Research

[incandescens]

After a rather tiring day at work, I'm looking up material on the Scholomance, on famous witches, on alchemy, and on other fun things. Hm. I need ten students. I need ten personalities. I need ten flaws. Okay, so I kill one off pretty quickly, but even so.

Other than that . . . well, a quiet evening, on the whole.

Now up to three chunks of my Come Into My Parlour fanfic on my fanfic page. A slight halt is necessary, though, while I try to work out what happens next.

Okay, one of my favourite quotes, which I _bitterly_ regret them cutting out of Fellowship of the Ring, and which I hope may be in the extra 30 minutes in the version due out in November. But I'm not holding my breath.

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I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.
"I liked white better," I said.
"White!" he sneered. "It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken."
"In which case it is no longer white," said I. "And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
(Gandalf and Saruman, _The Fellowship Of The Ring_, JRR Tolkien)

Comments

[diony.livejournal.com]

Oh I also love that quote! And was very sad to find it gone from the movie, but they also didn't do anything with Saruman's robes, so I'm wondering if it'll show up in Two Towers.

[zamiel.livejournal.com]

You know, I always felt that Gandalf was being really hypocritical here, given soon after he goes from being the Grey to the White. I mean, he puts down the idea of change as exploration, then undergoes purgation and signifies it by an external change. Quite the arrogant prick, there.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Hm. I don't see him putting down *change* as a means of exploration, but destruction.

But each their own.

I love the quote, too.

Hee about the nine plus 'one killed quickly'...

An element of that... when I saw Windtalkers, it was, pretty clearly, an attrition plot, and what intrigued me about it is that the 'obvious one' didn't get whacked first. The obnoxious, racist, red-neck got wise after all the dying. I liked that twist...

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

But the obnoxious racist red-neck has to live so that he can wise up and we can feel all morally superior for not needing the lesson! If he died, we might actually feel bad for him, and that would confuse things.

...but, anyway. I like that quote as well. And now I have student flaws flitting through my head, darnit.

[incandescens]

Hm. As usual, you have given me more to think about . . . Thanks. :)