lady_branwyn: (Niphredil)
"...[F]airy stories offer also, in a peculiar degree or mode, these things: Fantasy, Recovery, Escape, Consolation, all things of which children have, as a rule, less need than older people...
"The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous 'turn' (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially 'escapist', or 'fugitive'. In it's fairy-tale - or otherworld - setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur."
J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories
lady_branwyn: (Niphredil)
Aragorn was the tallest of the Company, but Boromir, little less in height, was broader and heavier in build. He led the way, and Aragorn followed him. Slowly they moved off, and were soon toiling heavily. In places the snow was breast-high, and often Boromir seemed to be swimming or burrowing with his great arms rather than walking.
--The Ring Goes South, The Fellowship of the Ring
Too bad Boromir isn't here to clear a path through the snow drifts in my driveway. A few years back, I wrote a wintry drabble with Boromir, Pippin, and Merry--Early Snowfall )
lady_branwyn: (Niphredil)
"A little beer would suit me better, if it is all the same to you, my good sir," said Balin with the white beard. "But I don't mind some cake--seed-cake, if you have any."

"Lots!" Bilbo found himself answering, to his own surprise; and he found himself scuttling off, too, to the cellar to fill a pint beer-mug, and to the pantry to fetch two beautiful round seed-cakes which he had baked that afternoon for his after-supper morsel.

--An Unexpected Party, The Hobbit
Seed Cake Recipe from The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea )
lady_branwyn: (oliphaunt)
Need a present for that special orc? Buy him The Original Woodman's Pal. (No, not woodsman but woodman.) I saw this in a back issue of "Field and Stream" at the VW dealership this afternoon. Of course, I was reading about hunting as research for fanfic (and because it was more interesting than "MotorTrend" magazine)...
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It is well-known among hopeless Tolkien geeks click here for geekiness )
lady_branwyn: (dahlia)
A family in Wales has built a suspiciously hobbity-looking Low Impact Woodland Home. Aiee! Look at the pics of the cute family. Wonder if they have hair on their toes?
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The British National Archives has published excerpts from Tolkien's officer's service record.
More comments here... )
lady_branwyn: (Boromir Valentine)
Happy Belated Leap Day to all!
In honor of the first day of "Back to MiddleEarth Month" and as a public service, I am posting the link to a brief synopsis of randomly-selected chapters of the LOTR portrayed in Legos.

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