Saybaar is mostly harmless. Please don't hurt her.
Things with which I am obsessed.
- The Lord Of The Rings
- The Silmarillion
- Harry Potter
- The Chronicles Of Narnia
- Doctor Who
- Ancient Rome
Interesting and useful Tropes.
- Five-Man Band
- Command Roster
- The Hero's Journey
- Structural Archetypes
- The Seven Basic Plots
- Fantastic Racism
- Interplay of Sex and Violence
- Our Orcs Are Different
- Mooks
- Shapeshifting (both varieties)
- Ordinary High-School Student
- The Grim Reaper
- So What Do We Do Now?
- Stranger in a Familiar Land
- Trapped in Another World
- Our Angels Are Different
- Vast Conspiracy
- Dark and Troubled Past
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
- What Is Evil?
YMMV stuff.
- The last scenes in The Return of the King movie. I even have to skip "Journey to the Grey Havens" and "Into the West" on the soundtrack because they make me so emotional. Nothing else in any work of fiction has actually made me tear up as consistently and strongly as this.
- Anything at all involving Cold-Blooded Torture. I watch The Lord Of The Rings a lot. Shelob? Fine. The Dead Marshes? Fine (though not to my friends). Orcs? Fascinating and kind of cool, actually. The Balrog? Wheeee fire! The approximately ten seconds total of Gollum being tortured? Can't watch.
- Anything at all involving permanent loss of identity. Doctor Who is a primary offender. The concept of regeneration is vaguely freaky enough, but then the Tenth Doctor had to go and verbalize everything that's so terrifying about it..."I don't wanna go." -shudder-
- Everything about the Lord of the Rings score. Especially the track "The Crack of Doom". I'm also in love with the Isengard theme.
- The Vienna Horns' rendition of the overture to Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves.
- Blind Guardian in general and Nightfall In Middle Earth in particular, mostly because it seems to capture the story's emotion and voices so well. Feanor and Morgoth and the rest could truly be singing it.
