User:Elsendor

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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.

Favorites

Favorite Music

Artists

• Switchfoot
• Tenth Avenue North
• Stellar Kart
• Relient K
• I'm sure I'm missing something right now...

Instrumental

• 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

• The Lord of the Rings
• The Silmarillion
• The Hobbit
• The History of Middle Earth
• The Book of Lost Tales

Francine Rivers

• The Mark of the Lion trilogy

Donita K. Paul

• Dragonspell

Madeleine L'Engle

• A Wrinkle in Time series

Eoin Colfer

• Artemis Fowl

Christopher Paolini

• Inheritance cycle

Tamora Pierce

• 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

Marguerite Henry

• Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West
• San Domingo
• King of the Wind
• Black Gold

Diana Walker

• The Year of the Horse

Baroness Orczy

• The Scarlet Pimpernel

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Scarlet Letter

Thomas Paine

• Common Sense <--believe it or not

Shakespeare

• The Merchant of Venice <--the ONLY Shakespeare I actually liked

Cornelia Funke

• 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