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Thanks, dear. One of these days I'll catch up. I've been away so much this fall and December. Oi! I just finished baking my last cookies in a very truncated baking list. Got my cards out WED. Shocking. Cleaned house. Company have arrived. I think I've made it under the wire!!!
Happy Holidays, Mechtild. Thank you for all the wonderfulness you have shared throughout the year. It really helps to keep the fandom alive, and I do so appreciate it. *hug*
He made marvelous illustrated letters for his children for years, Verangel. Yes, that was a fertile, fire-up imagination the man had, and varied ways of expressing it. Lucky us! I didn't know the extent of it until I got a Tolkien Christmas book a couple of years ago.
Here are links to posts I did last Christmas and the Christmas before about Tolkien's Christmas letters, which have some brief extracts and copies of selected fave illustrations....
2009: http://mechtild.livejournal.com/112428.html
2010: http://mechtild.livejournal.com/121307.html
Have a lovely holiday, Verangel!
Here are links to posts I did last Christmas and the Christmas before about Tolkien's Christmas letters, which have some brief extracts and copies of selected fave illustrations....
2009: http://mechtild.livejournal.com/112428.html
2010: http://mechtild.livejournal.com/121307.html
Have a lovely holiday, Verangel!
Have a BEAUTIFUL Christmastide, Pearl. Earlier today while I was prepping the Big Dinner (the big dinner and present-giving at our house, when every year we have my husband's family over -- of Finnish-Swedish background, is on Christmas Eve, not Christmas day, the way it was at our house as a child), I was listening to some English church's version of the nine lessons and carols. At one point a woman's voice perked up my ears. She was reading a lesson and sounded a lot like you, now that I've heard you. I ran to the radio and listened more closely but it wasn't you. Pretty exciting for a minute, though!
How I love your Luthien icon. I know I've asked you before, but who made it? I'd like to ask if I can copy and use it. It's so beautiful. I love that photo of Edith. I'll bet Ronald did too. :)
How I love your Luthien icon. I know I've asked you before, but who made it? I'd like to ask if I can copy and use it. It's so beautiful. I love that photo of Edith. I'll bet Ronald did too. :)
Ha, no, that wasn't me, I've never been on the radio. :)
The person who made the Edith/Luthien icon is a Finnish poster called nerwende - her LJ site is swanboat_icons. She's not very active now but back in the day she made hundreds of exquisite LotR-related icons. She's also a Snape fan! I have quite a few by her. Click on my user profile, go to user pics and you will see the full list of my icons with each icon-maker credited in the link to their LJ. It's always polite to ask someone's permission but Nerwende, like many icon-makers, puts up her icons for use by anyone, on the condition that she is credited. I always provide the link to the icon-maker's LJ.
'Never to return' is another one by her, based on John Howe's painting of the Ring-bearers' ship leaving the circles of the world. The image and the caption fill me with melancholy.
I find that photo of Edith remarkably moving. She looks so young and pretty and fresh. Forever young, she is immortalised in that timeless picture and the beautiful Elvish name her husband graced her with.
The person who made the Edith/Luthien icon is a Finnish poster called nerwende - her LJ site is swanboat_icons. She's not very active now but back in the day she made hundreds of exquisite LotR-related icons. She's also a Snape fan! I have quite a few by her. Click on my user profile, go to user pics and you will see the full list of my icons with each icon-maker credited in the link to their LJ. It's always polite to ask someone's permission but Nerwende, like many icon-makers, puts up her icons for use by anyone, on the condition that she is credited. I always provide the link to the icon-maker's LJ.
'Never to return' is another one by her, based on John Howe's painting of the Ring-bearers' ship leaving the circles of the world. The image and the caption fill me with melancholy.
I find that photo of Edith remarkably moving. She looks so young and pretty and fresh. Forever young, she is immortalised in that timeless picture and the beautiful Elvish name her husband graced her with.
