My hero! Huzzah!
Glorfindel
drawn Nov 1, ’03
posted for Dec 24, 2006
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Glorfindel, my hero! I was really happy with this picture when I drew it, and I’m really happy with it still. I adore the passage where Tolkien describes him:
“Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold; his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength.”
It’s so inspiring. Tolkien really liked Glorfindel, I think. I’m glad he didn’t show up in the movie, because he wouldn’t have been good. Actually, he was in the movie, but without speaking lines. He was some tall, white-haired guy with a milky, pasty face and he looked really wierd. I don’t look at that guy ever, since he’s all wrong. Legolas would have been perfect, but then he was perfect as Legolas, too, so I suppose Legolas is more important to the story so that’s okay. I just imagine the same person, tiny bit taller, a bit glowy with some sort of divine light, lachend eyes, and different clothes.
Christmas Eve is good. We now have a suitable store of cookies, which won’t last past midnight, I predict, but we can eat lots today and maybe we’ll get chocolate tomorrow. We have tons of presents, including one labelled merely: “Book”. That one’s hilarious. We also practiced the choir music we got yesterday, so we should be able to sing tonight without messing up. I played half a level of my brother’s version of Dungeons and Dragons, until we decided just to stop the battle part and get the storyline of that dungeon in time for supper.
I also failed to compose more than two and half lines of music yesterday, since I couldn’t get a dumb song out my head (Santa, oh, Santa, I’m waiting oh so patiently for you oh Santa… … … I’ve felt all my presents and only opened three) and also because I couldn’t remember the viola line I thought up many months ago. Fortunately, I remembered it today, right in the middle of church, so I kept humming it in my head so I wouldn’t forget it, and had such incredible inspiration that I sat down and didn’t stop writing this afternoon until it was all done. This doesn’t count short breaks for lunch and stuff. One thing about that theme that appears in the viola is that I originally thought it in a much slower tempo, so I had to change the rhythm a little bit to make it fit. It should sound good. Yay. Merry Christmas, Thomas, Ben, Anthony. I’ll send it to you tomorrow.
I’m happy again. ^_^7
Expect an update even tomorrow!
