Her real name is Nichole. She was born on St. Patrick's Day--apparently, it took a while to convince her that the parades on the 17th of March was not for her birthday.
She has three sisters.
Celuien is a fourth year medicine student, the youngest one in her class.
She likes chocolate (a lot!), frogs (a lot more!), cats (she used to have severe cat allergy, but she got cured; now has a kitten named Abby), and the colour blue. Her favourite sport is bowling. She also enjoys reading books by Thomas Hardy and (this comes as a shock to me) JRR Tolkien, playing music, doing nature walks, and programming web sites.
The Frog-maiden first came across Tolkien in a grammar book, when she was but nine years old. There was an excerpt from
The Fellowship of the Ring, with punctuations removed, and she had to insert them. Then she started wondering where Mordor was, why Frodo wanted to go there, and why Sam wanted to go with him. She tried to look for the books, but her mum dissuaded her from it. Years later, one of her sisters was assigned
The Hobbit as part of her book club. She hated it, but as soon as she put it down, Celuien grabbed the book and read it cover to cover. The old curiosity was renewed instantly, and when The Hobbit was dropped off at the library return desk, she left with a copy of
The Fellowship of the Ring, followed shortly by
The Two Towers and
The Return of the King. She never turned back.
She joined the ranks of the dead on May 1, 2005--the same date as BD's birthday!
I can't find how she stumbled upon this site. All I can discern is that she has been lurking here for years, then, during the fifth anniversary celebration of the Downs,
she broke her silence.
Lately she is fascinated by spoons. I wonder why.