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Hi all,
I'm Vulgarweed, been lurking for a few days to get the feel of
things. I think comment/feedback-based awards are a really cool
idea and I'm looking forward to seeing how exactly this is going
to work and participating and all. I've been around at HASA, Open
Scrolls, Library of Moria, a bunch of yahoogroups (including my
own small one-- Morgul-Steel, which is All Nazgul All the Time),
LJ, etcetera. My personal fic special-favoritism is towards both
lesser-written, mysterious characters and evil ones, but as a
reader in practice I'm really pretty omnivorous.

I expect the number will get very daunting indeed -- the Mithril
Award nominations just closed, and wound up with over 750
works nommed. And that's with only one year's worth of stories
eligible!

Anyway, nice to see everyone!
*settles in*
V.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vulgarweed [mailto:fluxed@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:02 AM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] intro
>
> Hi all,
> I'm Vulgarweed, been lurking for a few days to get the feel
> of things.

Well, I'm glad you were around to see some of our better days. Today is not
one ove those, though I'm still hoping it can be redeemed. We seem to be
heading in that direction.

> I think comment/feedback-based awards are a really
> cool idea and I'm looking forward to seeing how exactly this
> is going to work and participating and all.

Thanks, it's an idea I love and that's why I wanted to bring it to the LOTR
fandom.

> I've been around
> at HASA, Open Scrolls, Library of Moria, a bunch of
> yahoogroups (including my own small one-- Morgul-Steel, which
> is All Nazgul All the Time), LJ, etcetera. My personal fic
> special-favoritism is towards both lesser-written, mysterious
> characters and evil ones, but as a reader in practice I'm
> really pretty omnivorous.

Well, we do have Orc, Horror, and Mystery categories to hoepfully
accommodate you.

> I expect the number will get very daunting indeed -- the
> Mithril Award nominations just closed, and wound up with over
> 750 works nommed. And that's with only one year's worth of
> stories eligible!

;-) Ah yes, but the more members we have, the more we can handle.

> Anyway, nice to see everyone!
> *settles in*
> V.

Very nice to see you to, and do we have your permission to nominate
"goldberry's Song"?

--Ainaechoiriel

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Ainaechoiriel"
<mefaadmin@e...> wrote:

> Well, I'm glad you were around to see some of our better days.

Today is not

> one ove those, though I'm still hoping it can be redeemed. We

seem to be

> heading in that direction.

Actually, this is a subject that raises lots of strong feelings, and
I'm impressed with how civil it's been compared to how it could
be. I'm sorry the group lost such an important member, but
sometimes stances are simply irreconcilable.

>
> Well, we do have Orc, Horror, and Mystery categories to

hoepfully

> accommodate you.

I look forward to reading them. The ones I haven't already, that is.
(Or reading old favorites again). :)

>

> > Anyway, nice to see everyone!
> > *settles in*
> > V.
>
> Very nice to see you to, and do we have your permission to

nominate

> "goldberry's Song"?

Of course, and thank you!
(Which happens to be a fairly fluffy het romance poem, and so
very atypical of my work except for the
mysterious-minor-characters part--but it also thankfully
sidesteps the current controversy entirely).

Vulgarweed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vulgarweed [mailto:fluxed@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:57 PM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Re: intro
>
> --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Ainaechoiriel"
> <mefaadmin@e...> wrote:

> Actually, this is a subject that raises lots of strong
> feelings, and I'm impressed with how civil it's been compared
> to how it could be. I'm sorry the group lost such an
> important member, but sometimes stances are simply irreconcilable.

Yes, and it is avery difficult path trying to please everyone. Darn near
impossible, I'd say. Thank you for your vote of confidence.

> > Well, we do have Orc, Horror, and Mystery categories to
> hoepfully
> > accommodate you.
>
> I look forward to reading them. The ones I haven't already, that is.
> (Or reading old favorites again). :)

Oh goody! I've got one in Horror. Hope you like it!

> > Very nice to see you to, and do we have your permission to
> nominate
> > "goldberry's Song"?
>
> Of course, and thank you!
> (Which happens to be a fairly fluffy het romance poem, and so
> very atypical of my work except for the
> mysterious-minor-characters part--but it also thankfully
> sidesteps the current controversy entirely).

Oh, good to know that it's a poem! That is really something we need to know
like if a story is a WIP. I don't think it's fair to poems to compete
against stories. Two very different forms there. So we need to know which
are poems so we can create viable subcategories for them.

Please, if you (general "you" to the list) nominate a poem, let us know it's
a poem. And I'll need to see that somewhere in the Nominations table so I
can be sure it gets on the web site.

Thank you for the permission, Vulgarweed. I don't know that I'll do my usual
hashing of the Nominations database tonight. I'm kind of weary and the
thought of 293 stories is a bit daunting after so trying a day. I've got
quite a few nominations I need to add there myself. So I *may* or *may not*
get to updating the web site anymore than it already is.

--Ainaechoiriel

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com