Dancing = True Love

[lylassandra.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else ever have those moments when the Thief series intersects something completely unrelated in your thoughts and all of a sudden that other thing suddenly makes more sense? I just had one of those.

I love Tolkien (ok, everybody loves Tolkien) and so I've been working on an elf costume for the Hobbit premiere in December. I was looking for something a little different from the looks I'd seen before, so I was looking at fan art of elves from the Silmarillion, especially Luthien. And it got me thinking.

Every time I saw a picture of her dancing, I disliked it. None of them seemed right to me at all. And then I saw one that had her dancing silently, eyes closed, almost solemn under the stars, and I though, OMG ATTOLIA.

Seriously, does this happen to other people?

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[filkferengi]

Sometimes the people in our head are uncomfortably real. Driving up to the Baltimore WorldCon, we drove through Maryland, the setting for lots of Barbara Michaels & Elizabeth Peters novels. Lots of squee ensued.

That trip was the first time I met any Bujold listies, one of whom looked exactly like my image of a character. I almost ran up and hugged him on the spot. He still talks about that one [but at least spells my name correctly, so that's all good].