I am the Kat that Walks By Itself

The theme for this quarter's M.A.I.L. contest was "Storytelling", which I would not have entered (as per my New Year's Resolution) if I hadn't already had an idea for a "storytelling" necklace which I'd intended to make out of wirework, but realized it would actually work better as maille. So it was just an opportunity to do something I already wanted to do, so it doesn't count in the "no voluntary deadlines" thing. Particularly since I kept on telling myself that if I didn't finish it, so what? But I did finish it, and today I photographed it, and posted my entry to the forum.

The Nine Walkers


Rather than repeat myself, here's a link to my entry post. Hopefully that explains the design...

Of course, I'm now at the stage where I hate it and think it is awful, but I entered it anyway.

I don't have an icon of Bilbo, so Frodo will have to do.

Twelve people, we saw it: me, two brothers, two sisters-in-law, three nieces, three nephews, and a girlfriend.

Very visual and action-packed, it was. But I could understand why Jackson put in so many (extra) action scenes - because they looked cool. And extra characters. And known characters that logically would have been behind the scenes got scenes... such as Thranduil and Legolas.

I had no idea that Eldest Niece was so into Orlando Bloom/Legolas. You learn something new every day...

Let's see, here's a bit of a who's-who: Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellan(*), Sylvester McCoy, Martin Freeman (he really was so very good as Bilbo), and unexpected Stephen Fry.

Oh, and apparently Benedict Cumberbatch was the voice of Smaug. I hadn't realized that. Obviously I've been avoiding the discussions... though I do now vaguely remember someone mentioning that he was Smaug. Anyway, Smaug was very well done too. The whole scene between Bilbo and Smaug... yes.

There was an argument discussion in the parking lot afterwards about the supremeness (or not) of Legolas, in which it had to be pointed out that Kili was definitely the cutest dwarf.

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(*) We'd had an interesting incident yesterday where we started watching the Anthony Andrews version of The Scarlet Pimpernel, and then when Chauvelin turned up, we were all saying My Goodness, it's Ian McKellan! Looking so young and sexy! Didn't help that he was handsomer than the hero, and Eldest Niece found it rather disturbing that the only character she found attractive was the villain... and that it was Gandalf, too.

So we stopped the tape and watched the Richard E Grant version instead. I'd forgotten how much better that version was; more subtle and more witty.

Title: Summonus Interruptus
Author: Kathryn Andersen
Universe: Buffy/Lord of the Rings
Category: Crossover, Challenge
Size: 100w
Date: 2009-03-11
Elsewhere: http://community.livejournal.com/tthdrabbles/223151.html
Summary: There's more than one way to fight evil.

http://www.katspace.org/Fiction/Stories/KathrynAndersen/SummonusInterruptus