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tyellasRather touched - the Rome Tolkien Society has just asked to translate my seven-year-old essay on Tolkien and the British Arts and Crafts movement.Re-reading that old thing, there's some interesting stuff about the first round of the modern craft movement and Britain's love of the industrial and new, which we are, oh so ironically, romanticizing today as steampunk.
Everything here is both cram-jammed busy - on the cusp of one of those Wellington weekends where everything is happening - and slowing down somewhat for winter. I'm sitting here with freezing toes after getting too involved online and forgetting to start the fire. No slippers tonight, because I have been drying a pedicure.
Everything here is both cram-jammed busy - on the cusp of one of those Wellington weekends where everything is happening - and slowing down somewhat for winter. I'm sitting here with freezing toes after getting too involved online and forgetting to start the fire. No slippers tonight, because I have been drying a pedicure.
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Date: 2012-06-02 01:05 am (UTC)Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil.
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Date: 2012-06-03 01:14 am (UTC)The Bombadil-Dark Santa Connection...