Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
OK, you convinced me! I'll participate!
By the way, if anyone wants to post their work-in-progress and needs some webspace, I'll be happy to volunteer it. Just let me know here or via FReepmail, and we'll set it up!
Also Jen, congrats on your 'A' today!
I reckon it's a Republican from Miami, which is so overrun with refugees from the Caribbean, that it is really a "banana republic."
Lot's of (so called) conservatives don't like the Cubans (which are the actual majority here now), cause they're loud, pushy, etc. But they work hard, hate socialism, love their families and kids. I like them...alot...think they are an asset for America.
I could still wish for a Miami of the 1950's, small town U.S.A., in the "English tradition" and everything that implies, and in lots of ways, it's the (fairly recent) immigrants that made it a "big city." But all that's in the past, I believe I'm proud to be a "Banana Republican."
Hmmm, are we talking our own personal 'fan fiction' site, without participation from the 'fans', of course!
RWRF, have you made a decision? The more, the merrier!
National Novel Writing Month. Jen got us involved. She's doing it, OT's doing it and I think Bear and maybe rwrf(?). Don't know if any others have signed on yet.
Challenge - write a 50,000 word novel in one month.
Okay, here's my synopsis:
Setting: Washington, DC.
Main Character: Blake Johnson/John Blakemore
Summary: Blake Johnson works for a conservative think tank in Washington, DC. His alter ego John Blakemore works for a liberal think tank. Unknown to co-workers and friends of "both," they are the same person. He travels back and forth between the personalities through a time portal.
Things go fine for years and "both" are highly successful. But a crisis occurs when an issue goes national and both Blake and John are invited to appear on Larry King Live.
Panicking, and not knowing what else to do, he "creates" the murder/disappearance of one of his personalities.
And it logically follows that he's arrested for the murder...
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So, what do you think?
I disagree that having the orcs singled out on screen diminishes the horror. Lurtz is truly disgusting and terrifying, and PJ 'created' him for the movie as the one who kills Boromir in that dramatic way.
In the books, Tolkien focuses on certain Orcs when Frodo is being held captive and Sam is hunting him. This conflict between the leaders of the two bands of orcs points up the truism that their is no honor among thieves; which I think was what JRRT wanted to convey throughout the whole book. The conflict between Sauron and Saruman is just the orcs' conflict writ large.
Dittos for the MA conservatives; granted there aren't very many of us, but we're still here!
LOL! You obviously haven't been around a group of girls knocking back and having a good time!!
Aww, 'tweren't nothin'...
Actually, I sorta feel like the fella in the old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland movies who always offered up his barn for the show they would put on...
Lots of potential for conflict there!
I would definitely have to put myself in the Hobbit category. I love food, drink and lively conversation, and the bottoms of my feet are like leather! Thankfully, though, the tops are not hairy!
Since we seem to be on the subject, here's my tentative storyline:
Setting: Pittsburgh, PA; same geographic location, two alternate worlds, different location, two other worlds.
Plot: the main character is an as yet unnamed computer geek who stumbles through a dimensional rift into a generic fantasy (sword and sorcery, not Elf) world. He then proceeds through between 4 and 9 worlds, picking up companions and messing up already bad situations along the way. The finale is right back here, with at least one scene involving our local RenFest, a beautiful assassin, and an object-oriented wizard...
I probably have too...since I was about 12 years old and if you average it out. I might read a little one year and a bunch the next.
I've read the entire trilogy 7 times, The Hobbit twice, and The Silmarillion once just since the movie came out. After I finished the Trilogy this last time, I just skipped right to the Two Towers, and I'm at the Window on the West right now.
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