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Tolkien really wanted to make the Man in the Moon work in Middle-earth.

Ding dong the Grendel is dead and gone to hell.

Definitely enjoy what was eventually published in the Silm about the coming of the Eldar than this particular early draft.

Didn’t remember the oyster deep lore.

Not Tolkien putting the doctrine of Purgatory into early drafts of what would become the Valaquenta.

Made it to Rumil’s first appearance in the legendarium. Before that, it’s interesting to ponder how Tolkien may have directly connected Middle-earth to our world via the character of Eriol, who was an Anglo-Saxon before he vanished from the story.

Klavan is one of the only non-physicists I’ve heard who brings up the ultraviolet catastrophe, although he missed out on a cool section name by not using it as such. He wanders further afield with how materialistic the popular conception is before reining it back to what was discovered via Quantum Mechanics.

A lot has definitely been glossed-over in how the philosophy of the late-middle ages developed the scientific method of Bacon, but I think it’s a workable overview. I think Galileo gets a bad rap here in some of the motivations, but then I have not read Galileo’s works because I know how to read neither Latin nor modern Italian.

I’m gonna say right now I think this VR game is gonna be involved in the murders.

Finished the poems about the gods and monsters. Up next are the heroic poems.

Finished Havamal. Decent book of wisdom, I’d say. My favorite verse was probably 76.

Cows dies,
Family die,
You will die the same way.
But a good reputation
Never dies
For the one who earns it well.

I’m nearly a third through the book I tell ye. I spent most of my time today reading over forty roman numeral numbered pages of introductory material before getting to Voluspa, which was very well translated into the readable English which is Dr. Crawford’s goal.

Plato was so right about democracy.

Btw, the Allegory of the Cave is about Jesus.

Now it’s time for the most misunderstood allegory in history.

Black library time. I hope Yvraine remembered her library card.

We made it to the philosopher-kings section.

Got to the most based part of the book where Socrates says the poets should not be allowed in the city.

We got to the story Wagner adapts for Das Rheingold. Always consider if the otter you are considering to kill carelessly might be someone’s son.

Since the big bad bone dragon on the cover got merc’d a third of the way through the book, I’ve been curious as to where the plot would go and from where the threats should come. Now I know.

Odin the wanderer looks a lot like Gandalf the Grey, excepting he wears s blue cloak instead of a blue hat.

Sad this book didn’t go into how Oliver Cromwell ruined Christmas.

When will elves learn not to dominate ancient lizards?

Got out of the War of the Roses. I’m sure nothing turbulent will happen to England under the reign of Hank VIII.

Got my audiobooks onto my phone finally so now I’m going through that 40k bundle I got some four to five years ago.

Somehow I don’t think the dwarves are gonna listen to the elves.

Didn’t know the Moon had all the problems that it did. Sucks for moon people.

I don’t think I appreciated this narrative masterpiece as much as I should’ve in high school.

Time to see what the fine folks of N.I.C.E. are up to