I dream about movies

I finished the book. ( Harry Potter 7 )

Mel bought me Lays of Beleriand for my birthday. *glee* He knows me so well...

One day I will invest in a good Bible-concordance and/or Bible-dictionary. Always helpful, them.

Got Unfisnished Tales and Tree and Leaf. *happy geekette.* The latter has an essay on fairytales which I'm now reading, and it does sound interesting. Won't touch UT until I've finished the Silmarillion.

And two books about Tolkien and Lord of the Rings, which Mel said I should be careful in reading because books like those tend to leave out important things, (like him being a Roman Catholic, or that the Professor didn't like allegories). Especially when they have got their own grande theories.

Small confession: I'd rather have the bickering relationship of Ron/Hermione than the perfect serene one of Harry/Hermione. At least the first one has more life in it. And it's bickering, not lobbing deaththreats at each other. How do you get that Ron's going to grow up to be an abusive little shit who's going to lock Hermione in the kitchen and force her to have a whole herde of kids and nothing else? Did we even read the same books? The ones where Hermione is perfectly capable of taking care of herself, and has a rather quick temper at times (cue canaries, again)? Besides, with Harry's temper and CAPSLOCK OF ANGST and Hermione's swottishness and her almost slavish devotion to learning and books and schedules who's to say that H/Hr will be so peaceful? They drive each other up the wall when Ron's not there to balance them out.

My biggest peeve with all this? They are teenagers. There are high school relationships that survive graduation and college and the rest of life, but not all do. I'd wager most of them don't. So stop making this all to be about the One True LoveTM. People change at that age. Life happens. Not all relationships survive that. Please remember that.

I'm not saying that H/Hr will never happen. Maybe it will, later on. Maybe not. Let your fantasy run wild, especially since Rowling has said that she won't write anymore HP after Book Seven. I'm just saying that in the span of the books it won't happen. Rowling said so.

This is not so much aimed at fanfic, though I do have a tendency to skip any that has H/Hr as a pairing. Personal preference and all that, and they usually make it to mean 'We're so in love and nothing bad can ever happen to us'-cavity-inducing-mush. This is about the rabid insane shippers, who keep 'interpreting the texts from the right perspective', as long as it means that their ship is the only one that will sail.

New work of Tolkien to be published. The Children of Hurin. *THUNK.* Want it, now. So it can join the queue of the other books by Tolkien I still have to read.

25th of May. That's when you know you've got it made: you end up on Fandom_Wank.

Frankly, I don't see what the problem is. So people want to celebrate the Glorious 25th. Fine, let them. Why is it so bad it's a fictional thing? Sheesh.

Dear fanwriter,

Please repeat after me: fanon is not the same as canon.

Fanon is not the same as canon.

Making Thranduil an evil child-beating Elf just because you saw other people writing him this way doesn't mean it's right. Don't make me send Legolas after you to kick your arse. I dare you to find one passage in the books where it's stated Thranduil beat his children. You won't find it. Why? Because Elves don't do this. Get out of my fandom.

No frigging love,

Yattara.

Crossposted to fanficrants

I wonder whether Pratchett's a Who-fan, and named StoHelit after the Doctor's granddaughter. I doubt it, since Susan's about as common a name as you can find. The only connection's just that they're both someone's granddaughter. My brain's odd.