drawn Jan 12, '04
posted for Jan 6, 2007
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Now, this picture was drawn because of the beginning of
the Water Temple. To get there, Link must unfreeze parts of Zora's
Domain, the home of the fish people which has been cursed to freeze
solid, and go to an ice cave to get the Iron Boots which allow him to
get underwater and walk on the bottom. However, to get the Zora's Tunic
that lets him breathe underwater (which is blue, and Rana is wearing it
in the last picture), he needs to either buy it at the shop for a rather
expensive price (300 rupees) or talk to King Zora after unfreezing him.If you buy the Tunic at the shop and THEN talk to King Zora, he'll flounder about for a way to repay you, and then he offers you a kiss! Link, uh, politely refuses in this picture I drew. It's a pretty bad picture, but it's for humour rather than for artistic skill. Sorry about the cropped text on the picture... my scanner is so presumtuous as to 'autocrop' my pictures. Ugh. More attempted kissing tomorrow, heh.
Well, since yesterday, we've had a Zelda frenzy. We beat the three dungeons of Four Swords, the one that comes with A Link to the Past. Then, after we failed to beat Vaati, the boss, and got tired, I played A Link to the Past, since I was starting from scratch. Both games belong to my brother, since the first was given to him for a couple of birthdays ago, but he chose to use the old one since he has a special bonus for his sword in that one. So, I rescued Princess Zelda for the first (and futile) time, and obtained the Pendants of Courage and Power. Wisdom is next up, but it was bedtime. Now he's bugging me to play more, to the point of setting up the game and all, starting a level, and then yelling: "You've got enemies, Jen!" Great. -_-;;7
I'm trying to get the first chapter of my Ocarina of Time story rewritten in my present style so I can put it up here, because right now it has 'script', that is, text copied word for word from the game, and I also had Navi say "Press C Up if you want to listen to me!" because I thought it was funny, but now it's just stupid. I also had a lot of 'dungeon crawl' that was just boring ("Link did this, and then he did this, and then he fought some of these...") so I'm going to edit it out and make it a lot shorter and easier to read, even for me! A lot of these pictures illustrate bits of it, so I'll provide links to those pictures, too!
Oooh, and something else cool happened! I read the first section of The Lost Road! Whoo! It's exciting! It has Tolkien's aborted novel, the twin sister of C.S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet (which I have read)! Lewis did space-travel, and Tolkien was going to do time-travel. It's about a father/son duo whose names always translate to "elf-friend" and "bliss-friend" - which doesn't mean slothful bliss, I think... I think it's sort of like Amandil, the name of Elendil (elf-friend)'s father in the final Silmarillion, and that is translated to "Aman-friend", where Aman is the holy land of Valinor, which is supposed to be a paradise... This father/son duo goes through time, in the bodies of their period counterparts, so they start out as Alboin/Auduin, and go back to things like the Anglo-saxons, and he mentioned something about cave-art, and many others that sounded incredible. In each tale, 'elf-friend' says something about "The eagles of the Lords of the West are coming". Tolkien only ever got around to writing the beginning, up to the point where they choose to go back, and bits of the Anglo-saxon duo and the Numenorean duo, Elendil and his only son Herendil - for this entire story would culminate in the destruction of Numenor, that is his take on the Atlantean legend. At first, he wrote the Numenor bit to go after the beginning, as the 'first stop' in time, but then he decided it would go much better at the end. Elendil's family is also different now, with the more familiar Isildur and Anarion as his sons, which have something to do with the moon and the sun. The 'current' name of Numenor after-the-fall is The Downfallen, or, in elvish... Atalantë.
Alboin dreams of snatches of elvish words...