Titania, Queen of Elves
Created | Updated Mar 16, 2005
Click on the picture to see an elf image; it's a detail from a
painting by Swedish artist John Bauer. To learn more about him, see
www.bpib.com/illustrat/bauer.htm
If you dream about elves and trolls and magic forests, then this is
the artist for you...
Titania?
Well, believe it or not, it's one of my many nicknames in RL (Real
Life). It derives from my childhood nickname Titti, but later on
there were people who thought it was too common to fit a special
person like me (rather sweet of them, I think) and they invented a
number of varieties, Titania being one of them.
Queen of elves?
...or fairies, really, according to A Midsummer Night's Dream1, but
I feel more like one of Tolkien's elves...
When I became a researcher there already was a researcher called
Titania, so in order to make it easier for people to tell the
difference I added the 'Queen of Elves' to my name. Last time I
checked there were 6 researchers called just Titania, but now I've
got Ripley to make me unique!
2
Elves?
"The Quendi (elves) shall be the fairest of all the earthly
creatures, and they shall have and shall conceive and bring forth
more beauty than all my Children; and they shall have the greater
bliss in this world."
"The Elves remain (in the world) until the end of days, and
their love of the earth and all the world is more single and more
poignant therefore, and as the years lengthen ever more sorrowful."
3
...but who is Ripley, and what's an unau?
U188279 is a virtual unau given to me on my birthday
by U81931. An unau is also known as a two-toed sloth.
Still not sure about what I'm talking about? Here is a picture of
an
unau.
Things you (probably) didn't know about Titania
Titania is 1.04 times the diameter of Oberon
Say what? Oh - both Titania and Oberon are satellites of Uranus
- didn't you know?
http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/bayes-group/Atlas/size/Titania/
YM: kristina_fdse (currently not working)
MSN: Titania
AIM: Aituar
My messenger IDs (make sure you state your h2g2 name if you're
trying to contact me - I've had more than enough of my share of
porn links!):
But why are there such odd conversations hanging off this
page?
Because it used to contain an entry which has now been
edited, so I decided to use this entry for something else.
The edited entry is
The Bashkir Horse
I usually carry around Ripley added to my user name, but
sometimes I change the adding, especially if I feel very
strongly about something, or if I want to advertise something
3Quotes from Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (if
you haven't read any of his books yet, DO!)
