(A.K.A. Tel, TR)

Impossibility Arises Here's a website where I've posted all the media/information concerning my stories (just the crossovers, for now). I'll make announcements, post trailers, interest polls, and anything that's related to the crossovers on this site. It helps me to be a bit more organized about all the other things which are not the actual stories themselves. I hope you enjoy it.

NB: From now on, the entire Chance Encounter series will be posted in the Lord of the Rings crossover section, so no, they haven't disappeared.

Surreality-A Writer's Life If you're interested, check out my blog. I try to post here every day. Warning: it's random. I also post things about writing, such as tips, advice, guidelines. They'll be in my other blog as well. (see below)

More Like Guidelines Than Actual Rules I've set up an advice/critique thing here dealing with fanfiction which is related to Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, and/or Ned Kelly.

I'll be posting information related to said movies/books and advice on grammar, and also links to other sites which are good. Feel free to drop in for a chat. Updated (15 August 08): Fanfiction--Responding to non-complimentary reviews; General suggestions for writers.

Refia's MST and Parody Paradise Due to the fact that MST's and parodies have been banned on Lord of the Rings fanfiction, many of us have come to this forum to post MSTs and parodies, as well as other things. Let's just say it's a statement for the freedom of speech. People have the right to write bad fiction. People also have the right to mock bad fiction, the writers who write them and are unwilling to take advice of any sort.

Favourite Books:

Lord of the Rings

'Salem's Lot

The Taking

anything by Sarah Rayne

I've found I enjoy some chick-lit at the moment.

Favourite Movies: (Not in any order)

Lord of the Rings

Pirates of the Caribbean (esp. Dead Man's Chest)

Troy

Kingdom of Heaven

Australia

Favourite Actors:

Orlando Bloom

Hugh Jackman

Keira Knightley

Anne Hathaway

Eric Bana

Three Greatest Directors (my opinion-- and they're not in any order)

Sir Ridley Scott

Peter Jackson

Steven Spielberg

Favourite Music:

Two Steps from Hell

The Immediate

Pirates of the Caribbean soundtracks

King Arthur soundtrack

...various other film soundtracks

Hugh Jackman's singing swoons

I'm a young woman who loves to dream. I tend to write crazy crossovers between unlikely fandoms, which is why I will probably never write a Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings crossover because it's kind of standard; they're both fantasy. I also like to ogle my eye candy so that will influence my selection of stories to cross-over. ;) Mary Sues are the bane of my existence. I despise it when I accidentally write one, which, thankfully, is becoming less frequent these days, and I also despise reading them. I'm obsessed with the Crusades; if you get me started on Crusader family trees, I won't shut up. I'm like a hobbit with those. Actually, I think there is quite a bit of hobbit in me. Mostly I hang out in the LotR fandom but I will occasionally venture into others such as KoH or X-Men.

Here's just a couple of good quotes:

-'Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood' --Louise Beal

-'Many argue global-warming is man-made, and it looks like they found the man' --Dick Cheney on Al Gore's power bills.

-'It's a key!'

'Much more better: it is a drawing of a key' --Marty and Capt. Jack Sparrow in PotC:DMC

-'We fight, over an offence that we did not give, against those who were not alive to be offended. What is Jerusalem? Your holy places lie over the Jewish temple that the Romans pulled down. The Muslim places of worship lie over yours. Which is more holy? The Wall? The Mosque? The Sepulchre? Who has claim. No one has claim. All have claim! We defend this city, not to protect these stones but the people living within these walls!' --Balian of Ibelin in Kingdom of Heaven

I am Palestine

I am Palestine.

I duck as rocks fly at me,

thrown by those who scorn me.

Some say I should not exist

just because I follow the crescent

instead of the cross.

I am Palestine.

I hold my child to my bosom.

Blood pours from his wounds.

I cry out for help, but no one heeds me

for I follow the crescent

instead of the cross.

I am Palestine.

My hands are bound behind my back.

The coarse rope cuts into my wrists.

They jeer at me and spit at me

because I follow the crescent

instead of the cross.

I am Palestine.

Where are my mother and father?

I am lost and frightened.

I just want to be safe.

I call out for them, but my cries

are lost in the din of war.

I am Palestine.

I live in exile in the desert.

Walls of tanks prevent my return.

No one takes me in,

or even gives me water.

My pleas for help go unheeded.

I am Palestine.

My patience has reached its end.

I will not cower like a beaten dog

when they throw sticks and stones at me.

I can fight back too;

I have my own sticks and stones.

Let them know they cannot tread all over me

For my father was Ismail, the son of Abraham, a father of kings.

I have been here since the beginning,

And I will remain until the end.

~A poem for the Palestinian people by Telcontar Rulz