Neneithel

In case anyone wonders what I've been up to recently, here are some of my vids (Remington Steele)
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I just realised I still have my old MSN messenger address here. The one I use now is neneithel@yahoo.co.uk

There's a fanfic community at: http://community.livejournal.com/s…

I also have http://laura-holt-pi.livejournal.c…
http://murphymichaels.livejournal.…
and http://r_steele.livejournal.com/

Returning to Mirkwood.

I will return to my father's halls, to the vaulted halls of Thranduil.
I will lift from his heart the burden of long grief, a son's sorrow,
And tell him that his father was avenged, as the Ring fell into fire.
I will kiss my mother's cheek and banish her fears for me,
And say I came to no harm on the fields of conflict and battle,
But speak no word of the loss of Boromir, yet much of Gimli.
Him, I will call brother in my father's halls, so let them see him,
My brother of the battlefield, and dark places.
Oropher is avenged, old grudges ended,
Let not the woes of Thingol be blamed on the son of Glóin.
I will go home, though it seems home no longer,
For the sea has called me, and I am cursed with love,
Love of the white wave, the gull's wing, the wild sea.

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The Landscapes of Middle Earth.

Faint were our lines when we first came to life
In the thoughts of a man of exceptional mind,
The hills and the mountains, the valleys the woods,
A landscape unknown to the rest of mankind.

So many such kingdoms my flourish then fade
In the hands of a ruler ashamed of his crown,
But ours was a writer, delighting in us,
And a world was created as he wrote it down.

His death did not end us, no other death can,
For his vision now thrives in the sight of a throng
And the beauty that sprang from a beautiful soul
Has inspired other voices to join in the song.

And all who have walked here are welcome here still.
In their walking amongst us they made us more real,
And the land that was born in the love of one heart
Now lives in the love and devotion they feel.

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I've been working on transcribing the second episode of "By the Sword Divided" and it makes me aware of how limited I am. In the first episode, now posted at the Arnescote community, I had to deal with Latin, in this one with French. I'm ashamed to say I don't speak either. I did study French, so it should be easy, but I found it very difficult. Even now, I'm not sure I have it correct. I'll finish the transcript and hope that anyone who spots an error will let me know, instead of just laughing at my inability to spell in French.

I have this new icon because I love old Minty from the series. She's a mad, foul-minded old hag and I seem to recall she suffers badly when the witch hunt begins, but under all the malice and the cackling, she's a sweet old duck.

If anyone is in Oxford on 7th May (the bank holiday), go to Dawson Street in Cowley. There will be a Mad Hatter's Tea Party going on. It's free for anyone who wants to turn up, and if you feel like bringing cakes to share, they'd be very welcome. The party, like all our community parties in Dawson Street is set up by local traders, including my genius employer, Erica Steinhauer, whose idea they were.

Something has been nagging at me since I found a picture of the Marquess of Montrose, James Graham. He reminded me of someone. After a while, I worked it out. He looks like Faramir, as played by David Wenham.

If anyone is interested in either the BBC TV series "By the Sword Divided" or the English Civil War, I have a community that covers both at http://community.livejournal.com/a…

I know most people here will never have heard of the series, but I suspect quite a few may have a secret affection for 17th century England and the English Civil War. I promise I won't hate anyone who thinks Cromwell was in the right. ;)

A chap being held in Guantanamo Bay has allegedly confessed to being the biggest baddy in the world and being behind the attacks on America and many more, coming soon to a paranoiafest near you! He made this momentous confession in a secret hearing, from which journalists and lawyers were excluded. In other words, it was just him and his captors at a hearing to decide whether his captors were right to keep him caged in inhuman conditions. Apparently, they were right and will continue to do so.

Now, I realise that Bush's regime is a bit wary of letting any justice sneak into the prison system, but I do hope they are not so incredibly stupid as to believe that the world is stupid enough to believe that a man imprisoned and tortured, when faced with his torturers and no other witnesses is going to say anything other than what they tell him to say.

If this man is indeed eager to confess, let him do it in front of unbiased observers, so we can all know that he didn't scream his confession as they beat him. Otherwise, his confession isn't worth the paper it was scripted on. Incidentally, if he's supposed to be an Arab, why use the very American expression, "From A to Z" in his confession. Did the author of his confession not understand that Arabic has its own, very beautiful alphabet?

Well, sorry chaps. I don't believe Elvis is grilling burgers. I don't believe NASA faked the moon landings. I don't believe Dr David Kelly ambushed himself in the woods and killed himself. I don't believe there were WMDs in Iraq and I don't believe that this confession is genuine.

During my long, miserable time offline, I noticed some errors in my Sindarin lessons. I have now corrected them and reposted the first few lessons at: http://community.livejournal.com/b…

The rest of the lessons will follow soon. For anyone who is interested, the list of lessons I have written so far is as follows:

Lesson 1: The Basics.
Lesson 2: Soft Mutation.
Lesson 3: Imperatives.
Lesson 4: Present Tense.
Lesson 5: Plurals and Nasal Mutation.
Lesson 6: Possessives and Adjectives.
Lesson 7: Comparisons, Comparatives and Superlatives.
Lesson 8: Mixed Mutation.
Lesson 9: Past Tense.
Lesson 10: Stop Mutation
Lesson 11: Future Tense
Lesson 12: Ae, Aen, Egor and Dân.
Lesson 13: Without the Verb "to be"
Lesson 14: Yes and No.
Lesson 15: Herding Gerunds.
Lesson 16: Boe
Lesson 17: Prepositions
Lesson 18: Interrogatives and Relatives

Anyone who wants to learn the most beautiful language Tolkien devised is welcome to use the lessons.