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Do you ever fall in love with your favorite band all over again? Sometimes I forget how much the music means to me, and then at random times it will hit me and I’ll get the same feeling in my chest I felt years ago when I first heard them. It’s one of my favorite feelings in the entire world.

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Translation of 9th Story CD “Nein” Revo official interview (Part 1?)

According to the official website, the second part of the interview will be posted at a later date.

-Sound Horizon(SH from now on)’s new release “Nein” is the first story CD album in four and a half years. But Revo, you’ve certainly been active in those four and a half years. Is there anything in this album that was influenced by some of your experiences during that time? Revo: I can’t really say for sure. Though I’ve done quite a few collaborative works under the name Linked Horizon(LH), it’s hard to say whether this CD would’ve changed at all if I didn’t have that experience. In other words, it’s something that I can only know for sure if I looked at it from another world’s perspective. (laughs) Did this CD turn out this way because of LH, or would it have been the same without LH, as long as I was given the same amount of time? Now that you asked, though, I did feel that the effort I put into music-making has changed. Of course, I put in my best effort for all my previous works, but I feel like the quality of the music itself has improved.

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Translation of 9th Story CD “Nein” Revo official interview (part 2)

The second (and last) part of Revo’s official interview on “Nein”.

Read the first part here.

-When you were producing the new story CD, Nein, did you keep the 10th anniversary in mind? Revo: It’s a CD I made as a 10th anniversary compilation, so I put in lots of past SH elements. I really want new listeners to know my music - and though that’s true of every release I put out, it’s especially relevant this time. I was hoping that they’d become interested in my past releases after listening to this CD, and that’s definitely all part of my plan. (laughs) What is story music? Is it something continuous? Is it hard to get into? I think there are people who, even though they’re interested, find it hard to get into it because of those questions. I want to take the 10th anniversary as an opportunity to tell them “It’s never too late”. I’m also actively trying to make use of other forms of media this year, and I’m hoping that they’ll all come together nicely. Of course, the CD’s contents are something that the passionate fans who’ve followed me so far could enjoy the most. You could just listen to it and enjoy its musical variety, but I think the true fun lies in digging deeper into the story itself.

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halt and catch fire not cancelled

Hey guys, I keep seeing a lot of stuff in Lee’s tag about HACF being cancelled. This is not true and has no legitimate sources to back it up. Here is an article talking about how only time will tell if we get a season 3 and here is one about how it’s ratings haven’t been great. They aren’t good news, but it definitely hasn’t officially been cancelled. Hope that makes some people feel a bit better!

Edit: Here is another article about plans for the show’s future that someone just gave me :)

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There’s no answer to the “Did Thranduil sail?” question and we’re never going to get one and maybe sometimes that drives me up the wall, like, if I could take a quick jaunt over to the afterlife and ask Tolkien some questions about his world, there are far better questions! Far more complex and central to the themes questions! And yet invariably, my first thought is always, “So, tell me Thranduil eventually sailed, right?” Sigh. But I really do think that he sailed and I’ve talked about it a few times before and I was reading over the post-LOTR stuff in the appendices again and was struck by:

Which I’ve read a bunch of times before, of course. But for reference, the map of Mirkwood (while it was still Mirkwood):

What happened was: During the War of the Ring (the battle with the Fellowship and the One Ring, where Sauron was finally defeated once and for all), there was shit going down in Mirkwood (the Battle Under the Trees) and it was a hard fight, but Thranduil eventually won his battle against Sauron’s forces. Afterwards, Sauron and the Nazgul are gone from the forest. Most of the really poisonous evil is gone or leaving from the world (including the forest). There are probably lingering pockets or Orcs or spiders or other nasties here and there, for the most part, that forest would be recovering and safe again! So, on the Elven New Year, Celeborn and Thranduil meet up and they divide that great big forest into thirds. The bottom third (where Dol Guldur used to be) is taken by Celeborn and becomes East Lorien. The middle part (from East Bight to the mountains) is given to the Beornings. The northern part (from the mountains northward) was kept by Thranduil and renamed Eryn Lasgalen (Wood of the Green Leaves). Now, when Oropher came to Greenwood originally, the settled in the south, their capital used to be right there around Dol Guldur. They had that whole forest to run around in, if they wanted! But when Sauron’s finally completely gone from the forest, Thranduil only takes a third of it. He gives up 2/3rds of the forest that he could have reclaimed, including giving a good chunk of it to non-Elves who didn’t even seem to be at that meeting. (Meaning, it seems they happily gave away that land rather than it was taken from them.) Which says to me that Thranduil felt the forest was in capable hands other than his own. I don’t think he needed to stay, once the time of the Elves was fully over, to take care of the forest, because he trusted others to take care of it. Even accounting for the loss of Elven life (and thus they don’t need more room) doesn’t take away from that Thranduil apparently pretty easily gave away parts of the forest that used to be his home and only kept a fraction of it. I don’t think feeling beholden to the forest would have held Thranduil back from sailing, if he gave up so much of it so readily. He feels a duty to the forest and his people, absolutely, but it doesn’t seem like it’s a “only we can take care of this forest” kind of duty, but instead, “The forest must be cared for, whether by me or someone else.” And those someone elses are there, so I don’t think it would hold him back from sailing.

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Latest pic shared by Lee on Weibo!

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So I manage to get the Elvenking himself to ‘endorse’ on my Middle Earth hair color edit at China Guangzhou’s Fanstang Comic Con. =X

Here’s a recount:

Me: Hi Lee.

Lee: *With a warm & dazzling smile* Hi.

Me: Are you alright?

(He was looking alittle pale. But at the same time he still look really good. Long story behind this. Let’s leave it for another time.)

Lee: *Raising his eyebrows & looking a alittle surprised* Yeah, I’m fine.

Me: Um, can you sign this for me? *Placing the printed edit on the table in front of him*

Lee: *Picks up the edit from the table, turning slightly to the side & held it up to eye-level* Did you make this?

(You can see his eyes quickly moving, reading Thorin’s part on top with a smile on his face. =X His expression is quite open. ;) )

Me: Uh, yeah.

Lee: *Turning back to me, smiling* That’s really funny.

Me: Thank you.

Lee: It’s really good. You should show it to Peter Jackson.

Me: *Grinning like a fool* You think? *Points to the Thranduil part at the bottom* Can you sign here?

Lee: *Signs*

Me: Thank you so much. Thank you.

Lee: *Smiles again* Thank you.

(And then I walk out, clutching the signed printout to my chest. Totally forgotten about the present I prepared and shaking his hand…

This is as much as I remember. I was pretty calm. I think. ^^;

I met him again the next day for photo-op & he remember me. Said it’s really nice to see me again.

Anyways, everyone’s encouraging me to give him that hair color edit, so I gave him the second pic. I was trying to keep it short & fast, all I heard was him saying, ‘Awww.’

Anyways, mission accomplished. ;) )