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Alex

Alex posted The Great Reread: The Lord of the Rings | Jun 23, 2008

I kept this review spoiler-free, so those who haven't read the book can read this if they wish. This year has been all about the reread, for me. I never reread, at least not a cover-to-cover linear reread, and this year I've done two rereads of teenage favorites: The Count of Monte Cristo and now...

NowhereMan

NowhereMan posted We Should Be Together... | Apr 21, 2008

I don't really know how to start these things off anymore - I guess that's part of my writing style. Call it a pitfall, call it a quirk - that's just me. Usually I'll make it a point to get some sort of writing done on here, then I get caught up with conversations on banal matters on AIM, which...

Muinamir

Muinamir posted the puzzle ring of Barahir? | Apr 13, 2008

So I was supposed to be sketching my next couple of projects but this thing insisted on being drawn too. It's an idea I've been turning around in my brain for a while. Tolkien's description of the ring of Barahir really does sound like a puzzle ring (in part because there's no good way to fit in all...

Phil

Phil posted Morning is Wiser | May 1, 2008

I love folklore. Lewis's conversion is spurred, I'm told, by a conversation with Tolkien in which the old mythmaker challenged Lewis's atheism/agnosticism with this idea: "Christianity is the One True Myth." This proverb makes all other myths borrowers from the Real Story. So, I read folklore like a...