Roleplayer, nerd, writer, rake, queer, keeper of #TolkienFriday. Games journalist & editor, Sydney. Some days Bond; some days Broughton. Pronouns: fluid.
Dec 13, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I don't know who needs to hear this, but...
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Also apropos...
Jul 19, 2019 • 34 tweets • 7 min read
Time moves oddly in some places in Middle earth.
It quickens and flows and pools like amber. IT rushes and flees, and it lingers. Time is... far from a constant.
And time is just ONE of the subjects for #TolkienFriday.
Set your watches, folks...
Today's topic is courtesy of no doubt long-time listener and first-time caller @Joabyjojo, who randomly opined on time and a Hobbit's fondness for two breakfasts.
And was then dobbed in my @DaveMilbo, bless his cotton, Melbourne-loving socks.
May 11, 2018 • 40 tweets • 6 min read
All stories end, even if we want them to go on forever. In fact, The War of the Ring has two literary endings...
But what comes after that last page has turned, and with tears in our eyes we put our tales away.
It's #TolkienFriday, and we're looking at what happens next.
Those two endings? In the greater scale of the story, this is the last line of The Silmarillion:
"...and an end was come for the Eldar of story and of song."
When they take ship for Valinor, it is very much the end not just of an age, but a whole history.
