wiseheart | I'm getting 50 next Monday!

*waves*

I can't really thing of anything to say, as I'm mostly asleep at the moment - due to having been very stupid this morning and not eaten proper breakfast before spending the day walking around... until I finally realised that I needed to eat as the world was goign far away and vague...

Not a very interesting comment I know - I'll make you a better one later, but it is a random one to start off your thing for lots of comments. :) I think the length of comments helps as well... I think there is a maximum page length or something...

Anyway, I'll stop writing randomly here for now. ;)

Hope you didn't expect this comment to be actually interesting or anything.

I wondered about that, whether the length makes a difference, but never could really tell...the number does make a difference though, I'm pretty sure.

Anyway, just adding one more to the count. :D

Nope, length makes no difference at all. It's just for fun, after all.
Besides, it gives me the chance to use all my lovely icons, before my paid account expires in February. *g*

Erm, if I understand it correctly, it's the length of the thread that counts, not that of the comment itself. But I can be wrong. Woulnd't be the first time. ;o))

I'm nto sure - I suppose this is when we'll all find out - if we write you plenty of comments.

Lookie, lookie! One thread has already collapsed! Yay! On with the next one!

Hope you didn't expect this comment to be actually interesting or anything.

Why, of course not! When have my entries been actually interesting in anything?

;) Your entries are interesting. I like reading them.

I hadn't realised how soon your birthday was. I guess I'm not going to finish the story I was writing for you for it... (well, it is the same one that I was writing for you last year) I'm not sure when it will be finished. Possibly sometime, if I get the chance to sit down and actually work on it for an extended period of time without interuptions... but that is not likely to happen soon.

Don't worry! I intend to live a hundred and twenty, sooner or later you'll be on time. *g*

Does this mean you're finally coming of age? *hee* You're almost at your majority! Woot!

On paper, perhaps. According to my Mum, it'll never happen mentally. ;))

And isn't that a relief?!

Definitely.

Hmmm...my second one didn't post.

I just mentioned that I have some new Kavanaugh/Lorne entries in my memories. One author took that pairing for fanfic 100 challenge and has been writing them again.

I think it did, actually. So, now we can make lovely, looooooooooong treads - like the chains from the stems of that meadow flower, whatsitsname in English? I only know in Hungarian and German.

Thanks for the fic rec. I think I saw it at

kavtolanon, but honestly, I find in these days that I can't read any more 'shipper fics. Not for a while, at least. When I go to Wraithbait at all - which is rare enough as it is - I usually just look up the General section.

There seems to be a real lack of good gen fic in the Stargate fandoms... Then again there seems to be a lack of a lot of good fic of most sorts in the Stargate fandom...

Go to

telekis_vendiak, I recced a few Atlantis fics I think are quite good.

Well, Happy Birthday in advance. By the time Monday rolls around, this will have completely escaped my short term memory, which (at the ripe old age of 43) is waning rapidly....beware, it'll happen to you too!

Glad fodelsedag!

Oh, it happened to me at a much younger age, believe me.
Thanks for the birthday wish. What language is it in? It sounds a bit like "happy false dog", but I'm sure it means something else. *g*

Tell me about your birthday dream date with the fictional character of your choice.

Well, my first fandom love was definitely Karl May's Winnetou, the noble and heroic Apache chieftain. I've conceived Mary Sues in context with that character before I even knew that such things as fanfic and Mary Sues existed in the first place.

Mary Sue #1, complete with a tragic past, was the adopted daughter of Mexican president Benito Juarez, whose supporter Winnetou was supposed to be.

Mary Sue #2 was a Mayan princess, of whom nobody knew that she was an actual princess.

There was a Mary Sue #3, but I've forgotten her specifications. *g*

I was about the age of 9 or 10 at that time. I started reading ungodly long books at a very tender age and had a devoted fondness for Native American characters. If I think about it, I still have. That's why I'm in undying love with Voyager's Commander Chakotay.

Are you interested in my Mary Sues in other fandoms as well?

If you want to confess, I'm entertained :)

Deep Space Nine:
Mary Sue is a failed Bajoran monk (a female one), with surpsising similarities to my own faild attempt to become a nun. In fact, I wrote this piece to deal with the trauma of having to leave the convent, and another one where I was physically attacked in the parrish church office.

