These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Tinuviel's Readings
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Nimrodel's Quizzes
Which Valar are you?
You are Yavanna, the Giver of Fruits. You are the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms you hold in your mind.
Kementari, Queen of the Earth, you are surnamed in the Sindarin tongue. Your spouse is AοΏ½le, Lord over all substances of which Arda is made.
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What kind of Elf are you?
Serene, wise and pride, High Elves are the cream of their kind, with answers to many questions and a will to do good. You are tolerant of all ~ just not of evil.
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Which Jane Austen Heroine are you?
You are Marianne Dashwood of Sense & Sensibility! You are impulsive, romantic, impatient, and perhaps a little to vocal in your honesty. You enjoy romantic poetry and novels, and play the pianoforte beautifully. To boot, your singing voice is captivating. You feel deeply, and love passionately. Take the quiz!
What Lord of the Rings character you?
You are Aragorn. You have strong convictions and you stick to them. Although you are more of a recluse, you are extremely loyal to the few friends that you have. You are very serious about things, but you like having fun. Fame and fortune mean little to you, and you aren't concerned with being popular. Good for you!
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What Redwall creature are you?
You're a Redwall Mouse. You are a peaceful creature who lives in harmony with the other animals at Redwall. As a rule, you do not fight nor do you harm another creature, until your home is threatened. Then you will stand up and fight to the death to protect your way of life. You have strong morals and you are looked up to by the rest of Mossflower, for no one save vermin would harm a Redwaller. Take this quiz!
Tinuviel's Quizzes
What kind of Elf are you?
You are a star-gazing Wood Elf; adventurous and fun-loving, yet with a serious side. You fight for what you believe is right and would never hurt anyone just for the fun of it. You are fond of nature and like to do things your own way.
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What kind of web designer are you?
You are a Trendy Homepage Designer. You inhabit a world of personal domains with New Age names, blogs, collectives and celebrity layouts.
You're one of the kindest and most generous people on the Net, always willing to help out your online friends, but it wouldn't kill you to pick up a HTML manual now and again and find out that some of your most cherished effects only work in MSIE.
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What kind of a writer should you be?
You should be a poet. You craft words well, in creative and unexpected ways, and you have a great talent for evoking beautiful imagery,
or describing the most intense heartbreak ever. You're already naturally a poet, even if you've never written a poem.
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Which type of blogger are you?
You scored as the Writer. You have linguistic intelligence, no doubt. Using flowery or
catchy language, you write about you experience almost as if it is a fictional story.
You also enjoy reading, and writing your own reviews on them. Some writers even create
their own stories for real in their blog. Someday you may become a great author, who
knows! But of course, you will practice with your blog first.
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18 January 2008
I'm in a bit of a fix...
Here's the deal: our local library is hosting a short story contest, and of course, my mom is forcing me to enter. Naturally, I don't want to. (If that comes as a shocker to you, then read on.) As much as I love to write, I have very low self-esteem when it comes to my works, and I rarely show what I've written to anyone other than my closest friends. (I don't even like to show my parents.) On top of that, it's been awhile since I've written anything other than Lord of the Rings fanfiction, which --- obviously --- the judges of the contest will not accept due to copyright junk. So you see my predicament.
Inspiration is always slow to come to me, but this time I really wish it'd hurry up. I have until February 15th to submit something, but my mom is growing impatient and I'm running out of ideas --- if I had any to begin with. Some help would be greatly appreciated!
But on to a lighter subject. After several weeks of procrastinating, I finally got around to asking my dad if I could buy a domain and create a website. To my relief, he agreed! I have yet to buy the domain, but that won't be a problem since domains can generally be had for ten dollars or less. As for a host, I've created a free account with Bravenet. My only problem now is actually designing the site layout. I've already thought of a name; how does Runaway Muse sound? Since I'm into web design and such, the site will be an online portfolio for my many banners, blends, and so on.
