I have uploaded some old banquet photos here for those who may remember them.
The username and password are both taruithorn.
Obviously this isn't particularly to make them private, it's just I'd rather they didn't get picked up by search engines and displayed in random image searches.
No 1: everyone No 2: the lady in the orange No 3: the wizard No 4: the chap in the smoking-jacket No 5: the lady on the left, in the floral blouse No 7 top: the chap on the right No 8 middle: the two in the centre No 9: the Nazgul and the violinist No 11: the beard No 12 bottom: the reader No 13 top: almost everyone No 14: both No 15: both (but is that you on the right???) No 16: everyone apart from Creatrix No 17 bottom: Robin Hood and the archer
Feel free to reply by email if you don't want to give away too many real names here; but OTOH, other people might want to be told, as well!
I'll probably reply by email, to protect those that don't want their real names bandies around the internet :-) though it probably won't be till tonight - I should be doing end of year accruals, not looking at LJ at the moment :-)
Yes, it is me on the right of 15, dressed as a drownded hobbit ;-)
1) Pellinor is one of the duellers, and Jez is the troubadour with the guitar. The top guy's name escapes me, but I am fairly sure this is just after he bet his hair on the outcome of some sporting event or other, lost, and philmophlegm gave him a barbering.
2) I obviously knew at the time, but...
3) I think that's kargicq under there somewhere
4) & 5) Nope, no idea. Looks vaguely familiar, but...
7) that's the violinist, but I forget his name
8) Emily, who I think has vanished, and isn't that a very young Richie from a weird angle???
9) The Nazgul are philmophlegm & the ProudTwinly Parent (can't remember other pseudonyms!)
11) Hmmm. Yes. Controversial, that beard.
13) everyone in that pic is people you definitely know, just with weird hair including me (hiding behind Chainmailmaiden)
14) upper one is nameforgotten hairremoved as in 1), lower one is lanciatore. A very *sloshed* lanciatore, admittedly.
15) Yes that is Chainmailmaiden looking glamourous yet also slightly undead. The gentleman showing off his legs is chris_maslen. He later swore many times that he hadn't realised the tights weren't opaque...
16) It's AMAZING how successful a silly hat and weird hair can be as a disguise...
17) Look HARD at the archer. And at Robin Hood. And think how many men you know own white tights and would wear them in public. Also, that thing behind the archer isn't a cloak. It's someone from your f-list...
The other duellist was called Bernard. The duel was over the pronunciation of "Cheviots", of all things. One of us pronounced it "Tchee-viotz", the other "Sheh-veeoh".
I leave the question of which is correct as an exercise for the reader.
Me *sloshed*?? Shurely not? :-) Could have been worse - I dozed off in one of the bay windows later on and was only woken up when the hoovering began!
That is my first banquet - Shire in 1993. In order to effect a more Hobbit-esque physique I had shoved a college scarf down the front of my waistcoat, which turned out to be very handy later in the evening as I could take it out and use it as a pillow.
1. Surname is a bit like the arty town in Cornwall. He bet his hair that England would beat Wales in Rugby Union. They didn't. I cut it off. Heh heh. Incidentally, Bernard wanted to be Aragorn in the dramatic reading, but lost the addition to kargicq, and we never saw him again!
2. Lucy.
3. If you say so.
5. Wasn't she a friend of na_lon's?
7. Gavin?
8. Yes on both counts.
9. I think the official pseudonym (or at least the one used by Neuromancer is 'Gimli').
15. Phwooar! (chainmailmaiden doesn't look bad either to be fair...)
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Date: 2007-04-02 01:09 pm (UTC)No 2: the lady in the orange
No 3: the wizard
No 4: the chap in the smoking-jacket
No 5: the lady on the left, in the floral blouse
No 7 top: the chap on the right
No 8 middle: the two in the centre
No 9: the Nazgul and the violinist
No 11: the beard
No 12 bottom: the reader
No 13 top: almost everyone
No 14: both
No 15: both (but is that you on the right???)
No 16: everyone apart from Creatrix
No 17 bottom: Robin Hood and the archer
Feel free to reply by email if you don't want to give away too many real names here; but OTOH, other people might want to be told, as well!
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Date: 2007-04-02 01:26 pm (UTC)Yes, it is me on the right of 15, dressed as a drownded hobbit ;-)
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Date: 2007-04-02 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-02 01:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-02 01:38 pm (UTC)2) I obviously knew at the time, but...
3) I think that's kargicq under there somewhere
4) & 5) Nope, no idea. Looks vaguely familiar, but...
7) that's the violinist, but I forget his name
8) Emily, who I think has vanished, and isn't that a very young Richie from a weird angle???
9) The Nazgul are philmophlegm & the ProudTwinly Parent (can't remember other pseudonyms!)
11) Hmmm. Yes. Controversial, that beard.
13) everyone in that pic is people you definitely know, just with weird hair including me (hiding behind Chainmailmaiden)
14) upper one is nameforgotten hairremoved as in 1), lower one is lanciatore. A very *sloshed* lanciatore, admittedly.
15) Yes that is Chainmailmaiden looking glamourous yet also slightly undead. The gentleman showing off his legs is chris_maslen. He later swore many times that he hadn't realised the tights weren't opaque...
16) It's AMAZING how successful a silly hat and weird hair can be as a disguise...
17) Look HARD at the archer. And at Robin Hood. And think how many men you know own white tights and would wear them in public. Also, that thing behind the archer isn't a cloak. It's someone from your f-list...
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Date: 2007-04-02 04:20 pm (UTC)I leave the question of which is correct as an exercise for the reader.
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Date: 2007-04-03 03:31 pm (UTC)That is my first banquet - Shire in 1993. In order to effect a more Hobbit-esque physique I had shoved a college scarf down the front of my waistcoat, which turned out to be very handy later in the evening as I could take it out and use it as a pillow.
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Date: 2007-04-03 09:08 pm (UTC)2. Lucy.
3. If you say so.
5. Wasn't she a friend of na_lon's?
7. Gavin?
8. Yes on both counts.
9. I think the official pseudonym (or at least the one used by Neuromancer is 'Gimli').
15. Phwooar! (chainmailmaiden doesn't look bad either to be fair...)
16 and 17 are really easy.
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Date: 2007-04-04 02:59 pm (UTC):-p
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Date: 2007-04-02 04:58 pm (UTC)