Update: Here’s the really funny thing. Ned reminded me in the comments that this was an old story. That rang a bell in my mind. I searched The Hog’s Head. I reported it way back on September 15, 2006! Here are some better pictures. At least now, via John, we know what to call people like this (and like us): elvendorks.
John Granger came across a pretty impressive undertaking by a genuine elvendork – a matchstick scale model of Hogwarts!
Pat Acton, 55, of Gladbrook, took more than two years to complete the model which features all the turrets, walkways and towers seen in the films.
“I love the books and consider myself a Harry Potter fan,” he said.
“A fan,” indeed. I look forward to John’s future nominations for Elvendork of the Month, and perhaps the pub’s patrons can nominate a few of their own.
by Travis
Bathsheba? Anyone have a brilliant idea about why she chose that name? And here’s a prediction: the internet is about to be flooded with people wanting “Elvendork” as their new screen name. Which new patron of the pub will claim the name here first?
John Granger asks about Elvendork, and at Suite101, I write at length about Wilberforce. You’ve got to be a real (elven)dork to come up with almost 600 words of analysis on this 800 word story, but here you are:
The Harry Potter Prequel
The take-home point: “Wilberforce” pulls together two strains of thought in Rowling’s construction of the Harry Potter series – Christian influence and social justice.
Also, I was very honored today to receive an Editor’s Choice Award for my article J.K. Rowling’s Harvard Speech.
I’ll be interested in more of the pub’s thoughts on the three names – Wilberforce, Bathsheba, and Elvendork - and the story as a whole. (Only an elvendork would think this hard about three names embedded in an 800 word story.)
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