Yeah, go us! (tapping pints for everyone, of your favorite beverage, be it hard or soft)
re: Exhaustive Research -- can't tell you how helpful Tolkein's exhaustive research & detail is when you're trying to chronicle your own characters (or his) lightly skipping carefree & barefoot through his world. Just last night i was checking to see what day the severed heads came flying over the walls. Oops -- day before the party arrived -- meaning that i have to make a reference to a few in the street as they pass, and can't have them come flying over now that they're there. (MUST leave major plot pivot points intact...!!)
six pages -- who's for going for seven?
s.t.
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(drink up, Merry!)
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<-- who, me? Take the Ring? Betray the Fellowship?? Nah -- couldn't be ME, i'm too cute...
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