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Peregrin Took 1/4 scale bust for sale - $20

Small amount of damage to nose but otherwise a beautiful reproduction of our beloved Pippin. Originally $50 and no longer available from the manufacturer, auction starts at $20. Click here for the eBay auction (ACTIVE ONE MORE DAY ONLY!) and please reblog if your followers might be interested!

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Peregrin Took 1/4 scale bust for sale

Small amount of damage to nose but otherwise a beautiful reproduction of our beloved Pippin. Click here for the eBay auction and please reblog if your followers might be interested!

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LOTR No Admittance Bookends for sale

I am selling these gorgeous Lord of the Rings bookends featuring Bilbo and Gandalf at the entrance to Bag End. Items are in mint condition (but do not come in the original box). I am unemployed and trying to pull together some cash.

Click here for the eBay auction and please reblog if you think your followers might be interested!

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Books for sale

Hey everyone, this blog hasn’t been so active lately, but I am currently unemployed (and have been job searching for 4 months) and a job I was offered fell through right before I was supposed to start (long story - the employer was at fault). I’d like to see if I can sell some of my old books to bring in a bit of cash.

Here is a list of the books. If you’re interested in any of them please shoot me a message. All are in excellent condition unless otherwise noted. I can provide photos of individual books if you would like. I’m asking $3 for paperback/$4 for hardcover unless otherwise noted plus shipping (which will vary depending how heavy the package would be, obviously).

P=paperback, H=hardcover, books are in alphabetical order by author

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (P)

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (H)

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson (P)

Crispin - Avi (H) (jacket has minor damage)

Tamsin - Peter S. Beagle (P)

Fall of a Kingdom - Hilari Bell (P)

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares (P)

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood - Ann Brasheres (H)

Girls in Pants - Ann Brasheres (H)

Forever in Blue - Ann Brasheres (H)

The Magical Worlds of Lord of the Rings - David Colbert (P) (cover has crease)

War is Kind - Stephen Crane (P) ($2)

The BFG - Roald Dahl (P)

Matilda - Roald Dahl (P)

The Seas of Troy - Caroline B. Cooney (P)

The Strain - Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan (H)

Founding Brothers - Joseph J. Ellis (P)

The Sea of Trolls - Nancy Farmer (H)

Sign of the Dove - Susan Fletcher (P)

Dragon’s Milk - Susan Fletcher (P)

Troy - Adele Geras (P)

Ithaka - Adele Geras (H)

Dear Jane Austen - Patrice Hannon (P)

Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris (P)

The Sands of Time - Michael Hoeye (H)

Alice, I Think - Susan Juby (P)

Ophelia - Lisa Klein (P)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (P)

Wolf Tower - Tanith Lee (P)

Wolf Star - Tanith Lee (P)

Wolf Wing - Tanith Lee (H)

Piratica - Tanith Lee (P)

Knockabeg: A Famine Tale - Mary E. Lyons (H)

Wicked - Gregory Maguire (P) ($2 - worn and a bit water-damaged)

Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery (P)

Anne of Avonlea - L. M. Montgomery (P)

The Wind Singer - William Nicholson (P)

Sabriel - Garth Nix (P)

Abhorsen - Garth Nix (H)

Along Came a Spider - James Patterson (P)

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson (P)

Maximum Ride: School’s Out - Forever - James Patterson (H)

The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman (P)

Pirates! - Celia Rees (H)

Holes - Louis Sachar (P)

College Knowledge for the Jewish Student  - David Schoem (P)

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (P)

Enthusiasm - Polly Shulman (H)

The Unauthorized Autobiography - Lemony Snicket (H)

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (P) (some writing in book)

Bad Twin - Gary Stroup (H)

Slumdog Millionaire/Q&A - Vikas Swarup (P)

Walden - David Thoreau (P)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (P)

The Aeneid - Virgil (P)

Pretties - Scott Westerfeld (P)

Specials - Scott Westerfeld (H)

Extras - Scott Westerfeld (H)

Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld (H)

Tolkien: A Biography - Michael White (P)

The Secret Voice of Gina Zhang - Dori Jones Yang (P)

Been There Should’ve Done That: 995 Tips for Making the Most of College - no author listed (P)

IN ADDITION to the above I also have signed copies (in some cases more than one) of each of the Twilight books. Obviously they are worth more. I am not sure how much I would ask, but if you would be interested, contact me for details/to make an offer.

If you would do me a favor and reblog even if you don’t want any of these books I would be so grateful! I was living abroad on a student visa all of 2014 so I have not worked since December 2013 and I am rapidly depleting my savings.

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I get that they were trying to make The Hobbit into a grander scale conflict to make the tone fit with Lord of the Rings, but WHYYYY. It's called the LONELY MOUNTAIN because it's in the middle of nowhere. It is strategically useless for anything but itself.

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I'm currently living in Israel and, even though I understand Hebrew, decided to use Chrome's translate function on the movie theater's website for BoFA 3D...

Chrome...NO...

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Does anyone know the release date for BoFA in Israel?

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"You know what makes people angry? When they're trying to tell you something, and you're not hearing them. Then they feel like they have to get louder and louder and louder, and then you're still not listening. You're just getting all scared." "Because it's fucking scary!" "She wants you to stand and face her, Quentin. What I'm talking about is walking in there and dealing with her. You want her to be a person again? Try treating her like one." Quentin shook his head. "That's suicide." "Is it? It sounds to me like a relationship."

The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman

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Do any of my followers happen to know Hungarian?

My dad and I discovered a couple of postcards from my great-grandparents from 1944 and I would love to know what they say!

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For a movie that has a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, American Hustle was boring as hell. Some good moments but definitely overrated.

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My parents and I were watching the Hobbit but then they both fell asleep so I stopped the movie and started Return of the King about halfway through and when my dad woke up he just looked at me with this horrified expression and whispered what day is it?

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I was reading about Thomas Jefferson’s medical history and

Violent headache for two days after behaving awkwardly in front of a girl he fancied (March 1764, age 20)

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"We’re in."

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#Character Development

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Have you read The Silmarillion? It does NOT stand to reason. The phenomenon with Arwen (which was REALLY a phenomenon with Glorfindel that they gave to Arwen to cut down on the number of characters) has NOTHING to do with her being beautiful and Frodo being delirious. He literally saw her as she ACTUALLY appears in the Undying Lands. Tauriel, as a Silvan elf, has never been to the Undying Lands, nor had any of her ancestors. (There is an issue here because Arwen HASN'T been to the Undying Lands either but again, she is taking Glorfindel's place in this situation, and the scene is straight out of the book based on Glorfindel, who HAS been there.)

Dear everyone who found *that* Tauriel scene to be ridiculous:

ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE YOU TO

ACTUAL QUICK-CHANGE EXPERT ARWEN UNDOMIEL

GIANT FLOATING HEAD ELROND HALF-ELVEN

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And so it begins..