Hobbits are not mentioned in Tolkien’s creation myth, the Ainulindalë published as part of The Silmarillion. So what are they and where did they come from?
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I unabashedly love Halloween. Always have. When I was in high school, we lived in an absolutely perfect trick-or-treating neighborhood – a bunch of quiet streets with tons of kids. We’d come back with pillowcases full of candy and spend November on a non-stop sugar high. Most years I put a lot of effort into putting a costume together, and I’ve come up with some really good ones. Almost every year since having my kid,…
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I’ve been working on a lot of badges since I last posted about this, and since then I’ve taken a pottery class (and signed up for another one), traveled to New Zealand and put together a 197-page scrapbook of our trip, wrote a bunch on this here blog, did a lot of crafting, and planted a garden this year.
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I’ve had a LOT of hairstyles over the years. From ultra long down to my butt in 6th grade to that time I cut my own hair in high school to pixie cuts, from platinum blonde when I was a kid to rainbow when I was, well, a very large kid, I’ve always enjoyed changing it up.
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Cue Seinfeld joke here. But seriously, we know that the Elves have three rings of power, and that they’ve been wearing and using them for a while. Why weren’t they affected like Men?
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Celebrimbor was one of the greatest of the Elven smiths, save only maybe for his grandpappy Fëanor (dick). But who was he, really?
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Regular readers (as if I had any regular readers, lol) might be asking “What’s with all the posts lately?” I mentioned Rebel Badges in a post last month. One of the badges I’m going for is the Writer badge, and one of the things I can do to earn the badge is to do writing in a blog. So I says to myself, “Self,” I says. “I have a blog already, I just have to…
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Had some fun with Photoshop today, lol.
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Lest you think I save up all of my enmity for the Hobbit movies for my blog, I would like to call your attention to a real, actual presentation I made at work.
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Melkor was one of the most powerful of the Ainur. But why did he turn into such a shithead and how did he become known as Morgoth? Tl;dr: Boredom and loneliness. No, really. Oh, and also a good heaping measure of wanting the power of creation for himself, that too.
