Twosday...

[cairistiona]

The beta is finished (the book is terrific, but I knew it would be) and so Aragorn's back to work. He doesn't seem thrilled by it, poor fella.

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[mrowe.livejournal.com]

It's my first day back at work - I know how he feels...

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

My sympathies.

[mikononyte.livejournal.com]

Welcome back!
(Been watching the EE and stuff from the first Hobbit film.)
And welcome back Oh King of Men. *grins*

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I really need to rewatch the EEs... been too long.

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

"Oh dear, Cairi's back and now I've got to stand around on this cold mountaintop again." '(Thinks, this miserable face IS how I FEEL! I wish I could sit somewhere warm and toast my frozen toes, and have a pizza!)'

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Pizza! For some reason the picture of Aragorn tucking into a big old slice of pizza makes me laugh. I wonder what kind he likes best?

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

I'm SURE they did Pizza in Middle Earth. All you need is a bakehouse oven and they must have had those. And all that lovely cheeses, and at one time Tolkien has Pippin saying'bring out the cold chicken and tomatoes' but then amended it apparently to 'pickles'. Onions, MUSHROOMS!!! and all kinds of sausage. Here's quite an interesting page. http://www.strangehorizons.com/2008/20080211/green-a.shtml But you can use all sorts in pizzas - I've just eaten (over five days) an enooormous veggy one piled with all sorts of veg. zucchini, parsnips, onions, sweet peppers, mushrooms, olives, etc etc. twas gorgeous. I spec that's the sort Aragorn would have like with a grilled sossidge or three on the side!!! teehee.

[ysilme]

*lol*

[ysilme]

I love this first shot!

(the book is terrific, but I knew it would be)
Yay! The other day, the German Hobbit Presse offered a reduced version of the first volume ebook, and Siljan sounded actually tempted. He's always wary with book recommendations for whatever reason, but there's been already something you once rec'ced he liked, so telling him about your involvement spiked up his interest! :o)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Ah, so cool. Michael posted about the German edition on his FB page the other day... he said he wished he could read German. As do I, because it'll be interesting to see how the tone translates--he writes his dialogue very "American", which is one of the unique things about his books. I've often wondered why more fantasy isn't written that way. I guess the tradition is using British-based dialogue, because of Tolkien, but if you've made your entire world from scratch... you should be able to use whatever idioms and dialect you please, including American or Arabic or Russian or whatever.

[ysilme]

I fully agree about the idiom! Perhaps it's one of these editor-publishing-house-demanded things... I don't know if it's the same in the U.S. or UK, but from a published friend I know she had to change also the tone of her "literal voice" to some extent to get her novel accepted. She's publishing mystery novels as well as others, with two separate publishing houses and a pseudonym for the one part (as this is demanded by the publishing houses; they don't want to different genres by one author with the same author's name as well as publisher), and also with a certain difference in style and tone.
If Siljan is getting the book perhaps we can compare a bit, if you like. I don't know if I'll be reading it, too - not out of lack of interest, but I'm reading so little in published books these days, and if I do, it's mostly mysteries, so I simply have no idea when I get around to it.
(To imagine I thought the Harry Potter fanfic was bad for my published books reading... I still haven't read a sizeable portion of the Potterverse fic I always wanted. And then I discovered Tolkien fanfic, and now my reading pile is so unbelievably HUGE... I wouldn't be able to stow it physically if it were printed! *lol* )

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about that huge backlog of 'to read'. I swing back and forth between fanfic and published fic. For a while, I'll read all fic, but then the quality will suddenly dry up and I'll be back to reading published novels. Or I'll hear of a good novel from several sources (like "The Martian"--I was getting 'you gotta read this book' from all quarters, and I discovered all quarters were wise indeed). Right now I'm reading novels with the occasional LOTR & Captain America fic, but three months from now, who knows! I did, however, promise an author who followed me on twitter and actually engaged me in conversation (instead of just acting like a spam bot) that I'd give his book a go. It's military fantasy, which I'm only a lukewarm fan of, but he's also self-published and at least in the prologue, his grammar and punctuation are spot on, so I figure he's earned a deeper look.