Morthoron the Dark Elf
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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | United States |
| Introduction | Curmudgeonly, contentious and correct (more times than not), the 'Dark Elf' is a writer, composer and musician well-known on many sites and forums across the World Wide Web,and the decidely odd,Tolkienesque pseudonym 'Morthoron the Dark Elf' has been in use since the Dark Ages of the Internet (the last decade of the 20th century). |
| Interests | Writing essays and fantasy fiction, composing music, listening to music, playing guitar and blues harp, camping, reading (voluminously). |
| Favorite movies | The Godfather Parts I & II, The Lion in Winter, Becket, Monty Python's The Holy Grail, Lawrence of Arabia, Blade Runner, Amadeus, Goodfellas, The Silence of the Lambs, Fargo, any movies by Martin Scorsese, Michael Curtiz, Milos Forman, David Lean, Ridley Scott, John Huston, Terry Gilliam, John Ford, silent movies with Lon Chaney Sr., Charlie Chaplin |
| Favorite music | Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, The Pogues, The Beatles, Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin, Traffic, Young Dubliners, Great Big Sea, Tool, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, The Band, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Jeff Beck, The Waterboys, Fairport Convention, Frank Zappa, Simon and Garfunkel, The Doors, Al DiMeola, Return to Forever, and the early works of Yes, Black Sabbath, Queen, Alice Cooper, Genesis, The Moody Blues, The Who. |
| Favorite books | The collected works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the collected works of Charles Dickens, the historical works of Barbara Tuchman, the collected works of Victor Hugo, the collected work of Oscar Wilde, the collected works of W.B. Yeats, the short stories of E.A. Poe, the collected works of Umberto Eco, the collected works of Salman Rushdie, The Once and Future King by T.H. White, any historical work pertaining to the 14th century, the Renaissance. |