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I was out shopping yesterday when I saw a book by Sean Astin about his experiences on the LotR set! And there's pics of the hobbits and of ORLI! And yeah. It's pretty long. And there was a mention of Viggo in the few pages that I skimmed - saying that JRD was a conservative guy, unlike Viggo. Hee. And yeah!!! Is this the oldest fandom news to hit the fandom since the fandom started? I have no idea! :( But I'm excited anyway. I didn't have enough money to buy the book yesterday (it's $19.44) but yesterday was the Melbourne Cup and I was SURE that my horse would win and I'd have enough to buy it tomorrow. My horse came FOURTH! Argh. Silly horse. That's $6 I could have put towards my book! But yeah, I'm sure if I scrounge around all my spare change, I'll find $19.44 by tomorrow..........

Yay fandom *g*

Boo exams

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They've confirmed the dates!!! Late December 2004 till March 31st 2005. *bounces*

Powerhouse Museum, Sydney - LotR

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From TORn, here:

7-28-04 Latest News
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Extended Extended Editions?
Xoanon @ 10:00 am EST

manicjaguar writes: Wonderful site as usual....Just thought I'd let you know about an article in the September 2004 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. It has the rpg game LOTR: The Third Age on the cover, and inside is a good article about the game. What's of note is several quotes from the games Executive Producer, Steve Gray. Here's some excerpts.

(EGM)But even when the final product hits the shelves in November, only New Line and EA will know which plot elements were created from scratch and which are based on actual footage Peter Jackson shot but still hasn't seen the light of day. "They're really protective of that footage," Gray says, "because obviously, they want to make the extended (italics EGM) extended versions someday--in a trilogy box set or whatever. They want to keep the franchise alive for years to come."...........Thousands of movie production photos line the walls, and hours of footage from the films--some of it not even included in the special extended editions--fill artists' hard drives.

Hee, that would be so cool. They should just keep releasing them and releasing them. Then they should do the prequels: LotR-2, LotR-1 and LotR0, like Star Wars. We could get the REAL story behind Aragorn and Legolas' relationship!!! And then, once they've done all they, they should release all the behind-the-scenes footage ever shot, and we'll have the truth about the Viggorli relationship *happy sigh* Actually, no, wait, they should release all that footage before going on to make the prequels. And then they can release the prequel's behind-the-scenes footage after they come out....

But, no, really, I am happy about the possibility of extended extended versions! *g* I thought they might do something like that for an anniversary special edition, or something, but who knows when it'll actually happen. While part of me hopes it's soon, another part of me hopes that it's not too soon, because currently I am extremely broke and this is the list of "To Buy" DVDs for the year:

Hidalgo
Troy
The Calcium Kid
King Arthur
HP3
RotK EE

And estimating them at $30 each (TCK is $37) with the RotK EE being about $70, that's $227. Hmm... this semester's text books, or all the DVDs...? lol

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It's really strange, the things that you think of at 4 o'clock in the morning. Anyway, this has been something that's been hovering on my mind for some time now, but I never thought seriously about it till last night, for some reason. And I don't really know why I was thinking of it/making my mind up about it at 4am, but that's how it ended up happening. In just under a week, I go back to Uni for the second semester of my 3rd year. Before I do that, I want to withdraw myself from fandom. (Yes, that sounds dirty *g*).

Firstly, this is not because of any fandom wanking, it's not because of inner politics of fandom, it's not a protest at Viggorli or Katelando or mods or anything like that. Really :o) I <3 you all and the Viggorli fandom to bits.

