Interview meme
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1) Leave me a comment saying "Interview me."
2) I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3) You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions *and* leave the answers as comments on my LJ.
4) You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5) When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
My questions from her, and my answers behind the cut:
1. Stealing cpsings4him's question: What birth order do you fall in (oldest, middle, youngest, only child) and how, if at all, do you feel this has effected you as a person?
I am the oldest; my sister is 4 and a half years younger than I, and my brother is a little over 4 years younger than she is. I know that it affected me a good deal. When my dad was killed in a work accident, I was 13. I went from being mostly just a big sister to having some of the responsibilities of a parent. My mother would sometimes ask me to help her make some extremele adult decisions: whether to move, buy a certain house, buy new siding, etc. Not something I was really equipped to do as a teenager. I also had the responsibility of taking care of the two of them when Momma was at work, and I tended to be very bossy.
2. How did you come to discover LOTR?
In tenth grade we ordered some of those Scholastic books. The girl who sat next to me had ordered The Hobbit. I had finished with my book right away, and as she had another book she was reading first, I asked to borrow her copy. I finished it that night, and the next day was in the school library checking out FotR and TTT. I had to wait a week before I could get my hands on RotK, as it was already checked out. AAaarrgghh!!!
3. What is your favorite book (if LOTR, then 2nd favorite)?
Oh, definitely LotR! As to second favorite, it's hard to say. Probably CS Lewis' Space trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. I'm very fond of Narnia as well.
4. What was your favorite year of school and why?
I think maybe my senior year. Most of my school years were pretty miserable, because I was one of those kids that seems to attract bullies. We didn't use the word back then, but I was definitely a geek and a nerd, though I didn't know it. But my senior year I got onto the debate team, and had a great time.
5. If you were to join another fandom, what do you think it would be?
Oh, good heavens, I don't have time for another one. I've liked Star Trek in all its incarnations, and I'm fond of Harry Potter, but neither of them turns my crank enough to join their fandoms.
I have occasionally thought of writing fanfic for a couple of books that don't appear to *have* any fanfic, but it's never progressed much, because hobbits occupy too much of my brain space for anything else to lodge there very well. LOL! This was fun! Thanks!
So, anyone want *me* to interview them?
frodobaggins881) Leave me a comment saying "Interview me."
2) I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3) You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions *and* leave the answers as comments on my LJ.
4) You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5) When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
My questions from her, and my answers behind the cut:
1. Stealing cpsings4him's question: What birth order do you fall in (oldest, middle, youngest, only child) and how, if at all, do you feel this has effected you as a person?
I am the oldest; my sister is 4 and a half years younger than I, and my brother is a little over 4 years younger than she is. I know that it affected me a good deal. When my dad was killed in a work accident, I was 13. I went from being mostly just a big sister to having some of the responsibilities of a parent. My mother would sometimes ask me to help her make some extremele adult decisions: whether to move, buy a certain house, buy new siding, etc. Not something I was really equipped to do as a teenager. I also had the responsibility of taking care of the two of them when Momma was at work, and I tended to be very bossy.
2. How did you come to discover LOTR?
In tenth grade we ordered some of those Scholastic books. The girl who sat next to me had ordered The Hobbit. I had finished with my book right away, and as she had another book she was reading first, I asked to borrow her copy. I finished it that night, and the next day was in the school library checking out FotR and TTT. I had to wait a week before I could get my hands on RotK, as it was already checked out. AAaarrgghh!!!
3. What is your favorite book (if LOTR, then 2nd favorite)?
Oh, definitely LotR! As to second favorite, it's hard to say. Probably CS Lewis' Space trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. I'm very fond of Narnia as well.
4. What was your favorite year of school and why?
I think maybe my senior year. Most of my school years were pretty miserable, because I was one of those kids that seems to attract bullies. We didn't use the word back then, but I was definitely a geek and a nerd, though I didn't know it. But my senior year I got onto the debate team, and had a great time.
5. If you were to join another fandom, what do you think it would be?
Oh, good heavens, I don't have time for another one. I've liked Star Trek in all its incarnations, and I'm fond of Harry Potter, but neither of them turns my crank enough to join their fandoms.
I have occasionally thought of writing fanfic for a couple of books that don't appear to *have* any fanfic, but it's never progressed much, because hobbits occupy too much of my brain space for anything else to lodge there very well. LOL! This was fun! Thanks!
So, anyone want *me* to interview them?
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Date: 2005-05-09 02:26 am (UTC)Well, I've grown up in a Christian home, so as such, I went to church every Sunday and most Wednesdays. Of course, I could have rebelled, gone completely against them in that way, but thankfully the Lord had mercy on me and changed my heart of stone to a heart of flesh so that I could be receptive and believe in Him. :)
2. If you could talk to JRRT, what would you ask him about Middle-earth and why do you want to know that?
I would ask him what he viewed Tom Bombadil as in regards to race (hobbit, man, elve, etc.) and developing the story. Why? Because I personally am still trying to figure out Bombadil and trying to figure out how to understand him. :)
3. Where do you see yourself in twenty-five years?
I could easily see myself happily married (of course, not without a fair share of problems) and a few kids (I'd like as many as the Lord wills..big family is no problem. just wouldn't be living in the Bay Area if that happens ;)). Possibly, I'd be working in a Christian school teaching 2nd grade, or homeschooling my own kids.
4. Which of your stories do you think of as your best, and as your worst?
Hm...That's definitely a good question. Only considering my completed stories, I'd have to say Alone would probably be my best, as I put so much feeling into it and thought, plus everyone else seemed to like it. ;) My worst? It's probably Home is Where the Heart Is, considering I knew hardly anything about the book verse so there are a ton of inconsistancies. If that were counted as just being movie verse, I'd have to say At the Crack of Mount Doom.
5. You've been given 2 million dollars, tax free, no strings attached--what would you do with it?
Well, I'd definitely like to help my parents by ridding them of their debts. I'd buy my sister a thoroughbred horse (she loves horses) and find some stable nearby to keep it at. I'd buy the Charles Spurgeon and A.W. Pink books I want to read. Then, I'd probably spend some on LotR books and memorabilia. Possibly even a car. The rest? In savings.