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Christmas, literally Christmas , was, according to accounts published by National Geographic and numerous other historical sites, a tawdry, drunken celebration that was often banned in Puritan-controlled communities in America in the 1600s and 1700s. When the Germans emigrated to the U.S. in the 1830s, they brought with them their fir trees and
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Doris Lessing on reading:
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that
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Books by J.R.R. Tolkien – The Tolkien Society
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226. The Lord of the Rings
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225. J.R.R. Tolkien
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J.R.R. Tolkien started out creating his own languages as a kid. over time, he realized that language is inextricably tied to culture & history, and so, to truly create a new language, he would have to write the history of the people who spoke it
thus began the Silmarillion, the mythological backstory for his invented Quenya language. he worked on... See more
thus began the Silmarillion, the mythological backstory for his invented Quenya language. he worked on... See more
