I've just realized, through someone else's lovely articulate words, that one of my most favorite tropes or theme or what-have-you is meeting your heroes myths.
To Frodo...the matters even of the Second Age
are already matters of legend, receding into a mythic past; through
the figure of Elrond, who has experienced the War of Wrath and the
Last Alliance ( Read more... )

Huh. Charlotte Russe isn't just a retail store that I adore - it's also a desert as I have just seen in the BBC4 programme Edwardian Supersize Me.

There's a whole series of Supersizers going off to eat in different eras and It's quite the fantastic show. My fave episode was the WWII British homefront one. HI-larious, educational, and the clothes are ( Read more... )

I've put it off for a week and a day but now I write my essay that declares gandalf to fulfill the archetype of the trickster.
I'm having so much fun.

Also --- GIP.

"The first important writer to speak of these events was Gildas, a monk who around the year 547 composed his polemical treatise On the downfall and conquest of Britain (De excidio et conquestu Britanniae). In Chapter 23...Vortigern, and his counselors asked "the most ferocious Saxons of cursed name" ... to help them fight against their insular ( Read more... )

I'm  reliving my time at the louisiana school this semester.
For serious, for two of my classes, I'm actually using the same freakin' book as I used back in good ole' Natchitoches.
Let's go through the schedule, shall we?
First class, Engl 231 I use the Norton Anthology of English Literature.

What was the name of that hardcover red book I used my ( Read more... )