Big budget doesn't automatically mean good fanfiction

Long rant behind the tag. If you're a fan of Peter Jackson and his version of Middle-earth don't read it. If you do despite the warning, don't complain.

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Furthermore, I've ordered - and yesterday received - the background book "Smaug - Unleashing the Dragon" by WETA desiger Daniel Falconer. If you haven't got yourself that book yet - don't! Unlike the other books showing the creative process behind the artwork to the films, this one isn't worth the money it costs. The pictures are of low quality, most of the time, and the amount of information that's there cuold easily have been included into the 3rd volume of the background albums. If I hadn't known before, now I can be sure that the whole "blowing the source material up to unnecessary proportions" policy serves one purpose only, and that is moneny-making.

"Adventures" update!

Part 71 - The Curious End of Julia Morstan has been posted to FF.Net and to the 13th_sherlock DW comm.

In which Sherlock is rude (what's new?) and a family mystery is, well, not exactly revealed but mentioned, urging the concealed Time Lords into action.

Enjoy! And feel free to tell me if you do. *g*