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I'm curious to hear about your agent ideas. I'm currently working towards Permission myself, and with that fresh in my brain, I'd love to help other people with refining their PPC plans.

-Twistey

That has to be the best compliment I've ever gotten, thanks! I'm glad my writing sounds natural. I've been working on that for a long time. And I'm also really glad you're interested in the backstory of the main character, because that's what my Big Project is! XD Good to know I'm on the right track. Thank you for the review!

I found myself very interested in the backstory of the main character, especially his relationship with the new Queen. The style is very... well, I only know the word in Hungarian, it means something like 'easy-sounding'. What I'm trying to say is, you have a very natural-sounding writing style. (Artificial or awkward phrasing is one of my pet peeves, and something I try hard to avoid.) I like the end best, though - it made me smile. :)

I spent a couple of days reading over this, and while I haven't really analyzed it all that much, I can say that I enjoyed it. Your descriptions are pretty interesting, and I liked the tone of the piece, which I interpreted as sort of a soft memoir. I especially liked your opening. It was pretty thought-provoking and I spent some time thinking about being able to see into a whole other place from your window. :D This was certainly very inspiring! Thanks for sharing.

It was Saturday evening, and the Moon family were gathered around the drawing room table, playing the imaginatively-named Bid Fours, in which players were dealt some cards and then bid for more, aiming to collect fours of a kind. It was traditionally played with suits representing different gemstones.

Holly turned over the next card, the Seven of Sapphires, and said “I bid one,” taking one of her small round tokens and placing it into the pool.

Tiger was next. He glanced at his hand: he had the Seven of Rubies, but he knew his father had the Sevens of Emeralds and Diamonds. “I bid two,” he said, glancing at his pile of tokens. There were about thirty of them left. He picked up two tokens and added them to the pool.

“I bid three,” said Francis smoothly. He moved his own tokens into the pool.

Holly, having no Sevens, passed. Tiger bid four and he and his father went back and forth until Francis bid seventeen.

Tiger raised his eyebrows. Surely Francis knew that Tiger had the Seven of Rubies? Why would his father bid so highly for what could only be a third seven? He tried to remember how many tokens his father had left: it couldn’t be many more than he himself had.

“Pass,” he said. No matter how strange his father’s tactics, he couldn’t afford to spend any more tokens.

Francis picked up the Seven of Sapphires and lay beside it his Sevens of Diamonds and Emeralds, and – Tiger could hardly believe his eyes – the Seven of Rubies.

“What – “ spluttered Tiger. “How – “ He pulled the Seven of Rubies from his own hand and laid it face up on the table to prove the evident impossibility of what had just happened.

Francis ignored him and casually counted out twenty tokens from the pool as his reward for four of a kind.

“What does that have to do with anything?” Holly asked.

“That’s the Seven of – “ Tiger broke off suddenly as he looked down at the perfectly drawn rubies on the card. There were six of them. “What? I swear when I put that down it was the Seven, not the Six.”

“Of course it was,” said Francis. “This is a Paradox Pack. Cards can be duplicated as long as they are not seen by all players together, in which case one card will morph into a similar card.”

“And you didn’t bother telling us that? I would have bid higher if I had known!”

“I was wondering if you’d work it out.”

Tiger rolled his eyes.

Francis turned over the next card, the Three of Diamonds, and said “I bid one.”

The warning made me feel like it wouldn’t help to become more involved again. I read it now, and yes, in a way, I liked it. But I don’t know what else to say.

HG

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My uncle got a hold of Silent Hill: Origins and promised to let me play it on his PlayStation, but because of certain circumstances I wasn't able to. And now I really need something to ease my Silent Hill craving - PC games (I don't own a console), fan stuff, anything. Do you guys have any suggestions?

"It's a new year! I promise to not dissassemble any Sues this year!"
Amber looked at what was left of the Sue unfortunate enough to have underwent the process. "Oops. Well, not dissassemble any more Sues this year!"

C-Fy leaned back and said,“My New Year Resolution is to not have a New Year Resolution.”
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Stolen from my brother.

You may have said so here, too; it's possible it was a time I wasn't paying much attention, or I just forgot. All the brainspace I have to give Real Life these days is severely restricting my ability to keep track of everything else. The other day I had to look up who actually owned Narsil before it broke, Elendil or Isildur. {= (

Clearly I shall have to reread the Appendices in order to properly engage with this topic, but for now...

I think the secrecy around who Aragorn really is could add a nice bit of drama to the whole story if they do it right. He's in hiding for a reason, so the necessity of keeping on the down-low could make for some good peril if any servants of the Enemy are lurking about. I don't think it will be possible to keep it a total secret from the audience, but they could restrict themselves to merely hinting at why he's important, with the full reveal only coming at the end. If they're subtle about it, it'll be fun for those already in the know and nicely surprising for those who aren't. (Because you know some people will be coming to Middle-earth for the first time through this series. Every Comic Adaptation Is Someone's First.)

Also, there's potential in getting to know the other Rangers, such as Halbarad and the El twins, who got screwed out of their role in the movies.

