Author has written 12 stories for Family, Nature, Religion, General, Fantasy, and Haiku.

My account name is a combination of Dinadan, my favorite Knight of the Round Table, and dandelion, a small yellow flower commonly referred to as a weed. But you could figure out that last one couldn't you? ;

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Name: Julie R.

Age: 18 (Jan. 05, 1989)

Gender: Girl

Location: Maryland

Likes: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Angst, Writing, Drawing and Painting

Favorite Books: Anything Tolkien, Harry Potter, the Riddle Master Trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip (out of print but totally awesome), all of the books by Susan Dexter (also out of print but awesome), the Young Wizardry series by Diane Duane, Snow-Walker by Catherine Fisher, anything by Gerald Morris,the Farsala Trilogy by Hilari Bell, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (One of the few classics I actually like; it's a wonderful character study and explores the possibilities of fate and whether or not God means for bad things to happen to people as punishment.), Richard Adams' Watership Down, A Separate Peace by John Knowles (One of the other classics I like. I was not a big fan of it at first, since it was a book I had to read for school. When we discussed it in class, though, I appreciated it more. Especially when I realized that I'm just like the main character, Gene.) I feel like there's more... Hmmm... OH! C. J. Cherryh's Fortress series. The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters series(REX...). Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (I love, like, every character in this entire book.) . Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series (MOVIE COMES OUT IN AMERICA OCT. 13! I think...)

Favorite Plays: This is more difficult... I read some Thornton Wilder play for English...at least I think it was him... Ooh, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare, course. (The Tempest is LOST, I swear!!!) Twelfth Night was pretty funny, too... I hate Romeo and Juliet, though... Seriously, you idiots, you had all that time to just leave! Why go to the trouble of coming up with a whole stupid plan that could go seriously wrong at any number of points...?! O_o Anyway...

Favorite Movies and TV Shows: (M)The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Star Wars, The Back to the Future Trilogy, Field of Dreams, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Napoleon Dynamite, Shrek and Shrek 2, Finding Neverland (so sad and cute!)the Harry Potter movies, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (Mr. Tumnus rules!). (TV) LOST (utterly fascinating), Monk, Invader ZIM, Drake and Josh,assorted other cartoons and such. The original Twilight Zone (especially It's a Good Life and The Obsolete Man.)

Favorite Singers/Bands: Evanescence, Relient K, The Click Five, Enya, Celtic Woman, Avril Lavigne, Howie Day, The Killers, McFLY (scream! THANK YOU TRIP TO ENGLAND! THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL GIFT!), other similar artists...

Dislikes: School, homework, bugs, romance, modern society, tree huggers...to an extent..., cliched stories, stupid people, liberals, ringing telephones, the sound of vacuum cleaners, the Welch's Grape Juice kidsand their squealy voices...

Other: Christian.(Sort of a Lutheran/Presbyterian. Well, more traditional LCMS in beliefs, since I've always gone to LCMS schools, but I go to a PCUSA (ugh...liberals) church, and come from a Presbyterian family. If anyone cares..._;)Plans to name her children after Tolkien characters, with their middle names being from Harry Potter.

Check out (mine and) my cousin's Fanfiction.net account; look up Aki and Tenshi.

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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, then the most probable explanation is that I was meant for another world." -C.S. Lewis-

"I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."
Frodo Baggins
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Chapter Three: The Shadow of the Past

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
--Robert A. Heinlein

"Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake." -- Napoleon

When everything is going wrong
And things are just a little strange
It's been so long now you've forgotten how to smile

And overhead the skies are clear
But it still seems to rain on you
And your only friends all have better things to do

When you're down and lost
And you need a helping hand
When you're down and lost along the way
Just tell yourself
Ah, I'll be okay

"I'll be okay"
~McFLY

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