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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    “[The romantic chivalric tradition] takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man’s eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.—JRR Tolkien, Letter no. 43

    An exploration of Tolkien’s female characters as protagonists of their own stories in Arda Marred.

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    05 Sep 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 16

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    Dulcie, Cath, and Eddie return for next year's Deadloch Winter Feastival.

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    02 Sep 2024

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    “And you have come to ask me,” Haleth said, still breathless with outrage at the idea, “to travel back into the north and fuck your cousin better?”

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    28 Nov 2023

  4. Rec *

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    "Maedhros sought destruction body and spirit, and found both. When Mandos summoned him, he refused, and first of them all he has been taken by the void that they swore themselves to. He is not in the world, and will not come again. Deeper darknesses are there than that which Morgoth made below Thangorodrim!” Fingon paused and looked at Finrod. “Should I not then have killed him as he asked me?”

    “No!” said Finrod, but Turgon said nothing.

    Sam grew even more upset. “Now that’s not right,” he said, “that can’t be right! Just or not – and I don’t know that it is, begging your pardon, sir – still, no story should end that way!”

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    31 Oct 2023

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    Luke Naberrie's life is already a complicated one, with a past full of secrets he tends not to dig into. But when he is appointed Senator of Naboo and sent to work in the Imperial Senate under the watchful eye of Empress Amidala and her husband, he might not have a choice.

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    12 Feb 2023