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Tuesdays with Tolkien: Life flitters by

I had the weirdest thought the other day… I was walking down the street to give a piano lesson, and then I thought of how a week ago I was doing the exact same thing, worried about a wedding I was playing organ for the next day. I’d been practising for the wedding for what seemedContinueContinue reading “Tuesdays with Tolkien: Life flitters by”

Tuesdays with Tolkien: 10 favourite quotes

I did some posts in a couple G+ Lord of the Rings communities to see what fans’ favourite quotes are. This list includes quotes from all three volumes of Lord of the Rings, as well as The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion. #1: “If more of us valued food and cheer and song over hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”ContinueContinue reading “Tuesdays with Tolkien: 10 favourite quotes”

Tuesdays with Tolkien

In the dictionary under ‘worrywart’… …there is totally a picture of me. I worry about absolutely everything, from next Sunday’s church outfit to what I’m going to do after college. I even worry about other people’s problems. That’s why this quote speaks to me so much. It’s a reminder not to cross bridges till IContinueContinue reading “Tuesdays with Tolkien”

Tuesdays with Tolkien

There are two choices. You could spend your life complaining about how short life is and about how there’s never any time to get anything done, or you could spend your life celebrating how great life is, the talents you have, and what you can do with the time you’ve got. Admission: I spend quiteContinueContinue reading “Tuesdays with Tolkien”

Einstein was smart

When I was little I LOVED fairy tales. My dad, luckily for me, is a used bookseller (*ahem* a seller of used books), so he would bring home all sorts of interesting and rare books. We ended up with nearly a complete set of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books – The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, TheContinueContinue reading “Einstein was smart”