Howard Hughes and the Phosphorescent Octopus

[greygirlbeast]

The smoke came back this morning, and we awoke to the stench of distant fires. Behind the cut is a photo of downtown Atlanta taken sometime this morning. My eyes burn, my nose is running, and I'm coughing. Clearly, we have to stop sleeping with the windows open until the fires at last burn themselves out, whenever that might be.

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[greygirlbeast]

I thought they burned Savannah. I know they went down there and burned the hell out of everything else

Nope. Savannah was spared by Sherman and made an "Xmas present" to Lincoln.

Hey do you know the origin of the word Mordor?

This from Wikipedia"

Mordor actually has two meanings: "Black Land" in Sindarin, and "Land of Shadow" in Quenya. The root mor ("dark", "black") also appears in Moria. Dor ("land") also appears in Gondor ("stone-land"), Eriador, and Doriath ("fenced land"). The Quenya word for Shadow is "mordo".

A proposed etymology out of the context of Middle-earth is Old English morðor, which means "mortal sin" or "murder".[citation needed] (The latter meaning is descended from the former.) It is not uncommon for names in Tolkien's fiction to have relevant meanings in several languages, both languages invented by Tolkien, and actual historical languages. Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon, so his word roots tend to be Anglo-Saxon/Nordic/Germanic. Mordor is also a name cited in some Nordic mythologies referring to a land where its citizens practise evil without knowing it, imposed on themselves by the society long created for that purpose.[citation needed] This quite fits with Tolkien's Mordor.

[ebourland]

I'm really fascinated by the idea of a society in which people practice evil without knowing it.

Hmmm ... America?

I'm enjoying your ongoing story.

Eric

[greygirlbeast]

I'm enjoying your ongoing story.

I am glad.