Orcs as good guysWell we all know the bad old orcs. They're usually sorted in with the Borgs, the Nazis, the Daleks, the Deadeaters and the Talibans. Creatures that always hit the red on th mean-o-meter and are a safe card for a villain in any kind of story.
Well I just finished reading
The Orc Omnibus or simply
Orcs by Stan Nichols. It's the story about an Orc war band working for a tyrant queen when they suddenly have to abandon their original course of mission and end up on a classic fantasy quest trough a multi-racial world.
This orcs are not really "good" - after all they are born into the trade of war, they do their job and they are damn good at it. Although they are never cruel and unjust. They need to follow a case or they feel useless, they do what they have to do whatever it takes and they never let a comrade down. And in the end this war band and the other orcs in this story come to resemble something between Spartans and WWI or II front soldiers.
The story is fast, dirty and action filled with some awesome fight- and battle scenes and it also make a great stand againt religious bigotry, racism and environmental damage.
If you want a good read, do check this out! You don't need to be a fantasy fan to like it, but if you can't stand sword'n'sandals or war storie it's not your thing.
Then it also reminds a bit of the books
Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) By Eric Remarque or Valerio N Manfredi's Alexander thrilogy. It's more 300 than LOTR.
The Emotmania continues:Some more emots to collect and have fun with:
U wanna thank someone 4 a fav - and be original??Well here's what you've been looking for
Lunar EclipseOups – what happened to the moon! It had became the strangest crescent when I came out tonight after a visit with the neighbors. I called them out, and then Olle (Mr Neighbor
) said that he remembered having read about a lunar eclipse and went back in to get the daily paper. And sure, there it was – a note telling us to look in the sky to see the moon disappear and perhaps even turn red.
Now the night was too hazy for a red moon (or perhaps the redness have something with Earthly light pollution - I've heard that somewhere) and this little crescent disappeared after a while and a bit later the moon started to appear again, first looking like a normal vaxing one but in the end more like a cookie someone had taken a bite of. And it kept waxing so fast one could almost see it growing! Too bad I didn't have an available camera strong enough for great moon pictures.
And a cloud full of thunderboltsAnd the other evening I saw something else worth mentioning. It was a huge, solitary cloud sailing across the sky and it was filled with flashing lightings. A fierce thunderstorm going on. Although it was so high up / far away that we couldn't hear the thunders. We just saw a firework of lightings zigzagging across the dark clouds - a magnificent display!
Sometime's nature's show beats everything man can come up with.
Museum of good art - this week's exhibition
:thumb95075200:
:thumb95572663: :thumb94598670:
:thumb89620007: :thumb95427682:
:thumb95195923: :thumb89343153:
:thumb95163702:
It's a fan thing...
Music played:
- Sweep - In your eyes
- Onetwo - a vision in the sky
- New Modern Angels - I'll have it strange
- Karin Ström - Psykos
- Fantasja - How I feel
- Vinylmovers - Rhythm Is A Dancer Again (Robb Math' Copy Capp Mix)
- Faith Assembley - Fade To Black
- DJ Axolos - Space Storm
- Madonna - Heartbeat
- Marco Rochowski - The Broken Promise (DreamEdit)
- Krister Linder - Mixed blood
- Ven Bravi - Led by freedom
- I Syntesist - Time Machine
- James D. Stark - Ready
- Mr Jones Macine - Kallt stål