6
Hopefully Russa won't trample you. Sob, sob, what do you take me for ?? Ky discovered the opportunity when I should have spotted it (too many banners in your SWG page!!!) so I will leave the honour to her. OMG! Flame of the Desert is a winner! (Or it should be!) I subscribe to that. Under "Desert Adventure" Category, which is a must.
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Post by kymahalei on May 25, 2010 17:56:46 GMT -6
Sob, sob, what do you take me for ?? Ky discovered the opportunity when I should have spotted it (too many banners in your SWG page!!!) so I will leave the honour to her. Actually I was just putting on my running shoes. . . ;D !
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Post by pandemonium on May 25, 2010 17:58:09 GMT -6
Hopefully Russa won't trample you. Sob, sob, what do you take me for ?? Ky discovered the opportunity when I should have spotted it (too many banners in your SWG page!!!) so I will leave the honour to her. OMG! Flame of the Desert is a winner! (Or it should be!) I subscribe to that. Under "Desert Adventure" Category, which is a must. Eeesh. I really ought to remove those ostentatious and distracting collages. Re: Flame of the Desert -- it might have a chance in the Drug-Fuelled Elven Road Trips Across the Desert* category. * Extracted from a comment from a certain reviewer on HASA.
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Post by elfscribe on May 25, 2010 18:49:18 GMT -6
Thanks for the offer, but I have been extremely lazy regarding writing this year (well, not 'lazy' actually, let us say a preponderance of real life issues took precedence over fan-fic). I've only got one story in the MEFA competition this year, which was duly nominated by the patron saint of Fan-fiction, Virtuella, or as she is named by her adherents, 'The Most Holy and Virtuous Patroness of Scribelings, Maiden V.' Anyway, I shall not shamelessly plug my sacrilegious parody Monty Python's Fellowship of the Ring, and neither will I offer the story's url for your consideration: login.fanfiction.net/story/story_preview.php?storyid=5292724 As that would be tacky, and I would prefer to rest on my laurels rather than promote my witty, sarcastic and utterly superb composition. ;D I haven't yet read this, but was forced to exalt you for even having conceived the idea.
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Post by Morthoron on May 25, 2010 19:20:27 GMT -6
My dear, I bow to your unerring common sense and boundless wisdom. So rare these days; except, of course, within the bounds of this exceptional forum.
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Post by randy on May 25, 2010 19:24:45 GMT -6
You should. It's funny as hell. And if we don't all cheer Morth on, he won't finish Monty Python's The Two Towers, and so on. I'm really looking forward to Monty Python's Silmarillion.
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Post by Morthoron on May 25, 2010 21:13:49 GMT -6
You should. It's funny as hell. And if we don't all cheer Morth on, he won't finish Monty Python's The Two Towers, and so on. I'm really looking forward to Monty Python's Silmarillion. Geeze Randy, we'll both be in an old folk's home wearing Depends and gnawing Melba Toast by the time I get around to the Silm. It will be funny having a colostomy bag fight though. ;p Can you imagine how long it'll take me to get through the appendices at the end of RotK? Of course, the HoMe series has its enticements as well. I could put a whole new spin on the "Lay of Leithian". Bondage indeed.
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Post by erulisse on May 26, 2010 5:24:16 GMT -6
Can you imagine how long it'll take me to get through the appendices at the end of RotK? Of course, the HoMe series has its enticements as well. I could put a whole new spin on the "Lay of Leithian". Bondage indeed.
Ohhhh, something to look forward to :-) Guess I'll just have to keep on reading for the next decade or three....
- Erulisse (one L)
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Post by surgicalsteel on May 26, 2010 11:39:32 GMT -6
The Hagiography of Saint Frodo? I kid! I kid! Steel made that quip a while back (cf. The Heretic Loremaster), and it gave me a chuckle. Guilty as charged re: that quip - there are certain hobbit writers that I very much enjoy, but there are a couple who're just so very, very intent on making Frodo into either a saint or a Christ-figure and in some cases are so heavy-handed with the Christian imagery that it throws me right out of the story. About the only other thing that throws me out of the story as quickly is egregious (to my surgeonly eye) errors on the medical side of stories where illness and injury are major plot-points.
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Post by Rhapsody on May 26, 2010 11:52:34 GMT -6
There was one novella (one of the very few fannish stories that I read the past months) that I thought of G.A., but as I found the link (and checked if it hadn't run before), I realised that it I probably should nominate it myself. Otherwise the author will be like: huh, this person reads Hobbit 4th age romance? Btw, I loved that story with this Austen-vibe and now I have at least one review to polish. Just one, that should be doable before November...
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Post by sanna on May 26, 2010 13:42:08 GMT -6
Monty Python's Fellowship of the Ring From roflrazzi.com.I am all set up for a major read & review galore once my summer holiday begins - and I'm competing, too! ;D
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Post by russandol on May 26, 2010 13:46:06 GMT -6
... there are certain hobbit writers that I very much enjoy, but there are a couple who're just so very, very intent on making Frodo into either a saint or a Christ-figure and in some cases are so heavy-handed with the Christian imagery that it throws me right out of the story. Funny, I think I have come across at least one of those, and I swiftly gave up reading on the same grounds. I don't mind riotous hobbits, fond of food and fun, but I don't tend to read hobbit fics because many writers tend to portray them as little children with furry feet, living cute lives with hundreds of uncles and aunts whose names I fail to remember. ;D
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