Original Trek (Lost Years series):
The Sue in this one is actually a Tellarite (you know, the pig-headed aliens) who shows lowly humans how wrong it is to ridicule someone because of their appearance.

Babylon 5:
It's actually a canon character: the canonically female Pope of the B5 universe.

LOTR ficdom:
- Mary Sue #1 was a red-haired female Elf, complete with tragic past, in undying love with Legolas (who else?). To my defence, I've conceived her back in the early 1970s. I know better now.
- Mary Sue #2 is married to Halbarad.
- Mary Sue #3 has a bastard child with Boromir.
- Mary Sue #4 is a female Blue Wizard.
- Mary Sue #5 is the Frustrated Fanfiction Author from "The Joys of a Beard".

Actually, although all these are self-insert characters, I don't really think that any one but #1 is really a Sue. The same is true for the sci-fi self-inserts above. But again, one person's genial OC is another person's Mary Sue, so we can never be completely sure, right?

Wife of Halbarad, Boromir's lover, and probably even the lost Blue Wizard sound like reasonable OFCs to me. Elf with a tragic past... one of those phases we all have to go through.

I've no idea what's generally considered Sueish in the Trek fandom. At least the pig-headed aliens probably don't have red hair :)

What's wrong with red hair anyway? I do find it pretty - as you know from personal experience, I even occasionally colour mine red... well, what's left of it, anyway. *g*

Re: Sue in the Trek fandom
It's an interesting question, actually. Especially considering the fact that the original Mary Sue had her debut in an Original Trek piece. Besides, if you take, for example, Voyager, some canon characters do have pretty strong Sue-ish traits, haven't they?

I feel like I've gone mentally retarded and senile. I-am-supposed-to-remember-your-birthday, dammit! >.< Beh.

I know you put up your wishlist for the Star Trek books. You know...you should really create an account and a wishlist on Amazon.com, so I can get one for you! =D

I'd love to. The problem is, Amazon doesn't accept our national currency.

Hm, I don't think it's an entirely silly request. There is a certain amount of envy in the youthful cliques and their ephemeral but insistent friendships. I still can't help but to sometimes wish that someone would have this and that interest in common with me, but there's no reason that any one friend should have to like everything that I do. Variety's the spice of life. Unfortunately, I then turn into a recluse and can't seem to talk at all to anyone about anything. Whatever does come to mind seems like "whining." Hungarian riots. Parental health problems. I have my downs, and I'm still in one of them, but I can't say that my problems are important. If I were to repeat them to myself as an entirely different person, I might even say, "What's wrong with this person? C'est la vie. That's life. Deal with it." So then I go on in my little world, sometimes communicating with others, sometimes not. I used to think that it was stupid that my mom thought that thinking too much was what led to my depressions. Well, to some degree that's true. Amazing how a movie can sometimes improve my mood. I need to remember that more. I need to allow myself to be immersed in a fandom. Now if only I could find a new fandom... Sorry they don't seem to cross paths with yours.

Actually, you know what does cross? Our desire to write personal narratives. Not full memoirs all the time but just sharing thoughts, and if we were more talented than just simple bloggers or maybe more popular or luckier, then we'd be making money as nonfiction writers. Think of it this way: you are my primary news on Hungary. What you say makes a big difference in how I perceive the country. It's like being a reporter but less scummy and not doing it for money or to further a political agenda. It's just your own honest opinions. I was just reading about creative nonfiction and the person said that it was one of the unspoken promises in the genre. The dialogue may not be word for word what happened at that time, but there is an attempt to create the truth and reflect on it. So tell me a story of your childhood in Hungary. Here I am emailing you and taking it for granted that you know English, almost forgetting that the internet was new for all of us just a few years ago and that the WWW wasn't really released until 1994, only a dozen years ago!! Before that, email correspondences were in text only and we even made little text pictures that got forwarded. But that was only the realm of primarily college students who had access to email and computer facilities. I heard someone read his work-in-progress, and he was talking about dot matrix printers and text-based computer games. Ah yes! All that, so long ago and yet not at all. The kids of today will never remember a time without CDs and DVDs, when tapes were all we had if even that. I remember our little PC junior computer, state of the art at the time and a very expensive investment, but our father wanted us to have the best education possible because that's the only way to get ahead. I'm sure there are other ways, maybe marrying rich and then divorcing to get half, but we were pushed to get the education that wasn't previously possible in our family so that we could get decent jobs. I feel a little guilty that I'm not entirely doing that right now, that I'm not making as much money as I could be, but I have in the past and helped to support the family so I'll count that as paying my dues in part.

