[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

We tend to put sexual connotations on everything and find expressing deep love and friendship for someone of the same sex deeply uncomfortable. How sad!

This is a spiritually-impoverished age, run by children for children. I so rarely hear a mature opinion outside my own circle that I'm beginning to wonder if the average mental age isn't down to about twelve. We've lost sight both of true purity and real earthy bawdiness (both of which Chaucer had in abundance in an age that people ridicule) People are given awards for television adverts; need I say more? "Sic transit gloria mundi", to quote Vincent Price.