#439 VALENTINE BIRTHDAY Lord of my Ring Greeting Card Boy Girl HUMOUR Funny Rude (A4 Folded to A5)

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And those are only a few examples of aspects in which I consider The Lord of the Rings to be superior to all others. Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword, which came out the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring, has distant, haughty elves, deep-delving dwarves, a broken sword which must be reforged, an epic war between the armies of light and darkness, another central character trapped between those extremes, and an interweaving of Christian and Pagan worldviews. It would especially be interesting to read or reread LotR with a focus on how he let the classics mutate to new forms, transformed oldfashioned tropes to fit for a modern audience, and especially made it a compelling, well written, and suspenseful pageturner. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience.

I had such difficulty getting through the marshes with Frodo, Sam, and Gollum, that I ended up skimming several pages just to get through it. What I am getting at is that Eowyn escapes her fate as a non-actor in history with her act in the battlefield, but does not escape her destiny becoming a wife to a man at the end. The longer you study this piece you will hopefully see the relevance to the title and apt saying that ‘Not all those who wander are lost’, a classic example of how my work can take on a new dimension from a secondary, more personal narrative that is woven into the concept.The interrelations between all the invented names and languages make Middle-Earth feel real, in a way no other fantasy world ever has.

And Tolkien set the standards for it, showed how to do it, and helped to inspire the production of dozens of great series, hundreds of average ones, and an innumerable amount of fanfiction.But every once in a while, he had to go back to this huge brick to remember that there existed something even better. Most of his names are based on a family of invented languages, linked by a vast complex of legends and histories, the greater part of which are invisible to the reader and only surface occasionally. The Elves represent the very first humanoids to arrive in England whereas the Dwarves represent the various invasions from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland before 1000.

Whether it's Goodkind's Libertarianism or John Norman's sex slave fetish, its very easy to simply create a magical allegory to make one side 'right' and the other side 'wrong', and you never have to develop a dramatic narrative that actually explores the soundness of those ideas.What was appealing here was that contrast between the norm and the world of the Hobbits, the fact that really detailed environments happened to be so much smaller and you would only know that this was the case when a character such as Gandalf came into shot.

From those who have studied my portfolio you will see a good number of horses featured and you will be forgiven to think that I am a keen rider yet no, no chance! Or that everyday people don´t understand the power they could have if they would work together against a dictatorship, economic inequality, and grievances. My intention has always been to follow up on the 2016 Goonies piece ‘Hey You Guuuys’ and to create something that complements and contrasts, to showcase the enchantment of the pirate ship but in a different way. Proust has a couple of long discussions about this, describing in great detail how the narrator's initial mental pictures of Balbec, Venice and the Guermantes family come just from the sounds of their names.Despite this, my enjoyment of this book – because to be clear, LOTR is one book – was not diminished. The Ring confers great power, but the only way to defeat Sauron is to refuse that power, and destroy it, even at great personal cost. It was frustration, it was pressure, it was so important in the mythos of the family, so inescapable, and I just… couldn’t.