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I’ve been battling some sort of bug all week and it’s getting the better of me today. sitting upright is making my head spin. Better luck next week
It may have been “Our Seventh Meeting” for some, but for me, it was the first. So many thoughts and feelings are whirling about in my brain, It’s difficult to put them to words, but I will try, none-the-less. When I started out at 15, I thought I was alone
Until this Covid-19 threat passes, I’m not doing any conventions. Not only are all the conventions cancelled, I want you guys to be safe! Hopefully it will be safe to hold conventions in 2022. Stay safe, and let’s meet in the future! Conventions I like to go to: Miscon –
Available here: Lulu E-book for $8.99. It was kinda sad ripping out all of the nice formatting Mark and I’d put into it, but it had to be done for the e-book. As a result, the e-book is available in an epub format that is readable for the majority of
At 5:30 AM, I finally completed uploading the updates to the Neo-Sindarin phrasebooks, including their German translations! Alphin is our German translator, so feel free to send her some thank-yous for all of her hard work! Other than a sparkly new German translation, I’ve reorganized many of the phrasebooks to
I’ve never received so many donations before! This has definitely broken all of my records. You guys are generous and thoughtful, and you make me so happy to be part of this fandom! There were a total of 18 donators this year, who donated a total of $1,077. This money
I don’t usually post about personal things, but I’m breaking that rule today, because I’m trying to process something that happened to me recently. I was diagnosed with high-functioning autism a few weeks ago. At first, all I saw was the downsides. How it makes me difficult to work with,
If you found an asterisk in the phrasebooks, then the word following it is reconstructed. Reconstructed words aren’t found in Tolkien’s work, but a made by guessing how Tolkien would have made the word. Luckily for us, Tolkien left a lot of material behind to reconstruct from. Of course, this
We all know what the stereotypes of vampires and werewolves are in our modern fiction. They’re based off a combination of Bram Stokers’ Dracula and old European folktales. Tolkien, however, didn’t have brooding, humanoid, mysterious vampires or werewolves in his work. Here, I shall cover the brief mentions of Tolkien’s