It's just that, like I said, this is coming up to the second half of my third year at uni. I really, really want to be accepted into honours for law. I have a credit average at the moment (a high credit, but still a credit), and I need to finish my degree with a distinction average if I'm going to get offered honours. I figure this leaves me 3 semesters in which to work my butt off to bring my grades up to the level they're needed. That means not spending a few hours each night in front of the computer. It probably means dreaming of statutes and caselaw and not Viggorli. :o(

In a few days time, on Saturday or Sunday night (I go back to Uni on Monday), I'm going to defriend most of my flist. *sob*. Please, please don't take this personally!! You are all, every single one of you, incredibly amazing and wonderful people that I am so honoured and happy that I've gotten to know. I'm the pathetically incapable one here :P. I don't want to delete my journal, and I'm still going to be on the net and around LJ, if much less frequently. But I know that if I have a (heh, relatively) big and active flist, I'm not going to be able to resist myself in checking it compulsively, like I do now. I love reading about you all, and I love reading what you write :o) And that's the problem, because you're all much too addictive, and I can't get enough of you, and it's just a little bit distracting *g* I'm going to keep a handful of people on my flist - mainly those of you who I've gotten to know very well through email or AIM or something else :o) And you already know who you are. I'd also encourage you all to defriend me after I defriend you. *cries* You don't have to, but I probably won't do any more fandom posts (and if they do, they'll be few and far between), so you have to ask yourself, do you really want periodic updates about my homework and the crappiness of the train network in Australia? *g* I don't expect anyone to keep me on their flist, and probably prefer you not to, since that cuts down on the possibility of distraction for me.

I'm still going to be around online and on LJ though. I'll probably dive into Vigorlean Cult during breaks and during bouts of depression about the horrible state of the wold ;) I'll still be accessible by email, and I'll still be on AIM. And I'll probably occassionally hijack someone's flist, just so I can keep up with how you're all going. And maybe by summer holidays, I might be back a bit more. So this isn't really the end...

The funny thing is, what started me thinking on this was reading a (very lovely) Orlando forum last night. And it was (generally) not even a catty forum :o) But I found I really, really dislike the idea of being a fangirl. I don't want to care this much about a celebrity that has been fictionalised so much that my image of him is probably nowhere near the real him :o) I don't want that to matter. I think it's ridiculous when a litte voice in my head goes "Aww :o(" when I see something that's contrary to Viggorli. Viggorli is my OTP!!! On the day the boys finally come out, I'm going to break down and cry my heart out for joy :D But I really need to stop thinking about it all the time, like I'm doing now. And all this is not about looking down on the Viggorli community, and it's not about how it's wrong to be a fangirl. Really :o) It's just that I need to separate my real world from my dream world that's happening here. I feel like I need to grow up. Growing up means different things to different people, I know. And perfectly mature and capable people are members of not just the Viggorli fandom, but fandom in general. Growing up for me, though, means leaving at least some of this behind.

Tomorrow will be the 6th anniversary of the first time I entered fandom, and actually had interactions online with real and specific people :o) I've literally grown up with the net and fandom. It's had a huge part in making me who I am, and I don't regret it at all :o) It's also my security blanket. Hee, lambie. When I'm bored, stressed, upset, depressed, I know that a night online usually makes me feel so much better. And it's going to be so incredibly hard to let that go. I still can't believe I'm going to do it... For the past 6 years, this has ben such a staple, comforting part of my lfe. But I feel it's time for me to grow up and face the real world. The last 5 months have been fantastic, because for the first time in ages, I'm only working one job, and I've been making no efforts to get a second one *g* I need to stop being a lazy-ass, though, and either put all of this free time into my study, or get out there and get another job. And previously, 'net time' has always had priority when I've been making decisions, but I don't think that's the way to go anymore.

I'm going to miss you all so much!!! I will definitely still be around on occassion. This is not (I promise, despite the pages of crap I just typed) meant to be a melodramatic exit. I just wanted to let you know what's happening with me :o) Thank you so much for your friendship and support and for sharing your art and your writing and making fandom come alive for me. I'm so glad I got to know you all! Argh... repeat to self: this is not the end! I've learnt so much from you all, and you've all made my days brighter just by being yourselves and being on LJ. And I'm getting mushy now.

(((((((((flist))))))))) I wish you guys all the best in whatever you do in life!!! <3

(This really isn't the end. I'm not going to vanish. Hopefully, neither are you. But, omg!!! *cries* It won't ever be the same.)

