Keep your dreams, but don’t hold them tightly. Hold them in open hands.
If it helps, I know that’s easier said than done.
I’m rooting for you.
Drizzt Do’Urden
I read the first of the Drizzt books.
They are Twilight.
Both directly tap into the zeitgeist of their respective audiences. Both are linguistically atrocious. Both promise an appealing world of escape and immersion. Both are shockingly popular.
Things in Twilight are easier to spell. There’s about the same amount of sex.
I really have no idea what trash the kids are reading these days. But my generation made some crap.
Schedules
Seriously, the one class the physics department offers I’d love to take exactly conflicts with the one class I need from the engineering program.
Mara
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CRM
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Past Tense
Of spread feels like it should be spreaded.
The Hobbits
I love these movies, but they legitimately make no sense.
Home is behind, the world is ahead
And there are many paths to tread.
Once you start looking for ‘people who ignore the outside world are destroyed by it’ themes in Tolkien, they’re everywhere.
Nargothrond, Gondolin, and narrowly averted in the Shire.
The Silmarillion is not as well polished as the LotR, and one way to see it is in the twists. The hobbits of the Shire didn’t want to pay attention to the outside world, like the elves of the first age. They turned inward and bent their efforts on the doing of good things. They mastered their crafts, took care of their people, and paid attention to their own histories and doings. And doom came to them.
But because several hobbits did get involved in the outside world, catastrophe passed from the Shire. Gondolin and Nargothrond fell. That twist is the mark of a well-polished novel, unlike the beautiful but somewhat protoformed stories of earlier books.
The wood elves of Mirkwood got off surprisingly easily.
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Gondolin shall not fall.
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It’s going to be okay.