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| | | | To celebrate Tolkien's twelfthty-ninth (or eleventy-nineteenth--a joke that expires this year) birthday on 3 January 2021, the Tolkien Society is once again raising a toast to the Professor (see here). After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday in The Lord of the Rings, Frodo toasted his uncle's birthday each year. Tolkien fans continue the | |
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| | | | The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien (Harper Collins 1991, 2007) pp. 874-878 Faramir is a warrior. When Éowyn first meets him in the Houses of Healing in Minas Tirith after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields she assesses him shrewdly as a warrior herself, "bred among men of war, that here was one that no | |
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| | | | The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien (Harper Collins 1991) pp.264-267 Elrond honoured Frodo's offer of himself to take the Ring to the Fire by speaking of the heroes of the past. "If you take it freely," he says, "I will say that your choice is right; and though the mighty elf-friends of old,... | |
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| | Fiction - paperback; Giramondo; 144 pages; 2020. Translated from the Spanish by Ellen Jones. It's widely acknowledged that the letter X holds a special place in Elon Musk's heart (assuming he has one). There's SpaceX, Tesla's Model X and the social media channel X (formerly known as Twitter). He even has a child named X... |