User:Elsendor

Elsendor on Wiki
I'm very new to the wikipedia subculture, if I may call it that. :) I've been involved in (and obsessed with) roleplay games for five years now, and I'm thrilled to have discovered the WikiProject on that very subject.  Hopefully I'll find a way to get involved.  I have a lot to learn, though, about the coding and the whole system of Wiki...

In a Nutshell

 * I've been LotR-obsessed for as far back as I can vividly remember.
 * I'm an avid, and rather vocal Switchfoot fan
 * I love horses (my current roleplaying environment is a very horsey one)
 * I call myself an aspiring writer...though at this point it's not happening...
 * If there's an Elsendor anywhere, it's probably me.

History of "Elsendor"
As in the username.

I've been [trying] to write stories since I was ten or eleven. When I was twelve I wrote three chapters of a Lord of the Rings fanfiction starring Glorfindel, out of an attempt to resist the typical Legolas/Aragorn/Arwen/Faramir/Eowyn leads that seemed to permeate Lord of the Rings fanfiction. Anyways... the name Elsendor originated as the name of Glorfindel's sword (that glinted in the sunlight).

When I was fourteen the name surfaced again, this time as the name of a twelve-year-old elven prince enslaved by his enemies... some very cliche writing, but there was that name again. The same year I used the name for the first time as a screenname... frankly I've forgotten where I first used it. But Elsendor (or alternatively Elsendor14 or ElsendorSilverpen) has now found its way through councilofelrond.com, inheritanceforums.com, shurtugal.com, wikipedia, narniaweb.com, numerous email addresses, a few school accounts, gaiaonline.com, maplestory, and dozens of others I can't recall off the top of my head. It's become a bit of an obsession.

Favorite Music
Artists Instrumental
 * Switchfoot
 * Tenth Avenue North
 * Stellar Kart
 * Relient K
 * I'm sure I'm missing something right now...
 * Lord of the Rings soundtracks
 * Chronicles of Narnia soundtracks
 * ''Pirates of the Caribbean soundtracks
 * Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron soundtrack <3

Favorite Movies

 * The Lord of the Rings
 * Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
 * The Chronicles of Narnia
 * Fireproof
 * Tuck Everlasting
 * Winnie the Pooh: Pooh's Grand Adventure <--bite me. :)

Favorite Books
last but not least, because the list is so long J.R.R. Tolkien Francine Rivers Donita K. Paul Madeleine L'Engle Eoin Colfer Christopher Paolini Tamora Pierce Marguerite Henry Diana Walker Baroness Orczy Nathaniel Hawthorne Thomas Paine Shakespeare Cornelia Funke
 * The Lord of the Rings
 * The Silmarillion
 * The Hobbit
 * The History of Middle Earth
 * The Book of Lost Tales
 * The Mark of the Lion trilogy
 * Dragonspell
 * A Wrinkle in Time series
 * Artemis Fowl
 * Inheritance cycle
 * The Song of the Lioness quartet
 * The Immortals quartet
 * Protector of the Small quartet
 * The Circle of Magic quartet
 * The Circle Opens quartet
 * The Will of the Empress
 * Trickster series
 * Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West
 * San Domingo
 * King of the Wind
 * Black Gold
 * The Year of the Horse
 * The Scarlet Pimpernel
 * The Scarlet Letter
 * Common Sense <--believe it or not
 * The Merchant of Venice <--the ONLY Shakespeare I actually liked
 * The Thief Lord

Not by author...
 * Write Great Fiction: Plot and Structure -- James Scott Bell
 * Write Great Fiction: Dialogue -- Gloria Kempton
 * Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint -- Nancy Kress

For the beautiful writing and story, but alas, so opposite to my own views: Philip Pullman
 * His Dark Materials trilogy