![]() Years later, I dropped Christopher Tolkien a letter, explaining something that he found himself unable to footnote, and was profoundly gratified to find myself thanked in the Tolkien book The War of the Ring (for something I had learned from reading James Branch Cabell, no less). And I read Lord of the Rings until I no longer needed to read it any longer, because it was inside me. It is summer, and the grass is a peculiarly vivid shade of green: a wholesome green, like a cricket pitch or the welcoming slope of the South Downs as you make your way north. ticket to a game on September 6th, Lowell Public Schools Middle School Summer. In the dream, she is standing, with her brothers and her sister, on the edge of the battlefield. And once the book was published I would, in this parallel universe, be the author of Lord of the Rings, than which there can be no better thing. Scholastic is also offering a summer reading challenge. in November and December 2018, helping with Book Award and other programs. And then I would get someone to retype the book - I knew that if I sent a publisher a book that had already been published, even in a parallel universe, they’d get suspicious, just as I knew my own thirteen-year old typing skills were not going to be up to the job of typing it. Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, and most recently, Looking for the Stranger. I gave the matter a great deal of thought, and eventually came to the conclusion that the best thing would be if, while holding a copy of The Lord of the Rings, I slipped into a parallel universe in which Professor Tolkien had not existed. ![]()
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