Various achievements
Dec. 14th, 2003 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartSo, yesterday was a weird day, with both good and bad things in it.
We had to work on Saturday, which is Teh Bad (TM). But Mum fetched me from school and we went to a stroll in the city afterwards. That was nice.
We went to this insanely huge, new bookshop, not all too far from our flat. I was excited to find the CD At Dawn in Rivendell there. Finch has taped me a previous one, An Evening in Rivendell last year. The style is much the same, so are the performers (The Tolkien Ensemble).
The music is nice enough, but somehow not what I would associate with Elves, I don't know why. Also, the "Song of Gondor" and "Éomer's Song" are much too melancholy for the topic. Especially Éomer's song, which he san during battle! Had it took him several minutes to produce that single verse, the Orcs or Haradrim would have slain him halfways during the first line. *shakes her head*
The hobbit pieces were nice, but the rest is a little boring, to be perfectly honest. I'd prefer The One Ring album by James Prior and Kevin Pearce any time.
Also, after more than a year of searching, I've finally found a VHS copy of Marcell Jankovics' incredible animated film, Song of the Miraculous Hind. I'm afraid it would say nothing to anyone non-Hungarian, as it is a visual representation of ancien Hungarian tales of our origins, that only survived in our folk tales after the forced conversion of our people to Christianity.
Jankovics has a unique style to make animated films, and Andrea, one of his fellow artists, is married to a friend of mine, so I was doubly interested. Unfortunately, the videotape turned out to be flawed - the pictures shake so much that the film is practically impossible to watch. *curses* I'll have to bring it back to the bookshop tomorrow, hopefully they'll have another copy for exchange - and are *willing* to exchange it. I do have the receit, but it doesn't mean in our country that they will actually do the exchange.
I'm really mad. I wanted to have this film so badly, and when I finally find it, it's, well, damaged. Drat.
I also found a new fan fiction archive, called "Freedom of Speech" or somethign like that. Well, found isn't the correct expression. I've been contacted by the archivist. I don't know where she knows of me, as I've never heard her name before. Anyway, the archive is here:
http://www.fosff.net
It looks really promising so far. Of course, it is very new. But it has several categories, so I'd be able to put up my Star Trek stuff into the same archive as my Tolkienfic, which would be nice. I think I will post there.
All right, now I have to type up the epilogue to Forgotten Roots and some more of the new Gildor fic. After that, I'll probably sign up to the new archive and post some more Gildor stuff to the Do Me, Gildor! community, just to be a little more visible on the 'Net.
There's nothing like shameless self-promotion, oh yea!
We had to work on Saturday, which is Teh Bad (TM). But Mum fetched me from school and we went to a stroll in the city afterwards. That was nice.
We went to this insanely huge, new bookshop, not all too far from our flat. I was excited to find the CD At Dawn in Rivendell there. Finch has taped me a previous one, An Evening in Rivendell last year. The style is much the same, so are the performers (The Tolkien Ensemble).
The music is nice enough, but somehow not what I would associate with Elves, I don't know why. Also, the "Song of Gondor" and "Éomer's Song" are much too melancholy for the topic. Especially Éomer's song, which he san during battle! Had it took him several minutes to produce that single verse, the Orcs or Haradrim would have slain him halfways during the first line. *shakes her head*
The hobbit pieces were nice, but the rest is a little boring, to be perfectly honest. I'd prefer The One Ring album by James Prior and Kevin Pearce any time.
Also, after more than a year of searching, I've finally found a VHS copy of Marcell Jankovics' incredible animated film, Song of the Miraculous Hind. I'm afraid it would say nothing to anyone non-Hungarian, as it is a visual representation of ancien Hungarian tales of our origins, that only survived in our folk tales after the forced conversion of our people to Christianity.
Jankovics has a unique style to make animated films, and Andrea, one of his fellow artists, is married to a friend of mine, so I was doubly interested. Unfortunately, the videotape turned out to be flawed - the pictures shake so much that the film is practically impossible to watch. *curses* I'll have to bring it back to the bookshop tomorrow, hopefully they'll have another copy for exchange - and are *willing* to exchange it. I do have the receit, but it doesn't mean in our country that they will actually do the exchange.
I'm really mad. I wanted to have this film so badly, and when I finally find it, it's, well, damaged. Drat.
I also found a new fan fiction archive, called "Freedom of Speech" or somethign like that. Well, found isn't the correct expression. I've been contacted by the archivist. I don't know where she knows of me, as I've never heard her name before. Anyway, the archive is here:
http://www.fosff.net
It looks really promising so far. Of course, it is very new. But it has several categories, so I'd be able to put up my Star Trek stuff into the same archive as my Tolkienfic, which would be nice. I think I will post there.
All right, now I have to type up the epilogue to Forgotten Roots and some more of the new Gildor fic. After that, I'll probably sign up to the new archive and post some more Gildor stuff to the Do Me, Gildor! community, just to be a little more visible on the 'Net.
There's nothing like shameless self-promotion, oh yea!
