It´s not crossposting, but...

My daughter is hard on my heels when it comes to my activities on Livejournal. Last time she used my PC to do a paper for school ( now who wants to do a paper on a laptop wih its outrageous keyboard?) she openly complained about me using British English for Word documents. "You don´t write fanfiction, do you?" she asked. "Nope!" I lied. Not that I would do the unthinkable this often, because  I use writing fanfics for alleviation of tension, while writing books is work, tersely said, if you are a professional writer, and might lead to stress, if you have a writer´s block. Or a deadline. Or both. But I did never post my fanfics save in my fic journal, until a week ago, when I posted to a community for the first time, unfortunately using my main journal, because the other one was not affiliated to said community- and found my fic on Facebook, my Livejournal username leaping out at me. I had not even known there was a community on Facebook, sheer luck, or rather the opposite of it, led me to that page! Now I have to exercise extreme caution when it comes to posting, because I´m not sure if my daughter reads the entries of the community on facebook. On the other hand she does not have a Facebook account of her own, because she does not like to "go public". I only wrote this entry to prompt others to revive community life, now look what I got! I´ll have to reread the profile page of the community, if there´s a pointer to the Facebook site!

Namárië!

So the last shots with Gandalf are done, a journey draws to a close. And what a long and unexpected journey it has been, and many of us travelled with from the beginning. Thank you for taking us along with you, Peter Jackson! You brought Middle Earth to life. These stories were part of my childhood, and you put my dreams of magic and wizards on the screen. I´d like to say "End? No, the journey doesn´t end here!", like Gandalf told us, but that would be a lie. All good things have to come to an end eventually, nonetheless the filming you have done will live on, like Tolkien´s books. Never will we forget those magical movies with Sir Ian McKellen, who didn´t merely play Gandalf but brought him to life. Thank,you, thank you, thank you for your stunning personification of this character! And though we all know  there will be two more films in theatres, Gandalf´s departure from the movie set marks the beginning of the end of an era. Namárië!