1) My username comes from Tad Williams' novel The War of the Flowers. All the elves there have plant names, and Lord Hellebore is one of the villains.
The fun thing about the username is that back in the day, I used to participate quite avidly in a lot of Christian LJ communities. Now, there were quite a heap of Christian fundies who will get there knickers in a twist when they even see the letter combination "hell", never mind that it has nothing whatsoever to do with faith and is part of a flower's name (which is, ironically, in German called "Christrose/Pfingstrose" = "Christ rose/Pentecost rose"). So, a lot of the time they would see "Lord" and "Hell" and be all over me, since I also was arguing against stupid things like "being gay is evil" etc. "Antichrist" is only one of the many names I earned there . . .
2) The two main icons I use for default icons are and . They're both Tilda Swinton, who is a lovely actress and quite good at portraying androgynous characters like the Archangel Gabriel in Constantine.
3) My journal titles:
a) I am not bound to please thee with my answers is a quote from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which is my favourite play of his, and my favourite play in general. Obviously, Shylock is my favourite character, and this is one of my favourite quotes of his ;)
b) Intelligenz sieht nur von unten aus wie Arroganz is German and means "Intelligence looks like arrogance only from below". Yes, that looks arrogant *smirks*
4) Sidebar text: Tall ships and tall kings Three times three What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing Sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree.
Tis is a poem called A Rhyme of Lore from Lord of the Rings. Gandalf recites it to Pippin in chapter nine of The return of the King as they are riding from Edoras to Minas Tirith. The ships are the nine ships that survived the fall of Númenor, sailed by Elendil and his sons Isildur and Anárion. The foundered land is Númenor. The seven stones are the palantíri, and the white tree is the sapling of Nimloth (which is an descendant of the White Tree Galathilion, the tree made by Yavanna for the Elves in Tirion, in the likeness of Telperion, one of the two trees that used to shed light on Valinor before the sun, moon, and stars were created) preserved by Isildur before it was destroyed. What the seven stars are, I am not sure, but there are seven stars on the standard of Elendil.
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Date: 2013-10-25 10:12 pm (UTC)The fun thing about the username is that back in the day, I used to participate quite avidly in a lot of Christian LJ communities. Now, there were quite a heap of Christian fundies who will get there knickers in a twist when they even see the letter combination "hell", never mind that it has nothing whatsoever to do with faith and is part of a flower's name (which is, ironically, in German called "Christrose/Pfingstrose" = "Christ rose/Pentecost rose"). So, a lot of the time they would see "Lord" and "Hell" and be all over me, since I also was arguing against stupid things like "being gay is evil" etc.
"Antichrist" is only one of the many names I earned there . . .
2) The two main icons I use for default icons are
3) My journal titles:
a) I am not bound to please thee with my answers is a quote from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which is my favourite play of his, and my favourite play in general. Obviously, Shylock is my favourite character, and this is one of my favourite quotes of his ;)
b) Intelligenz sieht nur von unten aus wie Arroganz is German and means "Intelligence looks like arrogance only from below". Yes, that looks arrogant *smirks*
4) Sidebar text: Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three
What brought they from the foundered land
Over the flowing Sea?
Seven stars
and seven stones
And one white tree.
Tis is a poem called A Rhyme of Lore from Lord of the Rings. Gandalf recites it to Pippin in chapter nine of The return of the King as they are riding from Edoras to Minas Tirith. The ships are the nine ships that survived the fall of Númenor, sailed by Elendil and his sons Isildur and Anárion. The foundered land is Númenor. The seven stones are the palantíri, and the white tree is the sapling of Nimloth (which is an descendant of the White Tree Galathilion, the tree made by Yavanna for the Elves in Tirion, in the likeness of Telperion, one of the two trees that used to shed light on Valinor before the sun, moon, and stars were created) preserved by Isildur before it was destroyed. What the seven stars are, I am not sure, but there are seven stars on the standard of Elendil.