So... kind of, but not quite, goodbye :o)

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Is it just the slash corrupting my mind, or are there boy-pairings everywhere these days? I don't watch much TV, but one show that I am completely addcited to is The OC. Anyway, episode 1.5 The Outsider just aired on Tuesday (yeah, we're so behind) and I missed it cos of the Lion King and my friend forgot to tape it for me and I'm trying to d/l it now but Kazaa is being a bitch and has lost the connection or whatever halfway through the d/l and it's taken me about 4 straight days of downloading to get this far (stupid dial-up) and so I've seen the first half and not the second... Anyway. Does anyone else watch this? I guess I'll put it behind an LJ cut, although I doubt anyone who watches the show hasn't seen this episode by now.

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So yeah. OC. My new <3.

Anyway, a few days ago I was congratulating myself cos I haven't been sick at all this winter, so what happens? Yeah. Blah. Oh, well. At least it's in the last week of holidays, and not the first week of semester. And that's just our Uni's nice and we have an extra week of holidays, for some reason. Everyone else starts back on Monday.

Hmm. What else? I'm all groggy and blah and I have work in an hour. The fact that I have to talk to/interact with people while I'm sick bothers me more than the fact that I'm sick and working. Does anyone else get that?

The thing that bothers me about the OC is that theoretically (if I had ADSL or something) I could download all the episodes that are out. Or, I can go read the synopsis of every episode till the end of season 1. And that just takes away all the mystery and freshness out of TV.

I just stumbled across some OC fanfic. Accidently, trust me. For some reason, I have no urge whatsoever to read OC fanfic. But, ick. "Well your not so bad after all." *After* an author's note thanking their beta. Sigh. And in response to a fanfic link: that was really stupid i really hopw u dont think that was funny. *feels like hurling*

And I really wonder what that photo of Orlando is all about. The one where he's either just tripped on the kerb or seen an apparition or something. You know? Yeah. Um. People say it was a clap of thunder, but is that the normal response to thunder? I mean, the whole crowd around him looks shocked/scared, and no crowd I've ever been in has done that just for thunder...

And, I'm such a h/c freak that you'd think I'd come up with something that'd be helpful right now, but all I think of is, drink lots of fluids and then get Viggo to shag me better *g* And while that would be lovely, I hardly think it's about to happen any time soon! ;)

I start way too many sentences with "And". Maybe I really shouldn't be knocking other people for mangling the English language.

Two nights ago I had a dream that I set my freezer on fire.

I can't get fics to go from thought to paper.

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Who else has been as productive as me today?

legorlando

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Lion King was wonderful, but better yet, I passed everything!!!!! We got back at 1am and I was about to throw up from nerves so I had to jump on and see if the results were out yet (21st) and they were and I'm so relieved. Not even happy, though they were decent (not fantastic) marks. Just relieved that I'll be able to sleep tonight.

*hugs flist!*

Eta: Ok, 20 mins later, the joy has started to kick in *happy sigh* So I'm sitting on a credit average now, I wonder if I can bring it up to a distinction average, if I work my butt off from now on... but I say that every semester. I'm an optimist, though.

Lion King was fantastic - especially the woman who played Rahiki (sp?). I wonder if each country has their own cast, or if they travel the world... I love African music :o)

Off to bed now. Happy, happy, relieved.

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I spent a great day out with a friend, and I have the Lion King tomorrow night, which I should be (and still am, I guess) totally excited about, but... (and there had to be a but)...

Exam results come out on Wednesday. Jesus. I can't believe how nervous this makes me. And my brother got his today, and his results were pretty damn fantastic, so just passing doesn't feel enough now, I need to be fantastic too, since I'm the "smart" one, and it's expected, and...

Loads and loads of frickin shark-shaped butterflies.

(Really, I think I should be grateful for the fact that the most stressful thing in my life is exam results, but... *hides in corner and chews nails*)

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Legolas,

The bad thing about being in the middle of the Wild is that there is no other Man or Elf within 430 leagues. I jacked off 12 times this morning to the thought of you. The good thing about being in the middle of the Wild is that there is no other Man or Elf within 430 leagues. I jacked off 12 times this morning to the thought of you.

Aragorn.

