There's video!

Goodness!!

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'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude

I'll put this here, rather than start a new thread, but this is extremely cool. I know that some Tolkien scholars criticize Colbert, but I don't think that anyone does more to bring arcane Tolkien knowledge to the masses. And in this case, connecting Tolkien to the most current popular music.

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In gratitude forever … .

I'm pretty sure that the sentence "Some X criticize Y" is true for any values of X and Y.

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“I am not so blind that I can't see darkness.”
Dangerous Beans
Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Setting that aside, I hope you watched the video. It is very cool.

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In gratitude forever … .

I watched this a few days ago and I loved it. I miss this side of Stephen.

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I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists

That was totally awesome.

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'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude

Watched it once I got home. It's great.

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“I am not so blind that I can't see darkness.”
Dangerous Beans
Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

OMG. Breathtaking.

Tom's comment: "He is such a total nerd. Which is great for all of us."

Could probably apply that to Tolkien in general. Unless *looking around with a glower and clenching hands* you have some kind of problem with the term "nerd."

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

*shared with other nerds in the fam*

Sent from a tiny phone keyboard via Tapatalk - typos inevitable.

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Mornings wouldn't suck so badly if they came later in the day.

LEGO Recreation of the Helm's Deep Battle from LOTR
http://geekxgirls.com/article.php?ID=11 ... AX2qb719i8

From the comments:

^
And that's how I learned that Tapatalk does not show text inside nested quotes.

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“I am not so blind that I can't see darkness.”
Dangerous Beans
Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

TIL.

Commenter A: Is that a machine gun lol

Commenter B: Makes as much sense as the 500 odd Elves who showed up for no good reason in the movie. lol

This is nice:


I love how they reforge the shards!

These tapestries, based on Tolkien's artwork, are amazing, but the look in Christopher Tolkien's face as he sees them for the first time is one of the most moving things I've ever seen. And the story he tells about the Rivendell painting is quite special as well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQmh_Sfq88Y&fbclid=

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Thats fabulous, but I wish I could have seen more of the tapestries and their creation! Also, CRRT really is very frail now.

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

He's doing better than most people who are pushing 95!

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In gratitude forever … .

I know where I'll be on August 18th...

https://peripateticplayers.org/schedule/

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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

~ Albert Camus

Impressive!