This makes me unexplainably happy and calm.
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Tag: Lord of the Rings
My Box of Riddles (Part 2)
Here are the answers for the “Box of Riddles” post!
Number one was, in fact, “a dime”.
Number two was the word “incorrectly”. Simple enough.
Number three was “tomorrow”.
Number four was “they’re two of a set of triplets”!
Number five was “Sunday”. They were so discombobulated with their calendar that they’d begun walking to school on a Sunday! What a situation!
If you want to find out what the questions were, check HERE.
Nerd Love Works
I feel like bragging about my folks today. If anyone ever wondered where my nerdiness comes from, it is most definitely from my parents. They may seem normal to most, but deep down they are the truest nerds that have ever walked the planet.
My mother is a Trekkie. My father is a Star Wars fan. I don’t know what the name is for that. Star Warsian? I don’t know. Neither does he, so he just says that he likes Star Wars. The two have some good banter on the topic, most often happening while we are watching one of the two shows. Dad says that Star Trek is too boring. Mum says that Star Wars is just mindless fighting. It’s like the South Pole and North Pole under the same roof. And yet I know for sure that whoever I get married to, I would want my marriage to look like theirs. They basically met through nerdiness, because my Mum wasn’t really interested in my Dad at all before they started dating. She thought he was just a big brawn-before-brain kind of guy. But she learned that he was far more than that. There’s more to this, but that’s a story for another time.
But there is one thing that brings them together. What is that? J.R.R. Tolkien. When we were eight, my Mum read The Hobbit to us at night. When we were thirteen, we were finally allowed to watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy with Dad, and every year, without fail, we sit down to give it a watch. I can’t think of a single year that we have not taken the time to do it, even while I am in college.
My parents were the first ones to watch the first “The Hobbit” movie, not me. I got the review of the film from my mum the next day while I was trying to study.
And when my parents heard that I was writing a fantasy book, it was as though their dreams came true. Both my Mum and my Dad have been keeping tabs on it the whole time, and have even helped make many of the creatures and some plot twists.
So if you ever feel like your nerd romance will never work out, take my parents as an example. It totally does, and they’ve raised some epic children as well if I do say so myself.
The moral of this story? Being yourself is the best thing you can ever be. If you want to get a true soul mate for life, don’t be afraid to show who you are. It might be pretty awesome.
Nerd Love Works
I feel like bragging about my folks today. If anyone ever wondered where my nerdiness comes from, it is most definitely from my parents. They may seem normal to most, but deep down they are the truest nerds that have ever walked the planet. My mother is a Trekkie. My father is a Star Wars fan. I don’t know what the name is for that. Star Warsian? I don’t know. Neither does he, so he just says that he likes Star Wars. The two have some good banter on the topic, most often happening while we are watching one of the two shows. Dad says that Star Trek is too boring. Mum says that Star Wars is just mindless fighting. It’s like the South Pole and the North Pole under the same roof. And yet I know for sure that whoever I get married to, I would want my marriage to look like theirs. They basically met through nerdiness, because my Mum wasn’t really interested in my Dad at all before they started dating. She thought he was just a big brawn-before-brain kind of guy. But she learned that he was far more than that. There’s more to this, but that’s a story for another time.
But there is one thing that brings them together. What is that? J.R.R. Tolkien. When we were eight, my Mum read The Hobbit to us at night. When we were thirteen, we were finally allowed to watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy with Dad, and every year, without fail, we sit down to give it a watch. I can’t think of a single year that we have not taken the time to do it, even while I am in college. My parents were the ones to watch the first “The Hobbit” movie, not me. I got the review of the film from my mum the next day while I was trying to study.
And when my parents heard that I was writing a fantasy book, it was as though their dreams came true. Both my Mum and my Dad have been keeping tabs on it the whole time, and have even helped make some of the creatures and plot twists. So if you ever feel like your nerd romance will never work out, take my parents as an example. It totally does, and they’ve raised some epic children as well if I do say so myself. The moral of this story? Being yourself is the best thing you can ever be. If you want to get a true soul mate for life, don’t be afraid to show who you are. It might be pretty awesome.
