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Hi Fedora! That explanation you gave of your reading is fascinating to me! I would love to go right along with you as you outline the Silmarillion and the Book of Lost Tales. Cool that we both had similar plans! Reading the Norse legends and filtering out Tolkien's references is also VEY intriguing! The area I come from is heavily populated by Norse immigrants so I grew up hearing of Norse folk tales though my family wasn't of the Norse bunch.

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Unfortunately, it looks like it will be some months before I get to read anything for fun again. Textbooks... for drafting and design. Engineering graphics. I teach in a college tech school. We're on the quarter system and the new quarter starts tomorrow. In this quarter I also have to work up lesson plans for 2 new classes. That's VEY overwhelming to me. I wasn't trained as a teacher. Got this job because of industry background and being in charge of workplace training for the last several years. This formal teaching stuff is a bit intimidating sometimes.