Heehee--your life's soundtrack has the same opening credits as mine did. ;) *is still giggling that "Curse of Feanor" was her "Falling in Love" song*
I was going to steal the "Stupid Things" meme the other day, but was like, "Uh, what if my getting fired wasn't from my stupidity?" and my brain shorted out because my brain likes to do that. (Maybe I'll do the meme when I give my journal a rest from all the memes and surveys I've been flooding it with this past week. ;))
Swam With Dolphins (not yet...but soon!)
I could die happily right after doing that... assuming the dolphins are in the wild, of course. ^_^ (I think dolphin "swim with" parks are pretty shady. :\)
And I agree with all your points on the fannish5 thing (though if I stole that meme, I'd probably have to expand it to "fannish50," because I overdo things like that ;)). With Feanor, I wonder if The Silmarillion's narrator might have (consciously or subconsiously) influenced feelings in "history" about him because a) he personally disapproved of Finwe's second marriage and was dropping hints of "Look what happens when you don't accept things the way they are and seek a second wife!" and/or b) he was shocked and/or embarrassed by the Noldors' actions and reacted by trying to make certain powerful people look worse than they really were? (Bleh, I really ought to reread my copy... it's been too long!)
"Fading"--you said it better than I could! I think I remember a line here or there saying Elves could "waste away from grief" (but I can't produce the proof) and there's that line in the Prophecy of the North that says "slain ye may be, and slain ye shall be: by weapon and by torment and by grief," but that could mean a lot of things besides "If you're sad enough for too long, you'll just start dying." (Perhaps a seriously depressed Elf who doesn't get help might stop eating and slowly die of starvation/dehydration or some sort of organ failure, though... I think the illustration of that would be more dramatic and interesting to me than "Hot Elf 2, quick! Hot Elf 1 is fading! Screw him good so he'll be tempted away from Mandos and come back to us!" ;))
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Date: 2006-10-09 05:15 am (UTC)I was going to steal the "Stupid Things" meme the other day, but was like, "Uh, what if my getting fired wasn't from my stupidity?" and my brain shorted out because my brain likes to do that. (Maybe I'll do the meme when I give my journal a rest from all the memes and surveys I've been flooding it with this past week. ;))
Swam With Dolphins (not yet...but soon!)
I could die happily right after doing that... assuming the dolphins are in the wild, of course. ^_^ (I think dolphin "swim with" parks are pretty shady. :\)
And I agree with all your points on the fannish5 thing (though if I stole that meme, I'd probably have to expand it to "fannish50," because I overdo things like that ;)). With Feanor, I wonder if The Silmarillion's narrator might have (consciously or subconsiously) influenced feelings in "history" about him because a) he personally disapproved of Finwe's second marriage and was dropping hints of "Look what happens when you don't accept things the way they are and seek a second wife!" and/or b) he was shocked and/or embarrassed by the Noldors' actions and reacted by trying to make certain powerful people look worse than they really were? (Bleh, I really ought to reread my copy... it's been too long!)
"Fading"--you said it better than I could! I think I remember a line here or there saying Elves could "waste away from grief" (but I can't produce the proof) and there's that line in the Prophecy of the North that says "slain ye may be, and slain ye shall be: by weapon and by torment and by grief," but that could mean a lot of things besides "If you're sad enough for too long, you'll just start dying." (Perhaps a seriously depressed Elf who doesn't get help might stop eating and slowly die of starvation/dehydration or some sort of organ failure, though... I think the illustration of that would be more dramatic and interesting to me than "Hot Elf 2, quick! Hot Elf 1 is fading! Screw him good so he'll be tempted away from Mandos and come back to us!" ;))