CTS dinner and songs
Mar. 15th, 2006 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackOn tuesday was cts filk night. Billed as like our regular reading evening (bring along an extract of tolkien and show people how good it is) but with songs and poems it initially looked like people might not be bothered, but then it took off as people embraced the 'not just from tolkien directly' idea. There was mainly CDs and singing, of Tolkien singing himself, and renditions of famous songs from the works, and Tolkien-related parody songs. We were as jolly as we ever get on alchohol just on ridiculous lyrics.
And rochvelleth got to the first CTS thing for ages by hosting, which was lovely.
On sunday was the CTS agm and dinner. I got everything wrong at the agm, but it was fun, and the dinner was very nice. The food was vegetarian, nice, and slightly spicy. There was port (and New Hall porters sell college port till 11 if you run out), and chat and toasts and cuddling and aftermath at emperor's.
Inbetween we watching Rankin/Bass's ROTK. Oh my god. It was... amazing in a way. Animated like a cartoon, with charactertures and big noses -- Gollum looks like a gecko with a sore throat -- and with comic song interludes ("Where there's a whip there's a way, wt-tsch, We don't wanna go to war today, But the lord of the lash says nay, nay, nay!") it's hard to take seriously. But you have to see it.
And rochvelleth got to the first CTS thing for ages by hosting, which was lovely.
On sunday was the CTS agm and dinner. I got everything wrong at the agm, but it was fun, and the dinner was very nice. The food was vegetarian, nice, and slightly spicy. There was port (and New Hall porters sell college port till 11 if you run out), and chat and toasts and cuddling and aftermath at emperor's.
Inbetween we watching Rankin/Bass's ROTK. Oh my god. It was... amazing in a way. Animated like a cartoon, with charactertures and big noses -- Gollum looks like a gecko with a sore throat -- and with comic song interludes ("Where there's a whip there's a way, wt-tsch, We don't wanna go to war today, But the lord of the lash says nay, nay, nay!") it's hard to take seriously. But you have to see it.