oloriel | Nov. 1st, 2004

So, I'm back from Ring*Con 2004 and have slept enough to dare update my journal again. Am still tired, sore (especially my right hand. You cannot imagine how crampy you can get if you spend most of the day with it clenched to a fist and hidden in your shirt sleeve...), have flaming red hair and suffer from a severe abundance of events and lack of memory, so I'll probably not write a big diary-like thing this time (you're lucky, it seems); but it absolutely rocked and yes, I did buy my ticked for next year already (and still, I'm number 609! It's incredible how fast that went.) although it'll be in Fulda then which is not nearly as handy as Bonn. Schelmish and Glendalough rocked. Craig Parker and Mark Ferguson were as brilliant as ever if not more so. Lawrence Makoare is a wonderful imitator and made you feel as though Viggo Mortensen and Peter Jackson were there as well. Also, I want to learn the Haka. Jørn and Jarl Benzon are really cute and I hope the former will not have too many problems with his cold on the way back to New Zealand. Sandro Kopp is One. Lucky. Guy. Paul Norell, King of the Dead, is a really, really nice guy and good to talk to. Thomas Robbins, the Man Who Was Strangled 20 Times, was terribly shy at first, terribly surprised that he was welcomed so warmly although he had only a few minuted of screen time, and really nice on top of it. Billy Boyd has the cutest Scottish accent since Prof. Allan in that translation class in the third semester, and had a lot of great stuff to tell. Bernard Hill - King Théoden at his best. Really, really nice. Putting on Elf ears is a pain. I came too late to attend any of the workshops, but what I saw of the results made me with I had been able to take part. The videos, photo manipulations and parodies were great, except for the Jamba! shit - who on earth wants Jamba! at Ring*Con?! The fan actions, like the Elf, Dwarves and Gondorian marches, Théoden's funeral etc - great ideas! All in all, much too short, much too expensive but oh so worth it.

Will try to get together the best Ring*Con quotes sometime later.

Also, Mark Ferguson ("Oh, you can actually move in it!") and Paul Norell ("Did you make it yourself?") admired the Roman armour Jörg had made, so I can now tell him that his work is LotR-actor approved. Right now, however, he is probably more delighted that he and Pino won the German Kata Championship on Saturday, in spite of the nasty officials from NRW. Yay!

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( Der Ork-Kinderchor 'Tote Erde', der König der Hirntoten und andere Geschichten aus Bonn )
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