I will return.

The continuation of the movies I should, and indeed plan on watching. Maybe, if I feel inclined to, I'll review them. If I ever get around to watching them... But I digress, here they are.

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The Age of Adaline 

Movies!!! Although, nothing compared to books, they offer a welcome relief. Sometimes, I can't bear to read another page after another day of nothing but reading. Sometimes, it is nice to just sit back, and allow my brain a little more of a rest. Anyway, as I've been largely preoccupied with watching TV series, I've neglected my movie watching (except for LOTR and the Hobbit). So, as a reminder (for myself), and as a consideration for y'all, I've compiled this list of movies that I would like to see. I've tried to add the trailer to all of them. I hope it works...
P.S: The Hobbit the Battle of the Five Armies, isn't on here, because I've seen that weeks ago :)
The Theory of Everything
Interstellar

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As a rider myself, I can immediately recognise anyone who is is wearing riding clothes. However, recently, I've seen more and more people tromping around in riding pants and shoes. Apparently, this is the new style craze. To me, and I imagine other riders, this wearing of riding equipment away from the stable just looks a little odd. Riding shoes, never look shiny, black, and clean for long. Mine look a little more like this (left picture):

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So when I see hundreds of people traipsing around in their shiny black riding boots, I can't help wondering, what the heck are you doing? Those, shoes have been developed to muck out stables, to stick in stirrups, and the shape is such, that if you fall you aren't dragged around the paddock still attached to the horse. But it doesn't stop there: oh no.

For a couple months now, I've been seeing people in riding pants. I can tell they aren't going to the stable, because on their arm is slung a Louis Vuitton bag, and their jackets are from Armani. So when I see riding pants paired with that, I can't help snickering a little. My riding pants, smell like the inside of a horse's stable, they have brown spots all over, there a bits of hay clinging to the fabric, and in the summer it is covered in fur. The padded knee and calf parts of the pants, are there so that you can protect your leg from the constant pressure that needs to be applied to the horse's belly. Why on earth would you need a padded knee and calf to go to the city? Although, I can see why people may like the look of it, as a rider I simply find it amusing.

Go on non-riders, continue wearing the equipment of our sport. We won't stop you, we'll just have a laugh now and again.

For many, Christmas, is one of the busiest times of year. I on the other hand, have always enjoyed a laid back Christmas, consisting mostly of lazing on the couch: I am not one, who wishes for chaos on Christmas, rather serenity and relaxation.

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1. Wake up (usually between 8:00-10:00 - although, I usually wake up early, so feel free to adjust the timeframe)
2. Remain in bed for another half hour (I'll usually read something- usually LOTR related)
3. Finally get up, and trudge to the kitchen
4. Have a yummilicious breakfast (something along the lines of: pancakes, waffles, omelette, something a little special)
5. Walk over to the living room, and put something on the TV (try for something Christmasy) 
6. After watching for a while, begin opening presents :) 
7. If there's any present you can 'do' right now, do that.
8. Watch Deck the Halls
9. Eat snacky food throughout the day 
10. Watch LOTR
11. Eat a scrumptious dinner 
12. Fall to sleep in glee 

I am the type of person who collects things. This habit turns to misfortune, when I inevitably lose interest after a couple years. However, a less pricey, and arguably more useful, collection of mine, has been quotes. When I can remember (and be bothered to), I will record quotes from movies, tv shows, and books. Here, for your enjoyment, are a few of them (I can't be bothered to count).

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"Where is her case? Did she eat it?" BBC Sherlock Holmes

"Four suicides and a note, it must be Christmas!" BBC Sherlock Holmes

"A storm will blow the evil person away, but a good person will always be safe." Proverbs 10:25

"If I get reincarnated... I wanna become a clam." Monkey D. Luffy

"Weaklings cannot choose their way of death." Trafalgar Law

"Bring on the hardship. It's preferred in a path of carnage." Roronoa Zoro

"The best place to write is by yourself because writing then becomes an escape from the terrible boredom of your own personality." John Kenneth Galbraith

"Don't falter. If you do, then who are we supposed to believe in?" Roronoa Zoro

"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing." Nicholas Murray Butler

"'Research' is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as an excuse for EVERYTHING" Rayne Hall

"A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work- he must actually relish it." Richard D. Altick

"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." Star Trek

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Douglas Adams

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." Maya Angelou

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write." Saul Bellow

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." Ray Bradbury

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." Stephen King

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." E.L. Doctorow

"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." G.K. Chesterton

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." Joseph Brodsky

"You can fix anything but a blank page." Nora Roberts

"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." Jack London

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you." Leo Tolstoy

"I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose." Stephen King

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." Aristotle Onassis

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living." Dr. Seuss

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it." Peter Pan

"Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities." David Mitchell

"Into the sky to win or die." Eragon

Shall we dance, friend of my heart? 

We shall little one     -Eldest

"Life is like a box of chocolates." Forrest Gump

"Give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry

To read is to begin to understand, what it means to write. Only then can one attempt to weave characters from words, and stories from ideas.

I've been reading since I knew how to, however, writing has come more slowly to me. Writing and I haven't always had the best of relationships, throughout much of my early years, I didn't believe myself to be particularly good (at writing, that is). It wasn't something I found enjoyable, if anything it was a necessity. For many years this was my attitude towards the art, which at the time didn't seem to be a skill I possessed. However, as I read, and continued to begrudgingly jot down strings of words, I begun to see its beauty. The intricate branches that collided to form masterpieces, I saw that writing, like a painting, requires forethought, imagination, and determined execution.

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As I continued (and still do) to hone my craft, I finally found an outlet for the stories dancing in my head. However, now I face a new foe: editing. Having to edit 100,000 words of imagination, is no small feat, and will probably take me a while longer. My hope is, that one day I will be able to publish the book which only exists because I learned to read.

Take courage in my favourite wise words of these, more established, authors.

"If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." -Toni Morrison

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very', your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." and "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lighting and a lightning bug." -Mark Twain

"There are three rules to for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." -W. Somerset Maugham

And she walked in the darkness had heard the Elves cry that cry far back in the deeps of time, and she had not heeded it, and it did not daunt her now. 

I realise that the picture is not of a spider. Yes, I realise that this is about a spider. No I will not put a picture of a spider on my blog. Why? They are completely disturbing. The furthest I will go is a dragonfly- although, know this, I'm still not happy about it.

Shelob's description (and portrayal on screen) is, quite frankly, terrifying: and that's for someone who doesn't mind spiders. I run screaming like a headless chicken when I see a daddy-longlegs, needless to say I hope a 'Shelob' never comes to exist. Not only does she have paralysing venom, she'll use it so as to eat you alive. Wonderful.

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In the movie rendition, she is made out to be at least the size of a horse, and in the book we are also led to believe she carries quite a bulk. Thankfully, as far as we know, no such giant arachnids, or bugs for that matter, exist today. But could they? And did they before?

During the time of the Dinosaurs, fossilised Dragonflies have been found, the size of ravens. It's been said that the oxygen rich atmosphere (upwards of 30%), led to these giant terrors. Researchers believe the excess oxygen allowed them to grow to astronomical sizes, whilst still performing essential functions. However, a new study, seems to show, that it's the larvae's vulnerability to surplus that catalysed this nightmare enduring growth. The solution to their problem would be to grow larger, thus the intake of oxygen would be lessened, relative to their alarming bodies.

So rest easy, knowing that, Shelob won't be coming to eat you in your sleep anytime soon.

How Shelob came there, flying from ruin, no tale tells, for out of the Dark Years few tales have come. But still she was there, who was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of Barad-dur, and she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all living things were her food, and her vomit darkness.