(The comment was too long and had to be cut. So here's more rambling to reply to and add to the building replies.)

So how was it like in Hungary when you were younger? I've been rewatching old Hong Kong martial arts films that I'd seen when I was younger. I wish there were more to be found, but I can't afford to go out and buy these right now. It's interesting because I realize just what I missed when I was younger. There were even attempts to reference history, and one was about a Chinese doctor at the turn of the century fighting Westernization even as he knew that China had to assimilate to some degree to participate in the modern world. In the movie, it's like a distant history, but then I realize that this person died in 1924 and that my father was born less than a decade later in 1932. There was no running water. Could I ever imagine a life like that? It's probably the same with these horribly rich Republicans who are ruining our country and sending people off to war. It's the same as people who have never experienced discrimination and so they can't entirely imagine it or perceive it when it happens. If we ever met, it'd be a happy occasion, but maybe it'd be a surprise too. I don't know how many Asians there are in Hungary. I'm sure there are some because Hungary's in Eastern Europe, and Budapest really is a big enough city to have tourists from all over the world. But at the same time, it's different _knowing_ someone. Suddenly things become more real. Something that is a page in the history books if it's even included becomes real. No, I'm no better than these other people. How would I know about the troubles in Hungary unless you mentioned them? Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't easily have the resources. But what makes it interesting is that I know you and am interested in your life and what happens in your country. After all, I could similarly be interested in the happenings of China, whatever those are at the moment, but I don't know anyone there. I don't correspond with anyone via email. And even with Hong Kong, I knew two young girls from Hong Kong, but they were so young that there was no sense of the place. Like you say about the youths in Hungary, there's a more normalized capitalistic culture. They're watching LotR movies and worrying about their exams and how tall they are. There's no sense of place for me. I could be emailing with Romulan teenagers and the main difference would be in the pictures they send or post online. One of the books I remember you mentioning was Spock's World. Yeah, books like that help paint a picture of a place. Beleriand, Middle-earth, and Vulcan all seem more "real" to me than Hong Kong or China. I've never been there. But through reading, I can experience something so I experience a little bit of Hungary when I read your posts and your frustrations. I can imagine 3rd century China better than I can modern China because I've read literature (in translation) referencing that time period. Can you imagine that when I first joined the LotR and Silmarillion world I didn't imagine meeting so many people from so many different parts of the world? Finch sent me a calendar with pictures of Netherlands once. Suddenly, it mattered and it was interesting to me. It's the same with Hungary. When I see pictures of Budapest, I think of you. My world has grown as a result of knowing you.

There was a time when sci-fi didn't even exist, when a radio broadcast of War of the Worlds threw the country into a panic. When Tom Cruise's movie was coming out, they tried to make it out to be a big deal, saying that it would be so much better than the radio drama and that everyone only thought of that, but they never appreciated or admitted that the strength of the radio broadcast was in its effects on the past, when thousands of people really did believe that Martians were landing on earth. Hard to believe that women used to swoon in fright when they watched the old Dracula films, but they were raised in different times. Other kids used to tease me because I had short hair and so I looked like a boy. Now, girls can have short hair and it's ok, it's still feminine. Times change. Your life may seem shitty and boring and not worth talking about to you, but it's certainly interesting to me. Maybe not every day, sometimes I'm too tired to care about anything including my own life. But when I'm feeling better, I do enjoy reading your posts, good ones and bad alike.

IMO, very few remakes come even close to the original. And today's movies are all about special effects and nothing about plot. Sometimes the old black and white films had a tense atmosphere in them none of today's fancyful CGIs can top. It's the same thing as with black and white photos, I think.

