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*raises mug* The Professor!

dernwyn
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Jan 3 2011, 11:10am


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*raises mug* The Professor! [In reply to] Can't Post

In advance, I realize, as it's going to be quite a while before it's 9 p.m. here! Wink But words on his behalf are never early - or late - they are posted exactly when they are meant to be:

“He was the sort of painter who can paint leaves better than trees. He used to spend a long time on a single leaf, trying to catch its shape, and its sheen, and the glistening of dew-drops on its edges. Yet he wanted to paint a whole tree, with all of its leaves in the same style, and all of them different.

“There was one picture in particular which bothered him. It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots. Strange birds came and settled on the twigs and had to be attended to. Then all round the Tree, and behind it, through the gaps in the leaves and boughs, a country began to open out; and there were glimpses of a forest marching over the land, and of mountains tipped with snow. Niggle lost interest in his other pictures; or else he took them and tacked them on to the edges of his great picture. Soon the canvas became so large that he had to get a ladder; and he ran up and down it, putting in a touch here, and rubbing out a patch there. "

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"For I will sing to you of Frodo of the nine Fingers and the Ring of Doom.

"And when Sam heard that he laughed aloud for sheer delight, and he stood up and cried: 'O great glory and splendour! And all my wishes have come true!' And then he wept.

"And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness."

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Happy Birthday, dear sir! Heart


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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"

"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915



Subject User Time
Happy Birthday Professor Tolkien! grammaboodawg Send a private message to grammaboodawg Jan 3 2011, 10:22am
    *raises mug* The Professor! dernwyn Send a private message to dernwyn Jan 3 2011, 11:10am
    <Joins in> // macfalk Send a private message to macfalk Jan 3 2011, 12:41pm
    The Professor!/ TolkienOtaku Send a private message to TolkienOtaku Jan 3 2011, 2:49pm
    To the Professor!// Kangi Ska Send a private message to Kangi Ska Jan 3 2011, 3:03pm
    To the professor! Laerasėa Send a private message to Laerasėa Jan 3 2011, 3:04pm
        addendum: Laerasėa Send a private message to Laerasėa Jan 3 2011, 4:30pm
    Happy Birthday Sir silneldor Send a private message to silneldor Jan 3 2011, 3:07pm
        {{{sil}}} Laerasėa Send a private message to Laerasėa Jan 3 2011, 4:27pm
    To the professor! Happy eleventy-ninth birthday! // acheron Send a private message to acheron Jan 3 2011, 3:20pm
    *launches into a rousing chorus of 'For He (Was) a Jolly Good Fellow!" StarElf Send a private message to StarElf Jan 3 2011, 3:28pm
    Happy birthday dear professor! Lily Fairbairn Send a private message to Lily Fairbairn Jan 3 2011, 3:34pm
    Hear , Hear ! Hamfast Send a private message to Hamfast Jan 3 2011, 3:38pm
    The Professor ! Patty Send a private message to Patty Jan 3 2011, 3:40pm
        Actually... dernwyn Send a private message to dernwyn Jan 3 2011, 5:10pm
            (smiles) Okay. ( 9 p.m. it is) Patty Send a private message to Patty Jan 3 2011, 5:17pm
    I'll be on a plane at 9 pm, entmaiden Send a private message to entmaiden Jan 3 2011, 4:27pm
    To the immortalProfessor! Lothlorian Send a private message to Lothlorian Jan 3 2011, 4:37pm
    The Professor! dormouse Send a private message to dormouse Jan 3 2011, 5:11pm
    Thank you, Professor Ainu Laire Send a private message to Ainu Laire Jan 3 2011, 6:02pm
    It's a long time till 9 pm, Elizabeth Send a private message to Elizabeth Jan 3 2011, 6:19pm
        But at last the time arrived! Elizabeth Send a private message to Elizabeth Jan 4 2011, 7:12am
    Woo hooo!!!! Doriath Send a private message to Doriath Jan 3 2011, 7:20pm
    To the Bird and the Baby, to good friends and good stories, and to the Professor! Leviathan's Bane Send a private message to Leviathan's Bane Jan 3 2011, 8:52pm
        A mixture for those not yet into their irresponsible 'tweens? dernwyn Send a private message to dernwyn Jan 4 2011, 12:00am
            Brilliant! Leviathan's Bane Send a private message to Leviathan's Bane Jan 4 2011, 3:26am
    To the Professor !! Rivendweller Send a private message to Rivendweller Jan 3 2011, 8:53pm
    To the Professor Rosie-with-the-ribbons Send a private message to Rosie-with-the-ribbons Jan 3 2011, 9:59pm
    Happy Birthday Professor! Aragorn the Elfstone Send a private message to Aragorn the Elfstone Jan 3 2011, 11:39pm
    To the Professor! Daughter of Nienna Send a private message to Daughter of Nienna Jan 4 2011, 12:06am
    *raises glass* The Professor! aranelthehobbit22 Send a private message to aranelthehobbit22 Jan 4 2011, 2:11am
    To the Professor Magpie Send a private message to Magpie Jan 4 2011, 3:37am
    I'm still too sore to raise anything but a whine, so... Eowyn of Penns Woods Send a private message to Eowyn of Penns Woods Jan 4 2011, 3:56am
    To the Professor! Zmulady Send a private message to Zmulady Jan 4 2011, 4:18am
    "The Professor!" the_argonath Send a private message to the_argonath Jan 4 2011, 2:46pm
    Happy Birthday J.R.R. (Beren) Tolkien!! Ethel Duath Send a private message to Ethel Duath Jan 4 2011, 7:13pm

 
 
 

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