lotr at university

[lobelia321]

Today Lotr intersected in disturbing ways with my offical capacity as admissons tutor.

What do you do when you sit there, looking professional, as an excited sixth-former unfolds his portfolio in the hope of being accepted on the course you administer -- and the portfolio is literally filled to bursting point with sketches of Lotr screencaps?? Professional admissions tutor nods sagely and goes 'hm' and 'what medium is that done in?' while staring at Orlando, Dom and Billy in full technicolour glory.

Should this be allowed???



And another intersection:

Lotr goes academic! Participate in the university research (sic) on Lotr here:

www.lordoftheringsresearch.net

Run by the University of Wales at Aberystwyth and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, can you believe it?

Comments

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't be allowed, I say. Should be banned.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I am amazed it was legal.

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

was the excited 6th-former cute and adorable? he sounds eager ... :-D

i think you should apply to work for the wales uni - right up your alley, me thinks.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

He was certainly eager. But not of the heartbeating type. Well, not for me, anyway. :-)

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

4. What were the main reasons you wanted to see it?

2 rite better porn.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Mwuahahahahah.

Did you write that?????

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

No, I couldn't muster up enough energy to fill it in. But I do think they ought to have the porn-writer's point of view.

[yellow-oranges.livejournal.com]

LOL! omg, what a test of your professionalism! Which you passed with flying colors. I'm afraid I would have gone, "ooh! Let me see" and snatched it out of his li'l unsuspecting hands!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Am not a doctor for nuthin'. ;-)

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Hee. I give the applicant a thumbs-up! Sounds like you handled the whole situation extremely professionally. I couldn't have gotten through without at least a little squee- disguised as a sneeze perhaps, but a squee nonetheless!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Well, thumbs up... He was okay but I do worry when they think that it counts as acceptable fine-art practice to do copies of screencaps... I asked: "Where are your drawings after the life?" I did not add: "For example, drawings after the life figure of a nude Orlando??"

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Ha!

No, but they'd have had something to say about that sort of thing in my day. When I applied to art school, I made sure to have Orlando shipped round to my front room for three weeks just so I could have a decent selection of life-drawing in my portfolio.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Upload!!!!!

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Mmmm . . nude Orlando. . . *zones out*

[badgermonkey.livejournal.com]

Ways in which fandom has intersected alarmingly with my professional life:

A child in my form ran up to me today shouting "Miss! Miss!" rather frantically. Thinking something terrible had happened, I said "What's the matter?" at which point she asked me the burning question of the moment - "Miss, do you like Johnny Depp?" I thought of all the Depp fans and spluttered a bit, and then she rounded it off by saying "Well, how about Orlando Bloom?"

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*bites lip in order not to laugh because is in children's bedroom as own six (SIX) bedroom house has not yet materialised and loft conversion is proceeding at pace of Channel Tunnel*

Little did she know that all she needed to ask was: "Miss, Miss, how about Derek Benfield?" Or at the very least Jack Davenport. Or that man in your icon with the flailing hands.

But Johnny and Orlando -- nope, little girl, up the wrong alley.

Bwuahha.

And how about that government-funded survey? Your taxes are paying for that!!! I filled it in immediately and *gave my telephone number*.

This goes to show I should have applied for fandom funding months ago.

[mandalaya.livejournal.com]

Ha! At work on Monday, I sat down next to a colleague before a very tense meeting (layoffs), and he turned to me and said something that my brain rejected immediately. I asked him to repeat what he'd said. Again, I couldn't understand. He finally made it clear that he was asking who I preferred, Bloom or Mortensen.

**ahhhhhworldscollide!**

He knows I like the films, but nothing of the degree to which I like the films.

Once I caught my breath, I said Bloom. As you do.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*laughs so loud that she manages to drown out the drills of the builders working on her loft conversion*

[badgermonkey.livejournal.com]

This man is Damon Albarn, of the pop group Blur. Now, sadly, a pretentious artiste who faffs around in places like Mali trying to create a 'global sound' but once an engagingly manic Britpop star who my 14-year-old self drooled over shamelessly.

Anyway. I know a disproportionate amount of people who went to Aberwystwyth Uni (there is NO WAY ON EARTH I spelt that right). It seems to be a very strange place all together.

If a child ever asks me about DB I shall drop dead on the spot.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

You never know, you may have a Benfieldian grandchild in your class or something. It's not impossible.

Still, you're worth more alive than dead so I hope it never happens.

Hah! I've heard of Blur! *feels proud*

P.S. My knowledge of post-1980s popular music stems entirely from my past 18 monts on LJ. Was very proud to introduce the sister to Coldplay.