J.R.R. Tolkien | General Lordisimo's Apocalypse

10 Books That Have Stayed With Me

• December 12, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in contemplation, General Destruction, Literature
Tags: 'Salem's Lot, a Brief history of Time, A Short History of Nearly Everything, A Walk in the Woods, authors, Bill Bryson, books, Dark Banquet, Dracula, Dune, Edward Gorey, Ernest Hemingway, Foundation, Frank Herbert, Frankenstein, fyodor dostoevsky, Georges Bataille, Hamlet, His Dark Materials, Iain M. Banks, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Bellairs, Julius Caesar, Little Big, Mary Shelley, Moby Dick, Philip Pullman, reading, Romeo and Juliet, Stephen King, The Amber Spyglass, The Brothers Karamazov, The Culture, The Dark Tower, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, The Golden Compass, The Hobbit, The House with the Clocks in Its Walls, The Lord of the Rings, The Shining, The Subtle Knife, The Sun Also Rises, Theory of Religion, William Shakespeare

The Hobbit (2012): Personal Impressions

• January 8, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in General Destruction, Movies
Tags: films, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, movie reviews, Movies, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit

Contemplation: What the Fuck is the Deal with the Klingon Language?

• June 5, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in General Destruction
Tags: contemplation, esperanto, hobbies, J.R.R. Tolkien, Klingon Language, language, Nerds, Salon.com, Star Trek

The Joy of Reading Great Writing

• June 24, 2008 • 5 Comments

Posted in General Destruction, Literature
Tags: books, Dan Brown, Don Quixote, Dostoevsky, English major, esquire, great writing, Hemingway, J.R.R. Tolkien, Little Big Man, magazines, Poe, reading, Shakespeare, The Da Vinci Code, The Hobbit, The Kite Runner, Thomas Berger, wikisource, writing

Jackson, del Toro, and “The Hobbit”

• April 28, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in General Destruction, Movies
Tags: directing, George Lucas, Guillermo del Toro, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Movies, Pan's Labyrinth, Peter Jackson, Salon.com, Star Wars, The Hobbit, THX 1138

Archives