Age: Under two decades Birthday: August 14th Place of residence: USA, west of the Mississippi Favorite LotR character: Sam Favorite LotR actor: Elijah Wood...probably Favorite LotR book: Return of the King Favorite LotR movie: ditto... Favorite song on each LotR soundtrack: The Breaking of the Fellowship (FotR), Evenstar (TTT), and the Return of the King (RotK) Favorite authors: J.R.R. Tolkien, Lloyd Alexander, J.K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis, Brian Jacques, Tamora Pierce, Jane Austen, and Gary Paulsen Favorite non-LotR movies: Pride & Prejudice (mini-series and 2005), Chronicles of Narnia, Pirates of the Carribean, The Princess Bride, Moulin Rouge, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, Miss Congeniality, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Batman Begins, Spiderman 2, The Mask of Zorro, and Gladiator Favorite music artists: Howard Shore, Enya, Evanescence, Nightwish, Within Temptation, Michelle Branch, Alanis Morissette, Alison Krauss, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Anna Nalick, Bon Jovi, Dido, the Eurythmics, Harry Gregson-Williams, Imogen Heap, John Williams, Jon Schmidt, Josh Groban, Kamelot, Kelly Clarkson, Klaus Badelt, Lacuna Coil, Leaves' Eyes, Maroon 5, Matchbox Twenty, Rob Thomas, Nickelback, Sarah McLachlan, the Riverdance musicians, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Lisa Gerrard, and ABBA Favorite non-LotR actors/actresses: Christian Bale (*squee*), Johnny Depp, Drew Barrymore, William Moseley, Matthew Macfadyen, Russell Crowe, Keira Knightley, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, and Daniel Radcliffe. About Mr. Radcliffe: the real reason he's on this list is that anyone who says Elijah Wood is one of his role models is ok by me :) Why I made this site: No one else had the LotR fan site I was looking for, so I made it myself. It didn't start that way: the first version was a very personal, template, silly half-LotR site. Waaay not impressive. But then I started to realize that people liked my site once I'd redone it a bit, so I kept going...and going...and going. I never intended it to get this big, though, or expected it to. Another reason I started Arwen-Undomiel.com was to meet other Ringers. I only have a few non-cyber-friends who love LotR nearly as much as I do, and I decided the web was the way to go. Not that I talk to other Ringers online long enough to get to know them anymore, but at least it was fun at first. Anecdotes of my online experience: Once, when talking to a friend via AIM, she IMed me a sound clip of Orlando Bloom droning on and on and on about how he broke his back and how lucky he was to be able to walk and blah blah blah, and I could not get him to stop talking. There was no stop button. So I had to sit through his sermon ;) In one of my first versions of this site, I wrote "I want to throw the computer out the window". My first non-family/friends visitors were Eleniel and Amanariel At one time I had more than 100 people on the waiting list for banner dedications. After that, I grew smarter and stopped them altogether. The guestbook option of favorite movie (with the drop-down choices repeating again and again) was inspired by a site dedicated to the less-than-perfect Boston drivers: the site had a survey which included a question on which state to kick out of the USA (the choices were "New York" [about 10 times], and "New York, and maybe Jersey, too"). Note: I have nothing against NY and NJ. As far as I know, I was the first person to start dedicating LotR character banners to people and putting the dedicatee's name on the banner. I have been e-mailed in Spanish by site visitors several times, even though I've never learned the language and nothing in the site is in Spanish. In the early days of the site, I had a box that popped up every time someone visited the index page that said something like "Frodo lives! Gandalf for president! LOTR rules!" If visitors clicked OK, they could get to the page. If they clicked Cancel...well, they were stuck somewhere in the outskirts of cyberspace. It was only after starting this web site that I began to use LotR, FotR, RotK, etc. instead of LOTR, FOTR, and ROTK. My attempt at an autograph made on the computer. Fuinaran asked for it, so here 'tis!