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also while the index to the letters is in general quite good, they are indexing for a different audience than me sometimes!!

I would also love to know how many readers caught that - it has been so long since my first time through that I don’t remember how I read it.

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I’m pretty sure Gandalf knew (cf: “it seemed then to Gandalf … that … the messenger was at a loss”) but who else?

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ok but for real, at the morannon did Gandalf (et al) realize that even if they did have Frodo, they didn’t have the ring?

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“A grim morn, and a glad day, and a golden sunset!”

Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

also I really want more details about the agreement merry senses between dernhelm and elfhelm but also I have reached the point in the text where I cannot safely continue in public due to bouts of weeping good thing my library hold has come in for a book on wwii!!!

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That’s our problem too, even in town - one would get squished trying to go 25 on kingshighway or Hampton

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“An old campaigner, I see.” Beregond is SO GREAT

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

the phrase “tongs with soft cloth tips” will rattle around in my brain for the rest of my life, I fear

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This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Pausing doomscrolling to read Gerard Manley Hopkins has been found to decrease heart rate and increase life expectancy by 15-20 years

As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.

I say móre: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They’re so charming and square!

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Michael @selmerguy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

@arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social The thrills and Detection are all well and good, but a peek inside the Vaults of the Bodleian are why I’d buy this book.

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Might be a little younger than you’re looking for, but I loved the Lost Years of Merlin series when I was a kid!

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

idk something about the eyes just says “ACK” to me

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Rebecca WB @rwb22.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Damn Carol, I was unfamiliar with your game, but I respect it!

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“drums … drums in the garden”

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Rebecca @jeybecques.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

somehow I managed to time the chamber of mazarbul to taiko drums in the distance

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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I already loved both orpiment and flaming June and but hadn’t connected them (probably because I know very little about paint, tbh) This is a joy

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It is such a good exhibit! I went back in July, specifically to see her.

Also realized that Pippin has three older sisters, which tracks

big SWOT analysis energy here

having gone through some intensive strategic planning lately, I gotta say that the council of Elrond really hits differently

Extremely valid! I have a digital edition (possibly for exactly this sort of reason [and/or having carried my copy through many many airports before ebooks became as convenient as they are])

I have to presume she married in after the events of the Hobbit (SR 1340-41), since their son wasn’t born until 1364, so she stole the spoons on spec?? or something????

ok so I have done some digging: When Bilbo disappears the first time, his heir apparent was his father’s next younger brother, whose son Otho (=BB’s first cousin) would have been 30 at the time. At some point, Otho married Lobelia (née Bracegirdle), who was otherwise not in this line of succession

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