Tolkien Day!
A short continuation from prior week's Letter 328... http://periantari.livejournal.com/144825.html
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"Of course L.R. does not belong to me. It has been brought forth and must now go its appointed way in the world, though naturally I take a deep interest in its fortunes, as a parent would of a child. I am comforted to know that it has good friends to defend it against the malice of its enemies. (But all the fools are not in the other camp.) With best wishes to one of its best friends. I am..."
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About naming Tolkien's first name:
"My father favored John Benjamin Reuel (which I should now have liked); but my mother was confident that I should be a daughter, and being fond of more 'romantic' names decided on Rosalind. When I turned up, prematurely, and a boy though weak and ailing, Ronald was substituted. ...
As for an 'Elvish' name: I could of course invent one. But I do not really belong *inside* my invented history; and do not wish to!"
~Letter 309 to Amy Ronald Jan. 2, 1969
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I got a hobbity mood theme. :) SPent too much time cutting and pasting codes and seriously think there's an easier way (silly hobbit that is me :/) but yes, i have it, preciousssssssss~ ;)
I feel more hobbity now. ;)
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"Of course L.R. does not belong to me. It has been brought forth and must now go its appointed way in the world, though naturally I take a deep interest in its fortunes, as a parent would of a child. I am comforted to know that it has good friends to defend it against the malice of its enemies. (But all the fools are not in the other camp.) With best wishes to one of its best friends. I am..."
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About naming Tolkien's first name:
"My father favored John Benjamin Reuel (which I should now have liked); but my mother was confident that I should be a daughter, and being fond of more 'romantic' names decided on Rosalind. When I turned up, prematurely, and a boy though weak and ailing, Ronald was substituted. ...
As for an 'Elvish' name: I could of course invent one. But I do not really belong *inside* my invented history; and do not wish to!"
~Letter 309 to Amy Ronald Jan. 2, 1969
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I got a hobbity mood theme. :) SPent too much time cutting and pasting codes and seriously think there's an easier way (silly hobbit that is me :/) but yes, i have it, preciousssssssss~ ;)
I feel more hobbity now. ;)