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  • LOTR: The Two Towers, excerpts

    I finally finished my multi-month journey through J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers, second in the Lord of the Rings trilogies. The world needs more good trilogies. This one is fantastic, though Tolkien’s quote that it is a “book that will break your heart… good beyond hope” is certainly true. Would you just look at that…

  • Favorite passages from the ‘Fellowship of the Ring’

    I’m just about finished with J.R.R. Tolkien’s famed beginning of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. As I read, I like to put sticky tabs over those passages I like most, to go back to in future. Here I’d like to share a few of those passages! “Then, each in an angle of the great…