oloriel: (understanding poetry)
[personal profile] oloriel
Yeah, I know, I did this a few years ago already... but since so much has changed, I cave in and do it again.

Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] malicedl and [livejournal.com profile] ladymiriamel, this time.

a. My username is ____ because ____.

b. My journal is titled ____ because ____.

c. My subtitle is ____ because ____.

d. My friends page is called ____ because ____.

e. My default userpic is ____ because ____.



a. My username is oloriel because I actually wanted 'lyra', but it was taken (and the journal was purged the very evening after I registered, grr!), so I had to look for something else, and I ended up with the Quenya translation of 'dream-maiden' because I'm a useless dreamer, I am.

b. My journal is titled You can't look dignified when you're having fun because a) I love the X-wing series where Wes Janson says these very wise words and b) it's fitting. I am 22; you don't dress up when you're 22 (unless you're in Cologne and it's February). You behave and act your age. Well I don't. Dressing up for movies, singing loudly (and wrongly) and bouncing around is FUN. So I don't appear like a grown-up. Who cares?

c. My subtitle is I hold with those who favour fire because I always need some random poetry quotage. This one is, of course, from the poem Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. I like Robert Frost, but I mainly picked it out of my obsession with Fëanor. And because I simply like it.
And yes, I know that it's 'favor' in the original. But I tend to use the British spelling on words like favour and neighbour. I'm evil like that.

d. My friends page is called Strangers from distant lands, friends of old because I not only need random poetry quotage but also random Tolkien quotage. And this quote (Elrond's Council, of course) seemed fitting for a friends page.

e. My default userpic is changing all the time, but right now it's the little boy dressed up as an angel on a bike from the Everything is Illuminated trailer because I like it, and it's non-threatening and vaguely funny and vaguely sweet and vaguely artsy (or so I think) and I just felt like using it as my default icon for a while. Subject to change, of course; it's likely that in a few weeks, I'll have a new default icon. Such is life.



... wow. I don't think I was supposed to write an essay on that.

Date: 2005-12-09 01:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vout.livejournal.com
Don't you think dressing up as Snape looks quite dignified?

*g*

Date: 2005-12-09 01:58 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (just an outgrown Goth kid)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
Oh, it does. But I didn't dress up as Snape, I was Luna Lovegood... ;)

Date: 2005-12-09 02:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladymiriamel.livejournal.com
Dress up as Snape? Who? Where?

Date: 2005-12-09 02:08 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (just an outgrown Goth kid)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
My (http://www.wiccawelt.de/hpprem/100MD51Z/IMG00005.JPG) dear (http://www.wiccawelt.de/hpprem/100MD51Z/IMG00007.JPG) friend (http://www.wiccawelt.de/hpprem/100MD51Z/IMG00019.JPG) [livejournal.com profile] tzaaihta for the GoF premiere. :)

Date: 2005-12-09 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladymiriamel.livejournal.com
How cool. And the last one. Complete with Death Eaters (aber Snape ist ja gar nicht böse. *finger in ohren steck* lalalalalalalala ich kann euch alle überhaupt nicht hören. *g*)

Date: 2005-12-09 02:12 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (just an outgrown Goth kid)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
Natürlich nicht. Er tut nur so! I TRUST SEVERUS SNAPE!
*hätte mit den Buttons doch in Massenproduktion gehen müssen*

Date: 2005-12-09 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladymiriamel.livejournal.com
Will Möchte auch einen!

Date: 2005-12-09 02:16 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (just an outgrown Goth kid)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
... eben. *sfz* Hab damals einfach nicht mitgedacht.

Date: 2005-12-10 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladymiriamel.livejournal.com
Wo kann man denn sonst noch Buttons machen lassen?

Date: 2005-12-10 11:33 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (something wicked)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
Keine Ahnung. Ich werd Elfy mal fragen, ob irgendwie noch mal die Chance besteht, dass sie nochmal an die Buttonmaschine kommt...

Date: 2005-12-09 02:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zorn.livejournal.com
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Snape isst Eiscreme mit Schokostückchen!!!

Date: 2005-12-09 02:30 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (grins)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
Nu glor! Ist aber immerhin Zartbitterschokolade. ;)

Date: 2005-12-09 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eliathanis.livejournal.com
wie cool!!

Date: 2005-12-09 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vout.livejournal.com
Uhm. Well... she might have looked dignified when she was riding that Thestral...? Maybe? ;)

Like zour icon.

Date: 2005-12-09 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zorn.livejournal.com
Man kann seiner Friends-Page einen Namen geben?

Date: 2005-12-09 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] satismagic.livejournal.com
You are an aspiring academic. Of course you were supposed to write an essay on that!

*sniggers*

As I have seen this just about *everywhere*, I'll do it now, too.

*caves*

Date: 2005-12-11 11:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cowboy-r.livejournal.com
Hey, how's your Elven caligraphy?

Date: 2005-12-11 11:39 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (eruist)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
... stagnating, at the moment. Why?

Date: 2005-12-12 05:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cowboy-r.livejournal.com
My mother has promised to buy me a sword for my NAU graduation, and I'd like to have the name of the sword etched on the blade. I was thinking about "Foe Hammer" -- Which, as I remember, was the translation given for Glamdrang?

I was wondering if I could talk you into doing nice caligraphy of the name, so it could be used as a stencil.

Date: 2005-12-12 08:58 am (UTC)
ext_45018: (eruist)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
Glamdring. Sure, I can do that - what script? Cirth (the angular runes) or Tengwar (the roundish letters as seen in the icon)? Normal Sindarin mode or Beleriandic mode? Anything else?

Date: 2005-12-12 02:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cowboy-r.livejournal.com
Tengwar please. I honestly don't know the diference between Sindarin and Beleriandic mode, which is part of why I wanted to beg you to do it... you know enough to ask questions like that.

So, what's the difference, and which do you think would be more appropriate for putting on a sword blade?

Date: 2005-12-13 03:16 pm (UTC)
ext_45018: (understanding poetry)
From: [identity profile] oloriel.livejournal.com
Well, the 'normal' Sindarin mode uses accents-like marks for the vowels - the script on the One Ring, for example, is written in Sindarin Tengwar. (Well, not quite, there are some changes from the general Sindarin because it's actually Black Speech there, but, you know. Basically.) Beleriandic has extra symbols for the vowels; it is used on the gate of Moria, for example.
As for appropriateness... hm. As Glamdring was, according to The Hobbit, once Turgon's sword, forged by the Noldor in Gondolin, it's likely that they would have used the Noldorian mode (i.e. the one with the accents for vowels). But then again, it would be more likely that the sword of a member of the royal house of Gondolin would still have a Quenya name, and Glamdring is very much Sindarin...

... I hope I'm not confusing you too badly!

Date: 2005-12-13 05:31 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Again, these considerations are exactly why I asked you. I knew that your knowledge of such things runs deaper than my own... I haven't read the Silmarilion since I was in high school, I think... and I wanted the opinion of an expert.

And her caligraphy, too. 8)

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