King of Legottolia entry

[an-english-girl.livejournal.com]

Well, using my very limited supply of readily available Lego

here is my entry :)

King of Legottolia
KoA, Prologue. "On the palace wall, a young guard on duty looked out over the town..."

Costis standing to attention at those crenellations he gets to think about a lot more later in the book ;)


~:~:~

Yes, I know. You've never seen anything less like an Attolian guard? This may be true, but this is a bona fide Legoland Guardsman in full uniform, purchased from the original Legoland in Billund, Denmark. He cost about 50 kroner, and used to be a keyring (that's what the knob on the top of his head is!)
So, so. I did my best. Of course, if Megan had really meant it when she said "elephant"...

;D

Comments

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

Yay Costis! Yay foreshadowing! Yay elephants!!

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

You are brilliant, enough said. Little lego Costis on guard duty is so cute!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Well, the upright-walking elephant certainly made me laugh! I thought Costis had a pet monkey named Bob, but here he has a pet elephant named...

Hmmm. Steve?

Addendum :)

[an-english-girl.livejournal.com]

My brother said I hadn't /sufficiently/ described this scene. Bearing in mind Tennyson and the word limit, he obliged!
~:~
Upon the wall a guardsman stood
His name was Costis, true and good
His quilted doublet strong and thick
His sword was steady, bright and quick
But ‘neath his jerkin lurked the fire
Of temper hot and grievance dire.

Their Queen a Thief had stole away,
One damned and ne’er forgotten day
And then, as all Attolia knew,
Presumptuously he did her woo,
Forced or bewitched her – who could guess?
To make her word a fateful “Yes.”

He took the Queen, he took the throne,
He made Attolia his own,
The barons knelt and pledged their troth,
The Queen’s Guard too (and both were wrath)
This was their king – to every look,
A printer’s boy – with iron hook?

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Check out the first picture on THIS (http://9gag.com/gag/axjNOrp/) article. Thought you might appreciate. XD

[charlotte taylor (from livejournal.com)]

I read the scatter of legos in the first picture as sheep, and thought it very clever!

[empmai.livejournal.com]

Very Cute. I wanted to push the 'like' button