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> Um, maybe you answered all this up thread, but since you have no about page - who are you? :-) Other than a literary kinda person, anyway.

I'm a bur--a hobbit! :) Well, I think I mentioned up the thread that 2jedismom invited me 'cause I noticed her quoting "Silmarillion" on another thread and I had to chime in :) But more generally speaking: First of all, I'm obviously a Tolkien fan--have been since about 1977 when I first caught the cartoon adaptation of "The Hobbit" while flipping through channels on TV. Apart from that: I'm Christian and have one of my degrees in theology; my other degree is in history, so combining those I have a great interest in the historical aspects of theology (which is what brought me to the thread I met 2jedismom on--I was reading one of blam's threads on ancient history); and I also minored in philosophy so that's another thing I'm interested in. I've been studying martial arts for 20 years and have taught that off and on. I currently work for one of my Kung Fu teachers who sells Chinese herbal remedies online, and I've written some stuff in that area. Prior to that I worked in word processing and technical writing. That's some basic stuff about me, I guess. How about you?

Me? I'm an Elf, or maybe an Eowyn. I'm a computer programmer. I hope to go to grad school next year. Right now I'm living at home, with my six younger sibs, who I grumble about for hours at a time. I used to be homeschooled, until I started college. I read probably more than is good for me, and I'm overly fond of dragons. Oh, and I have delusions of author-dom, if you hadn't noticed.

Have been a Tolkien fan since I was eight and we read "The Hobbit". Dad didn't let me read LotR until I was eleven, though. I think Silmarillion is better than LotR, which is saying something, and I'm keeping an eye out for my own personal Faramir.

How's that?