legoline
19 August 2004 @ 11:46 am
Just when you think life is good...  
Just read that Billy Boyd has been announced as guest on RingCon 2004 ... just for your info, RinCon takes place about 2 hours from me ... and will possibly be my ONLY chance of EVER seeing him. Great. Of course, you're only allowed to take part of the signing hours when you've one of the expensive all-incl. tickets (meaning incl. hotel etc.). And even more of course, those tickets are sold out already.

Now there IS of course a small chance of seeeing him nonetheless ... but what's worse is, that I don't know ANYONE who'd go with me ... and I seriously don't want to spend 3 days all alone on my own there.

Crap. That's SHO unfair! *sniffles*
 
 
legoline
19 August 2004 @ 09:06 pm
Duh!  
I'm reading The Neverending Story right now (remember the film? 80's classic?), which is a German children's book ... sorta :o) It takes place in a magical world called 'Phantasien' (Phantasia in English maybe? ) and it's starting to get scary now... cause there is this chapter called 'The Mirkwood of Perelin' (does anyone else think Perelin sounds pretty Peregrin-ish? ). Well, funny coincidence I thought. Read on and stumbled across a dangerous dragon (the only dragon left in Phantasien) called Smärg. Is it me or does it sound like Smaug? And ... they're going to the land of cold flames called ---- MORGUL!!!! GWAH! That's no coincidence anymore, is it?

Still, Ende definitely didn't copy Tolkien... and I love The Neverending Story, it's such a great & wonderful book ... it's just I really find these name-similarities terrible funny ;o)