order Gabapentin for dogs A picture of me at the place where J.R.R. Tolkien was born. Just to establish nerd credentials for all time. It did amaze us that this is not a tourist spot at all, that there is no J.R.R. Tolkien Museum in the town where he was born, or anything similar. If he had been born […]
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Tolkien and South Africa.
17-Jul-15The Birthplace of J.R.R. Tolkien.
17-Jul-15Ajaccio June 27th. Bloomfontein. Bloomfontein is different from the other places we have seen; a large, sprawling city, with more middle-class homes than we have seen anywhere else. Much of it looks like the middle-class suburbs of Los Angeles: sundrenched gardens made leafy by ample water, gardens closed off by attractive walls of adobe and concrete, […]
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
17-Jan-09The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy from any but the publisher’s perspective: the story fits into three volumes, but it is not in three parts. Tolkien divided it into six “books,” and each book does have a unified field of vision, but none of them can stand on their own and none […]