Every time I either send mail to Walter J. Freeman III or receive mail from him, both of which have happened several times now, I feel terror. But he really has been super nice to me so far. Can it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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All authors have one or two. Starting in the third volume he gets awfully fond of fey also. He uses it to mean “crazy,” not “of, like, or pertaining to a fairy” — I don’t think Middle-earth has fairies. When[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
According to Webster’s Eleventh New Collegiate Dictionary, the standard in my industry, it’s actually best seller, but when they put it on the covers of books like this it’s usually one word. Anyway that’s not the point, the point is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Whenas and if I ever acquire a life partner, I wonder if I will still cajole myself like this when I get sick. I think it would be ideal to keep quiet and let him make with the soothing nonsense,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As Lord of the Rings progresses, Aragorn gets more and more Christlike. This is getting hard to reconcile with my image of him as Toshiro Mifune.
I’ve started The Two Towers, which is exciting so far — partly because of the action, and partly because Tolkien finally mentions Boromir’s hair color. He doesn’t care how people look, he just cares about dolmens and trees and stuff.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See also. Also, I was wrong about hobbito being the Japanese for hobbit. The correct spelling is hobitto. So close!
I think Walter might have made a good novelist. That’s better than a lot of the writing I did in college.