Gabriele

It's more like that Wikipedia list is faulty. Zettels Traum is never coming even close to War and Peace.

I play the English flute in all sizes from piccolo to bass, and I got a classical singing education. My voice range is alto though I've tackled some mezzo arias. Love Italian belcanto and Russian folk songs.

Yep, and the scriptscrewers would have had time to end the movie with the killing of Smaug if they had cut on Legolas doing ballet dances on dwarf heads.

I didn't mind the Tauriel/Kili romance (it was not actually a triangle since Orlando and Lili refused to act on any chemistry). Yeah, it has nothing do to with the book and Tauriel wasn't particularly elvish, though she did kick some Orc behind. The reason I didn't mind that plot element is that Kili's cute and we got to see more of him that way. I was disappointed mostly about the slapstick action elements (Legolas in particular) and the ending. With all the set up in An Unexpected Journey about the loss of Erebor, there should have been Thorin's burial and Dáin becoming King under the Mountain. They could easily have added that (it's supposed to be in the EE, I think) and cut some elven acrobatics. Some of the CGI was below par, too, especially that megalotherion Thranduil is riding. It looked ridiculous. And those sandworms of Dune. PJ found a new field to play on, unfortunately. It was much better when he played with the big-atures in the LOTR films; those were amazingly realistic.

I'd like to learn Gaelic, too. German native speaker fluent in English and Swedish. I can get along in Norwegian, Danish and French as well, and I have reading competence in Italian, Spanish, Icelandic, Dutch, Old Norse, AngloNorman, AngloSaxon, Ancient and Medieaval High German, and Latin. A smattering of Russian, Latvian, and Ancient Greek.

I know the feeling, too. This year I've managed to restrain myself to either colour the text blue and make a remark about what to change, or use the strike feature in Word that still counts the words. But it's different if you share the story, of course. I write out of order and could only share snips and bits anyway. You got a great story there and it's amazingly clean and well flowing for a first draft. Keep going. (Mine are messier, meandering, and in need of cutting crap in the revision. )

Lol, with all those wishlists here, Brandon will have to write 20 books so everyone gets his/her favourite flashback character.

I write multiple third / omniscient, so I'm breaking rules here anyway because everyone and his uncle say omni doesn't sell. Fun thing is that said crit group often didn't even notice the omniscient.

I found it interesting that you missed the italicising of thoughts. Because that's a habit - probably introduced by publishers - which I hate, like being told that I'm too stupid to figure it out for myself. I didn't even notice it's not done in Brent's books. I've not used italics in my writing until I was told to do so in a crit group. It still feels wrong and I'm sometimes not sure what exactly should be italicised. Since that group fallen by the wayside anyway, I think I'll go back and get rid of the italics. If Brent Weeks can get away without ....

Someone in India has a wicked sense of humour and too much time. Probably bookmarked this thread.

Yes. And he gets a female 'colleague' who's fun, too. BTW, you should try the Elenium, too. It has even cooler characters, imho.

Because they stalk you.

Ok, your morning is earlier than my morning. I sleep in late when I can.

Let's see: The Widow's House, Assail, The Broken Eye, The Portrait of a Lady, The Lost Tales 1 and 2 .... and that was only like the last ten days or so, and only the fiction part.

I already got book 3 thanks to Amazon.de. Prepare for a wild ride.

Maybe she's only online when the mods are, because they'll wield their splamblades and chase the buggers down into the chasms as soon as they spot them. You need to be up in the morning (European times) to see the elusive bots frolicking on the site.

The black magic will be used by the escort service to torture you into giving them your credit card and whatnot other money-related numbers and rob you dry.

That's not fair. I want callboy spam.

Dragnipur wins, hands down. Elric's Stormbringer is pretty badass, too. In epic literature, we also get Olivier's sword Halteclere, Charlemagne's Joyeuse with the famous relics in its hilt, and Turpin's Almace (Song of Roland) as well as Ogier's Cortana (Ogier li Danois) *. In the the Norse myths we have Sigurd's sword Gram that becomes Balmung (Siegfried's sword) in the Song of the Nibelungs, and Nothung in Wagner's Ring; or the sorta magic sword Tyrfing that keeps popping up in several stories. Beowulf got Hrunting. The Norwegian king Magnus Barefoot (1073-1103) is said to have had a sword called Legbiter. * That's what you get for writing a MA thesis about French epics.

Jim Hines turned several of those nice, oppressed, waiting for the prince-princesses into girls who kick behinds, take names and rescue the prince. Stepsister Scheme, Red Hoods Revenge and more.

Some people do, obviously. A few months ago a woman went to court here because the bank refused to refund the money she lost in a Nigeria scam. The judge said she should have known better; it's been over the media for years, and the bank is not to blame for the stupidity of its customers.

Love Problems? On this forum? Dear bots, have you seen all the shipping going on here (esp. in the Stormlight threads)? This place if full of love.

They are intelligent enough to get the captchas. Quasi-sentinent critters, soon to take over the internet. We need an army of spren to fight them.

And more vashnikaran vishy vashy spammy spam.

The NSA should really try harder to camouflate their spying.