I've mentioned it on LJ several times: the most impressive film of my entire life was The Gospel According to Matthew by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was a black-and-white movie, with mostly lay actors and barely any dialogue, and what was said was quoted from the Bible by the letter. It was incredible. I saw a great deal of Bible-based movies since then, in colour and with great effects - I can't remember any of them. But when I close my eyes, I still can see the scene when Miryam, very pregnant and wordless, appears in the doorframe of the house, and simply looks at me, as if she would step out of the movie any moment.

Well, there are a lot of Chinese people living in Budapest - they even have their own, very big market on the other end of the city - although we still don't have our very own Chinatown yet.

But you are right. Countries are constantly losing the very thing that would make them special, and soon we'll all be a big happy planet, full of McDonalds and Starbucks. I find it somehow depressing, actually.

When I was younger, Hungary was very different. We didn't have all those things young people throw their money for nowadays, but I believe we were happier, more content. We weren't exactly poor, not after we'd moved to Hungary from Transylvania, but life wasn't always easy, and I've learned to make a difference between things that were truly necessary and things I simply wanted.

I'm grateful for that, because it enables me to the present day not to live beyond my true possibilities, not to be in debt and to lead a content life, even if I can't always have everything I fancy. Sounds old and boring, I know, but I think I've more in my life than all those young people who have everything I couldn't even dream of at the same age and are still discontent.

WE were kind of the same when younger. Our dad was supporting 4 kids and our mom on his rather small salary so we didn't get a lot of the things we wanted. As a result, we got teased a lot at school. I would say I did have less but I really appreciate it now because I see spoiled children and get really annoyed. My mom does still complain about our spending, but it's because a fortune teller once told her that she'd die poor so she's obsessed with this idea. In truth, richness isn't measured by material wealth alone. Guess she's not so grateful for 4 kids since we aren't married and having grandkids for her.

I feel sorry for today's spoiled children, actually. They have nothing to look forward to any longer.

They look forward to the next video game coming out.

A sad perspective for the future. Unfortunately, I'm afraid you are right.

I was almost 40 when I got my first PC, and it only had DOS on it. I haven't gotten onto the Net until some six years ago or so.

I think we get a lot of great chances that the previous generations didn't have, but we also pay a high price for it: the overall loss of personal relationships, trust and the chance to truly know each other, the courage to risk something for a person who's for some reason important for us... that sort of things.

DOS! Ah yes, I remember that. Some fancy smancy computer engineer will think no one knows about it and expect us to be surprised when they go into the dos command to try to fix a problem. But for the longest time, that's all there was.

That much is true. My father didn't have running water when he was young. Some of what we've lost are things that we've romanticized, but there's definitely truth to it. I was never allowed to talk on the phone with my friends so I didn't develop the same closeness that they did to each other. I hear in Europe, instead of a flat local calls fee, there is a fee for every phone call made, even if it's just right next door or down the street. So they say that Europeans are more willing to get out of the house and just meet with friends over a cappuccino to chat instead of relying on the phone and thus lack of personal presence. Email makes things possible. There are some things that I say in text that I could never say in RL. That's part of the reason I thought I would write, to give voice to these unsaid stories and thoughts. I have seen people take risks. A high school friend met a Dutchman in an English-speaking bar in China while she was touring there, and she took a chance and decided to enter into a relationship with him even though it seemed doomed from the start. For the moment, they're married and happy.

But it is very different. Just to sit at the shores of the West Havens and look outward at the sea, feel the gentle breeze as we walk down the pier and talk about elves and slash. Or sit together at dinner and talk about how the Teleri would love the sushi but the Noldorin and Sindarin elves might find fish disgusting. I sometimes think about how it'd be like if I visited Budapest. You'd show me the main sites that tourists want to see, and I'd be curious to see how you live, the interior design and amount of space you can get for how many euros. I'd look curiously at your walk and stop signs to see if it had red and green men or if the green man meant walk but a red hand meant stop. It's so true. So many little things that are lost just by not being together.

