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Riveting Ribbiter
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Vice of Twilight
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: on a mountain
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My, so much has been discussed since I last checked the thread!
I was gone all day Saturday at a conference, all day Sunday visiting my older brother, and in addition to be exhausted from the long weekend I'm coming down with another cold. That doesn't mean that I'll be out of it again, because I really did mean it when I said I was coming back, but... it does mean that my brain is feeling rather fuzzy right now and if I could be told really specifically what I could/should write about, I would very much appreciate it!
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
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In terms of your characters, Leafa and Ædegard, perhaps against Ædegard's own personal code of conduct, really want to go back to papa. You can write about how those two are ready to separate themselves from the quest, but feel guilty about leaving everyeone, and other matters that might run alongside that.
As per Liornung, he intends to rejoin the quest, and now clearly so does Ravion. And apparently the severe headwound to Mellonin/Avarien is not so severe, so Liornung could play "eye witness" to Ravion's healing prowess, not to mention a possible little bit of romantic conversation overheard by itching ears...... Just some (probably bad) ideas. Does Liornung dream? Since nobody is writing Bellyn, you could have a conversation between Bellyn and Liornung; this rpg hasn't experienced one of those in a long, long time. |
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Vice of Twilight
Join Date: Nov 2002
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A conversation between Bellyn and Liornung would certainly be a nice way to ease back into the game.
So... at the present moment we're in the little hut, correct? Is it evening?
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Ok, I've started a PM post to Fea.
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Is anybody keeping an eye on Tharonwe? You have perhaps 6 hours to answer before I post the post in which he acts. It could change everything. You have been warned.
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Er--
Oh.
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Additional bit in the Bella post now.
I'm getting very, very curious, Helen. I believe that you know for certain precisely what the eucatastrophe is going to be here, and each failure of it makes me hungrier for it. Your writing is at a height I haven't seen before. Poetic prose, it is. I'm not flattering, just stating fact. I was wondering if Gwyllion and Aeron somehow play a part in the eucatastrophe? Or are they another step in the growing hunger for it? Let me know, and I may be able to write something for them. However, I do think it's time for another Tharonwe illusion; just gotta figure out where that's going.
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Optomist!! THank you and I'm honored,. However, I'm following my nose, as I always do. As best as I can guess, God writes the eucatastrophes, not me. I just try to follow his leading and not miss 'em. Writing is as much prophetic for me as a church meeting...
I had no idea a balrog was going to land in that last post. Or the circle dance of death. It just happened. When I'm done, I think, huh, look at that. Remember Forest Gump: "It was funny he said that, because right then!: God Showed Up." My favorite line in the whole movie.
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Song of Seregon
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Following the road less traveled
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You've not lost me. We've had a rough week, but I'm reading daily and waiting for my chance (and time) to jump in.
By the way, Helen, I agree with lmp...your writing lately has been wonderful and moving.
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Huh. I missed the balrog reference until you pointed it out. Very suggestive. "Shadow and flame" should have been enough to clue me in. But that really raises the stakes, to an evil beyond Tharonwë, which, incidentally, I suggested long ago, you may recall; I just gave up on it. So is this balrog in their dreamland, or is their dreamland the spiritual dimension? If so, we've got no Gandalf. Am I flummoxed yet? Well, maybe getting there. Now what?
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Regarding Roggie: Note that Erebemlin defeated him. It was, essentially, a nightmare. Just a really, really, really bad one, rooted in thousand-year-old fears. Roggie was the reason that they left Lorien, according to Unfinished Tales. Roggie on a Rampage was what the Lorienites all feared. (Eeew, my colloquialisms are uber-colloquializing.) And Nimrodel actually blamed the Noldorim for awakening All Those Shadows. It was why she initially refused to marry Amroth. And Fleeing the Shadow was why they decided to sail west, and then get married and live happily ever after -- somewhere much safer.
Having said that, that's just MY take. Feel free to have all the fun with it that you want, dreamwise. Roggie Revisited??? Alak: thanks. NOw would be a good time for Erebemlin's Reaction to CIrcle Dances, Ash, and Roggie. Uh-- Dreamland, spritual dimension, or what. I think the answer is, sometimes one, sometimes the other, and sometimes both; Nimrodel is, after all, Mad. SOmetimes she is all wrapped around Pure Illusion. SOmetimes she is blind to Dangerous Truth. And sometimes, just sometimes, she Sees Things. Really. I guess I would also expect INdil to have, depending on the day, either a bad dream, or a Nassssty VIsion of evil things, or... maybe both. Or neither. And maybe (just maybe) determining all that-- Symbolic VIsion? Deeply ROoted Fear? Manifestation of a Real Demon? Just a Bad Dream? What????-- could give the participants a bit of a headache, and Bafflement. BUt ministry/counselling is like that. Regarding Nimrodel, every now and then she might even say something Nice. You asked (and my dear, beloved husband Keeps Asking) when this thing will be Done. I guess I'm thinking that, at least, each person in the crowd should get a chance (Maybe two, for some individuals) to Play Dead in Nimrodel's dreams, like Nethwador and Liornung already have. To participate in her wild dreams, and get called an oathbreaker or something, and have something of theirs woven (into or out of?) Nimrodel's journey (and Amroth's). To drag all of us through each and every dream or song would take more than I think I have to give. Does that sound unreasonable? How does that sound?
