I've never had my own science vessel before. My inexperience could lead to mishaps. I'll try not to do anything stupid...

I'm sure the crew knows how to run the ship. I'll just listen to their advice, yes?

"Mae g'ovannen" is in fact a formal Sindarin greeting, in almost all dialects of the language.

"Mae l'ovannen" shows up as an informal variation mostly used by the Noldor exiles, and for some reason by the Numenoreans/Gondorians. There are other variants, including "Mê g'ovannen", a formal greeting used by the southern Sindar and the Silvan Elves of Beleriand, "Mae dh'ovannen", the informal form used by the people of Doriath, and "Mê dh'ovannen", the informal version used by the southern Sindar and Silvan people.

And those are just when addressing one person.They all have forms for speaking in the plural, too.

The only direct Quenya equivalent I can find is the generic Quenya "Mai omentaina".

arwen-undomiel.com is not the most accurate site, I'm afraid.

With the G it's familiar. The L is the reverential form. I used it 'cause I don't know anyone here very well yet.

I'm guessing that, similar to how just about everyone has a badfic phase that they grow out of, everyone has their own story for when they realize that badfic is a real, distinct issue and that people don't just get rid of it after time passes and they develop critical thinking skills. Well, not everyone gets to the second part, but most people do to some extent. Mine was from the Custom Bionicle Wiki. I'm not going to go into detail, but Grod on Mars, the unoriginal or downright baffling concepts, the Mary Sues(well, Gary Stus, usually, since about four-fifths of Bionicle characters are either male or gender-neutral), the groups that only exist to one-up or displace existing groups, the unnecessary elemental powers added on for no good reason, just because nobody else did it before... uugh. Sometimes, there's a good reason why no one made a character that controls the elemental force of radioactivity or rubber, you know? And yet there was a set group of people that hounded anyone who logged on, reverting edits that made the changes make sense or tried to tie anything together, because people were proud of that garbage.

I made the first two or three chapters of a fic that was posted on the site, as per the tradition of the time, intending to pastiche the clichés that the site so often used, but I abandoned it before I even made it clear that it was a parody. Still, though, somewhere on that site people are slavishly protecting my account of killer robots being defeated by Skrall holding baskets of fruit, since the robots didn't recognize fruit as a weapon, and still don't realize I was making a joke. I gain some small satisfaction from that.

Wait a minute... is this why we never saw Frodo's parents? They were killed on their way back from watching a play, with only their young son there to witness their demises, too young to help them?
No, that would probably involve hobbit criminals, and judging by the odd moral standards of Tolkien's world, we could never have an evil hobbit or elf. Only orcs are bad guys, and occasionally humans and dwarves when they're corrupted by evil! Maybe we could have some unpleasant hobbits, but they would never think to rob or harm one another! Because you can construct a society that behaves like that!

...Or perhaps that's what the criminals want you to think. The idyllic perfection of their societies would be a perfect cover for the more covert and organized acts of illegality, because while it would be too obvious, too beside the norm to rob the Second Rivendell National Bank, no one would think to look too deep into the perfection of their little cities, peel back the skin to see the rot beneath, and the mess of criminal intellects driving that rot toward nefarious purpose.

Yes, I am suggesting that Bat-Hobbit would fight a dystopian elf mafia. It was too out-there of an idea to not mention when I thought of it. Can you even imagine what the elf Kingpin of Crime would look like? Yes, I know he's a Spider-Man/Daredevil villain, but I don't think Batman has a mob boss enemy, unless you count Tim Burton's versions of Joker and Penguin.

Frodo as Batman? Oh my...
Maybe he discovered a species of rays...
Feel free to drop a PM, I am in need of characters.

Two with Eight ("The Chimes of Midnight" which is utterly fantastic and one of my favourite Doctor Who stories ever, and "Caerdroia" which is also wonderful, mainly due to the hilarious dialogue) and one with Six ("...ish" which was quite a lot of fun and involved a complete dictionary of the English language). I'd recommend all of them.

-Aila

I actually remember reading that chapter when it first came out, meaning to post a report on some misplaced punctuation marks, and never doing so for some reason. It should have shown up on the Google search I did for Doctor Who fanfiction universities, though...

I personally recommend the Third and Seventh Doctors. They're my favorites, though Nine had a very fun season in New Who. There's a post I made a while back with links to The Time Warrior, which is one of Three's best stories. You should watch it; Sontarans attack the Middle Ages, and it's as great as it sounds.