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[changeling]

Conversation earlier tonight:
Sister: So, you going out this Friday night?
Me: Nope.
S: Oh.
M: Why?
S: I was just going to have friends over--
M: And you're afraid I'll cramp your style?
S: No. It's just that I thought you had Cox's party. Isn't that this Friday?
M: *pauses, panics, runs to room, checks invite glued to door*
M: *runs back* Yes. Yes, it is. Thank you for that.

Whelp, back to FOTR. I want to get this finished, dammit. And I'm not admitting to the fact that I translated my name into Elvish (Quenya specifically, not Sindarin). Nope. Because that would be terribly geeky. I didn't use one of the many LOTR fonts on my computer to write it in Tengwar, either. Nor did I wibble about whether to use JRR or Christopher Tolkien's standard for writing vowels.

...

*hangs head* I'm such a lost cause.

Comments

[shinyandnat.livejournal.com]

Isn't it Saturday? Cox's party?

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* It's more the "it's this week, I thought it was two months away" than anything.

[spirail.livejournal.com]

cox's party is saturday!... yeay!

[burningskyfire.livejournal.com]

Mayhap so, but you're a special, snuggly lost cause if at all. And lots of other spiffy things, too.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks. *beams*

[melusinehr.livejournal.com]

You need the LotR Trivial Pursuit Game. I saw a commercial for this last night, and was thinking I know so many people who would appreciate it... ;)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Based on the MOVIE trilogy? Hm. Perhaps I wouldn't do so badly after all...

Lingustics

[mnvespera.livejournal.com]

My husband is a linguist. He is always writing in many languages. Including both types of elvish. Maybe there are three? I don't remember. I just wanted you to know you're not the only one. I don't think it's weird to write in Elvish, it's something you/he loves. There's nothing wrong with writing in the languages you love. Even if they're not languages by others to be as wonderful as you think them.

Re: Lingustics

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

There's Sindarin and Quenya, which are the kind of more fully formed languages, and then there's Qenya, which is the precursor. I *think* that's it.

I don't know much Quenya, I'm just interested in language for language's sake, I guess. Call it intellectual curiosity. ;)

Re: Lingustics

[mnvespera.livejournal.com]

Yes, my Bubby is the same about it. It releives stress for him too.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Delirieuse wrote :
Whelp, back to FOTR. I want to get this finished, dammit. And I'm not admitting to the fact that I translated my name into Elvish (Quenya specifically, not Sindarin). Nope. Because that would be terribly geeky. I didn't use one of the many LOTR fonts on my computer to write it in Tengwar, either. Nor did I wibble about whether to use JRR or Christopher Tolkien's standard for writing vowels.

Aha, you wrote it all out by hand instead :)

Oh wait, that was me, many years ago, when I first discovered Tolkien. I wrote something longish in English using Tengwar, then tried to make the piece of paper look ancient and important (rubbed some dirt in, burnt some of the edges, crumpled it a few times). The sadder bit is that I've probably still got it somewhere ...

So, at least you've got company in the land of full-fledged nerddom :-)