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April 18, 2004
My turn to play
the game...I'm a little late to jump on this bandwagon, but...here goes:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
I have Tom Shippey's J.R.R. Tolkien-Author of the Century.
5th sentence on page 23:
'It was rather splendid to be wearing a blade made in Gondolin for the goblin-wars of which so many songs had sung,' says the narrator, and though this romantic sentiment is immediately qualified by a practical one--'and also he had noticed that such weapons made a great impression on goblins that came upon them suddenly'--it marks perhaps the first stage in Bilbo's winning a place in the modern world of fairy-tale.
Posted by crystallyn at April 18, 2004 08:29 PM
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