Lord of the Rings

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I guess everyone of you knows the famous movie “The Lord of the Rings”. As we all know it already I am not going to write about the story of the film or book but about the film crew. There were many knows actors involved in the movie, for example Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler, Sean Bean, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom and Cate Blanchett. As the filming was very intense and sometimes in very remote places, the actors got to know and like each other very well and formed a little family. I watched some videos lately which showed how emotional the end of the filming was for them. I also found out that Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn got very attached to his horse “Brego” and bought it afterwards because it was his best friend. He sometimes even slept in the stables . He did even more: He brought a member of the stunt crew a horse because she could not afford it but enough of horses now. That the fellowship actors got very attached to each other is very visible in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd8jfzN5OkI

It is a fake interview in which Dominic Monaghan (Merry) poses as a German interviewer and asks Elijah Wood (Frodo) all kinds of stupid questions. In my opinion it is one of the funniest things ever! :D

If you want to find out some more about Viggo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvakFEr98qk

Oh and by the way, there are some pictures which combine Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. I find them all incredibly funny: :D

I guess that made clear how much I like Game of Thrones, too. ;)

Kill your meat yourself!

Would you eat that?

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Margi Clark said: "I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw." I totally agree with her. People say it is natural for us to eat animals. They say that we have always eaten animals, that we were great hunters and that we only got a such a huge brain because of the protein in meat. That is all very well but it does not matter now. We were not only hunters but also gatherers which brought us protein from nuts and plants. We surely are no hunters now, most of us can't even walk noiselessly in a forest or kill anything with our bare hands. I, for my part, would not be able to kill a deer, pig, dog or any other mammal. Do you think you would stand a chance against a grown cow? I really doubt it. If someone tells me that they would go into the forest and bring out a dead animal, that is alright. However, I really doubt that anybody would really do that, even our laws forbid it. The other question is: Who would eat a raw dead animal? I wouldn't.

How cowardly is that?

Let me introduce myself...

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My name is Alexandra but most friends call me Xandi. I live and study in Graz as most of you know. My second language is Austrian sign language, which I like very much. In general I am a quite cheerful person with a fondness for nature, veganism, activism and very much food. ;) Another thing I enjoy very much is music. I love listening to music, going to concerts and festivals and singing along with my favorite vocalists.