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Thanks to all of you for the warm welcomes! Thanks also to Wneighbor for the pints! :)

So any of y'all reading any interesting Tolkien-related stuff right now? I'm about to start "Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy" (ed. by Douglas A. Anderson), which is a collection of 19th and early 20th-century stories that predated Tolkien and in some cases influenced him. I'm also working through some of the Norse epics Tolkien drew from. I'm trying to find where he got some of his ideas about elves and dwarves from, following up on some passages in Tom Shippey's study of Tolkien that discuss this. Anyway, that's my current reading in this area. Anybody else reading anything interesting right now?