My Box of Riddles
This is only barely related to the blog at all. But, as my niece is currently reading through “The Hobbit”, I decided I would do it. So in the spirit of Bilbo Baggins, let us do a game of riddles! So, here are five riddles for the day. Tomorrow at this same time I will answer them. Some are easy. Some… not so much. Let us begin. 1. What’s smaller than one, greater than five and more than both?…
My Box of Riddles
This is only barely related to the blog at all. But, as my niece is currently reading through “The Hobbit”, I decided I would do it. So in the spirit of Bilbo Baggins, let us do a game of riddles! So, here are five riddles for the day. Tomorrow at this same time I will answer them. Some are easy. Some… not so much.
Let us begin.
1. What’s smaller than one, greater than five and more than both? (American audiences may get this one faster.)
2. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
3. What is always coming but never arrives? (The answer is not your spouse.)
4. Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they’re not twins. How can this be?
And now for the strangest one of all. Probably not the hardest, but thes strangest.
5. Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. “When the day after tomorrow is yesterday,” said Priscilla, “then ‘today’ will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was ‘today’ when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!”
On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
Give me your answers in the comments!
New Book Scene!
A hint to the new scene I’m writing in Dark Soldier! #heaven #quote
I am so excited, I have to share it here. This is the scene that I make a tribute to in Dark Soldier. It is one of my favorite scenes in all of the Lord of the Rings.
It’s going to be so awesome! I CAN’T WAIT! I’m writing it now.
Am I my own biggest fanboy? I think I am.
New Book Scene!
I am so excited, I have to share it here. This is the scene that I make a tribute to in Dark Soldier. It is one of my favorite scenes in all of the Lord of the Rings.
It’s going to be so awesome! I CAN’T WAIT! I’m writing it now.
Am I my own biggest fanboy? I think I am.
Music in Ink Form
So I was challenged for the fourth day of Blogging 101 to make a post that adds some unfamiliar element to the blog while still reaching the main audience. I’ve come up with an idea, and here it goes. We’re talking about music in fantasy. If you know Lord of the Rings and Narnia, you know that the music score behind the film is one of the most important parts of the film. This is not on accident,…
Music in Ink Form
So I was challenged for the fourth day of Blogging 101 to make a post that adds some unfamiliar element to the blog while still reaching the main audience. I’ve come up with an idea, and here it goes.
We’re talking about music in fantasy.
If you know Lord of the Rings and Narnia, you know that the music score behind the film is one of the most important parts of the film. This is not on accident, especially not with Lord of the Rings. Think about it.
The song itself has an emotional tinge to it. You probably have feelings of sadness listening even if you haven’t seen the movie. The lyrics and voice just work that way. But if you’re a Lord of the Rings fan, you can’t help but to have intense feelings suddenly be thrust upon you. The buildup to this scene just adds to the feels. So many feels…
Let’s go on to Narnia.
Did you really need them speaking or the words in the title to know what scene this was? Probably not. Why? Because FEELS, that’s why! Your emotion is so tied to a scene that you automatically remember the scene without seeing it. But why is it so spellbinding? Because music is a story without words. Like all stories, it has a beginning, a lead-up, a climax and an ending. This is why I suggest listening to instrumental music while writing. Like a rhythm, words must flow smoothly. Like a beat, your plot must build in intensity. And like all songs, your characters must change from what they were in the beginning. Thinking of your writing as a form of music tends to help me write, and maybe it’ll help you, too.
As Ashlin of the Dark Veil saga, coming 2016, says, “Everything is moving.” So it must always be.
Now, for my devoted Facebook fans who read this whole thing waiting for a piece of Dark Soldier info, here it is. We are currently working on getting the man who created this song below to write us a piece for the Dark Soldier book trailer. We’re pretty sure it’s going to be legendary.
Gabriel to Earth 