Author has written 16 stories for Life, General, War, Song, Fantasy, Biography, and Fantasy.

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~Stuff About Me, and Odd Things That I Write at Random Times

Subtitled: A Long (By Fictionpress Standards), Very Boring Bio~

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Another Long, Boring Bio.

Surgeon General's Warning: Skip for your sanity. This is full of boring stuff that nobody ever needs to read.

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My actual name is...well, I really doubt you care what my name is, and even if I did tell you, it would not matter in your everyday life. Loads of people don't care once they do know, so I don't suppose it'll make any difference with you. My ideal jobs are linguist, author, or editor. I want to learn (this is for starters, I'll probably add more) Spanish, Latin, Sindarin, and Quenya (well, the entire Tolkien language family). I also want to create conlangs that I will speak. My favorite author is J.R.R. Tolkien, the greatest linguist of all time (yes, this includes whichever of the Grimms made Grimm's Law).

Elenbarathi (which actually has a circumflex over the i--Elenbarathî) means Star-queen or Star-lady in Common Eldarin, which is one of Tolkien's spiffy awesome languages. It is one of the many titles of Varda, the most important of the Valier (with a dieresis --two dots--over the e--Valiër (I think it's there in the plural, and I know it's there in the singular)). Aragorn (the Second) has got more names than she does, but it's close: 45 to 36. Varda is the spouse of Manwe (with another dieresis over the e--Manwë).They're basically the Powers that Be--that is, the Valar and the Valiër, not just Varda and Manwë--in Arda. Gimilnitir (with a circumflex abobe the fourth i--Gimilnitîr) means Star-kindler (well, Stars-kindler, literally, because the word that means Star-kindler means a person who kindled only one star) in Adunaic (with a circumflex above the u--Adûnaic), which is a language that Tolkien worked on. It was "the vernacular of Numenor", and it was a human language (as opposed to Sindarin and Quenya, which humans did speak, but which were primarily spoken by elves). As you have noticed, I like parentheses. (Aren't they great?) (Yes, they are.)

My favorite books are The Lord of the Rings (which is NOT a trilogy, the printers were just using loads of paper during WWII, and they couldn't print the entire thing), The Lost Road (because it has the Etymologies! I love the Etymologies!), and Eragon (which also was not originally intended to be a trilogy--it was originally a 1500-some page book). All awesome books. Please read them. My favorite fanfictions are anything in the LotR section of Miss Sandman's World of Dreams (OFUM, OFUM 2nd year or OFUM and MUSM, and the PPC). Please read them as well.

Because I am an abysmally pathetic human being, I have begun to write in tengwar (Sindarin mode; it's closer to English, I think, than Quenya, and I can't figure out the vowels for Beleriandic, I can't find them anywhere); tried to learn (this is a long list, don't hold your breath) Spanish, Latin, French, German, Russian, Klingon, Inuit, Mayan, Esperanto, Lojban, Finnish, Sindarin, Quenya, Tolkien's other languages, Ritai'as (also spelled Ritáas), and countless other little languages, many of which are conlangs of mine; won our school spelling bee every single year we've had it (three years); missed a single letter in the district spelling bee last year, which if I had remembered it could have sent me to Washington, D.C.; copied the Etymologies with 20 pages left and many disclaimers; and started a livejournal. If you want to look for that and read about my abysmally pathetic life, look under elenbarathi12 . I have also started to translate Eragon (a 500-page novel started when Christopher Paolini (the author, of course) was 15 or so; see above note) into Ritai'as, my first somewhat successful conlang (but which will not be in the novel that I have planned but am far too lazy to work on) that means "all words" in the language. I am currently on the eleventh paragraph.

Email me at the address that is somewhere on this page. Though why you would want to, I have not the slightest idea.

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~Please Read: Note on Reviews~

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Remember, I like constructive criticism. Flames are not the same thing. If you want to review and tell me that I did something badly, great. If you tell me how it's bad, even better. I can't change anything if I don't know what's wrong. If possible, have at least one correction in each of your reviews. I do want to be a better writer. If you're telling me, "Wow, this is great!" then I feel good for a while. But if I improve my writing, I'll feel better for longer. Nice reviews are like candy: they're good to eat, but too many of them make them taste bad. Constructive criticism is like medicine: it may not taste good, but you'll get better from being sick, and better is definitely better than sick.

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~Replies to Reviews in Stories That Have Not Been Updated Yet~

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None at the moment.

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~My Writings~

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I've rated all my stories at T, just to be safe, except THOT, rated M. Bloody descriptions of battles (just the battles, not the incest-->) and incest (which isn't considered wrong in this, by the way) just aren't meant to be read by 13-year-olds, though I read Celebrian and AiP, so I can't really complain. (Fellow GAFFers, many hellos and greetings--sporks and bleach are optional.)

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The Wars of Light: I'm hoping to do twelve prologues and stick them together into one story, and then add chapters in a different story. I'm not quite sure exactly how I'll do this, but I also want to incorporate bits of The History of Táya, because it'll make more sense, I think, to have the bits of history behind it. I have a few different prologues for the entire story, but I really can't choose just one or exactly how I'll do this. This will be quite long, if I actually finish it.

I am currently working on the prologue for humans in this story. If I ever finish it, I promise it will make more sense.

Update, 1/6/05:

I am starting the prologue for us humans. Go me! I've gotten eleven or so pages written down, but unfortunately I need to go in order, and so I have to do five more and elaborate a whole load on the elven one, in TWOL, which is really bad. For those of you more slang-minded people out there: the prologue sucks.

Update, 1/10/05:

I have taken down the first prologue for the elven one and have put up a different prologue that needs another part to correctly finish it. I don't think this prologue sucks quite so much as the other one. And with the recent change in the plot, it's quite out-dated.

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The History of Táya: Kind of like a Bible/Koran/Torah/other sacred book for religion. I've got loads more, I just haven't typed it up yet. Yes, I'm lazy. As I said before, I want to incorporate some of this into The Wars of Light. I think this will be sort of longish, but probably not as long as TWOL.

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"The Spirit Goddess" and "The Fire Goddess": These are deities from THOT and TWOL. I would like to have one for each of the Twelve, and I hope to stick them all in one story/document. Or maybe I'll put them in TWOL or THOT. The possibilities are endless...Or somewhat close to endless.

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Other Poetry: I'm not going to update this stuff, because there aren't really going to be "updates". They're just short little things that I have written over a few years. So...yeah.

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