I sorta want to focus on what he was doing in Rohan, though? I don't know exactly what that was, but he was running around with King Thengel and Young Theoden, right? Do we know there wasn't a big battle (if we actually need one)?

Look, I like horses. I am totally cool with Horses! and More horses! ^_^

I would also like a story about Merry and Pippin and Sam being awesome after the war, back home in the Shire. There's got to be some interesting political dramedy we can wring out of the Shire integrating into the Kingdom of Arnor under the leadership of the comic relief characters, right?

~Neshomeh

*salutes* And thank you!

I thought I'd said here; apparently not though.

I'm pretty excited too, to be honest. I actually think Young Aragorn is one of the less interesting options, even with just Hobbit+LotR+Appendices to work from; he's tightly constrained by the fact that, canonically, people aren't supposed to know who he is.

He also presses Amazon up against a very specific problem: there's no climactic battle. More specifically, there's precisely one: the victory over the Corsairs of Umbar. All Aragorn's other endpoints are 'welp, done with this country now, on to another one'. There's no big victory, for the very obvious reason that that has to wait for the War of the Ring.

Which, if they're actually doing only one season of Estel/Thorongil, works out quite nicely. You start with him in the wilds, with Legolas (per B5A) meeting him. You show him meeting Arwen, and build on the Movie notion of him only being able to marry her if he becomes king. So he travels to Rohan and then Gondor as a sort of training, and winds up sailing from Dol Amroth to defeat the Corsairs. A nice, flowing storyline - but one which doesn't work at all if they try and cut it into multiple seasons.

So... if it is only one, what are the following seasons? Cribbing from something I wrote elsewhere, I think it's likely that the other seasons will follow the first, chronologically, which means... well, what are the options?

-Adventures of the Old Took. Obviously a bit out of its timeline, but viable, and a hilarious notion.
-Adventures of Tom Bombadil. ^_^
-Adventures of Balin in Moria. A bit of a downer.
-Adventures of Not-So-Young Legolas (And Tauriel). Time to reuse those Hobbit movie sets!
-Adventures of Evil Saruman. C'mon, we could definitely have a season of Saruman's fall into darkness. (Again, serious timeline issues, but this is Movie-earth.)
-Adventures of Young Imrahil. If Young Aragorn doesn't cover the Corsairs, then this Dol Amroth-centric series will.
-Adventures of Young(??) Galadriel. Who wants to stay in the woods when you can go be shiny at people?
-Adventures of Young Theoden. Horses! ... more horses!
-Adventures of Young Talion [Shadow of Mordor games]. Because what we really need is Mordor the Green and Pleasant Land, right? ... right?!
-Adventures of The War In The North. I suppose we should pay lip service to the whole plot of the books, yeah? In which case...
-Adventures in Scouring the Shire. Hey, PJ left it out, so we get to put it in.

And, finally...

-Adventures in Gardening. Just a whole season of Master Samwise peacefully tending his garden, looking after his kids, and being the best dang mayor the Shire has ever had.

hS

So first of all Happy New Year to you all.

Second, welcome to the first fortnightly Prompts of 2019

Thirdly, the prompts themselves. I've gone for three this time because... new thing I guess? It's new anyway.

Prompt 1: A Paradox

Prompt 2: One of your characters has an Epiphany

Prompt 3: One of your characters makes (and promptly breaks) a New Year Resolution

(The brackets are funny, but optional)

Novastorme

[Checks] Okay, he stood down as director of the Estate, but not as literary executor (a year and a half ago).

I've never seen anyone (prior to you) say that Christopher is even involved, and in typical Tolkien Estate fashion, there's no real clues how much of Tolkien's material Amazon are allowed to use. Is this just another iteration of the Hobbit+LotR license that New Line have been using? Or have Amazon managed to get the remaining directors (including apparently JRRT's daughter Priscilla, and grandson Michael George) to release some of the Silm/Unfinished Tales material? Christopher has always been dead against that, but it's possible his resignation was a way for him to gracefully allow it without directly compromising.

hS

You've already met me on the Discord, but I guess this'll be our formal introduction. I'm Quincy Jones, pleased to meet you! *offers ration pack of Bleepka and Bleeprin*

It'll be good to have someone excited about writing missions around. If you ever have trouble getting feedback/betas on anything, like a Permission Request, a mission, or even just a random short, come talk to me! Beta-ing is my favorite thing.

Hey! I wrote a thing 'cause I got inspired the other day. It's pretty short (est. 1 page) and I'd really appreciate some feedback/advice. It has some slight language and adult themes but IMO it's pretty tame.

Here it is, as a linkshare, theoretically with commenting permissions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-8a9abOJFEtS5QAkWpYyH5xN-v1t-oKfcrFJ1AitOYs

If you still need a beta, feel free to PM me or just share directly with strinmichaelis@gmail.com.

"Amino acid chirality, major ingredients, that sort of thing."

"If you can eat most anything a World One human can, that's marked too to make it easier, like on this one." She pointed to an icon on the label for the cake Kat had just grabbed.

Hello! Welcome to the community.

that you hand over the goodies you promised him. Meanwhile, I am digging a tunnel a safe distance on the other side of my wall.

I've definitely enjoyed it so far.

:)