I wish you'd had the chance to visit Budapest. I could have showed you places tourists usually don't get to see. But we're still both young (cough), so we might get the chance yet.

We are, it's true. Just read this love story that they posted on a airline website. It's kind of cute. We'll still have a chance to meet.

But seriously, my Granny was still a beautiful woman at the age of 90! At 95, she still looked reasonably well, actually. Of course, no other woman in the family had half her looks, so when we met at the age of 80 (your 80th, I mean), you'd be probably disappointed. *g*

You're turning 50 on Monday? Happy Birthday! (I figure I'd better say it now, as knowing my luck, I won't be able to log on from my parents' creaky machine on the actual day.)

So what other virtual gifts would you like this year (besides the collapsing comments)? Virtual chanpagne? Drabbles? Interesting conversation? Come on, be bold. Make some demands of your friends! You only turn 50 once!

Interesting conversation is definitely a go-go. But I accept drabbles, too. I'm not choosy. *g*

Normally I don't deign to notice mortals, but on this occasion I am grudgingly making an exception and am acknowledging your miserable existance. Don't bother to grovel; your gratitude means nothing to me in any case, and I certainly don't want to have to help you back onto your feet in the event your sickly mortal back should give out.

Mind your tongue, sister-son! A prince of Gondolin should have better manners than that.

*turns to Soledad* Apologies, mortal maid. My nephew had a difficult childhood, and he seems intent on revenging it by ensuring that everyone around him will have an equally unpleasant day. Pay him no mind, and eat your cake.

Oh, don't worry, my Lord! I've been a teacher of underage trolls for decades. Nothing your nephew can say could surprise me. I've heard it all. *g*

Strangely enough, all of them make the excuse of a difficult childhood. Hmmm...

*lowers voice* I suppose that conicidence could be explained by the theory that difficult personalities create the conditions needed for a difficult childhood.

If you could find a way to teach my sister's brat some desperately-needed manners, i would be grateful. You have no idea what it's like to be locked away inside a hidden city with him for hundreds of years!

Send him over the pond - if he can swim such a long stretch - and I shall try my best. No guarantees, through.

Is this your pathetic attempt to make yourself feel better by putting down others? Your refusal to notice mortals is what led to Tuor and Idril's wedding. Maybe if you'd given him more credit and considered him serious competition, you would've been able to better court your cousin. Of course, only you would think that an incestuous relationship is better than a union between elf and man.

Your refusal to notice mortals is what led to Tuor and Idril's wedding.

There is some truth to your words. Had I paid more attention to Tuor, I would have spotted his obnoxious flirtation in time to throw him off the city walls long before he could have corrupted my beloved cousin's heart. It is the only thing in my life I truly regert.

You'd never stand a chance against Tuor! He's The HAWTTT!

It is not possible for anyone so hairy as that mortal to be hot in anything but the literal sense. Were I not sure of my fair cousin's delicate sensibilities, I'd wonder if a taste for bestiality was behind her seeming attraction to the brute.

Don't diss it until you've tried it. After all, what joys did you know in your doomed life? Besides, that particular union produced some very fine offspring. *points at icon* Are your so sure your own - theoretical - descendants would have come close? I doubt it.

My descendents would have course far exceeded all expectations.

Depends of the expectations. *g*

Greetings Maeglin! If you think you can intimidate me with bad manners, you're sorely mistaken. I've been working with adolescent trolls for three decades, you can't show me nothing new. But I feel honoured nonetheless. *g*

Of course you feel honored. No doubt this is the first time in your miserable existence that a person of consequence has deigned to notice you, much less speak to you. Be assured it will never happen again.

And I would have you know my manners are perfect. Do not presume to judge your betters, woman!

Heh! You're nothing compared with the Elvenking of Mirkwood!
*waves "Thranduil 4eva" banner wildly*

Him? He's not even a Noldo. And Mirkwood sounds like a cheap knockoff of Nan Elmoth. Your odd preference for that nobody only confirms your poor taste in Elves.

You're just jealous because he's blond, and everyone knows that blonds are Teh Hottest (TM). Plus, he defended a his realm without the help of any fancy Noldorin trinkets and was successful in it. Yep, definifely jealousy. *g*

"Long live the King of Mirkwood!"