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What's this? A non-slash, G-rated, LotR fic?! ;) In answer to shirebound's Letter Writing challenge.

Aragorn, my son,

The past winter has been grey and bleak for us all, but I fear it has been harder upon you. For you have been long away in distant lands, toiling to keep safe those who care not for the Dunedain and who know not of your labours. So too did your father, who I loved fiercely and who died young.

When the wind buffets at my door in bitter gusts, I worry that you are far from shelter and warmth. Food is never scarce on my table, thanks to the kindness of Master Elrond, but I begin to begrudge every bite I take, not knowing whether you hunger even as I eat. I dread the icy rain and cruel snow, and in my mind I have woven a thousand cloaks for you to ward off the cold. I fear most that you are wounded or ill and alone in the Wild, with no friendly hand to aid you or to offer comfort. It has been long since I could gather you safe and happy in my arms, but to a mother, it can never have been so long that I do not yearn to do so once more.

But I do not know why I trouble you with such words, save that my mood is fey and despairing. These are dark days for us all, and you have need of strength and hope, not of a fretful woman's fears. This letter, too, I shall keep, and it shall be company for all the other letters I shall never send.

May the Valar give you their blessing, and keep you safe and well-guarded from harm.

Gilraen.

March 1st 2991.

(And a very short, non-G, slashy letter here, if you want *g*)

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I survived pretty much only on Krispy Kremes today. I definitely need to go for a run tomorrow morning! It was Leah's last night tonight, and, omg, I'm going to miss my wench so much! :o( We had the best time at work and we had the dirtiest minds. We covered everything from lesbian jokes to slash jokes to foetus jokes. We squeed and gushed over Orlando together, and went to repeat sessions of all his movies. We're going to keep in touch, of course, but it's just not going to be the same!

MTV Awards were on last night but I missed it since I was at work. My brother watched it though, and said that Johnny Depp won an award for PotC, and that they had footage of him receiving his award, since he was currently on location in France shooting/researching for PotC 2. Is this true??!! Does this mean that PotC 2 will be coming out mid next year?!

It's currently bucketing down with rain and hail in Melbourne, as shown on TV with the AFL. It makes me think of Rangers wandering in the Wild, for some reason. That would have been incrediby cold and wet and uncomfortable, I think.

Hello to Fern, one of my oldest net friends, one of the loveliest of people *hugs* :o) Now you'll see me as the insane Viggorli fangirl that I am... :o)

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

ETA: katewithak, I'm sorry I went to bed without waiting up! *mwah* Hope everything is cool, and I miss you!

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Wearing: i'd so love to be able to say something cool here, but the truth is it's almost midnight and i'm in my pj's.

Hair: pony-tailed. as ever.

Makeup: what's make-up? and how do i put it on?

Ate today: krispy kremes, omg!!! 1.5 to be exact. the original ones rule. and like, the best dinner ever - mixed veges and rice

Thing last said: "haha, you can't catch for crap"

Last phone call: something at work, i forget wgat

In your bag: lip balm, keys, wallet, phone

Playing on your iPod: why on earth is this thing assuming we have an iPod?!

Desktop picture: collage of aragorn and legolas pics. much hotness. (the (incredibly cool and beuatiful and sweet) communion one weirded my brother out *sniffle*)

Last watched on tv: the golf is on in the bg

Last website visited: hotmail. and lj. duh.

Plans for today: there's 10 mins left of today. and i plan to spend them online. woohoo!

Last thing bought: i went on a shopping spree today! it was lots of fun. got new watch ($15 lol), 2 pairs of jeans for $30, RAINBOW TOE SOCKS, white hoodie with monkeys on it, KRISPY KREMES

Listening to: vindicated, dashboard confessional

Last showered: 'bout an hour ago, when i got home from work

Last IM: katewithak isn't on!!! *cries*

Looking forward to: the lion king musical on tuesday night

Worst part of the day: stupid WANKER of a customer

Best part of the day: first bite of krispy kremes. or every time i bought something.

Favorite person of the day: you. and you. and you. and you know who you are *hearts*

Thinking about: "my train of thought just de-railed..."

