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Selection from Ch. 2: "The Shadow of the Past." Part four.
My apologies for the few lines between parts three and four that seem to have disappeared into thin air. I was dropped as a child and can no longer work telephones. Or... something. Sorry, Mr. Tolkien, sir.
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Selection from Ch. 2: "The Shadow of the Past." Part one.
'When did I first begin to guess?' he mused, searching back in memory. 'Let me see - it was in the year that the White Council drove the dark power from Mirkwood, just before the Battle of Five Armies, that Bilbo found his ring. A shadow fell on my heart then, though I did not know yet what I feared. I wondered often how Gollum came by a Great Ring ( Read more... ) -
WE WILL NEVER STOP REMEMBERING.
September 11th of 2001 held probably the weirdest thing that has happened to my home country since I've lived in it. Most of the people I know only have fuzzy memories of it, but I remember the day quite clearly.
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Eä, Arda, Ainulindalë.
Okay, I'm off to the Wilderlands. Defend the castle while I'm gone.
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oh, my love, it was a funny little thing to be the ones to've seen.
I just read this quote from Willow Wode's essay Deny The Lie (on plagiarism and especially its relationship to fanfiction):
"Inspiration happens when something has touched you, something huge enough to make you change your patterns of contemplation, or deep enough to delve things from you that perhaps you hadn't realised were there. Inspiration is ( Read more... )