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Just finished "J. R. R. Tolkien, Author of the Century" by Tom Shippey. What an excellent book.

It is a collection of stuff found elsewhere. With some commentary from Sibley. Finished it Wednesday.

Vend i tide, det er ingen skam å snu.

Watched "Lord of the Beans", the Veggie Tales adaption of LOTR yesterday. It was, eh, intresting.

Ok. Don't have any of the streaming-services, so I haven't seen any of the resent series out there.

Can one answer this survey, if one hasn't seen Rings of Power?

Not much, as I didn't mention it, when giving the prompts.

Once upon a time, there was a spirit named Caradhras. He settled in a beautiful plain, surrounded by lush green forests and sparkling clear rivers. He was content and happy, living in harmony with the other spirits of the land, including the great Vala Oromë. Oromë, the Vala of the wild, loved...

Ei gate: a street Gata: the street (or En gate: a street Gaten: the street in other dialects.)

Have started to read Casper Clemmensen's "Tolkien og det mytiske Jylland" (Tolkien and the mythical Jutland). A book about Tolkien in Danish.

It would be only fitting if "Exploring the Silmarillion" will be done by one of Corey's sons.

We had tobacco-plantations in Norway up to 1920. In 1730 king Christian VI of Denmark-Norway encouraged farmers to grow tobacco, and banned imports. So tobacco can be grown in colder climes than Oxford. There seems to have been mixed feelings about smoking in Norway. A 1741 law in Norway banned...

Not sure what Tom wears in the First Age, but minimum one article of clothing must at least semi-rhyme with "Bombadillo".

The Strategikon advises to attack the Slavs in winter, because the defoliated trees made ambushes harder. So it's not that lightly forested, or might not have been so at the time. I found no description of the javelins besides short. The number of javelins are not that unusual. The later...

From "The Strategikon", attributed to the Emperor Maurice (reign 582-602): "Dealing with the Slavs, the Antes, and the Like. The nations of the Slavs and the Antes live in the same way and have the same customs... They live among nearly impenetrable forests, rivers, lakes, and marshes, and have...

I only find it hard to imagine the woodwose stumbling in on Lùthien's dancing wearing mail. And harder to have Thingol bestowing one upon Beren.

But no mail until after Beren visit Nargothrond.

Birthwort's (Aristolochia clematitis) Norwegian name, "pipeurt", literally translate to "pipeweed".

Putting on the ring to avoid the Sackville-Bagginses is merely choosing the lesser of two evils.