The legendary fantasy artist Frank Frazetta has died at age 82. I was a big fan of his art, I loved his comic book art, and his cover art for Conan and Tarzan. He was one of the artists that inspired me to do fantasy art myself. I am happy to say the I have many of the comic books he worked on, and I will always cherish them.

Frazetta had many awards for his works among them are:

Awards Chesley Award (1988, 1995, 1997)
Hugo Award (1966)
Spectrum Grand Master of Fantastic Art Award (1995)

You can visit his gallery at:http://www.frankfrazetta.net

I have created a fantasy and fairy name creator, mainly for my fairy tale writing. I have tried many online fantasy name generators, but found that most of them were plain stupid. The names were just random shuffled words that gave no meaning what so ever, or they were more or less tedious names. I wanted to give my characters names that would fit their personality, so I started to create lists of plants, animals, gemstones and old mythological names. I found descriptions of what all the names and words symbolized, and as a result I found, that I could build names that had a meaning.

Start creating your own name!

How to use my fantasy and fairy name creator.

The categories below can be found in a female and male version!

• plants

• animal/fable

• gemstones

• human/ mythlogical names

There is only one list of adjectives. Adjectives are words that express an attribute of something. This list of words can be used for both female and male names.

This is an example of names you could create if you had chosen the male animal inspired name Hawk, and combined it with some of the other categories.

Use the words "the" or "of" to create some interesting variations of names or add "ing" at the end of your chosen name.

Hawk the Ancient

Ancient Hawk

Hawk of the Ancient

Blue Hawk of the Ancient

Ancient Hawk of the Blue

Blue Hawk

Hawking

This is an example of names you could create if you had chosen the female gemstone Amber and combined it with some of the other categories.

Blushing Amber

Amber the Silky

Swan Amber

Silky Swan Amber

Blushing SwanAmber

Sofia the Amber

Sofia the Blushing Amber

Amber the Dandelion

Blushing Amber of the Dandelion

You might want to use a pencil and a piece of paper for creating your name!

Start creating your own name!

In Agust, I will publish the first Nidlongdir saga as an E-book. The saga includes sequentially illustrated stories about Nidlongdir. I created the E-book for those of you who would like the Nidlongdir stories gathered in a book.

The title of the first saga is Nidlongdir, the Discovery. This book includes the first stories about how I discovered some fairies in my garden, and found my fairy twins Ebbe and Selene inside an apple. And for those of you who already know the story, I have included some new and never published stories as well.

You can pre subscript for the first saga; The Discovery of Nidlongdir $ 24.00 You will receive the stories directly by E-mail as printable pdf files.

This subscription includes the first 12 stories, and you will receive a story once each month! The first saga will be released 2010-08-01.

You can download a free sample from the Nidlongdir sagas here! The sample story is the prolog for The Discovery of Nidlongdir.

Also do remeber I am writing in www.faezine.com Follow the story about Queen Agrafian in my column the Niidlongdir Whisperings!

This is one of my new gnomes ;)

Adopt a pair of fairy twins !

Almost every day I go for a walk with my dog Mickie in the forest, or along the beach. We start our walk from a special place we have found, where the forest path starts from the top of a hill, and runs down into a valley where the path splits into three smaller paths. We have taken this route hundreds of times, and we have explored all the smaller paths in the area, or so I thought, because to my astonishment, I discovered a new, and almost hidden path at the bottom of the valley. Perhaps it was because we were out much earlier than usually that morning? The sun was standing low on the morning sky, over the sea, which one can glimpse between the trees, and suddenly, I noticed how the sunlight stroke thought the trees and lit up a very narrow path.

Actually, I think it is a deer trail, and not a path used by humans. It was quite difficult to see where to set my feet, because the forest floor was very moistly, and there were muddy holes I could step into. The trail took me deeper into the valley, where small fresh water streams ran towards the sea. This part of the forest is left wild and untouched by humans, so I had to climb over a few fallen trees, and as I reached the bottom of the valley, the trail took a left turn and ended at a bog. I found myself a tree stump to rest on. The dog was busy tracking a bird, so I sat there quietly for some time. I felt how the beats of my heart, fell in one with the sounds of the forest. I sensed the freshness of the water from the small streams, and although it still was a bit chilly, I pushed of my boots, and socks, and buried my feet into the soft wet moss. The moss felt tickling between my toes; the sun was warming my bag, and slowly I felt like I was in one with my surroundings.

The light danced on the surface of the water in the bog. A duck landed between two old trees growing in the water, and it must have scared something in the water, because I saw a shadow, followed by a ripple to the left of the two trees. I felt a breeze, water droplets hit my face, and then fog raised from the bog. I felt like the forest had grabbed me, I was unable to move, my feet were trapped in the moss. Out of the fog, I saw the most alluring creature I had ever seen being shaped right in front of my eyes. It was a tall woman with pale skin, almost the same colour as the fog. Her hair was greenish, and it was so long that it floated behind her in the water. Her big grey eyes looked into mien,  and suddenly she set of into the air with the fog following her. Then she dived back into the bog, and disappeared with a big splash of her fish tail hitting the water surface. Mickie came back from his bird hunt, and licked my hand, I felt the moss letting go of my feet, and I put on my socks and boots, so that we could go on. This was my first encounter with a water spirit her on Als, and a great way to start my day!

Check out my "Who lives here" photos!

I have been working on the Nidlongdir web site and blog for nearly two years now, and I try to improve it all the time! I would like to hear how you would like the web site and blog to evolve in the feature, so the fairies and I would be grateful if you would take time to fill out our little survey on the front page of www.nidlongdir.com