January 3, 2003
...Since plainly, Uncle Bilbo had said all that needed to be said.
I wonder how Moorcock will use this in his infantile Tolkien argument.
Garrison Kiellor read a nice birthday tribute to Tolkien on his "Reader's Almanac" show today. Didn't mention that it was the old man's 111th, though.
My father, a retired English teacher who decided JRRT was hopeless churner-outer of juvenalia after reading a chapter of _The Hobbit_ 30 years ago, sat through all of "The Two Towers" without getting up to take a leak or dozing off. And then gleefully took in hours of making-of material on the DVD I lent the folks for the holidays. I think he'd credit Jackson rather than Tolkien, though.
It's also 243,495 days, or exactly two thirds of a millennium, since Petrarch's ascent of Ventoux on 26 April 1336 in the Julian calendar.
I'm not at all sure one can properly drink a toast in vanilla soda, but one hopes that they are not fussy about these things in the Great Beyond.
Hard-Hitting Moderator: Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
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