Ah, so THAT’S their security system! Kinda like Lord of the Rings a little bit, don’t you think? Like the warning beacons of Gondor? Maybe one of them read the books…
I always wondered about the one guy who lived on top of that snow covered mountain… is his ONLY job to light that fire? What if they never used the beacons? Would he just live up there forever? What does he eat? Does he live alone or with his family? These questions, they bother me!
Anyway, so since Freewheel: Volume One is not even halfway funded yet, I’m afraid I still have to bug you every week about the Freewheel: Volume One Fundraising Campout. As I type this, we’re at $882 out of $2500 (which is about 35%), so there’s still $1618 left to raise before the end of February! Check out the Campout page for details on how you can help, and even if you can’t contribute financially, spreading the word is sometimes even better!
Oh swizzlesticks… have I mentioned that I have a ? And a ? And a LiveJournal? Well I do, so if you also do then you should totally do a thing with them so we can be on the internet… together!
Oh AND be sure and check out the sweet writeup Jen Vaughn of Mermaid Hostel did on the Freewheel Campout! She drew a really neat picture of me in an outfit I WISH I owned! You should go look at it!
About the Gondor fire beacon in the mountain : I’m thinking it’s more like a lighthouse guardian : they send a soldier (or a couple soldiers) there for a month, during which time they have to do some repairs on the tower, make sure there’s always enough dry wood and so on, and then they’re replaced. Plus maybe there were drills to make sure the system worked.
That makes sense, though I do kind of like the idea of somebody who just lives all up in the mountains magically all the time somehow! It seems like it would be terribly difficult to get up and go back down that one particularly high up snow-covered mountain.