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Rozzan
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
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Location: A shire in England, lying in leaves with Legolas
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 Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:27 am Post subject: Landing gear activated, touchdown....... |
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| Hello everyone. I'm Rozzan and new here. What a nice site. looking forward to getting to know some of you and reading and posting my story. |
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NancyBrooke
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Joined: 11 May 2003
Posts: 160
Location: In a motel 6 by the airport
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:38 am Post subject: |
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Welcome to OSA, Rozzan. This is a good place for new writers (or just newcomers). We try our best to be helpful and constructive. We'll be looking forward to your story; I see you're not shy about self-promotion  Good for you.
Before you post let me encourage you to read the site's guidelines, if you haven't already, and get a Beta reader, if haven't already. There's a beta section of this forum where you can advertise. Just let us know what kind of story, what characters and/or time period you're writing about and someone with similar interests and one of my handy-dandy sparkly even-writes-in-cyberspace red pencils will surely answer you.
So, fetch me a beer and pull up a chair ... tell us a little bit about you. Do you have a particular area of Tolkien interest? Favorite character (I'm almost afraid to ask; this place is lousy with PEFs  )? do you come to us from the movies or the books?
Dish, Dish!
- Nancy, who actually prefers editing in green ink and still wants a shrugging emoticon
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Rozzan
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
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Location: A shire in England, lying in leaves with Legolas
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:14 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your welcome Nancy.  I am coming from both the movies and the books. My own story I decided to post in movie verse section as it starts off there, but there are bookverse scenes too within it. Much as I revere Tolkien and the books I also appreciated very much the movies and Peter Jacksons vision. I was so afraid that he would not do justice to this most special of universes, but in my opinion he did. The characterisations I loved, the landscapes of the Shire and Rivendell and Rohan also so beautifully depicted. some things he sadly left out and emphasied others, but some things I think he actually improved upon for dramatic effect. So I am both a movie and book buff. I love the Silmarillion too, it is my alternative bible.
As to interests, well everything in middle earth really, but especially the bond of the fellowship during the quest and the mortality/immortality issue between elves and humans. Beren and Luthien. Aragorn and Arwen and so on. Favourite character? Well I love all of them, but as far as my writing is concerned...have to admit it is Legolas centred
I have read the guidlines 'cause I am careful not to break rules in ignorance
I did have a beta reader at one point, but lost her. I am managing at the moment. Thank you though for your pointer to the thread. I will read there. This seems like a very supportive and helpful site, which is wonderful.
As to the beer, heres a six pack for now and I'll drink as many as you care to crack open my dear!
Right then, off to wander around and see what is here. So exciting. |
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Yavanie
Joined: 02 Jun 2004
Posts: 630
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:03 am Post subject: |
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OOOH! The first again!!!! Let me be the first to say HOWDY!! and welcome! There is just a treasure trove of great stories here - about all the wonderful characters Tolkien introduced us to and many equally wonderful characters inspired by the professor!!!
Oh do look around and check out the stories! you will be well rewarded!
Other warnings to follow....... I promise
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NeumeIndil
Joined: 06 Jun 2005
Posts: 1084
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Greetings, salutations and wazzup. Welcome to OSA. I'm with ^ them on the quality of the fic you'll find here, but we gotta talk about this beer thing for a second. See, some of the forum posts here are so darn funny and/or off the wall, people issue spit warnings. I would encourage you to both heed the spit warnings and keep a paper towel handy for when you don't get a spit warning and suddenly spray your monitor w/ your beverage of choice. I assume beer is at least as hazardous to computer equipment as most other liquids, so you might want to save the suds for when you're not reading forum posts. Any other time, though, enjoy.
  
Welcome again!
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Shanalir
Joined: 27 Feb 2005
Posts: 1
Location: Umm, anyone seen my map?
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| Yavanie wrote: |
Oh do look around and check out the stories! you will be well rewarded! |
I heartily second that! There's a lot of great stuff on here for just about any taste.
| Yavanie wrote: | | Other warnings to follow....... I promise |
And here's one! (I think)
Allow me to introduce myself before I go any further. I'm Shanalir, color-wheel addict (as diagnosed by ghettoelleth), and proprietor of the local Sense of Humour Lost & Found, and Locker Room, as well as the nearly finished new Sense of Drama Lost & Found and Locker Room. The Sense of Humour Lost & Found was created to ensure that everyone has access to their (or, if neccessary, a replacement) sense of humour when they visit the forums. This was of specific interest to me, as I tend to be hard to understand if you don't have your sense of humour readily available. The Lost & Found has loaners available if you should need it. The Locker Room is for temorary storage of your sense of humour, in the event it's conflicting with your sense of angst or something. Once it's finished, the Sense of Drama setup will be the same as that for the sense of humour, except we don't plan at this time to have the loaner feature. I'm sure you can guess why. We're also planning on having similar setups for your Sense of Angst and Sense of Confusion. We're building the facilities one at a time, with breaks in between to see what works best for our requirements, and what might need to be changed in the future. All of these are located in a small development, found on the left as you exit the site. We hope you'll take advantage of them. Don't worry, though if you happen to pass by and see me standing in the doorway screaming for 'someone to help, the senses are out of control.' That's just the natives getting restless and shooting plot bunnies  at me. It usually happens on a moon. Any moon. Even the dark of the moon.
Ennyhoo, I should probably stop rambling now, and let your thread get back to it's preferred routine. While I think about it, I also need to find myself a chair and whip to fend off those plot bunnies with....
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