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Alive without breath
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Professor Tolkien. We all owe the man so much, even though some of us were not even born yet when he passed.
Remembered always, and loved until the Dagor Dagorath.
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I think that if you want facts, then The Downer Newspaper is probably the place to go. I know! I read it once. THE PHANTOM AND ALIEN: The Legend of the Golden Bus Ticket... |
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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*raises a toast and goes to read appropriate ROTK passages*
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He bit me, and I was not gentle. |
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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*silently toasts with a tea mug at the laptop screen*
Maybe I will continue my twenty-somethingeth Lord of the Rings reread today...
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Like the stars chase the sun, over the glowing hill I will conquer Blood is running deep, some things never sleep Double Fenris
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"It was, however, long before Eärnil felt himself sufficiently secure to do as he promised. King Araphant continued with dwindling strength to hold off the assaults of Angmar, and Arvedui when he succeeded him did likewise; but at last in the autumn of 1973 messages came to Gondor that Arthedain was in great straits and the Witch-king was preparing a last stroke against it. Then Eärnil sent his son Eärnur north with a fleet, as swiftly as he could, and with as great strength as he could spare. Too late. Before Eärnur reached the havens of Lindon, the Witch-king had conquered Arthedain and Arvedui had perished."
--The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, ii In looking for something suitably unnumbered tears-esque (now that I think of it, I really should have started there...), I came across this passage. The autumn of 1973 was indeed a fell time.
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I prefer history, true or feigned.
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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Amen! (Connections with the word "Aman" also intentional.) I would raise a glass of miruvor, I guess I have to do with hot chocolate. But I think that is appropriate; I don't know if the Hobbits knew of hot chocolate, but I am sure they would approve.
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories |
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Gruesome Spectre
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Heaven's doorstep
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*raises a cup of tea*
To you, Professor. We'll see you in the West, when the veil "turns all to silver glass, and is rolled back".
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Woman of Secret Shadow
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells
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Those of you who'd care to join us - there's a skype conversation going on at the moment which should lead to a Tolkien reading soonish. There's Kath, Hookbill, Oddwen, Squatter and Formendacil at the moment, and yours truly (scavengerlikeme on skype) obviously.
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
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Hooky, did you photoshop that picture? Or has the family extended the headstones since I was last there?
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Child of the West
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Watching President Fillmore ride a unicorn
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This seems like the perfect time to jump into rereading LOTR and The Silmarillion.
*Raises tea cup in a toast*
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"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain |
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
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"But grass came there and grew again upon that hill, alone in all the desert that Morgoth made; and no creature of Morgoth trod thereafter upon the earth beneathwhich the swords of the Eldar and the Edain crumbled into rust." ~Of the Fifth Battle, The Silmarillion
May the mound of the Professor be just as green as the ones of his heroes.
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You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera |
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
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And of green graves . . .
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials
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Forty winters!
May simbelmyne still bloom in his memory, four hundred years from now.
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"Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." |
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