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From the pages to the quote box

From Brenda Ueland’s If You Want to Write

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Beowulf

By worthy deeds in every folk is a man ennobled. J.R.R. Tolkien translation Behavior that’s admired is the path to power among people everywhere. Seamus Heaney translation

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About those Appendices

But tonight, creeping toward the end of the audiobook version of Lord of the Rings, deep deep in the appendices… Continue reading

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Today’s LotR quote

‘I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!’ Continue reading

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Commute Home

But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund’s daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him. Continue reading

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