If I can't be a dragon-whisperer, can I at least befriend a talking dog?
So far this year, my projects have all been true "unfinished objects" (aka UFOs) and I’ve pushed to finish each of them. May is going to be different. The goal isn’t to finish, it’s to get it right. I’ll be making a bag from a special fabric I bought this winter. Instead of diving in... Continue Reading →
My local smial (aka, my Tolkien buddies) read the last four chapters of The Lord of the Rings this month. It’s a tough section to read, because it’s sad, and because after the destruction of Sauron, there are lots of loose ends to tie up, despite the fact that Tolkien devoted roughly eighty pages to... Continue Reading →
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in a letter that “I am not Gandalf, … As far as any character is ‘like me’ it is Faramir — except that I lack what all my characters possess (let the psychoanalysts note!) Courage.”[1] Recently, someone asked me how Tolkien had the gall to consider himself like Faramir, who is wise,... Continue Reading →
Here is my best whack at summarizing the pop culture references made during The Prancing Pony Podcast's sixth season. As I was looking through my data, I realized once again just how unscientific this whole process is (see my self-made rules here). The time-span the project covers has made it really difficult for me to... Continue Reading →
Oddly enough, the word to describe the pop culture references made by Alan Sisto and Shawn Marchese during Season 5 of The Prancing Pony Podcast is balanced. Several of the categories resulted in ties for first and even second place. (Music had a five-way tie for second!) This was true even for the episode titles,... Continue Reading →
