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That first story did not end where I expected it to end.

I enjoy the diss on both stoics and epicureans in this book. On to book 2.

Two more dead

Forgot to do the play-by-play, but now we add ten murders to our tally.

Three murders

I think Harry Potter is actually about how you can’t trust what you read in the papers because some tyrant is always controlling them.

One murder and one killing in self-defense recounted

Second murder

Already we have one murder in this book

My hated enemy— John Dewey— has been mentioned in these pages.

“‘The horror! The horror!’

Umbridge seems like a character that stepped out of That Hideous Strength and into Hogwarts.

I think Rowling perfectly understands how the government uses misinformation to control people.

Pondering the symbolism of the house elf enslavement.

Lots of angel names listed. I wonder if this came first or if Tobit did.

“Haaaaaaarrrrrryyy! Did you put your name in the %€&@- Goblet of Fiyyaaaaa!? Tell the truth! Yarrr! Crucio! Avada Kedavra!”

Dumbledore said calmly.

Chocolate is a great remedy. I’m glad Rowling knows her natural medicine.

Once more I ask myself how Ed can make all these disparate character threads intersect when I know darn well he can. Probably sumpthin’ to do with the Red Wizards. Pausing again since I got the next Harry Potter from my friends.

Finished the Augsburg Confession!

Pausing this since I only picked it up to occupy space between Potter books.

Ding dong the dragon’s dead

“Thus it is that through Eriol and his sons the Engle (i.e. the English) have the true tradition of the faeries, of who the Íras and the Wéalas (the Irish and the Welsh) tell garbled things.”

I take it back. The greatest tragedy of all is Tolkien never putting down any version of a full prose narrative of Eärendel’s story.

I’d forgotten how closer to the Norse conception of dwarves Tolkien’s original dwarves were in how malicious they are.

I think it is a shame most of all that Tolkien never finished a proper rewrite of the Fall of Gondolin narrative. I would have loved to see how he’d have handled the description of the Eldar houses arrayed for war when Morgoth’s forces arrived.

Victory lap part two. I didn’t realize Grendel had a dragon-skin purse.

Turin’s story is tragic no matter which version. I do wish Tolkien had left enough of his role in smacking Melko with his black sword at the end of days to make it into the Silmarillion though.

It really is about your mother.

I know making the eye of Sauron a cat eye in the movies probably wasn’t a reference to Tevildo lord of cats, but I will now choose to associate the two.

TIME TO BRING BACK THE THEW COUNTER FROM THE CONAN STORIES! Beren is stacked.