Tolkien Weekly - Questions

[kayleearafinwiel]

So the tolkien_weekly comm doesn't seem to be over here at DW, or maybe I'm just no good at finding it. But I peeked over at LJ, and found out that I'd nearly missed the latest batch of prompts for the most recent challenge, which began on my birthday, May 29. I'd already completed the prompt "Who?" a while back when Emma gave it to me - I'm pondering what to do with the others. (Thank you to Linda Hoyland for the three new prompts, pondering them now!)

May 29 - Who? (Aragorn ponders the Three Hunters' strange observer)

Who was he who walked, cloaked in white, under the trees before them? Gimli the Dwarf believes him to be Saruman, which makes sense, Aragorn supposes. Saruman is the White, after all, and dwells not so far from Fangorn. Legolas eyes the White Wizard with suspicion, and Aragorn is on guard.

Who then? Not Saruman – or rather, he is Saruman as he should have been. Indeed, he is the White – but he is Gandalf, called Stormcrow, Ill-news, in Rohan. Gandalf renewed, Gandalf the White! Together with Gandalf, the Three Hunters find Isengard – and the Hobbits. Saruman, your staff is broken!


June 5 - What?

June 13 - Why? (Young Aragorn/ Estel asking why he is different from those around him.)

June 19 - Where? (Faramir and Eowyn debate where to hold their wedding.)

June 27 - When? (Arwen and Aragorn wonder when they might wed.)

July 12 - Which?

Comments

[shirebound]

I like that. :)

[kayleearafinwiel]

Thanks, Shirebound! Any ideas you'd like me to try for the others? :)

[hhimring]

I think it might be possible to make a RSS feed from Tolkien Weekly to Dreamwidth and subscribe to it.
I'm not really sure how, but apparently on DW you don't need a paid account to do it.

[kayleearafinwiel]

Oh ok! Well, that would be good, if anyone does know how to do it :) I'm also trying to figure out how to do the equivalent of an lj-cut on my DW journal. Or any formatting for that matter...

[hhimring]

The instructions for the feed are here and it's not supposed to be difficult, I just haven't tried them yet:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=27

Looks as if you've figured out how to do a cut in the meantime?

[kayleearafinwiel]

Thank you! I'll try that out. Yes, finally figured out the cut (and the modification of text)!

[kayleearafinwiel]

Huh. Didn't work (the feed) :( Oh well.

[lindahoyland]

You are most welcome. Do you only post here or on LJ too?

[kayleearafinwiel]

I'll be crossposting to LJ, but I think I'll base myself here. To be honest, I hadn't used LJ much lately except for B2MEM and other group things, because "kayleelupin" just didn't feel like me anymore, and I didn't know how to fix it. Now with the announcements about LJ's new rules, I'd feel safer keeping away from it except indirectly. I noticed I couldn't find a DW for the LOTR Community challenges, so until and unless we get one for that, I'll still have one reason to use LJ.

[lindahoyland]

I'm still on LJ as I don't think I post anything to upset their rules, but I back up here every couple of weeks or so.

[kayleearafinwiel]

*nodnod* I don't think I do anything to upset their rules either, but I just don't feel comfortable with their new rules on general principle. Anyway, I'm excited to get into writing challenges more :) I'll be keeping an eye on tolkien_weekly since it doesn't seem to have an equivalent DW, for one, so there is that, too.