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I've been a little pushed myself, but I have so much painting to do that if I don't keep at it I shall be on a grey ship sailing west before I ever finish!

Don´t haste too much (as our "lost" tree would say) my friend Thingol. Remember:
Only the good die young- ups this is a song by Billy Joel-
want to say:  good things take their time . . .

Huuooommmhuommm ... I wasn't lost, Master Rita.de ... huomm not at all ... rhuoomm .. just spent some time relaxing outside the Pony ... rhuoommm ... there are so many Mithril things to be done at the moment ... rhuoommm ... so I'm busy with all that ... but all of that is improving ... rhuommm ... hommm ... improving well, I should rather say ... huoomm ... but there are things or matters you really cannot haste ... hoommrhuoomm ... not at all ... hoom

OriginalAragorn wrote:

I hope you have a great time painting Gavin!  You're right - it can be very therapeutic..

If you don't mind sharing, what sort of novel are you writing?  Have you already written other novels or stories before this?

George

Well, I wrote this fellow:

http://shop.ironcrown.com/index.php?mai … 69f2224d9d

And hell, there's also this fellow:
http://www.harphq.com/SneakPeek/4300_Cy … iction.htm

Which amusingly, has absolutely sweet sod all to do with Cyradon, but who cares.

And a bunch of material for White Wolf involving vampires and things.

I figured writing fiction would be easier than writing game materials, which it may well be, save for one major difference: With game materials, you write 20,000 words, send it off, get it edited, get paid and then you forget about it. Nothing so direct this way. And life went in an entirely different direction after 2005, so the trick now is to get back to its "proper" direction.

And, amusingly...

I haven't painted anything yet. I might right now, but we shall see

Gavin

Writing fiction is great fun, even if you never bother to try to get it published. It energises the soul!

Writing factual stuff, on the other hand, is way less entertaining, and severely restricted by the need to conform with established facts. Oh, and it also brings all the critics-who-know-better-but-have-never-got-anything-published-themselves crawling out from under their stones (whence the old adage "those who can't do, review").

But like Master Gavin, I've become sidetracked from writing anything for quite a while - funnily enough, by painting LOTR figures, which now seems to take up 90% of my free time! So to keep the brainbox exercised, I edit books instead of writing them - which is a bit like washing someone else's scrappy old Ford Escort instead of driving round in your own BMW.

What a depressing thought...now I think I need a drink. The sun must be over the yardarm somewhere in Middle-earth.

Painting actually helps me write. It sort of scrubs the brain of any excess stress and so on. It's just that painting miniatures and writing need time and its getting harder to come by. There has just been too much going on.

And there's two "t"s in Bennett and all the damn Gryphons speak Persian damnit.

Everyone clear?!?!

*looks around, realises he's ranting and quietly sits back down and mumbles about more ale."

Huoommmm ... a day's work has been done, spreading more leaves on the ground outside ... hanging up pictures in the gallery ... rhuomm ... time for a nice bowl of that watery liquid ... hom ... writing and reading, alas I do prefer reading .... huoommm .... though I always wonder what these booky-things are made of ...

Huooommmrhuoommm ... I just thought it would be better to leave the leaves outside your premises, Master Barliman ... sorry ... huoommm ...

And the new newsletter is out and the Christmas bonus figure is:

Broggha the Hillman chieftain.

This Broggha, the Hillman chieftain, one assumes:
http://www.theonering.com/articles1-191 … APTERSEVEN

(Must bookmark this page, there seems to be usefulness here)

Last edited by Gavin (Fri, Oct23 2009 3:02pm)

He is almost certainly a MERP creation. But I need to double check this - he's a MERP naming of an actual character in the Legendarium.

So...a bit of both.

But we must remember where Mithril came from: MERP

Gavin

well maybe MERP yes, I saw occurences of him in the Rhudaur tales but this tale is "non canon"... anyway this is not a mithril invention.... but well

even if it is MERP... I find it odd to put a MERP fig for Xmas... unless there is another explanation... if it is not covered by Tolkien Enterprise licence and is thus free of copyright that would allow mithril to be able to sell it in time for christmas (without having to submit it to Tolkien Enterprise...)