emma_in_dream

I recently read - and have lost - a fic where Gimli takes Legolas to Erebor after the quest. He takes him into this room which is set up with vacuum doors so no one can hear what is said in there - Dwarves go there to give true names to babies and to exchange names with their loved ones. By the grace of Mahal, Legolas is given a name and they are able to complete the Dwarven marriage ceremony.

I would really love to read it again!

This is my 2000th post on LJ. I feel I should have something profound to say to the few people left in this once bustling room….


What I’ve got are some dot points:


· Four more years of Tony Abbott. That vile, racist, climate change denying, misogynist, religious zealot. And probably more than four years as Labor appear to have learned nothing about either policy or leadership and seem to be continuing with their policy of shooting themselves in both feet alternately.
Abbott has announced his cabinet which consists of…. drum roll… nineteen men and a token woman, all looking quite white. Plus he has decided that for the first time since the 1930s there is no need for a Minister for Science. If he had one of those he might have to listen to people talking about global warming.
· Pearl hads an edudance concert on Wednesday. She did the Stray Cat Strut.
· Ruby has her paediatric review next month and I believe the doctor will be astonished that a girl who was not walking in March is now very nearly running. It’s certainly a very quick walk, but I believe that technically both feet must leave the ground at the same time for it to be a running gait? Is that why elephants can’t ‘run’ but merely charge?
· I love Ruby’s excellent vocabulary. She told me she was ‘astonished’ that I would not carry her and ‘baffled’ about why her sister would sit on the chair which Ruby usually claims.
· Pearl wrote the following sentence: ‘Today I am happy becos I see [Danielle].’ She had drawn a picture of two little girls together when she got to the hard to spell out ‘Danielle’ part.
· On the less bright side, Pearl continues to find it very hard to not scream and shout over the tiniest thing going wrong. I experimented with a system of rewards but had to stop because Pearl did not get a single reward in the space of a week, whereas Ruby got them almost every day. More often than me in fact. I think a lot has to do with innate temperament.
· *Crusoe* is still fabulous.
· I have been rewatching the *Back to the Future* trilogy in which 2015 is the unimaginably distant future.
· I have been doing a lot of craft.
· My children have been sleeping *incredibly badly*.