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Friday, Apr 06, 2007 - 22:55 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Better Friday

4O basketball + soccer. My legs ache. Need much more exercise.

Not many days left to my project deadlines, but I guess I'm cool with them now. What can be done, will be done, and if that isn't enough, then that's that. Two of the three are more or less okay anyway.

Tolkien as a refuge:

"Then all memory of his pain departed from him, and he fell into an enchantment; for Lúthien was the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar. Blue was her raiment as the unclouded heaven, but her eyes were grey as the starlit evening; her mantle was sewn with golden flowers, but her hair was dark as the shadows of twilight."

and later...

"...More fair than mortal tongue can tell.
Though all to ruin fell the world
and were dissolved and backwards hurled
unmade into the old abyss,
yet were its making good, for this -
the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea -
that Lúthien for a time should be."

 So was it that on Tolkien's grave, beneath his name, was engraved that of Beren, and beneath his wife's, that of Lúthien; This world needs more stories like that. I am very tired, but happily this time it is simply physical. I shall sleep before twelve for the first time in a long, long while.

Goodnight.



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