Recent content by Ireth

Terry Pratchett has some books that may inspire you too. "Lords and Ladies" especially.

Welcome here!

Back after a loooooong hiatus!

I'm 30 today and I am not ready. :O

| You are not prepared. "Mark Reads" is my go-to for listening to stories. He's reading every one for the first time, so it turns out as half-reading aloud, half commentary, with each chapter/section having a typed up review as well.

I'm trying to pick up a few ideas from Pratchett, particularly I Shall Wear Midnight, which is definitely one of his darker works. I could, tho I don't recall a lot of humor (if any) in the Silmarillion as opposed to The Hobbit and LOTR. And I tend not to put characters into roles like that...

That seems a more fitting sentiment for if I were trying to pull humor out of the murder itself, which I'm very much not.

I'm not having the Valar joke about it, and frustrated isn't quite the right term. They're more apt to be confused by stuff. I didn't mean for the humor to become something deep, honestly, and I'm not sure how I'd pull off something like that. It kind of is their first rodeo, to steal your...

My latest WIP is a Silmarillion fanfic taking place during the decline of Numenor. It begins with Mandos meeting the soul of the first person to be sacrificed to Melkor by the cult which Sauron leads, and mainly follows two threads: 1. Mandos and his kin deciding to get their act together and...

I'm gonna be "that guy" and point out that Istari is the plural form of Istar. Doesn't make sense to have one title plural if the rest aren't. ^^

I'm very fond of Terry Pratchett's depiction of Death. He tries so hard to understand humans and just... doesn't quite get it. It's adorable.

There are, tho they're rather archaic now... "Ereyesterday" and "overmorrow".

Iä, Iä! Mickey na'ftahgn! In all seriousness tho, I agree that the live-action remakes are getting to be a bit much. You really can't improve on a classic.

It is more important in the case of the human among merfolk, as a) the story there is very time-sensitive. the characters have no time to just sit and teach each other language, as they are on a journey to find a cure for a merman who is dying of poison (which is the human's fault), and they...

My merfolk use terms like "muck-sucking bottom-feeder" as insults.