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| BittenBuggy wrote: | Sounds like surgery....
Going to need randy elves and warm oil. |
Yeah but do all the randy elves' names start with 'F'? If so I will get confused. 
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OH drat! I knew I should have waited for a better deal. Did you get the Two Towers Faramir? 
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| BittenBuggy wrote: | | OH drat! I knew I should have waited for a better deal. Did you get the Two Towers Faramir? |
Nah, I got a Gondorian ranger, Haldir and a Two Towers Boromir
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Yes, we did do a nice job of getting off topic quickly didn't we?  I am giddy with delight to own both your body and soul. Does that mean your brain is sitting at home in a glass container? 
Now to return back to the topic, as a reader I like footnotes, dramatis personae (ooo fancy word  ) and other bells and whistles.
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I like the idea of a Dramatis Personae, I know I had a finger in the index the whole time I read the Sil. Really good for a fic with Numenorean names that will be unfamilliar to this Silgeek. I've finally gotten a handle on Sindarian names, but the Quenya names are still confuzzled.
Though I can't, for the life of me, keep the Feanorians straight, bunch of crazed halfwits anyway. (*gives BB a big sloppy goober kiss*)
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| sindohte wrote: | Yes, we did do a nice job of getting off topic quickly didn't we? I am giddy with delight to own both your body and soul. Does that mean your brain is sitting at home in a glass container?
Now to return back to the topic, as a reader I like footnotes, dramatis personae (ooo fancy word ) and other bells and whistles. |
I usually do footnotes. But I reckon you're right with putting a list at the start with this one. I'm just wary that people will think it's all OCs and be put off. That's if I can coax anyone to read a Ringwraith-centric epic in the first place But the list'll be helpful for my other chars as well, just to let people know I didn't make them all up and have tried to work within canon. Sometimes. 
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I actually dont care for footnotes as much. Like when you're doing elvish dialogue, it irritates me to have to glance down if you dont know a word. I like having the translation in < these > right next to the elvish. Wow, shows how lazy I am 
With names I think its a good idea - and little reminders each chapter might help those more challenged... like me.
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but I think other people will be intrigued when they know you will be exploring the origins of the RingWraiths. I know I would be, and, after reading this disjointed thread, I am intrigued.
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| SpaceWeavil wrote: | | That's if I can coax anyone to read a Ringwraith-centric epic in the first place |
Hey, you have at least one eager reader  I am a whore of darkness Any story that prominently features Sauron/Annatar, The One Ring, or the Ring Wraiths will make me perk up.
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SpaceWeavil wrote:
| Quote: | | I usually do footnotes. But I reckon you're right with putting a list at the start with this one. I'm just wary that people will think it's all OCs and be put off. That's if I can coax anyone to read a Ringwraith-centric epic in the first place |
Yeah, an intro at the beginning of the first chapter would be great and I'm with BB - elvish translations are most appreciated in context and not at the end of the chapter!!!
That said, as if anyone who hasn't read at least one of your works would ignore ANYTHING that you write! And all the newbies will soon be convinced by our recommendations!!!
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| sindohte wrote: | | SpaceWeavil wrote: | | That's if I can coax anyone to read a Ringwraith-centric epic in the first place |
Hey, you have at least one eager reader I am a whore of darkness Any story that prominently features Sauron/Annatar, The One Ring, or the Ring Wraiths will make me perk up. |
Sauron / Annatar will have a starring role. Haven't quite gotten that far, plotting wise yet. I'm still researching all the different lots of Non-Dunedain Mannish races in the Second Age and where they lived (and I only have 8 ringwraiths so far. Still one more to find...)
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Oooo, I am giddy as a school girl now!!!  Sauron/Annatar 
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| sindohte wrote: | | Oooo, I am giddy as a school girl now!!! Sauron/Annatar |
Yeah, I'll have to trawl through some of the old threads on this forum. I know there were some good ones on Sauron. But I haven't even started researching him yet. Still on Men. But then the research is just as much fun as the writing
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| sindohte wrote: | | Mouth of Sauron - formerly Phinneas Roundbottom |
The mouth of Sauron was Julia Roberts's kiddo?
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| inglor wrote: |
Though I can't, for the life of me, keep the Feanorians straight, bunch of crazed halfwits anyway. (*gives BB a big sloppy goober kiss*) |
Button Pusher!
See? He does it on... purpose!
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