Carter: Yeah Sir, we can’t call it the Enterprise.
O’Neill: Why not?
Carter: The project codename is Prometheus. What’s wrong with that?
O’Neill: It’s a Greek tragedy. Who wants that? — Stargate SG1

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No responses yet – published on Mar, 09 2010 at 18:25 under Hobby, Site, Sport.

Nordic Combined World Cup 2010 photos

Wow, it’s been a really long time since I have posted something here on my blog. And now I’d like to tell you some new, exciting stuff but actually there’s nothing going on. Nothing at all. That makes me kinda sad. :( Seems that my life is quite boring at the moment. So I must stick to some old news.

I was finally able to finish redesigning my web portfolio on www.carmen-brenner.com. It’s nothing special and I already got some comments of people that don’t like my checked background. Well, I guess that’s always a matter of personal likes and dislikes – I actually like it. So it will stay until a muse kisses me again and I can think of something else cool. ;) Despite this comments I am content with the result. The projects list is a bit short right now, but I hope it will grow in the future.

End of January the Nordic Combined World Cup took place again in Seefeld. It was the last competition before the Olympic Games in Vancouver and a very successful weekend for the Austrian team – maybe because that the Finnish, French and US Teams were not present. Marina and I had a lot of fun as every year. I am looking forward to next year when the new ski jump will be available for the first time in a public competition. I hope we can see a lot of new records.

But… the biggest news is likely to be that Rowanfair, Saerwen and I have decided to make a trip to Wales, UK to the Festival in the Shire. The website homepage states that it will be “A celebration of all things Tolkien inspired!”.

Announcing the biggest and most exciting event for Tolkien enthusiasts in 2010: Festival in the Shire! This will be the most comprehensive event ever held for the fans of J.R.R. Tolkien, with a conference, a collector’s exposition of original art, rare books and memorabilia as well as a large festival with stalls and entertainment.

Our tickets for conference and festival are already booked as are our B&B and our flight tickets. And I cannot wait for August – it seems to be an aeon until summer. *sigh* There is but one question: Should I get done a new Elven dress for this event? I have this in mind since some time now, but there are always doubts if it will be worth the cost.

The dress I want to have is only seen in a very short scene of the SEE of FOTR (where the Fellowship gets the presents in Lórien), and there exist only two other photos of it taken at a LOTR movie exhibition. On alleycatscratch.com – THE source for all LOTR movie costumes – it has been titled as “Light yellow lace gown“. I think it is not made from lace, nevertheless, but from something crushed (silk maybe, but it is really hard to tell, also from the screenshots I took). I have first considered to sew it myself, but actually I cannot sew. On the other hand to get it done by a sewer is very expensive. So you see I don’t really know what to do now, especially as I don’t think there will be nearly enough time to do it myself.

The History of Middle-Earth

No responses yet – published on Oct, 28 2009 at 16:02 under Hobby.

Since I found out that Prof. Tolkien has written more then the Lord of the Rings, I have tried to read every single bit of it. But I was never able to lay hands on The History of Middle-Earth – I would say the central part of Prof. Tolkien’s work. A problem was in fact that I always wish that the books within a series look “harmonic”. I hate the fact that publishers aren’t able to publish books of one series in the same dimensions, with harmonic covers and on the same type of paper… I often wonder why this isn’t possible.

The History of Middle-Earth was a special problem, nevertheless. There were several editions, but it was difficult – or better impossible – to get ALL books of one edition, and if they were available on Ebay or Amazon (usually in used state) they were to expensive for my flavor. I like the new paperback edition of Harper Collins with cover arts by John Howe, but was not able to get all twelve books – as a matter of fact they are not available at the official Harper Collins site either.

Long years I haven’t thought of looking again into this matter, but at our last Tolkien regulars table we were talking about the HoME and I mentioned that it is so difficult to find the series in one piece. The day after I tried my luck and I was quite surprised to see that the complete History of Middle-Earth was available in a hardcover edition of three volumes on Amazon.co.uk.

Part 1 includes volume I to V of the History of Middle-Earth, Part 2 holds volume VI to IX – these books are also known as The History of The Lord of the Rings – and Part 3 covers the last three books, volume X to XII:

  1. The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
  2. The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
  3. The Lays of Beleriand
  4. The Shaping of Middle-earth
  5. The Lost Road and Other Writings
  6. The Return of the Shadow
  7. The Treason of Isengard
  8. The War of the Ring
  9. Sauron Defeated
  10. Morgoth’s Ring
  11. The War of the Jewels
  12. The Peoples of Middle-earth

I am now really looking forward to submerge into Ardas history, but I fear that this will be a task that maybe requires more than a winter. :D As a bonus I also bought a small book that holds all Poems from The Lord of the Rings with wonderful art by Alan Lee. It is really useful when you are searching for a certain poem and have not the books at hand, and it perfectly fits into every bag.

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