I must say that usually photoshop filters are just to hide a bad photo, but here they actually fit in here very well, I like it.

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Nothing personal. I just say if I disagree and enjoy a nice debate.

In fact, that's exactly what I use them for, that's why I avoid 'em... In this case it was actually a rather bad photo taken with my cellphone *shame on me*, but I fiddled around in Photoshop and liked the result in the end

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Yes it does! This is beautiful.

And this is totaly unrelated, but might your username be a reference to the works of JRR Tolkien? Because if that was intentional, then hey, that's pretty cool.

Thank you so much!

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By the way I just re-read your comment... Yes, my username is indeed related to JRRT, it's an elven name taken out of "The Silmarillion" (which I totally adore)

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Neat! I love The Silmarillion, I've read it many times. I'm trying to collect every book by Tolkien or related to his works, I just got "The Lost Road and Other Writings" as an early Christmas present.

Interesting, I am collecting his books myself, actually!

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Do you already have a lot of them? My collection is still small, but I just got $50 in bookstore gift certificates from my aunts and uncles, so I'm going to take a trip down there soon and pick out a few more.

I have quite a few... LOTR in both English and in Russian, The Silmarillion in both Eng/Rus, the Hobbit in both languages (I'm sure you've guessed I'm Russian by now ), The Unfinished Tales (Eng.), Tolkien: Artists and Illustrator (aww, I this album), Children of Hurin, a book of Tolkien's poetry, and also a collection of his shorter, less popular works (Smith of Wooton Major, not sure if I've spelt it correcly, as well as his essay "On Faerie Tales" and a couple of other writings - unfortunately, in Russian - I still have to buy the original).

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