Party kickoff

[wiseheart]

So, this should have been the actual opening post, but I forgot to set the hour when I scheduled it, so I'll simply do it again.

Welcome to my annual (virtual) birthday party! I'll be turning 59 on October 9, which means this is the last year I start it with a 5! Next time, if I live to see it, the 60s will start. Imagine that! Where has all the time gone when I was not watching?

In any case, let's have fun! The goal is, as always, to create as many collapsing threads on as many pages as possible. I'll kick up the first few topics, just to start the ball rolling, but basically it's up to you what we'll be talking about. So far, we always had fascinating topics. Photos of cakes and cookies and flowers and kittens and whatever you want to post are also welcome.

Since LJ chose to crash our party 2 years ago, I'll save the whole thing to Dreamwidth on a daily basis. Last time it happened it took us an ungodly amount of effort to recreate the lost comments, and even so, we didn't manage to get everything back.

Again, welcome and let's have fun! God knows we all deserve it. The party closes at midninght on October 9, sharp, as always. Let's use the time we have well!

Oh, and have some virtual cake:

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Indeed! For their love to make sense Aragorn needs to be the strong book character, I think.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Of course, it doesn't help at all that Arwen was barely more as an afterthought from Tolkien's side, after he's decided that Aragorn was "too old and too grave" for Éowyn.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hadn't realised that! I'd assumed as Arwen/Aragorn is an echo of Luthien/Beren -- which itself is JRRT's avatar romance, it had been in there from the conception.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No, actually, he planned to have Aragorn fancy or marry or whatnot Éowyn, who was then called Idis and was the daughter of Théoden, not his niece.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Fascinating! That would have been very interesting to read.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Oohh, I didn't know about that. It is very interesting to know.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Yes - especially given how many of his ancestors she is likely to have met (he must be very different in some way for her to decide)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Good point. It can't just be that she meets her first Bit o' Rough and falls for him.