#439 VALENTINE BIRTHDAY Lord of my Ring Greeting Card Boy Girl HUMOUR Funny Rude (A4 Folded to A5)

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The title of the novel refers to the story's main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron, who had in an earlier age created the One Ring to rule the other Rings of Power as the ultimate weapon in his campaign to conquer and rule all of Middle-earth. is fantasy and I see one of its biggest potentials in a fusion to science fantasy, because it opens up all options including any horror or psychothriller crime plot. Especially since my parents used to give me fun facts all the time and now I get to pass them on to my best friend, who doesn’t know what’s going to hit him, poor thing.

Horror, Sci-Fi, or crime had no similar big bangs (fringe theory, by the way, to provoke and insult even more additional people than with just the human degeneration gag above lol) but different founders, prodigies, and subgenres, while fantasy was, stayed, and will be very genre compliant, not to say a bit inflexible in contrast to other genres with much vaster differences, especially sci fi, my bread and peanut butter. Many members of my family read very little fiction – not that they don’t read, mind you, but as much as my obsession with YA has defined the last decade of my life, there is a lot of fascinating non-fiction, science books, and religious scripture out there to read – and yet every single one of my immediate family members has read The Lord of the Rings, as well as the Hobbit of course, and many of them have also read the rest of JRR Tolkien’s works, released postmortem. In a post-2020 world, which among other, better-known tragedies and events, featured the worst reader’s block I’ve ever experienced, I made only one new year’s resolution for 2021: Finish the damn book, Gail. It's something that can be read at more than one level, and, before dismissing it, let's take a look at what those levels might be. Fortunately, the tide seems to be turning as evidenced by the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction given to Richard Ford's excellent The Overstory.Epic artwork on the card, my partner and I are mega Tolkien fans so this will be very well received! But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him.

Another genre milestone that escalates to ridiculous lengths and perfection in many fantasy series and makes them so addictive. Tolkien was heavily influenced and inspired by war, and the atrocities humans so much love to do to each other until nasty nukes eliminated the option of more WW action, and put the real life implications everywhere in his work. But of COURSE I read ‘em all, immediately upon release from Lord Sauron's ward from hell - but through a dense cover of numbing neuroleptic thunderclouds. Don´t be angry, good old classics, it´s not your fault, your poor creators just had no creative writing courses available or were hunted by the inquisition, or it were total monopolies to that their works were the only ones available, and thereby never cared about royalties, book signing tours, or target audiences.They were encyclopedic texts, intended to instruct their people on everything important in life, and they are extraordinarily valuable to students of anthropology and history, because even the smallest detail can reveal something about the world which the book describes. Now, there are several notable critics who have lamented the unfortunate effect that Tolkien’s work has had on the genre, such as in Moorcock’s Epic Pooh and Mieville’s diatribe about every modern fantasy author being forced to come to terms with the old don's influence. It was frustration, it was pressure, it was so important in the mythos of the family, so inescapable, and I just… couldn’t. From quiet beginnings in the Shire, a hobbit land not unlike the English countryside, the story ranges across Middle-earth, following the course of the War of the Ring through the eyes of its characters, not only the hobbits Frodo Baggins, Samwise "Sam" Gamgee, Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck and Peregrin "Pippin" Took, but also the hobbits' chief allies and travelling companions: the Men, Aragorn son of Arathorn, a Ranger of the North, and Boromir, a Captain of Gondor; Gimli son of Glóin, a Dwarf warrior; Legolas Greenleaf, an Elven prince; and Gandalf, a wizard. Endowed with tremendous power, the ring promises its wearer superhuman abilities and with its power controls all other rings and those that possess them.

I appreciate, both intellectually and emotionally, what Tolkien was attempting to do, and in my opinion, succeeded in doing. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children’s stories and fairy tales for adults.Regardless of which design you choose, they all have the famous Elvish saying engraved on the inside and outside. R. Martin have made their attempts, and now we’re talking about more of my all-time favourite fantasy worlds and series, but in my eyes, none of them have even come close. Writing this down reminds me of one of the Sufi stories in The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mullah Nasrudin.

He has numerous briefly-mentioned side characters and events because organic texts like the epics, which were formed slowly, over time and compiled from many sources often contained such digressions.was really vibrant and quirky and for this current installment I wanted to do something completely beautiful in contrast to the other two bold and brutal pieces of this collection. The Daemon of Self-Pity, though, had begun to DEVOUR me, spitting out tiny bone fragments at the everyday world.