Forum: The Prancing Pony

Hey guys, my name's Lorenzo, I'm a professional comic artist living and working in the UK. As one half of The Etherington Brothers, together with my bro robin (on writing details) we've worked in the comics industry for a few years, and our client list inclues Dreamworks, Lucasarts, Random House...

See if the Gender Genie can guess, based on your style of writing, whether you're male of female. Try it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j1b05Xbr3k Yeah, another reworked version of an old short film. Once I had access to iMovie, I had to go back and tinker with these old movies. Hope you enjoy it! And if you don't, you can post your hate eMail here in this thread...

After a night of watching Pavarotti, Dessay, Nilsson, and others on youtube, I am curious as to what particularly memorable performances every here has been to. I know this isn't exactly Tolkien related, but if you can tie something in (such as the LOTR musical premier in Toronto ;) ), then by all...

I've been part of an online writing group recently and someone set us the task of taking a minor character from Lord of the Rings and trying to put together a 1000 word story that work by itself but would stay in keeping with the main story. I hope you enjoy it and any comments welcome :) ...

This is my problem. I constantly have all these wonderful ideas pop into my head that I would like to write a novel or at least short story on, but because I'm not exactly learned in culture, language, environment, and other things, I don't feel like I'm going to do good enough job. The...

Hey, you people! Pence put in a helluva lot of time and effort getting The Leaky Forum up and running! How about showing some spirit and gratitude and getting on over there and registering??? Jeeze Louise! Ingrates! Knaves! Varlets! Villains! Blackguards! Poltroons! Barley :D

When you write an arguementaions paper how do you do it? Do you tend to state your beliefs clearly but softly? Do you tend to state your beliefs virulently? Do you tend not to state your belief and just let the facts speak for themselves? Do you like to wait until the end of the paper to...

Writer's excercise: WHEN ONE FALLS IN LOVE. This is my idea for a quick poetry/essay/one-liner excercise. It starts with the phrase "when one falls in love. . ." and you add the rest. You can add one word, one sentence, one paragraph, one page, one novel . . . as much as you want to type....

In lieu of The Riddle Thread I must say I enjoy anagrams also. The rules are again simple: You must take an aspect of ME, be it person, place or thing and jumble the letters to make an anagram. The person who correctly guesses it then gets the next turn. I'll start with: wraith...

Hey, here's a bit from a story I'm working on...tell me what you think!! **************************************************** “Where am I?” Sebastian asked without opening his eyes. His entire body ached, the last thing he remembered was the boat crashing on some rocks in the midst of...

I need input. Should continue? Is the story lame? Is the style too old? In fact, I'm looking for someone to co-write it with. No offers yet. Synopsis: Dailus was the crowned Prince of Apodis, a kingdom of winged men and women who have built their city high in the mountains of Unuk and...

This thread is simply a forum version of the Riddle Game between Gollum and Bilbo in The Hobbit. You can draw riddles from any source providing it isn't too ambiguous. You can also make them up yourself; which is what I prefer to do. Here's the example of the final riddle asked by Gollum to Bilbo:...

This could arguably go in The Prancing Pony, and forgive me if it's an old question (I did run a fruitless search for it :) ), but it's here, and I personally think it's a worthy topic of discussion. After all, music is art, is it not? So here's the question: How many of you write music, sing or...

This is a thread devoted to all people who have thought to themselves "if only I was born in..." Here discuss what you wish you could have done if you were born in a certain era that truly appealed to your character and personality. Perhaps there are people you wished to have met (such as Mr....

A rather amusing story (make sure to read it from start to finish): So, there's a man crawling through the desert. He'd decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtkT-_47n5U Another pretty D.I.Y., no budget short film, but instead of ghosts and slashers, I thought a nice little U.F.O. romp would be nice... Thanks to anyone who checks it out, whether you like it or not, and if you don't like it, please don't throw your...

OK . . . I have stated this before on this forum, but people probably just thought I was blustering: I am an Oregonian and Oregonians don't have accents. Now of course, the obvious answer is "No one thinks they have an accent. They just think everyone else has an accent." Meaning that to an...

I am thinking about attempting to get published again. I have written two novels in the last two years which I think are of decent quality, both on similar veins, young adult fiction and lengthy fairy tales. The first is "The Tale of Sir Percival the Overly Ordinary Knight" and the second its...

Clearly we have at least a few artists around here, but upon a look-through, I couldn't come up with any threads where-in anyone could post their art. Now, there are a lot of things that get called 'art', so let me re-state the title of 'Photoshop and TTF'. If you have something that you've made,...

Ok, what's everyone up to? Are we all writing a way? Anyone finished anything lately? Anyone having a hard time getting through their latest story? Anyone? Anyone? Currently, I'm writing a story with the work title "Dragon in the Dawn." It's about a knight who, after being rejected by a fair...

This is the first chapter from my currently unnamed project. Take a gander. The Tutor always looked ragged after the morning lessons: his already wild brown hair tousled from consistent head-scratching, his tiny spectacles nearly to the end of his long, straight bridged nosed. Though only...

This video from YouTube is a ten minute piece from the hour and seven minute long feature titled "The Revenant." It is largely a silent film for the first twenty two minutes and the final fourty five has sound. This first excerpt and the upcoming second are the opening silent parts of the film. ...

I just wrote my first G-rated book, if you don't count the stories about ducks and mice I write for my three-year-old sister. I was just looking over the end of the book and I thought, "Gosh, nobody died." I thought for a moment. No, I at least killed the dragon . . . no, wait, I turned him...

Not Mine, but very amusing...thought I'd share it. A Poem by an African... Nominated as Best Poem of 2005 When I born, I Black When I grow up, I Black When I go in sun, I Black