No explanations needed, I think.

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Deep in Mordor, where the shadows lie, a black figure looms, leaning over a stone with fire at its heart. Slowly, dimly, the flames form letters:

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High in the Tower of Orthanc, surrounded by the belching flames and smokes of a thousand burning trees, a tall white figure, black staff in hand, gestures commandingly over a stone with fire at its heart. Slowly, dimly, the flames form letters:

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At the center of the living heart of Elvendom in Middle-earth, a fair Elf-woman clad in white, golden hair brighter than the sun shining on the mallorn trees, bends over the shimmering water caught in the basin. Slowly, dimly, the flickering light in the water forms letters:

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Manwë ascends his throne above the everlasting snow up Oilossë, the uttermost tower of Taniquetil, tallest of all the mountains upon Earth, and looks forth, through mist and darkness and over the leagues of the sea. And all he can see is:

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And the cry goes forth from all ends of Middle-earth: "Oh shit!"*

*Please note that this quote has been translated from the various languages each used, using the best resources available in the Appendices. Which are accessible at all hours because they're on PAPER. In INK. And do not need to be RELOADED ever….

I'd really really like to get caught up with comments and such, but lj is so irritatingly slow--getting "page not found" three times in a row (which happens at work as well but with diallup the slowness makes it even more irritating) before I can access a post, read it, or post something just makes it...impossible. So I think I will throw up my hands and stomp off in a huff and hope to catch up later perhaps from work computer which at least is FAST even if I have to keep clicking refresh or backing up and reclicking submit. Sorry for the lack 'o talk here the last week or two--between septic tanks, remortgaging, class, and heat heat heat, PLUS the slowness of it all, it's been a pain. But will prevail...at a later date.