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Marisa said:
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I just think that JRR Tolkien would be delighted that the thing that made me cry the hardest on this re-read was a bunch of trees.I might make LOTR a yearly re-read. "
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"I was going to try and finish Two Towers at least tonight but, alas, I have lost steam." — Dec 31, 2025 09:07PM
"I was going to try and finish Two Towers at least tonight but, alas, I have lost steam." — Dec 31, 2025 09:07PM
You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you’re pretending to be.
“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
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“I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.”
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He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.”
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