Queen's Thief on TV Tropes!

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Wow, is one of you responsible for this amazing piece of cross-referencing? If so, awesome job. That list is huge fun to read through. LOL at categorizing a certain central relationship under "The Masochism Tango."* Yep, that fits. :)

*A Tom Lehrer song that my parents introduced me to when I was a kid, among many of his other funny tunes. So that's extra coolness points from me there.

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[canonisrelative.livejournal.com]

haha! Wasn't me but that is awesome, well done whoever :)

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

I am indeed grateful to whomever put it up. Likely several people. Most entertaining!

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

So great!


It is so easy to spend hours on TVtropes though.... why did you remind me that it's there, waiting to eat my life....

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know--I can spend half the day browsing it. Then I start thinking, "I should get a login here and learn to edit the entries so I can add stuff too!" Yes, as if I needed EVEN MORE ways to procrastinate. :)

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

TV tropes is like a black abyss in which all of time could be consumed. XD

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

what is this new devilry.

[agentmaly.livejournal.com]

A Balrog!

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Hee! Since I'm re-reading Lord of the Rings right now, I find that a fitting response. :)

[agentmaly.livejournal.com]

I attended my first (and, Lord willing, only) LOTR movie marathon this past Saturday. (We did the extended versions. That's a combined run time of 11 hours and 23 minutes, according to Sources, plus breaks between each disc for food and physical relief. It lasted until 2:30 am; I was up until after four.) It had been such a long time since I had seen the movies that I think I had reverted to thinking almost exclusively of the book when I thought of LOTR, and seeing the movies as a secondary addition.

Which made me feel that I really should read LOTR again (I used to read it every year, but that was from ages nine to thirteen. The last time I read any significant part of the Lord of the Rings was when I was fifteen, which is preposterous, because I'm now twenty-four). But the copy I'd want is at my family's house. The boxed set I have with me in my apartment is not the Correct one for such a reunion. :P

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Oof, that kind of marathon does take fortitude. I doubt I could do it these days; I'd have to spread the movies out over several nights. But yeah, it had been years since I'd gotten around to a re-read, and I'd started to forget several little details. So it's been fun to rediscover them, and to compare them with how things were done in the films.

I understand about needing the right copy, too. This time around I decided to read my big ol' one-volume edition, because Tolkien intended it all to be one volume. So that's building my arm strength as I carry it around. :D

[agentmaly.livejournal.com]

Indeed it does (and did). Had it been up to me, the movies would have been spread over several days, but it was my best friend's birthday party, so after advising her that it would be a grueling endeavour, I felt it my duty to devote myself to the cause (and remember to bring some rope).

Yes, my one-volume is the edition I want! My first copy. Since then I've amassed various others, and counting the one-volume I have six editions of The Return of the King, including the Alan Lee illustrated one, which is marvellous. But I need to return to that which is best, and so I appreciate our one-volume solidarity.

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've got the three volumes in their own editions, and have even read it as a bootleg ebook (back before there was an official ebook version). But this time the big heavy book felt best, for whatever reason.

Always remember rope. Can't count on Elves giving you some along the way. :)

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

I will carefully avoid something that is a black hole that consumes time, but re: Tom Lehrer I will say:

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park! I love it!

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

High five for Tom Lehrer knowledge! So much irreverence; so clever.

[agentmaly.livejournal.com]

THAT is a wonderful icon.

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Oh, ha, thanks! Years ago, in the height of my Lord of the Rings craze, I found a post where someone made a bunch of icons of LOTR pictures with Mystery Science Theatre 3000 quotes. I thought they were brilliant and stole several, and still use them. (This one too, among a few others.)

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're going to waste time browse on the internet, it's a much better place then most. At least, it stimulates thought and discussion in regards to writing and storytelling, but it also provides an endless supply of witty entertainment. Kind of like watching cat educational videos on Youtube.

Thus, once you've logged on, good luck getting back off! XD