Tag: J.R.R. Tolkien

THROWBACK THURSDAY: It’s Always Good to Go Back to Middle Earth

I still think The Lord of the Rings is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn’t wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written. English actor, Sir Christopher Lee, was born on this day in 1922 (died 2015). I can’t …

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RECAFFEINATED MONDAYS: Where Everybody Knows Your Byline

  “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” Ernest Hemingway Last week I watched the PBS documentary about Ernest Hemingway. It reminded me, among other things, that I need to read more Hemingway, and Faulkner, and Fitzgerald and…gulp…Joyce. Hemingway was both …

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