In a land far away I posted an essay by one of the co-collaborators for the Wordpress site Heirs of Durin. The essay was called "In Defense of Thorin Oakenshield." I come before you today presenting another essay by DarkJackal this time regarding Thorin and Boromir and their similarities, and differences ( Read more... )

Apparently I have been making up not posting by posting frequently; ah, well, I am trying to keep myself engaged here and that means posts of small consequence.

Anyways, I finished a book, finally, this summer break. I will be moving on to the second in the trilogy a bit later today. The book was The Faded Sun: Kesrith by C.J. Cherryh. I had ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon was quite a busy one for me--though it was centered in one place: an expo center. Half-Priced Books last year started a new event that made books 2 dollars or less; all you had to do was go to the location marked on the pamphlet they were handing out in-stores and the shopping was on! It was wonderful to go last year and it was ( Read more... )

Yesterday and today were adventures, no doubt. Since I have to be at school on the 31 of August my mother and I have been trying to collect my books for school. Hence the two day journey to almost every half-priced books in Ohio. On our return trip it was a hollow victory, we only found four books. The rest will be bought online, but I spent all ( Read more... )

I am glad in my last journal entry I refused to promise to be on here more often because, well, I broke that promise about two weeks ago. Most of my breaking of promises was due to family coming over for half a week, and then the other half immersed in gaming and reading. I haven't been on the internet much other than yesterday where I spent almost ( Read more... )

Note: this is actually not short at all and is really long. However for a good portion of it I do adequately summarize my problem with it. The last 1/3 of the journal turns into my usual ranty and critical self, but I did okay for the first 2/3. Just to let you know in case you get scared of my "reviews" of novels ( Read more... )

If any of you follow my graphics (as I know most who comment do) then you will know that I have been posting The Hobbit icons (and eventually wallpapers). While I have been looking for official pictures in "unofficial" places (blogs and such) I have come across this website simply entitled, "Thorin Oakenshield." While looking for images of the ( Read more... )

update: i'm back. layout updated (hopefully for the last time; just tweaking atm).

Fyi AWOLNATION only has two songs out of...13(?) that are good. Every other song either sounds the same, is rap (not a fan; unless it is Epik High), or just not cool. Although Some Sort of Creature is hilarious, but it is not even a song. I'm glad I did not ( Read more... )

My list of books/movies I want continues to grow more and more. I have been researching books to read for the Oxfordian Shakespeare debate and have found one that I'll be buying next time we pass Half-Pirce Books. Well...I might have to convince my mom to buy it for me since I'm low on money for the past few months. Curse trying to find a job ( Read more... )