xhiris

I loved Snow Crash. Cryptonomicon was awesome too.

Got started on the books because of their cameo in Uru.

Of course the bastards cancelled Uru Live, but oh well.

Neal stephenson is awesome-- I love "in the beginning was the command line" or whatever it's called. Also, of course, snow crash.
I tend to get exceedingly verbose when it comes to the tengwar/quenya
so here goes:
The tengwar in my profile pic say tariel elenion. so you got nearly the whole second word-- the i and o tehtar are smushed next to each other.
the first word tariel has the characters [tinco] with the a tehtar on top-3 dots in a triangle then [romen]with the i and e tehtar on top then [lambe]
tariel is a made up word--i.e. I made it up- tari-means pl. queens and -iel is the suffix in names meaning daughter of. elenion means of the stars in quenya, as seen in frodo's speaking in toungues frases in shelob's lair. In the books it's in the two towers in the movies it's in ROTK Frodo says: Aiya E`rendil elenion ancalima!" Elen is star, elenion is the pl. genitive--roughly of the stars. or Hey! Erendil, brightest of the stars! I forget what the real translation is and I'm too lazy to look it up.
I tend to be a bit free with my tengwar, since I think it's an art like caligraphy, and if you've ever seen some of the fancier caligraphy, you know what I mean.

right. Done with verbosity of now.