User:Elsendor
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Elsendor on Wiki
[edit]I'm very new to the wikipedia subculture, if I may call it that. :) I've been involved in (and obsessed with) roleplay games for five years now, and I'm thrilled to have discovered the WikiProject on that very subject. Hopefully I'll find a way to get involved. I have a lot to learn, though, about the coding and the whole system of Wiki...
In a Nutshell
[edit]- I've been LotR-obsessed for as far back as I can vividly remember.
- I'm an avid, and rather vocal Switchfoot fan
- I love horses (my current roleplaying environment is a very horsey one)
- I call myself an aspiring writer...though at this point it's not happening...
- If there's an Elsendor anywhere, it's probably me.
History of "Elsendor"
[edit]As in the username.
I've been [trying] to write stories since I was ten or eleven. When I was twelve I wrote three chapters of a Lord of the Rings fanfiction starring Glorfindel, out of an attempt to resist the typical Legolas/Aragorn/Arwen/Faramir/Eowyn leads that seemed to permeate Lord of the Rings fanfiction. Anyways... the name Elsendor originated as the name of Glorfindel's sword (that glinted in the sunlight).
When I was fourteen the name surfaced again, this time as the name of a twelve-year-old elven prince enslaved by his enemies... some very cliche writing, but there was that name again. The same year I used the name for the first time as a screenname... frankly I've forgotten where I first used it. But Elsendor (or alternatively Elsendor14 or ElsendorSilverpen) has now found its way through councilofelrond.com, inheritanceforums.com, shurtugal.com, wikipedia, narniaweb.com, numerous email addresses, a few school accounts, gaiaonline.com, maplestory, and dozens of others I can't recall off the top of my head. It's become a bit of an obsession.
Favorites
[edit]Favorite Music
[edit]Artists
- Switchfoot
- Tenth Avenue North
- Stellar Kart
- Relient K
- I'm sure I'm missing something right now...
Instrumental
- Lord of the Rings soundtracks
- Chronicles of Narnia soundtracks
- Pirates of the Caribbean soundtracks
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron soundtrack <3
Favorite Movies
[edit]- The Lord of the Rings
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Fireproof
- Tuck Everlasting
- Winnie the Pooh: Pooh's Grand Adventure <--bite me. :)
Favorite Books
[edit]last but not least, because the list is so long
J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Silmarillion
- The Hobbit
- The History of Middle Earth
- The Book of Lost Tales
Francine Rivers
- The Mark of the Lion trilogy
Donita K. Paul
- Dragonspell
Madeleine L'Engle
- A Wrinkle in Time series
Eoin Colfer
- Artemis Fowl
Christopher Paolini
- Inheritance cycle
Tamora Pierce
- The Song of the Lioness quartet
- The Immortals quartet
- Protector of the Small quartet
- The Circle of Magic quartet
- The Circle Opens quartet
- The Will of the Empress
- Trickster series
Marguerite Henry
- Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West
- San Domingo
- King of the Wind
- Black Gold
Diana Walker
- The Year of the Horse
Baroness Orczy
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Letter
Thomas Paine
- Common Sense <--believe it or not
Shakespeare
- The Merchant of Venice <--the ONLY Shakespeare I actually liked
Cornelia Funke
- The Thief Lord
Not by author...
- Write Great Fiction: Plot and Structure -- James Scott Bell
- Write Great Fiction: Dialogue -- Gloria Kempton
- Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint -- Nancy Kress
For the beautiful writing and story, but alas, so opposite to my own views: Philip Pullman
- His Dark Materials trilogy