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[fajrdrako]

Questions I got from msilverstar:

1) What is the best place you have ever lived or visited and why?
Orkney. Because it had the freshest air I ever breathes, and barrows and burial mounds, and Viking ruins that realated to Earl Thorfinn, and eagles, and standing stones, and the ocean.... Because it was a magnificent place or air and water.

If I get a second choice, it's Tuscany for sheer beauty. Third choice, Durham, England.

2) Tell me the story of how you arrived at LJ in LOTR Slash Fandom. Begin at the beginning and leave nothing out!

Well, I picked up The Fellowship of the Ring at the Toronto bus station in 1968 so I'd have something to read on the bus. I fell in love. The characters, the historicity, the fantasy - and most of all with Aragorn. The rest followed naturally; I reread the book, I got the memorabilia, I listened to the records and audiotapes, I watched the cartoons, and then finally Peter Jackson made a good movie and I was enthralled.

3) Who influenced you most as a child?

I was greatly influenced by Percy Bysshe Shelley when I was about twelve, and thereafter. Besides that - my parents, A.A. Milne, my Aunt Isie, my Barron cousins.

4) What is your favorite sweet, and do you make it yourself or buy it? If you make it yourself, share the recipe!

My mother used to make a candy called "maple cream" for Christmas. It was like a hard fudge - at its best, it was slighly granular in texture. I have never been able to reproduce this recipe.

5) If you could have dinner with any three people, living or dead, what would you use for mood music?

Bizet's The Pearl Fishers. Or alternatively, The Beatles.

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[widget-alley.livejournal.com]

Well, I picked up The Fellowship of the Ring at the Toronto bus station in 1968 so I'd have something to read on the bus. I fell in love. The characters, the historicity, the fantasy - and most of all with Aragorn.

A-fucking-men. Same story here. Picked it up on the Arizona leg of our eight-week across-the-country trip out of the back of a '78 Suburban, and didn't notice much else for the next six weeks. And I always identified with and loved Aragorn far, far more than Frodo.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes. As far as I was concerned it was The Story of Aragorn. I didn't mind Frodo, especially when we lost him as a viewpoint character, but Aragorn was the interesting one.