tags: Middle Earth
2000
October
- 2000 Oct 27
- Scrawlings
I am so tired. There were things I would like to scrawl down. If only it were possible to write while driving.
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2006
April
- 2006 Apr 7
- rabbit holes (a tale that's been told over and over)
I finished rereading Memory, Thorn, and Sorrow by Tad Williams, which has been (like many other fantasy novels such as The Sword of Shannara and The Wheel of Time series) compared much to The Lord of the Rings. While there exists much older literature that could considered fantasy (for example, The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser written in the 16th century), I believe that it was Tolkien that allowed booksellers to actually have an entire marketing category devoted to such stuff.
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2007
August
- 2007 Aug 7
- hbo
My sister has hooked me to HBO original serieses (er, yeah, I know that’s not a real word.) She has been obsessed with ”Entourage” which has now grown on me.
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2013
April
- 2013 Apr 17
- Middle-Earth vs. Earthsea
Both J.R.R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin call their respective fantasy universes Eä/Éa. Coincidence?
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2016
January
- 2016 Jan 19
- The Illegitimacy of the House of Telcontar
The Toast brings up the fact that Middle Earth is a post-apocalyptic ecocatastrophic feudal dystopia and that Aragorn's ascension to the throne was totally illegitimate.
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