Current annoyance: i'm not annoyed with anything... yay :o)

Current obsession: VIGGORLI OTP (um. is there *anyone* out there who did not know this?)

Random TMI: can't think of anything. which is probably good

Feeling: cold and sleepy kinda but it's still early and maybe katewithak will come on if i wait a little longer....???!!!

Hearing: commentary for golf. guitar. lots of guitar playing songs i don't know (ie punk)

that was fuuuuuun!

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thanks to the people who helped me out on the lotr quiz! and sorry for my huge delay in, well, everything. i'm just lazy and blah.

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I found this on TORn's website - a competition for winning 2 tickets to some sci-fi convention. It's in Australia, though, and the competition's only open to Australian residents, but John Rhys Davies, John Noble (Denethor), Noel Appleby (Everard Proudfoot), and Morgan Evans (Legolas stunt double) and a WETA Workshop representative will be there. Ok, this doesn't actually sound very thrilling to me, but who knows, if I had the time and if it was close by and if I won tickets (wow, that's a lot of ifs), I might go...

Anyway, you have to answer this list of questions to be in the draw, and I'm really not certain about some of them. Does anyone know any more of the answers? Or have I got an answer wrong? I'm assuming it's all movieverse, too. I'll check for myself later, but for now I'm going to be horribly lazy and see if anyone on LJ can help *g*

1. How old was Bilbo turning at his birthday party near the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring? 111
2. Who cut the Ring from Sauron's hand? Isildur
3. How many ringwraiths confronted the hobbits at the top of Weathertop, when Frodo got stabbed?
4. What is Gimli's father's name? Gloin
5. What was the name of the book that Bilbo was writing about his adventures? There and Back Again, A Hobbit's Tale
6. Which two creatures did Saruman breed to make his new monstrosity warriors the Urak-Hai? Goblins and Orcs
7. Who tried to physically break the Ring, in Rivendell? Gimli
8. Who reveals Strider's real name, and what is it? Legolas; Aragorn, son of Arathorn
9. What item did Aragorn find that Pippin had dropped when he was tracking the kidnapped Hobbits? Brooch of Lorien
10. In Gimli's opinion, what kind of running are Dwarves best for? Short distance
11. What did Treebeard think that Merry and Pippin were when he first met the two in Fangorn forest? Little orcs
12. Why does Treebeard like going south? It feels like going downhill
13. Who are the two sons of Denethor and which is the elder? Boromir and Faramir; Boromir is the elder
14. In the ROTK who lit the signal fire from Gondor to call Rohan? Pippin
15. What did Gollum call the way leading up to Shelob the giant spider's tunnel?
16. Which finger of Frodo's did Gollum bite off?
17. What did the steward of Gondor Denethor try to do to his son during the battle at Minas Tirith? Burn him alive
18. What did we see were the last words Frodo wrote in his book "The Lord of the Rings", before adding the title? ...and it was the best thing he ever did.
19. What were the last spoken words of "Return of the King", rounding out the trilogy? Well, I'm back
20. What other major film trilogy did John Rhys-Davies have a role in, and what was his characters name?

Any other Aussies, feel free to take the answers (hah, what answers) and send off your own entry to competitions@fsf.com.au All entries are due in by 11th August. The actual con is on Sept 11, at Lincombe in NSW (near Sydney). Click here for more info.

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When my brother and I were younger and one of us did something stupid, we'd tell them they had the IQ of a deckchair... Now I feel it might actually be a compliment. *headdesk* Duh. I spammed about 5 broken links around LJ. *hides from world* (But thank you so much to everyone that pointed it out to me!)

And this morning at 8am I get an SMS that the friend I was going out to lunch is sick and can't make it. So I got to sleep in. But gah!!

Maybe this is one of those days I could just go back to bed? *hopeful* But nah, I'm actually still pretty cheerful... And things won't get worse, will they? I've gotten all the bad things over and done with for today, haven't I? Cos the only things left to do today are a mountain of errands and then work tonight, and I can totally see both of them being FUN. Only not.

*hugs Pseudy* Feel better soon!