Frodo’s Ringbearer Sonnets

Well, with the first of these image modifications, I run across the problem of copyright again. I will settle for just saying that the image of Frodo is from a Lord of the Rings movie poster, the text is mine. The second image and text are all mine. If you prefer poetry straight, the sonnets [...]

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Bilbo’s Ringbearer Sonnets

The imagined monologues in these sonnets both take place in Rivendell. And, hence, the picture above, which is actually J. R. R. Tolkien’s own version in pen and ink and watercolor. I should say watercolour. It is definitely very stylized, but I like it. Oh, “Iluvatar” is from The Silmarillion, a book detailing the early [...]

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Smeagol

The following is a blog repeat for a slow blog week, but hopefully it will be new to some of you all. It is part of a larger sonnet cycle dedicated to the Ringbearers in the Lord of the Rings.
Smeagol a ringbearer? Well, yes and no. He physically bore the ring, but could not bear [...]

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New to the Blogroll. Drumroll please….

…..TSCHHHH!
Ok, that was meant to be the sound of a cymbal being hit.
This is all to celebrate the addition of two new blogs to my blogroll. The first is the final flatmate holdout to the blog world finally surrendering. Sweet Chicken! This is sure to be a delightful, punnerific blog. Stop in and say hello [...]

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Preview

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To Autumn
-by John Keats
I
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to [...]

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My Comments on Comments by Gimli, or is it Treebeard

Here is a link to some remarkable comments by John Rhys-Davies relating the war against Islamic extremism and the Lord of the Rings. I am particularly pleased with my comment on this post, so I thought I would post a link to post and comments. Jump in if you like.
Or perhaps this is just a [...]

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Home

These are excerpts from a poem I once wrote:
home
is it where you hang your hat
or where your heart is…
i only know to travel is to yearn
and i am always travelling…
In reality, I do not travel literally much at all. I do yearn a lot for home, though. I am beginning to understand that while this [...]

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If Ever I Become a Member of Some Christian Vegan Association…

…here is some blackmail material.

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Vacaciones

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Wag the Dog

Today as I made my new blog banner, I wondered about the ethics of A) using someone else’s art as a starting point for my banners, and B) manipulating that work i.e. taking out a bit that I don’t want to use. Note the place in this banner just to the left of where the [...]

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