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Sep. 22nd, 2019 08:57 am Today, I will be attending a friends' wedding, so I thought I would quick write up the Rivendell event before thinking about getting ready for that. I don't actually have my wedding present ready, so after this I should probably hop up and see if I can get it made in time.
As it happens, there isn't all that much to say about yesterday's event. It was drizzly all day, so I didn't end up taking the light rail down because I didn't want to get all fancy only to potentially get rained on. Because I WAS FANCY:
The parking lot at Rondo Library is accessible from University Avenue, which is... kind of terrifying? Plus, then it's one of those where you have to wait for the robot door to recognize you're there before it lifts its maw to let you in. The parking lot was spooky, but not crowded. I found a nice spot by the door.
I was the second author to arrive H. M. Bouwman was already there. Turns out, we knew each other from my martial arts, Kuk Sool Wan. I say "turns out," because i'm often really terrible with names and faces. Like, I KNOW that I know the person, but my brain can not parse where from, so I had a long conversation with Heather before I realized WHO SHE WAS. Don't you hate when that happens?
Caroline Stevermer was the other official author guest, and, again, I'm sure we've been at/on things together before, but this felt like the first time I really got to meet her. She was delightful and brilliant.
I'm going to be hunting down the books of both of these women, in fact.
There was a fairly decent crowd there, say fifteen maybe? I didn't do an actual head count, but all the chairs around the big table were filled with a few people sitting in "overflow." Ruth Berman and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pegkerr were also there.
We had a very nice talk about how Tolkien influenced our work, and I was especially pleased that Heather talked about how so many fantasy authors, including herself, feel the need, in a lot of ways, to write AGAINST Tolkien, because he was such a prevailing force. I was reminded of the fact that my dairies are riddled with quotes from the Lord of the Rings.
Anyway, I am being harassed to do the dishes before the wedding so that's all I'll say about it for now. There was cake, but I didn't get a chance to eat any before I needed to go.
As it happens, there isn't all that much to say about yesterday's event. It was drizzly all day, so I didn't end up taking the light rail down because I didn't want to get all fancy only to potentially get rained on. Because I WAS FANCY:
The parking lot at Rondo Library is accessible from University Avenue, which is... kind of terrifying? Plus, then it's one of those where you have to wait for the robot door to recognize you're there before it lifts its maw to let you in. The parking lot was spooky, but not crowded. I found a nice spot by the door.
I was the second author to arrive H. M. Bouwman was already there. Turns out, we knew each other from my martial arts, Kuk Sool Wan. I say "turns out," because i'm often really terrible with names and faces. Like, I KNOW that I know the person, but my brain can not parse where from, so I had a long conversation with Heather before I realized WHO SHE WAS. Don't you hate when that happens?
Caroline Stevermer was the other official author guest, and, again, I'm sure we've been at/on things together before, but this felt like the first time I really got to meet her. She was delightful and brilliant.
I'm going to be hunting down the books of both of these women, in fact.
There was a fairly decent crowd there, say fifteen maybe? I didn't do an actual head count, but all the chairs around the big table were filled with a few people sitting in "overflow." Ruth Berman and
pegkerr were also there. We had a very nice talk about how Tolkien influenced our work, and I was especially pleased that Heather talked about how so many fantasy authors, including herself, feel the need, in a lot of ways, to write AGAINST Tolkien, because he was such a prevailing force. I was reminded of the fact that my dairies are riddled with quotes from the Lord of the Rings.
Anyway, I am being harassed to do the dishes before the wedding so that's all I'll say about it for now. There was cake, but I didn't get a chance to eat any before I needed to go.