It's Beginning To Look at Lot Like Christmas!!!

Credit crunch be damned!! - Wotan (in the Father Christmas Hat) and his partner David (and Corgi and cat out of picture) are intent on enjoying this Christmas. This weekend turned a lovely tree from Scotland into a massive Christmas Tree which sits in Haus Pooksnig (no sword growing through it though).

What would Treebeard have said about the pagan practice of Christmas Trees??? Perhaps this is where the Entwives went to and now we dress the up with tinsle and ornaments!!!
Also, half way through JK's latest offering - Tales of Beedle the Bard - which are excellently crafted fairy tales for wizards and witches with commentary by Albus himself - wonder if this is the first of several and if JK has a Silmarillion like back story waiting in the wings - I'm sure Bloomsbury would be happy if she did!!!!

Mereth Veren e-Doled Eruion! Garo Idhrinn Eden Veren!!

HP and the Deathly Hollows!

My partner and I purchased Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at midnight on friday night and finished yesterday afternoon. I am not giving anything away! I thought it was the best of the seven and J.K. has done an incredible job with the story and the characters. There are more twist and turns than I have read in a novel in a while and the emotional range was staggering. Bravo! Well worth it. I only hope somewhere in J.K.'s notes there is a some materials for an Harry Potter Silmarilion!! Be interesting to debate the points - love to get into the horacrux and Tolkien's ring - once we are all prepared to discuss.

On the Tolkien language front - I think I am going to take a bit of a u-turn and start doing some prose translation - perhaps of Tolkien's Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age....of course with the way things are going in the UK it might be better to get do the The Downfall of Numenor (I feel the flood waves a comin!).