Archive | March 2014

500th post!

Mar26

Good lord, this is my five hundredth post. I’m going to use it to review a book, which isn’t a great surprise I suppose.

Review:

Revelations

The Merlin Chronicles Book One

Daniel Diehl
GMTA Publishing, LLC (Imprint: Mythos Press)
Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Members’ Titles

Pub Date   Sep 30 2013

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Happy Tolkien Reading Day!

Mar25

*puts down tablet, picks up book* I think I’m quite ready to read The Two Towers this afternoon.

Interesting Literature

Today is Tolkien Reading Day, an annual event launched in 2003 by the Tolkien Society. (The date of 25 March was chosen in honour of the fall of Sauron in the Third Age, year 3019, in Tolkien’s fiction.) The reading day promotes the use of Tolkien’s writing in schools and library groups, and is celebrated in numerous countries. To mark the occasion, we’ve put together ten of our favourite quotations from John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. The first quotation, about Beowulf, is especially timely because of the recent announcement that Tolkien’s translation of that epic poem is finally going to be published!

On Beowulf and myth: ‘The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who feels rather than makes explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate in the world of history and geography, as our poet has done. Its defender…

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Hretha’s Drumbeats

Mar24

Rattling drumbeats calling out

Howling trumpets soaring

Hretha’s army is on the march

Seek refuge while you can

Or, it started pouring down with rain just before I finished work this afternoon and I got soaked.

This, by the way, is my inadequate introduction to my post. Forgive the truly poor poetry. It was inspired by the weather this afternoon. My brain bounced from ‘the weather is awful’ to

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