I understand it is your people's custom to receive gifts on your day of borth. Care for a ring or three?

It depends. Are they evil? Because, as a school teacher, I could definitely use an Evil Ring (tm). Imagine bending the will of my students to mine. Mmmmm... power...

My teacher in this craft, Annatar, assures me there is no evil in the making of these things. However, they do make time seem to stretch on forever... which might also be a useful trait for a teacher's ring. Just be sure to don it about a week before scheduled holiday time, and I'm sure your students will be most impressed.

Ah, I see. I'll gladly replace my great-grandmother's pretty but powerless ring with one that could stretch time. That way, I might be capable of finish at least some of my several dozen WIPs in at least as many fandoms in my lifetime.

Merin Nostalë!

Thank you. It's been a long time since we last met in cyberspace. Was it on the Second Age Elves list or somewhere else?

On the Silmfics list, I believe?

Yeah, that, too. An Age or so ago.

I see you got a lot of comments as you wished :)

Now I came here to stole the wishes in Quenya Claudio posted. I hope it's Quenya equivalent of Happy Birthday, not Happy 50 ;)

BTW, I see you use this icon. So it has became "Courtesy of Tessy" ;) It's everywhere now, hehhe. I did the manip and I believe Slayer did the animation, for in my version there was Erestor on the middle image. Though don't worry, I don't want a credit for it since I had no permission to use these photos. If you were curious, here are originals:
http://sirielle.livejournal.com/22148.html
http://sirielle.livejournal.com/22515.html
http://sirielle.livejournal.com/22754.html

Regards!

Oh. Sorry about the false credit. I "stole" the icon from Tessy, with her permission (at least I hope it was Tessy), and I know she credited the actual creator, but I forgot who it was and couldn't find the post again. So I thought I'd at least credit her.
*looks sheepishly*

Don't worry - as I said I had no right to manip these, so I don't care for credit. Credit Tessy as you did. I thought you would like to see bigger images. It looks like imageshack deleted larger pieces, but most of photos is still on-line.

Happy begetting day. :)

Thank you.:)
Welcome to my place.

Happy Birthday! (I followed

ithilwen's link here) :))

So, what to say... do you think Gil-galad's really shouting "FREE BEER IN MOUNT DOOM!" in this picture (http://pics.livejournal.com/delphinoidea/pic/000096fp/g4)? ;)

Nice pic. :p But that's prob because I like Gil-galad and wish they'd release more footage of his shoot.

Yeah, same here. The part with him and Sauron they showed in a story board in one of the Extended Edition Appedices discs looked like it'd be interesting, though sad...

Why not? Free beer is definitely a Good Thing (tm)! Can I have some, too?

Sure! (I just hope Mount Doom isn't named "Mount Doom" because of the hangovers people get there...)

Thanks!
*raises tankard and greets you*

Happy birthday!

Thanks. It's a sobering enough thought, but I intend to see another 50, just to make the State angry that they have to pay back all the money I've paid them for my retirement. *g*

Ah. In that case, happy birthday. I hope you meet your goal.

Thanks. When I hit 100, we'll repeat this performance. *g*

Nothing wrong with that. :) Heck, we could do it for your 51st bday. For every year, you'll want the same number of comments if not more.

We can, of course. The other positive outcome of this little joke might be that I get to meet new people in cyberspace, which is always a nice thing. Although I might know you already, of course. :))

Or we get to talk about things that we haven't had a chance to talk about.

Ready and willing whenever you are. :)

Hello there! I'm a friend of Ithilwen's. I just wanted to wish you a happy 50th birthday. :)

Thank you! Welcome to the mild insanity that is my cyberlife. :))

*wail!* Why do I *always* think your birthday is in November? For whatever reason, I do. I'm going to use my McKay icon on you because I think he's so cute. ;P Wish I had something witty and clever to say, but I'm too sleepy and not particularly clever or witty normally, *g*.

By the way, I've not forgotten about the coat of arms design! It's been a weird week. I have almost finished up a couple of the color schemes that you wanted. And I was able to find a larger clearer pic of a dragon, very close to the one you favored and I think it looks really good. Will send you copies soon!