I don't think you would have a problem writing something non-lotr, though I haven't read much of your works. Just writing a blog entry is sort of like story-telling from a personal view, and yours are just amazing. You could write a story based on scenes in your life ;)
Oh, writing under a deadline can be tough! I wish I had some ideas for you, but I haven't had too many of my own lately :-(.
Your website sounds wonderful! Would it be your blog also, a just a site for your graphics?
~writer4him
Oh dear, I am under the wrong user. Oh well, I am MaidenCapitolaBallot.
I think a person should never write unless they have the insperation for it, but as you most obey your mother. Why not take one of your LOTR stories and just change the setting? Make up your own world instead of using Middle Earth?
I have read your things before and they are really good, but I do undterstand you being nervous about sharing them, I can offer no help there I am afraid.
I do hope it all works out though!
You are so lucky! I wish that I could be in a contest like that. I like preforming in front of people, but more than that, I don't really think I am good at writing at all. So I want to know what ze public thinks. (Oh yeah! I never told you that I write some stories and then jsut scribble them up and throw them away...) Oh, well. Now ya know. ^_^
Oh, inspiration... dumb muses, they never seem to do their jobs properly. Short story ideas... some of the best short stories I've ever seen were about old people. There was one fantastic one about a guy who was scheduled to be Santa in a primary school and went by accident to an old people's home instead. Not that that's very helpful as it's already been done, but you could do something like that... unfortunately my muse has also been immersed in fanfiction for too long, so it isn't been very helpful at all. Yes, I think Runaway Muse would be a very appropriate title. :P
I'm really sorry I've taken so long to reply to your comment. I wasn't getting all my work done and was speding far too much time on the computer after I got back, so my mum banned me from the internet until I had the next chapter of my fanfiction done. What is it with mums and forcing people to write? But, anyway, it's taken me ages to do as this chapter was over 7500 words long, so I havn't been blogging at all. Sorry.
But, yes, while I love Enya I also enjoy some pretty rocky stuff. Enya's great, but sometimes you just need get up and go music. Usually I listen to noisy stuff during the day and quieter stuff in the evenings, and I usually do my blogging late in the afternoon or after dinner, hence the majority of the quiet stuff. My favourite singer at the moment, though, has to be Weird Al Yankovich, who does really fantastic spoofs on all sorts of songs.
Oh, and creeps in woods are a public nuisance. My mum won't let me wander on my own through the forest by the river down past our back padock either, for the same reason. It's the most perfect elven spot, with tall. beautiful trees covered in trailing vines with little patches of sunlight trickling through and the river running through it, with little grassy hills perfect for Luthiening on. She'll let me go down with my brother, but who can elf with their thirteen-year-old brother goofing around them, seriously? And none of my friends are intersted in Middle Earthian pursuits like that. Creeps should die.
You say go kiss an orc in elvish too? Only Ti tαllbe orkh is Quenya, which I'm too snobbish to use, so I say Bado mξbo orch. Nostad lνn sui orch is cool too (you smell like an orc), which is apparently Holmelya nα ve orco in Quenya. I've said them so many times to my siblings that they are begining to learn them all and say them to me, and I'm always having to find new ones. My family have quite a vocabulary of Sindarin insults now!
Anyway I had better go as this comment is getting to marathon length...
Oh, one last thing: who is 'CRAZYMAN!!!'? He sounds quite... interesting.
We go by Nimrodel and Tinuviel, two bosom friends writing a blog together. As you may have already noticed, we both possess a deep love for all things
Elven, and are convinced that we're really elves in disguise. (Hey, girls can dream, can't they?) We're Christians, and do our best to honor God in all
things.
We go by Nimrodel and Tinuviel, two bosom friends writing a blog together. As you may have already noticed, we both possess a deep love for all things
Elven, and are convinced that we're really elves in disguise. (Hey, girls can dream, can't they?) We're Christians, and do our best to honor God in all
things. 
