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Writing tagged: ‘tolkien’

Cunning linguistics

A conversation with Jen about dwarfs.

Published 19-Jun-2017
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations, jen, language, spelling, tolkien

Elf questionnaire

In which Jen and I make some Tolkien-related puns.

Published 18-May-2015
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: jen, jokes, tolkien

Tolkien nerdish

WARNING: Contains Tolkienesque nerdiness.

Published 24-Sep-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: tolkien

Elf warning

Carolyn has taken her kids to see Legolas. How cool is that?   Postscript: Oh, apparently that should have read Legoland.

Published 23-Jul-2003
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: carolyn, carolyn's children, tolkien

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On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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