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.
Take this quiz!
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.
Take this quiz!
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!
Take this quiz!
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.
Take this quiz!
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.
Take this quiz!
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.
Take this quiz!
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.
Take this quiz!
5 May 2008
The Parting of the Ways
After a good deal of contemplation, we have come to the conclusion that the time has come to move on. As much as we've enjoyed our time here, and making such nice friends, we've decided that this blog has seen better days. Therefore, we regret to announce--- well, no, actually we don't regret it, so just forget that!
The fact is, we have decided to close Elvish Musings.
Before you start lamenting our HSB deaths, let us assure you that we are not abandoning HSB. Far from it! We have enjoyed every minute of our time here, but sharing a co-blog is getting confusing. The comments and messages keep getting mixed up, and the friends list has gone to shambles; therefore, we've decided to get separate blogs. Nimrodel will now be posting here, and Tinuviel will be posting here. We hope you will check out our new blogs, and add us to your friends lists (again!)
Signed for the last time,
~ Nimrodel and Tinuviel
EDIT: For those of you who are wondering if we will still keep up Elvish Musings, the answer is yes. We just won't continue to update it.
Croc Toria tagged anyone reading her tag, so we both decided to do it. Here are our answers:
Nimrodel's Answers
5 random facts about myself:
1. I love to write stories
2. When I grow up, I want to move to the same town where my aunt anut lives (well it isn't really a town, the only down town area in it is the post office, thats the beuty of it, just woods, and fields, and hills)
4. When I grow up I want to start my own pet shelter.
3. When I grow up I want to start my own oraganization to help feral cats be tammed and find new homes.
4. When I grow up, I want to work in an aquarium with dolphins and/or manatees, then I want to spend my summers in Florida helping injured manatees
5. I can't wait till I turn eighteen, so I can really start to do the thinks I want in life (mainly helping endangered/injured/abused/homeless animals
5 weird things about myself:
1. I talk to myself ALL the time
2. I talk to characters in books I am reading
3. When I am having trouble writing my story, I complain that the character is being "evil" and threaten them
4. When ever something doesn't go the way I want it to go I say that it is "evil"
5. I'm an elf
5 things on my desk (I don't have a desk, so I'll use my dresser instead):
1. My china doll, Lydia Diana Dawn
2. My vases with flowers in them
3. A bunch of litle presents all wrapped up (I REEEEEALLY need to send these to my British pen-pal)
4. A Christmas card for my British pen-pal
5. Anything else that I'm to lazy to put away
5 of your best friends:
1. Tinuviel
2. Queen Flora
3. Maiden Capitola Ballot
4. Eni
5. Tea Party Girl
6. And another one, Daydreamer
5 things you love to do:
1. Go on the computer
2. Work on writing mine and Queen Flora's stories
3. Hang out with Tinuviel
4. Call Queen Flora on the telephone
5. Read
5 people you tag:
1. Maiden Capitola Ballot
2. Captain Pippin Gates
3. Queen Flora
4. Mrs. Gamgee
5. Tea Party Girl
Tinuviel's Answers
5 random facts about myself:
1. I love peanut butter
2. My favorite color is black
3. I have braces
4. I'm extremely gullible
5. I have an obsession with Elves
5 weird things about myself:
1. I speak Elvish (Sindarin and a bit of Quenya)
2. I act like my rats are children
3. I'm constantly getting chided by my mom for going too fast (which is probably one of the reasons I get into so many accidents around the house, lol)
4. I tend to fall in love with extras in movies (say, a random Gondorian soldier in LotR).
5. I act like the characters in my stories are real (but what writer doesn't?)
5 things on my desk:
1. A vanilla-scented candle
2. A lamp
3. The new headphones I got for Christmas
4. An intercom
5. My laptop
5 of your best friends:
1. Nimrodel
2. Enilarwyn
3. Queen Flora
4. Tea Party Girl
5. Mister Cool (even though he bugs me half the time)
MaidenCapitolaBallot tagged us! Here are our answers:
1. What is your favorite thing about Christmas? Probably all the decorations, and the music.
2. In what room do you usually set up your Christmas tree? Our living room.
3. Do you have more then one Christmas tree in your home? Yes, we have the big, live one in the living room, and a smaller, aluminum tree in the dining room, and my little sister has a tiny one in her room.
4. Do you have a Christmas village? No.
5. What does your Christmas stocking look like? It is blue knit, with tassels.
7. What was your favorite Christmas gift last year? I don't even have to think about that one, my iPod nano, Oh yay!
8. Do you have any family traditions, if so, what are they? We go to my great, great aunts house for Christmas eve, and we read the Christmas story from Mathew and Luke before we open gifts on Christmas morning.
