All authors have one or two. Starting in the third volume he gets awfully fond of fey also. He uses it to mean “crazy,” not “of, like, or pertaining to a fairy” — I don’t think Middle-earth has fairies. When[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
According to Webster’s Eleventh New Collegiate Dictionary, the standard in my industry, it’s actually best seller, but when they put it on the covers of books like this it’s usually one word. Anyway that’s not the point, the point is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Whenas and if I ever acquire a life partner, I wonder if I will still cajole myself like this when I get sick. I think it would be ideal to keep quiet and let him make with the soothing nonsense,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As Lord of the Rings progresses, Aragorn gets more and more Christlike. This is getting hard to reconcile with my image of him as Toshiro Mifune.
This isn’t a Lord of the Rings comic, but you can see why I was reminded of this story.
I’ve started The Two Towers, which is exciting so far — partly because of the action, and partly because Tolkien finally mentions Boromir’s hair color. He doesn’t care how people look, he just cares about dolmens and trees and stuff.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See also. Also, I was wrong about hobbito being the Japanese for hobbit. The correct spelling is hobitto. So close!
I think Walter might have made a good novelist. That’s better than a lot of the writing I did in college.
It was my friend and webmaster Ignatz who first pointed out that Strider aka Aragorn son of Arathorn is “very Seven Samurai.” Immediately it became obvious to me that he ought to be Toshiro Mifune — not the goofy Kikuchiyo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fal lal the willow!
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