Tales from the Perilous Realm

[enismirdal]

Oooh, for I have been to the Other Place and come back alive! We did the Varsity Quiz against the Oxford Tolkien Society.

And we won, 40 points to 37. Yay!

It was a good honourable battle, and despite their unfortunate disability (i.e. going to Oxford) they are a nice, cheerful group of folks. They all have fun accents, and are a bit mad like us, so it's good. I got to be on the team (ooh squee) - I seemed to be the only one who really wanted to be, oddly enough. I acquitted myself, I hope, not unreasonably, for someone who knew nothing of the Lord of the Rings before the first movie came out, coming out with one or two random strokes of near-inspiration (*cynical snork*).

But methinks the real heroes were the others, who seemed to know lots and lots about stuff which made me look blank.

It was all jolly good fun and good-natured, and we got to see Oxford, which is HUUUUUUGE and has real streets with real cars that drive fast! It was almost like a normal city, unlike Cambridge, which feels more like a weird dream at times.

The coach going there/back (3 hours each way - ugh!) couldn't decide whether to be incredibly hot or cold, which was less fun. However, I went through the notes from the 2 lectures I missed in order to do this (naughty Eni!) and my practical notes, and wrote more Eluréd/Elurín, who are really growing on me, I must say. Also met foreverdirt, who is cool and nice and told me the name of a new slash author to read - squee!

Conclusion: Good day!

Comments

[emperor]

wow, we won! w00t!
I was the quizmaster for the first ever inter-varsity tolkien quiz. we've lost every year until now, IIRC...

I hope you're listening to my radio show now...

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

1350MW? Yes...sounds like a church choir to me. But I had to get the instruction book out just to find out how to get MW.

[emperor]

cool. Having people listen to the show is always good. What did you think of it?

you can get it over the interweb at www.cur1350.co.uk

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Twas coolsome. Pretty music, if a little religious for my tastes.

[melime.livejournal.com]

Wow. *__* How nice it would be to live in England, where you actually have Tolkien Societies. *sighs wistfully* :3

Can't wait to read your Eluréd/Elurín... they've always intrigued me. It's awfully sad about what happened to them; being exposed in the wilderness has got to suck. But you'd think that being Elves, they would have survived somehow. Now, if I was a fanfic author myself, I would totally write an alternate ending. :D *is inspired but doesn't know what to do with it!*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling there are smials in the US - but they might be rather scattered.

And yes, it's an alternate ending. All Tolkien actually said was "they were left in the woods to starve" and "no-one knows what happened to them" (although probably not in those words). So it's not hard to imagine them finding some way to survive :)

[melime.livejournal.com]

Exxcellleent. *is now about to rummage around on the internet for more fics of the same pairing* I can't believe I never thought of this before. I mean, something went "Huh-- waaaiit a second" at the back of my mind, but I have ADD or something so I immediately suppressed that. :) So, thank you for bringing it to my attention!

Good luck writing -- the world needs more Silmarillion fic!

[naath.livejournal.com]

There are... and if you google for the Tolkien Society you will probably find that they have a list of them.

[girlofthemirror.livejournal.com]

Well done, clever girl *kisses*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Oooh, spank u darling :)

Did you stay over at Avvie's last night, or did you make it back here? *grins*