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Roggie? Wherever did you pick that nickname up?
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Wow. I wondered if/when this would start up again. Yes, I know you said February, and here it is (2/3 done). It's going to take some doing to get my mind back around this one again - it's been quite busy with TID lately (89 chapters now). So give me time and some suggestions as to what you need/want from me, and I'll see what I can do.
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Wow! TID is up to 89 chapters?? Prolific Elempi!
And this-- ...did I say February... I was feeling vaguely tardy anyway. I have a few more posts in me, so relax and read for a bit. The challenge of the 'game' is that no one knows the song of the stream but the girl, whom nobody can find (and NImrodel has yet to discover that it's her.) The song is hidden deep in Amroth's heart, but she has to choose to seek for it there and that will take a bit of trust-gaining. Ayone can play but we especially need Indil/Mithrellas/Angela, who can mirror Nimrodel's already weary/not yet aware/ will be reunited theme. Nimrodel has gone back to 'innocent child' for the duration of the game, and I think that will be her healing, when she finds the song. However her childlikeness throws Amroth a little off kilter. Tharonwe can cause some grief, or Jorje some comic relief. It's been long enough since I reread/listened to the story that I'm fuzzy again. But at least the past cou-ple pages worked most everybody in at least once. That's good, I won't feel guilty if someone gets a little neglected (Aedegard, where are you?) Alak? You out there? Feel free to run with Erebemlin, and I sent Avarien to the borders of Lorien to bring Taitheneb back into the story. He can play from Lorien, she'll connect him with what's going on at the mountainside dale. THey can hunt for the song together. Ultimately Amroth has it, but I couldn't leave Taitheneb out of the tale at its climax...
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Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Okay, that helps. But it's late and the creative juices are not flowing right now. I think I'll reread the last few pages when I get a chance, and see how that helps. At the moment I'm feeling rather intimidated by Indil/Angela/Mithrellas, but maybe rereading will help.
TID? Prolific? Nah. I just can't help it. And the last three chapter I wrote, I've scrapped because they didn't work; so ch. 89 just became ch 86. Ho hum.
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Song of Seregon
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Following the road less traveled
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I'm here, I'm here.
I need to reread a bit to get in the flow and I'll just jump in as I have time.
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Itinerant Songster
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No, not too pentecostal. Had you said that his past was redeemed, then maybe. But gone, that is just right. What a post! See, that's the kind of thing I forget that Tolkien didn't - all the names of things. Wonderful!
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Itinerant Songster
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What if Maegeleb doesn't give Nimrodel the song?
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THen she'll comb for it, and eventually comb through Amroth's mind too. She can taste the freedom in it (in the hints of the song) , and she's hunting in earnest now.
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Itinerant Songster
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You removed a post! I was going to base my next one off of it! Haalp!
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..... I what?????
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The last post has three parts. Were you thinking of the part in the middle?
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Itinerant Songster
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Actually, Marigold sent Jorje into the mountains to find the questers.
Thanks for the "like". ![]() What do you want to do now? How can I help? Last edited by littlemanpoet; 10-14-2011 at 03:59 PM. |
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Elempi:
OK, this snapped into focus this morning whle I was riding my bike to the bus stop...... Your objection to having Mellondu at the mouths of the Entwash is correct. You are right: He's dreaming, not teleporting. Roger that! (Eh, and everyone else was dreaming, too. More or less. While they were wide awake.) Anyway: Mellondu will be found downstream **from the glade**, pretty far below the modestly-sized waterfall. I'll write that soon. Jorje being still at Marigold's was a dream too: he will show up downstream, in the lowlands well below Mellondu, with the works of all his labor. With Marigold's guidance, He rounded up all the horses-- Good Dog!-- and led them east, then past Minas Tirith, then south, and then westward toward the glade. He's been waiting with them downstream. We can either make do in the story with the previous sentence, or, have a little fun with it-- your call. So they will all journey east and then north together, and perhaps some will remain at Minas Tirith, some will go to Rohan, and some to Marigold's and beyond to Lothlorien. What would you like to do with the nasssty dark elf Tharonwe?
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Itinerant Songster
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Yay!
(at the waking up)Yes yes and yes. Now for specifics: I'd like to have some fun with Jorje. ![]() Not sure about Tharonwe. He is like Saruman after having lost his power, and there are enough wise folk in the party to think of that, so they will want him under guard and no Ent-folk around to have wrong-headed compassioon.
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LOVE IT.
Good dog, Jorje!!!
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Itinerant Songster
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What's next?
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