He's basically Lord Peter, only an art thief. And this is sexy like whoa. Trust me.

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So my mom skipped to the last tape of Night Train to Memphis to try to just get the ending (she always does this with paper books, when she doesn't, like, outright read them backwards) and so didn't really get a good idea of what went on and still thinks John is creepy, having apparently missed all the bits that showed him to excellent advantage. *sighs* At least she apparently didn't notice me visibly swooning over absolutely everything he did in what we did listen to.

I dunno where I got my (probably lamentable) taste in fictional men, but it evidently wasn't from her. Although I believe she is guilty of sharing my giant plebey hopeless crush on Fox Mulder.

We went shopping this evening for the sort of things one might want to take to Scotland with one, so now I have all sorts of nifty toiletries and other items. Including new red shoes. Yay.

... Cannot believe I'm leaving on Saturday. Eeep.

Am backing up everything on my computer lest something terrible have it. It is taking forever and making everything slooooooooow. But better than my dying a thousand deaths should anything happen to my preciousssss.

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[supertigerbabe.livejournal.com]

I have a hopeless crush on Aragorn, who I always had a nagging feeling SHOULD IN FACT be with Eowyn... (but I think that's because I rode horses all my life and thought of myself as the kind of girl who would have slain the dragons like Aerin in "The Hero and the Crown." I always felt Arwyn won fair and square, but Eowyn was definitely the more heroic of the two.) As a child I used to want to marry Aragorn. Haha... still do...

I also have a serious thing for Jason Bourne. Pre-Matt Damon, although he certainly didn't hurt things any...

And yeah, Mulder's great too. So you and your mom aren't alone.

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Pretty sure I read somewhere that Tolkien did intend at first for Aragorn to get together with Éowyn. Then he came up with the idea of Aragorn and Arwen as a parallel of Beren and Lúthien, the other big elf-human marriage in Middle Earth history where the elf gives up her immortality, which Tolkien also considered parallel to his marriage to his childhood crush whom he'd been forbidden to marry. (Incidentally, all the descriptions I've ever read of their marriage sound totally creepy to me. She wasn't interested in anything he did, or vice versa. They had totally separate friends who did not mix. Gives me the shivers, it does.)

And then he thought Arwen's entire backstory was getting out of hand and he dumped it unceremoniously in the appendices, which just goes to show why Tolkien did not have much of a future in writing romance novels. Yeah, we readers sure don't want to know about this Aragorn guy's love life at all. No sir, can't imagine that that would interest anyone ... ;) At least Éowyn and Faramir get their sweet moments together.

Aaaaand I'm a dork. :D

[supertigerbabe.livejournal.com]

Haha... no, I'm the dork! I'm the one overidentifying with Eowyn, and when you said, "Tolkien did intend at first for Aragorn to get together with Éowyn" I got all giddy like a teenage girl.

I also agree: J.R.R. Tolkien creates the perfect man and then leaves us all hanging... *sigh* At least that way the dorks among us can still dream... ;]