I can't believe it's come upon us so fast, but it's already that time of year again - time for this year's Magnificent KnittedHobbit Yule card! Please pop over to KnittedMerry's LJ to see some lovely pics and to let KM know that Yule just wouldn't be Yule without your very own card!

http://knittedmerry.livejournal.com/18280.html

Looking forward to hearing from everyone!

Hullo everyone! The Festive Season is fast approaching and the KnittedHobbits have been hard at work creating their annual Yule Card Extravaganza - a Spectacular Musical Extravaganza in fact, with words and music by KnittedMerry!

KnittedPippin has done an LJ post on KM's account to check on who needs to update their address, so if you haven't seen it go over at once - he has posted a prior card there too, so if you have never seen one or want to make sure not to miss out on keeping your collection up to date be sure to check in on KnittedMerry's LJ!

PS - There is a very sweet pic of KP there as well although his spelling hasn't improved I am afraid! :>D

This is just an exploratory question to see if there is any interest out there.

Following the resounding success of ScotMoot we are thinking of holding a second event, this time in Wales.

What we propose is a week in a self-catering cottage in Wales in September 2011. Depending on the number of people attending, estimated costs could be as low as £125/$200, for the week, which would include the rent + petrol + food. (Home cooked – not to include restaurants, cafes, Motorway Service stops etc.).

These costs would obviously exclude airfares, personal spending and any extra-curricular activities such as steam train rides or hang-gliding. (Mountain climbing is free).

It might be possible to fly into Heathrow and stay overnight with one of us and even fit in a day trip to London or Oxford, although obviously this would be limited on numbers.

So! Preliminary enquiry:

Place: Wales
Time: September 2011
Cost: £125/$200 + airfare etc.

What do you think?

Liza & Lesley

Hullo! I was reminiscing to myself at work today about the hobbity part of the fandom and thinking about how it has become so quiet and missing the excitement of those Golden few years at the beginning of things. I have been wondering for a while now why our part of the fandom seems to be less prolific these days when there still seem to be loads of new stories featuring elves and men. Thankfully Llinos is posting loads of new chapters of Recaptured! and that makes me very happy, but a lot of the time when I have a moment to read a hobbity tale I find myself falling back on old favourites, as there aren't very many new stories being posted.

I started wondering why this was so and am interested in other folk's opinions as well. We've lost quite a few of our hobbity authors for whatever reason and while I understand that people develop other interests and drift into other things I also wonder if perhaps we readers may have contributed to the situation by becoming too complacent – there were so many excellent hobbity stories being posted for a long time that I wonder if we started taking them for granted and didn't let the writers know how appreciative we were and so some may have concluded that we weren't interested and stopped writing.

I know I am guilty these days of snatching a moment to read a new story or chapter and promising myself that I will review when I have a bit more time, but of course I never find the time to go back – I should have just taken a few more minutes to leave a few words of appreciation right then. I should know better, because I have experienced myself the confusion of getting 100 hits on something that I've posted within the first couple of days but only receiving six or seven reviews. Does that mean that the other several dozen people read my work and didn't like it – or were they just doing what I have been doing myself lately? They read it and liked it well enough but didn't bother to comment because they didn't have the time or because they assume that folks will keep writing regardless and so they needn't bother?

The fact is though, that authors won't keep writing if we don't let them know how much we appreciate them. A friend gave me an analogy a while ago about this very thing. She said that if an actor or singer performs for an audience and the audience just sits there without applauding what's the performer to think? They're going to think that no one cares and they'll stop entertaining and leave the stage. And that is why I think we've lost some wonderful contributors to the fandom and I am worried that we will lose more. I would really hate for that to happen!

I'm really interested to know if other folks agree with my ramblings or have any other ideas?

Hullo! There are more new chapters posted of Llinos’s epic tale Recaptured!

For those of you who have yet to start reading this exciting adventure, Part One begins here: Recaptured!

And then continues in Part Two, here: Recaptured! Continued

Those of you that are regular readers and haven’t seen the newest chapters yet, they start at Chapter 42 and there is a summary to update you. There are already 13 new chapters posted and more on the way. The latest chapter has all four of our favourite hobbits in a great deal of trouble and everyone else isn’t doing much better!

Hullo everyone! I'm popping out of lurkerdom to let my fellow fans of Recaptured! know that Llinos is well on the way to finishing the story. The latest two chapters have been posted over on ff.net and another will be going up shortly! More chapters have been written and are just waiting in the wings, so there won't be any more long delays in between postings.

The chapters posted already are:

Chapter 134 – (42) - Adsum!
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/969855/42/RECAPTURED_CONTINUED

And:

Chapter 135 – (43) - In Loco Parentis
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/969855/43/RECAPTURED_CONTINUED

Please pop over and read and review so that she is encouraged to keep up her momentum – I am dying to know how the story will end and she hasn't written that bit yet!

I actually wrote something, lol! I was inspired by Llinos' new grandson, Ellis, a lovely photo of whom can be seen below (I hope! I don't remember how to do any of this posting stuff!)...


It's a double-drabble over on Stories of Arda called Worthy Of The Name.

Hullo Everyone! It's been a very long time since I have posted here but I have come out of lurkerdom to let everyone know who hasn't seen it yet that KnittedMerry has posted some V.Important news concerning Yule!

You can find his post here: http://knittedmerry.livejournal.com/17856.html

Hope to see lots of familiar names over on his post!

As some of you already know, knittedmerry is preparing his list of lucky recipients for this year's rather amazing and spectacular KnittedHobbit Yule Card!

If anyone has missed his very important post which explains how to request one, please pop over asap so that your card can arrive before Yule!

Current Mood: chipper

 Very Happy Birthdays to both Angiet and Dreamflower! We wish you both a happy day and a marvellous year!

With lots of love from Llinos, Marigold, LoneWolf and the KnittedHobbits : )