„Misty Mountains cold“ (The Hobbit: An unexpected journey)

Far over the misty mountains cold
to Dungeons deep and caverns old.
We must away, ‚ere break of day
to find our long forgotten gold.

Are you asking yourselves yet why I am posting that?! ^^ (again xD) It has been and probably will be my best memory of Ring*Con 2013 and it is in my ear ever since. By now, that means over three weeks.
I’ve gotten the fortunate chance (is that too much?!) of being in an elevator with a couple of great and crazy people I partly knew and partly didn’t know before this incident. We were having fun, joking around, waiting for people about to get in the elevator and start singing in their faces.
Well, now imagine all of a sudden there is William Kircher standing in front of the opening doors. (You might know him as Bifur in „The Hobbit“, the one only talking in the dwarven language Khuzdûl) He looked a bit startled at first, but then hopped right in to get to where he wanted to go. We started singing once the doors were closed (I can’t remember what we were singing actually…) and he looked at us, laughing and told us to sing something else. Well, nice people that we are we asked him what he wanted to hear… and all of a sudden he started singing and we all joined in.
Can you guess the song? … Oh yes, you’re right: Misty Mountains cold!

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It was great fun, I tell you! He was a bit surprised at first that all of us knew the lyrics, but he was smiling and visibly happy.
I think he must have enjoyed his first Ring*Con a lot 🙂 and I am happy seeing this whenever some actor/actress is new to our little convention. You can’timagine how much it can mean to you when a „star“ is on stage and all of a sudden tells you that everyone at your convention is freaking crazy but oh so nice to them!
I can’t remember if it was William Kircher, David Wenham or Silas Weir Mitchell who said (at Closing Ceremony of Ring*Con 2013) that this convention feels like everyone there is family. It was as if someone looked right into my soul by saying that. Ring*Con is more than just a convention to me (and many more!), it always feels like coming home.

If you ever get the chance to go to Ring*Con or are thinking about going: do it. And please contact me beforehand, I’d love to meet you 😉

The pines were roaring on the height
The winds were moaning in the night
The fire was red, it flaming spread
The trees like torches blazed with light.

October 2013 – Favourites

Song: Katy Perry – Roar
This song is my absolute favourite at the moment. I’ve always been one to love songs about independance, strength and songs that just motivate you to go on. Keep going, girl, that is what I sometimes need to hear and that is why I love that kind of songs. Katy Perry’s got an incredible voice and I think she is really pretty. Not that this matters, but hey, maybe you wanted to know 😉
The Hobbit – Misty Mountains Cold
The song from the first part of the Hobbit movies. The story why it is in my head is really nice and for me it’s a great memory I will keep dear like a treasure. It is just a wonderful song and thinking that the dwarves sang it themselves!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J-hiyRZeX8

Book: Kate Daniels Series by Ilona Andrews
Like last month I have still been into the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews. I’ve read book 5 and 6 (which isn’t really that much about Kate but about her best friend Andrea Nash) and I still like the series a lot. It grows on me with every single book I read.
Once finished with book 6, I started reading Dreamless, the second book from Josephine Angelini’s trilogy. I’ve waited a long time between finishing the first book and starting the second (although I already had it at home!)… why? Don’t really know, I just didn’t feel like it. But then I was completely wrapped up in Dreamless and I had to order Goddess right away so I can read it soon, too. If you like YA-books and haven’t read it yet, I recommend you start immediately 😉
Unfortunately, Goddess will only arrive at the end of november as I have ordered it in UK and wanted to spare me some extra shipping costs… well, now I gotta wait and read something else in the meantime.

Movie: Pitch Perfect and The Mortal Instruments – City of Bones
 I only really rewatched a movie I’ve already seen before – Pitch Perfect. I love that movie. In my opinion Anna Kendrick plays her part perfectly. Her character is lovely and I love her singing voice. This movie is nothing too deep, but it’s entertaining and as I love music and movies that have the tendency of reaching more of a teenie public, this is exactly my kind of movie.
And I have finally seen TMI too. It was good, but I still don’t really like Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace. I can’t feel that sarcasm in his comments and that is what I really missed. I wish they had casted someone who could bring that sarcasm in very clearly. Jamie just didn’t have the right expressions on his face (in my opinion).

Series: Hawaii Five-0 and Arrow
Hawaii Five-0 restarted! Season 4 – woohoo! I missed this show. You know, I have season 1+2 at home, I nearly bought season 3 in UK, but I figured… as I had waited for  the first two seasons until they got cheaper, I could wait for the third as well. Since the show restarted I am a little sad I decided to wait, but hey, what you gotta do?!
I’m re-watching Arrow season 1 at the moment as well, because I bought the DVDs and because I love that show. Season 2 just started and I feel like it’s been on the whole time. I love Oliver Queen because he doesn’t see himself as a hero and he realises now and then that he is everything but perfect. Just a kinda normal guy who is trying to make the world a better place.

Food:
I haven’t had anything special, oh wait, that’s a lie. I’ve been to London at the beginning of the month and I had GBK burger 😉 those are really good. If you live in the UK or well go there on vacation or for work or whatever: try them. They have a lot of choices, even for vegetarians! The friend I went with is a vegetarian and she loves GBK and always finds something. Just to show you (again!) how yummy those burgers look:

Burgers at GBK