altariel | By any other name

Thanks to the munificence of

trixieleitz, you will notice that 'the annoying 1' has now gone from my user name, and I'm now finally, properly

altariel. You shouldn't notice any difference at all at your end.

Who is Altariel? Altariel is the Quenya name for Galadriel, Tolkien's best female character. It means something about golden hair. My hair is more silver these days, nor am I stronger than the foundations of the earth (not every day, anyway), but (despite what the fanfic suggests) Galadriel was always my favourite character in Tolkien. She hung out with angels and was the boss of the White Council (the Good Guys' think tank and strategy-making body). She knew that apparent defeats can be transformed into great victories, if you play a long enough game. Also she understood that some victories are not worth the scorched earth that they would take. Wise woman.

Tolkien couldn't stop turning her into the BVM, but in my head she is more Jadis (without all the bad press Lewis gave her).

Plus - magic mirror!

Altariel is also the name under which I commit Tolkien fanfiction.

Thank you,

trixieleitz!

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Do you think it would be really unforgivably rude to write to

kalypso, who said in her last entry in April 2003 that "I never come here anymore, I should delete the account" that maybe she should get on with it?

I can't remember now whether the original Altariel deleted her journal, or whether it passed some time threshold and got deleted for her. (I think it might be the former.) It might backfire and remind

kalypso that her journal exists...

Well, I wouldn't have lost anything. But the snag is that there's a completely different kalypso on GJ, who is even less active (no entries, no comments, no friends), though I'm not really in a position to complain about that (my corresponding stats being 1, 5, 12).

Anyway, it's a good thing Mr A didn't go for

mraltariel1!

And of course there's not another

mraltariel out there!

That's lucky, assuming you didn't fancy a bit of polyandry!

Nothing could compare :-)

I've got this vision, now, of aspirants to the hand of

altariel lining up at a table bearing amazing gourmet dishes under those domed thingies for her to sample.

Don't forget my obsidian throne.

Does this mean Garak's on hand as your food-taster?

Who would dare poison me?

As I recall, she deleted, but the username didn't become available until LJ did one of their infrequent purges of deleted accounts some time later.

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