The path to?

By John Brown | February 28, 2008 - 8:48 pm |February 28, 2008 Zing

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Is this not delicious? I found it on istockphotos.com and couldn’t stay away. I want to be on that trail. I want to know what’s around that bend. Holy moly, the feeling of this photo is just marvelous. So I bought a copy. It’s by stellalevi. Zing, Baby!

Breaking News!!

By John Brown | February 27, 2008 - 6:29 pm |February 28, 2008 Zing

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Someone has managed to photograph the pot at the end of the rainbow My wonderful wife just forwarded me this breaking photograph Alas, another dream shattered.

More on orcs

By John Brown | February 26, 2008 - 3:36 pm |February 28, 2008 Zing

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Check out this wonderful article on orcs. Tolkien must have been having the time of his life coming up with those names–Shadrat, Ugluk, and Radbug… Zing!

So that’s where Tolkien got “Orc”

By John Brown | February 25, 2008 - 11:53 pm |February 26, 2008 Zing

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Tolkien was a master of words with sounds that connote meaning. But I often find that a lot of his work was not produced from thin air. Case in point: I was looking today at the word “ogre.” Check out this etymology from the OED. French ogre (late 12th cent. in Old French in sense ‘fierce →

Tales From Earthsea

By John Brown | February 24, 2008 - 11:14 pm |August 28, 2008 John's Reviews - books, movies, whatever

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When I was in 7th grade I read Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Of course, I wasn’t the sharpest literary tack back then, and so great sections of The Two Towers and The Return of the King went over my head and, therefore, bored me. But, with the help of the Hildenbrant →