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[coyotegoth]

Fourteen days from now, I'll be boarding a plane at JFK, that will take me to another plane, and farther from the place of my birth than I've ever been in my life. I've found the tattoo parlor in Wellington at which the nine members of the Fellowship (except John Rhys-Davies; his stunt double did it in his stead) were each tattooed with the Elvish symbol for "nine;" although I'll be getting a different symbol (perhaps the Elvish for "journey," or "New Zealand," or even the Elvish version of the date that I'm there), it would please me to mark the occasion on my skin, at that place. Fourteen days...

Comments

[redbird]

I'm just paranoid enough to hope that you speak/read whichever Elvish tongue you're thinking of, because I've seen too many stories of people getting tattooed in languages they don't read, with embarrassing results.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Valid point; wearing the Quenya symbols for "Eat at Joe's" is not what I'm traveling halfway around the world for.

[genders.livejournal.com]

It's always good to research these kinds of things and bring your own info to the tattoo parlor. Anil Gupta wouldn't tattoo Fermat's Last Theorem on me until I brought him hardcopy references for all the math and symbolic logic.

Do you have any other ink?

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

A Janus mask on my right upper bicep.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Digitalsidhe is rusty, but was considered expert enough at Elvish Quenya to get invited to speak at a conference on it a few years back. (He has even created an Elvish word for coyote, namely, "clever or crafty" plus "dog".) He would be a great person to email about such a tattoo.

(My Quenya is also rusty and never really rose above phrasebook tourist level. I can no longer say "Wanna come up to my flet and see my fletchings?" in a suggestive tone. I should practice.)

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the suggestion; I'll definitely do that (and repay you both with dinner when next I visit.) Is there a main email address to use?

[digitalsidhe.livejournal.com]

You can reach me at [address redacted] after posting.

[eastertheatre.livejournal.com]

What a neat idea!

i love it

[soloadventure.livejournal.com]

this is the first smile I've had all day.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the Southern Hemisphere in advance!

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[pucette.livejournal.com]

OMG have a wonderful wonderful time there for those of us who'd love to go but just can't come close to winging it anytime soon. And the tattoo sounds awesome. Can't wait to see pictures!

[theotoky.livejournal.com]

oh how amazing! enjoy! i cannot wait to hear all about it.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

New Zealand!

I'm so excited for you.

[arethinn]

God, I just had a total teenage girl moment. My first thought was "ooo, someone got to touch Orlando Bloom's naked skin!"

Kill me now?