I have been leisurely reading through The Lord of the Rings. This marks my 19th, or perhaps 20th reading. (It isn’t a contest, but to those of you who read it yearly, relax. I humbly yield.) One would imagine that at some point a certain degree of unforced memorization would occur, preventing the reader from… Continue reading Musings on The Lord of the Rings. I
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A Farrago: Updates, Reviews, and Doings. Resurrected Post.
January 12, 2020 A Farrago: Updates, Reviews, and Doings. I hope to cram in a number of items in today’s post. A mishmash of topics. A salmagundi, if you will. I’ll start with paying off last week’s hints and portents post. What I was dancing around back then was the news that I have a… Continue reading A Farrago: Updates, Reviews, and Doings. Resurrected Post.
Amateurish Tolkien Sleuthing. Resurrected Post.
August 19, 2018 Amateurish Tolkien Sleuthing MBW, the HA, and I drove out to the Columbia River Gorge yesterday and embarked on a paddlewheel sightseeing excursion upriver. The sky offered better visibility than it had most of the previous month: about this time every year everything west of the Rockies bursts into flame. Smoke obscures… Continue reading Amateurish Tolkien Sleuthing. Resurrected Post.
Twenty Silver Jakarta’s per Gross Weight of Lembas. Resurrected Post.
April 12, 2015 Twenty Silver Jakatas per Gross Weight of Lembas Building a believable fantasy world is a challenge. There is no precise recipe, but there are ingredients. One of those ingredients is a sense of an economy, the suggestion that in the lands the characters live in, visit, or simply pass through there are… Continue reading Twenty Silver Jakarta’s per Gross Weight of Lembas. Resurrected Post.
Tolkien’s Birthday Commemoration. Resurrected Post.
January 4, 2015 Published on January 04, 2015 11:37 Tolkien’s Birthday Commemoration Yesterday marked the birth date of Jonathan Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Had flights of Maia not called him home in 1973 he’d be pushing the Old Took for longevity records, but still shy of Bilbo’s Ring-assisted accomplishment. An admirable man, a man I’d like… Continue reading Tolkien’s Birthday Commemoration. Resurrected Post.