Have a great Friday! *hugs*

Worry not, ye of little faith! We are still well within time! Your McKay icon is Teh Cutie (tm). One day, I'll steal it, I swear!

As for the coat-of-arms, I haven't even started the story, so take your time. :)

Oh! Happy (early) Birthday! :D

Thank you!

I turned 50 already, so no worries---it's weird, but not so bad!

Happy Birthday!

Yeah, I know it's not so bad. Actually, the years between the big marks never bother me. But these round ones keep reminding me how much I still want to do and that the time left for doing it is getting less and less with every passing year - and that is discouraging, somehow.

I hear you. This decade has been one of the best so far--- I wish the 'ol bod would be getting better rather than creakier! Creakier? Is that a word? *giggle*

You're well on your way to being heavily birthday SPAMMED! YAY!

Isn't that the best sort of spam there is? If spam always were like this, people wouldn't conplain, I think.

Happy pre-birthday! *g* I think I've stopped counting how old I am now, I tell people 40 because it's a good round number. Do things get better from 40 on, I must admit to being a bit worried because I never thought I'd be this age and now I don't know what to think about it :)

Sorry! What a downer of a message, but I can't think of anything more positive to say (except that I adore your icon!)

Thanks. Lord Gildor is a hottie, and Nemis made a nice icon of him, I think. Personally, I've no web skills whatsoever.

As for the age, I'm permanently 16 in my heart. The problem is, when I try to tell my bones and joints this, they don't take me seriously. :(

LOL! Oh, I'm older than you then - I'm happy to stick at 35, if only the rest of the universe would oblige me :)

I admit that when I first saw that picture I thought 'woo! What a great picture of Celeborn!' But that was just my one track mind at work, and it's nice to see that Gildor has his admirers after having been cut from the film as cruelly as Glorfindel but with less protest.

Actually, it was posted somewhere as a Fingolfin picture. But I think Gildor matches it a lot better. It inspired me to the one or other Gildor fic.

Hey there. I think the key to lots of comments is 1) bribing a small group of friends to help one make a few really long and frivolous threads and 2) posting about topics that interest many people, and then at the end asking several open-ended questions. I think the most comment-generating 2) would probably be some sort of crazy gossip/accusation aimed at a famous fandom figure, with the names of several others dropped in.

Also, happy birthday.

Thanks. :))
I knew the problem was that I keep making entries about things that are of some interest to me, which definitely excludes the personal lives of any celebrities. *g*

Getting fifty ought to be prohibited, but Happy Birthday all the same!

It should be prohibited, shouldn't it? I wonder which deity would be the right one to contact for it to happen.

One of the Greek Moirae? Clotho, perhaps; if she stops spinning, you wouldn't grow any older, but you wouldnt die either as long as Atropost didn't cut the thread.

Well, not dying had its advantages, as long as one's still healthy enough to enjoy life.

Happy (early) birthday!

Thank you. I wish you were here - we could have so much evil fun! Plus, I could treat you with some special Hungarian and Transylvanian food - I think you'd enjoy them.

Ooh, wouldn't that would be lovely! (And evil, of course!)

This is a great idea for a birthday celebration, I hope you're pleased with the turnout :-)

Oh, I'm more than pleased, believe me! Part of the motivation was my hope to meet new people online, to widen my horizon a little - thank you for helping with that. :))

I still hope, though, that one day you and Mr. Altariel will find your way to Hungary, and then we can have all the fun (and the good food) we want. ;))

Happy Birthday and have a fantastic time. I just read that Annie Proulx published her first novel when she was 56. Don't know if writing's your thing, but whatever your thing is, hope you succeed at it

Thank you. Yes, writing is my thing - in fact, it has been my thing for almost 40 years by now (what can I say? I started early...) My greatest fear is that I won't live long enough to write all those stories my head is full with.

Happy Birthday from me and Gildor! I might just have the fic ready for your birthday :) Rock on :)

Awww, thank you!

I'm getting 50 next Monday!

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I don't think I need to wait too long...

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You really should come one day!

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Awww, sweet!

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Birthday Wishes from Maeglin

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