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sequestering in arda

@daggerdagorath / daggerdagorath.tumblr.com

here you will find tolkien, classics, and assorted imaginary worlds. elsewhere you will find hockey.
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The cities too—burned-out Moscow, empty as a deserted beehive, Ilion threatened in its opulence, soon to be dethroned and dismembered—have individual lives; they have a soul, a fate, a sanctity all their own. Holy Troy, Moscow, holy city, these are the epic's real centers of gravity. They are the geographical point where the threads of event crisscross, and the metaphysical place where the religious transformation of fact into sacred fiction is accomplished.

- On the Iliad by Rachel Bespaloff

#homer#readings#the metropolis#classics
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TOLKIEN + HOPE

"The Land of Shadow," J. R. R. Tolkien // "The Last Debate," J. R. R. Tolkien // "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath," J. R. R. Tolkien // "The Dragon and the Star," Manuel Castañón // "Of the Fifth Battle, Nirnaeth Arnoediad," J. R. R. Tolkien // "The Tower of Cirith Ungol," J. R. R. Tolkien // "The Siege of Gondor," J. R. R. Tolkien // "The Field of Cormallen," J. R. R. Tolkien // "Grey Havens," Alan Lee // "Lothlórien," J. R. R. Tolkien // "The Steward and the King," J. R. R. Tolkien // "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath," J. R. R. Tolkien // "The Door of Night," John Howe // "The Shadow of the Past," J. R. R. Tolkien // "The Stairs of Cirith Ungol," J. R. R. Tolkien // "The Council of Elrond," J. R. R. Tolkien
#tolkien#parallels#the thing with feathers
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books I’ve read in 2025 📖 no. 007

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic, and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks by Steven Johnson

“How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.”
#readings#xix century
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The photo is not very good and I still need to wash and iron it, but I couldn't wait to show my first ever big cross stitch project;

Love how it turned out, especially with the green embroidery thread (cotton thread on linen)

#art#arthuriana
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