Concerning Éowyn

Okay, made it a separate entry as it wouldn't match the previous one.

I've been very annoyed for quite some time about how a lot of so-called serious LOTR-fans and/or authors are treating Éowyn. So I decided to turn a very early HA-entry of mine into a full-fledged essay. It probably won't be a very nice one. But I've been an Éowyn admirer ever since I read The Books for the first time, back in the mid 1970s, and I can't watch any longer what is being done to her.

Yes, I know she is a fictional character. But the fact that it's mostly women who are trying to make her look bad, just because she dared to make her own decisions and act outside the role expected from her is a bit too close to Real Life for my comfort.

Random matters

I'd like you to know that the Gode Cookery website is a delight. I never imagined so many medieval recipes would still exist. I checked out the site for a menu that would match Lord Orchald's Yule feast, and found the most intriguing things possible.

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Ahem. Yes. Lord Orchald has always been played by Sean Connery, but now I have "cast" Stuart Townsend as his son, young Lord Herumor. The boy looks pretty, but not in a feminine way, and long hair suits him greatly. I think he was considered to play Aragorn for a while, but then the idea was discarded because he looked too young. That's true, actually. He does look too young for a LOTR-era Strider. But as a young Estel, when he meets Arwen for the first time, he'd be great. Assuming someone else than Miss Overbite would play Arwen, of course.

I hope to finish this Advent series in time. The first part of DAy 24 is already finished, but I needed to break it into several pieces, so that it won't become overly long compared to the earlier parts. I still have at least two more parts to write. But again, I still have two days, haven't I? It would be ridiculous, should I not manage to finish it.

I was actually surprised to see that some people liked it. A series with nothing but original characters in it, who are all - well, most of them - doomed to die horribly in a few months' time is nothing you'd suppose to become popular. Well, popular is probably a bit too optimistic. But people really seem to like it.

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Mira offered to make a Sean Connery=Lord Orchald photomanip for me. *hugs Mira* Now if I only could figure out how this photobucket hosting thingy worked, I could even show you folks the result.