9. Do you dress up your pets for Christmas? No, I wouldn't put my poor kitty through that (as if I could, there is no way she'd let me)
10. Do you hang up Christmas lights outside normally? No, but I want to.
11. Who are you gonna tag? Queen Flora, Tea Party Girl and Croc Toria
~Nimrodel
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1. What is your favorite thing about Christmas? Definately the carols!
2. In what room do you usually set up your Christmas tree? The living room.
3. Do you have more then one Christmas tree in your home? Aside from the live tree in our living room, we have a small, fake one that my mom keeps in the basement for decoration.
4. Do you have a Christmas village? No.
5. What does your Christmas stocking look like? It's red, with an angel knit onto the front.
7. What was your favorite Christmas gift last year? I honestly don't remember...
8. Do you have any family traditions, if so, what are they? Not really...we used to drive down to Pennsylvani every Christmas to spend the holidays at a family retreat center there, but we didn't last Christmas and won't this year, either...
9. Do you dress up your pets for Christmas? Even if I could find something that'd fit my rats, I think they deserve a little more respect than that! (No offense to those of you who enjoy dressing up your pets.)
10. Do you hang up Christmas lights outside normally? This year is the first year we have done so.
11. Who are you gonna tag? Anyone who has the time, I guess...
Sunday night, October 28 - Oh I'm tired, but I want to post this:
Well Halloween is over, well not really, but in my town we trick or treat the Sunday before Halloween, so it's kind of over for me. It was fun, but busy. On Friday night me and Tinuviel went with our families, to the local YMCA for a Halloween party, it was fun at first, but I wore a civil war era dress complete with hoop skirt, so I couldn't go on the moon bounce or slide (not that it would have been very fun anyway) and we didn't want to get our face painted, so the only other thing to do was the haunted house, which was gruesome. And then some weird guy in it asked if I was supposed to be Mary Poppins. And some other kid (also weird) asked if I was supposed to be a "rich lady" and, pointing to Tinuviel, "is she supposed to be a witch?" She was wearing a medieval gown!
Today we went trick or treating, and I wore shoes that hurt my feet, and then we went to our clubhouse, (which is the attic above Tinuviel's garage) and had a Halloween party that was loud and crazy. So now I'm really tired, I better go to bed.
~Nimrodel
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Monday morning - Tinuviel here. As Nimrodel so truthfully put it, the last several days have been quite eventful, and now we are exhausted. I know many users on HSB don't participate in Halloween, and such was true of me and my family for the last fifteen years. However, my mother finally relented and let us children go trick-or-treating this year, as long as we didn't dress up as anything evil, gruesome, etc. It was a fun experience, though Nimrodel and I received more than a few odd looks (we must have been the oldest kids trick-or-treating!). I'm not sure if I'll do it again next year, but I'm glad to be able to say that I've been trick-or-treating at least once in my life. Nimrodel and I will post pictures of our costumes later.
Last evening, my seven year-old cousin flew in from New York, and we are all glad to see him. He and my two younger brothers have been having a blast together (my brothers are ages 9 and 11), and I think they will be especially sad to see him go on Wednesday. Tomorrow we have homeschool PE at the local YMCA, and my cousin will be able to go with us. PE is, naturally, my least favorite part of the week (we participate Tuesdays and Thursdays), but it has become more tolerable since Nimrodel and two of her three sisters have joined us. Right now we are studying soccer.
See how I ramble on? I meant to only post about the trick-or-treating, but once I start writing, I tend to go on and on...
For those of you who don't speak Elvish, 'well met!'
The first post is always the hardest, so we're going to begin by introducing ourselves:*
Nimrodel Hello, my name is Nimrodel, I am almost fourteen years old, and the oldest of four girls. Me and my three sisters are home schooled, in my spare time I like writing my own stories and poems, reading, sewing, biking and having tea parties. Oh! I almost forgot the most important thing you should know about me, I LOVE ANIMALS, like a LOT! I have a cat named Abby, and am trying to talk my parents into adopting a dog from an animal shelter. um, I think thats about it for now.
Tinuviel I'm Tinuviel, obviously. I'm fifteen years old and have been homeschooling all my life. Like Nimrodel, I am the oldest child of seven children. Living in a large family can be exasperating at times, but for the most part, I'm quite content. I am the proud 'mother' of three male rats: Harvey, Jasper, and Christoff (I'll post pictures later on). Chief among my interests are reading, writing, and web design. Also, I am head over heels in love with the Lord of the Rings and am constantly striving to expand my knowledge of Middle-Earth and all the wonderful people and cultures J.R.R. Tolkien created. I am inspired by sad music, bad weather, and fantasy.
There you have it! Our first post. :) Not very satisfying, but hopefully you'll get an idea of who's behind the blog.
~ Nimrodel and Tinuviel
* For convenience's sake, Tinuviel's posts will be written in italics and Nimrodel's will be normal.
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. 
